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Thanks for all the reply's everyone As soon as I find the time I will create a website with a forum for all those who would love a new school and IT but don’t want Remote management or anyone else running their IT show I will also include all the resources we can find If anyone is interested and willing to help please say below Unless the conservatives get in and scrap it all lol

Thanks for the reply guys, glad to see I’m not the only one as far as I can tell our SMT are behind me, though they would like all new equipment (as would I) they have no desire to have to rely on remote management and from speaking to our accounts manager they have no desire whatsoever for a PFI build, as far as I can work out as half of our school is only a few year old whilst the other half is over 40 years , we would not get PFI however remote ICT management through BSF would still come in to effect I know you can try to opt out of remote management ICT , but they make you jump through hoops to do this Printers by the way are clx2160N Samsung colour laser we paid around£150 each for them a couple of years back (it would be easier to find rocking horse $hit than find them now ) and the pattern toners range between £4.50 and £5 each absolute bargain, mono's are Brother 5270DN's best we can get are toners for £12 sadly as for parents and kids , they will be sold on whatever the government tells them just have to hope conservatives get in and stop it all we could do with a website/Forum for all us IT guys who don’t want this so we can work together Please forgive the poor grammer and typing , missies don’t appreciate me sitting typing on here at the weekend so have to type quick lol PS we also have 4 display board's that we put in these cost us approximately £450Flat Screen TV with cheap PC I wrote software so the PC's simply run a power point that can be updated at any time via a network share all staff have access to this and they also run tickers and a clock I wrote taking news from the BBC- I also wrote software to allow users to change screen res via an icon in the systray this also forces desktop background (every 30 seconds) to the one set to stop them changing it (group policy just can not solve all issues)and also reads the Iexplorer header for key words to block sites by sending the 'Home' command to i.e. if a keyword is found just to block those sites our ISP let through also a ict support request system that allows jobs to be posted to us with a date and time , urgency request etc.. oh and ID Badge printing software , that can be run on a laptop and create the badge from the cam on the laptop print a batch on to A4 so they can be cut out and dropped into holders , all our staff have these now cost's next to nothing to do and i forgot an account generator for 2003 simply import usernames from a list and it will create all accounts and shared folders (hidden or not) , though I know most of you will have scripts for this, makes setting the new y7 accounts up so easy just takes a few minutes for 120 accounts if anyone wants the software just let me know Oh and 2 years of backups on 2 *2TB raid NAS drives you just got to love ACRONIS ,replaced our sever a couple of years back with it using universal restore worked a treat and all our network has been moved over to 1gb with a central managed 1gb switch OK only cheap 3com but it's all mapped out and works a treat so you can see why I wouldn’t want to give it all up Sorry if it sounds like I’m blowing my own trumpet , you know how unrewarding IT is no one knows your there until something goes wrong lol

Managed ICT Our School does not Need want or require Managed ICT We would of course love all new pc’s,servers whiteboards etc however we are well capable of looking after them ourselves and have no desire to pay a contractor to do this for the next god know how many years We have approximately 800 pupils 5 500 student computers 100 staff computers 2* 2003 domain servers (curriculum and admin) Group Policy and other restriction software protect all our PC’s 1* 2003 Web server Runs our ILP , VLE (Moodle) and Website (we have created and manage our own) Lost count of how many whiteboard over 40 at last count All our PC’s are exact clones (XP SP3 ie7) with all our software on every PC Every PC in the school works and it takes us only minutes to repair/Replace any that have problems We have over 30 mono laser printers and over 30 colour laser printer/scanners these cost us less than £150 each and only cost £4.50 per toner and have been in place over 2 years now (lol and we even managed to get all the secret drum rest codes) Over 18 cctv cameras on 2 DVR units that cost us no more than £1000 to purchase and us install All what we have done in the last 3 years has been on the cheap, yet we have managed to give the school everything and more that it requires What’s the chance of any remote service doing this! I understand that some school may benefit from Managed ICT support , I just feel we wont What I want to know is , is there any central location that all those schools who don’t want Managed ICT through BSF can get together to find how to stop it ?