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Always had good results with Invisional Hosting - ran by a guy that used to work in schools IT, good value hosting, I've got a 'shared' hosting and multi-site package for some personal stuff

Veeam or Nakivo, depending on available dollarydoos.

I would strongly recommend speaking to Cutter Group - they set up our RDS solution and it's tip-top.

Surely FTP is a much more sensible starting point? Helps students to understand what's happening on the server, that everything's a file, that kind of thing. And, forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't everyone need CLI access to a server to start pushing/pulling repos?

What? Not everything is 'download and run this MSI'. Have a look at the Download page on the site, it includes instructions there.

I installed Easy Hosting Control Panel | for Ubuntu and alikes...- Free Fast Opensource web hosting control panel for your server ** for use by students, set up an FTP account and a MySQL database, they get free reign of their own space. It comes with phpmyadmin, works with Dreamweaver or FileZilla (it's FTP!) and behaves kind of like a proper web hosting/reseller account.

Yeah everything is going to use the MAC address somewhere along the line. We dump a CSV (TSV?) of machines and MAC addresses from DHCP, stick that into a batch file, wakes up all the machines every morning.

Hello all. We have three Server 2012 R2 servers (A, B and C), A and B are also DCs, C is just a member. They all serve as file servers as well, holding home drives and shared areas. Server A is fine, and shows Previous Versions / Shadow Copies back into September. However Servers B and C only show today's PV/SC restore points. I can't see any errors pertaining to this in the logs, and there is (currently) less than 10% being used for PV/SC, but it just seems odd that everything has disappeared from before today. Something to do with the rollover into a new month maybe? If so, it didn't do it last month... Any suggestions welcomed, thanks guys!

sysman / sytem

Veeam is superb. Also, a mention for https://www.nakivo.com/ - we use this and it's similarly excellent. Very similar feature set to Veeam, for less money. We use is with VMware, but they also support Hyper-V.

I'm afraid I can't help specifically with the CSV file, except to say make sure there are no spurious characters or spaces in the file before the commas...But you might want to consider syncing on-premises AD with Azure AD...might take care of some of the headaches for you. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/connect/active-directory-aadconnect Of course if you don't have on-premises AD then ignore the above, sorry!

Apache Guacamole https://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/

This has been removed from the school's website, recruitment has been delayed. The website says the role will be re-advertised in September 2017. But it is still live on TES at the time of writing.

what a load of nonsense. thanks folks. fortunately a colleague has written a 'start menu shortcut spinner' which will add stuff to the start menu for us, but it really shouldn't be this tricky to set things up. GPO and registry has worked pretty well until now, right? why break it?

@newpersn did you get anywhere with this? we're on 1607 education and can't get file explorer to show up in the start menu unless you do it manually...and as mentioned above immersive control panel is disabled for obvious reasons.