dave.81

Thanks. That is what i thought would be the case, yes it adds in a bit more fault finding should something fail on the link but hopefully rare!

We are currently looking at doing a major overhaul over our main IT suite which will involve knocking down a couple of walls to increase the size. One of these walls is into the current server/storage room and we are looking at the idea of moving the servers to another location onsite, running some new fibre and connecting them back to the current location, probably teaming a a couple of 10g links. Budget will not stretch to running a fibre with enough cores to move the core switch completely but hoping this will be a half way house and allow more room for the IT suite. Will this have any effect on the network with them not being at the core switch?

This year we took over a local prep school and slowly turning the IT around to something that actually works. As shocking as this maybe they currently have no web filtering at all! I know all the main players in this having used most over the years, currently we use iBoss, but from experience they are all going to be cost prohibitive for what is a school of 50ish students and 20 teachers. What options would you suggest for a school of this size?? Thanks.

We have one which is used by staff who are on time sheets which has failed and have been asked to look into a more modern one that will do the totalling etc for us and hopefully link with the salto ID cards we already use. Does anyone use electronic clock in machines, what type? Would love to put it in for all staff but dont think the teachers would like that!

We run our own router so can change what we need when i can put a plan in place to implement the vlans.

Thanks for the info. VLANS is something i want to be moving towards but the school has been cabled in such a haphazard way will need investment in switchgear to put into place, i think. Maybe it's time for that difficult conversation about the infrastructure and how it needs a major overhaul! Edit: I'm a complete newbie to VLANS, if i moved the wirelss off to a vlan i need to tag each port with an access point on it to VLAN:50 say? Then set up a dhcp on the server for that vlan?

We've been running on 255.255.252.0 for a few years now but as the amount of devices has grown and grown. We have today maxed out the subnet and need to expand. If we moved to 255.255.248.0 this would give us a lot more but what is needed in the process? I know i'll need to change all the static devices over to the new subnet, do i then just add a new scope for the subnet and remove the old one?

Just checked and both subnets are associated to the correct site and checked that i've got the details correct in them.

We have just added a new location to our domain and added a new site to AD and for the group of users for that site everything works fine and if they are at our main site then they are able to login as well. But the users at the main site are unable to login at the new location, they get user profile service failed the login. Any ideas where to start looking as it's strange 1 group can access both locations but the old group of users are unable to use computers at the new location.

I'm going to be there on the Wednesday and Thursday want to catch some seminars as i missed them all last year only doing 1 day. Have some budget to spend this year so will be keeping an eye out for deals. Luckily enough to get work to pay travel and Holiday Inn, who would believe flying into London City is cheaper than getting a train

Bit far for me so cant make it sadly.

Sadly too far from Devon so will have to give this one a miss.

Right i think i've settled on the plan, will site with a single domain and replicated AD over the current link and use OU groups for their users/pupils. Give them their own DC and file server but for the 2/3 members of staff who switch sites and need office documents between sites i'll give them shares via GPO. Does the above mean i'll need to run on the same subnet/ip range or will the VPN be able to do the routing between the 2?

They have no IT support and i'll be expect to 'pop' over a few times a month to help with issues so want to put a system in place where i can do as much as possible without wasting 2 hours in the car to pop in. I did think about using a single domain but worried how the replication would work as they only have business broadband (46mb/5mb). I'll be giving them their own DC and file storage but will need to access certain shared files between the 2 sites. I've only ever managed a single site so more than happy to take suggestions on the best way, 2 sites or a single one?

Luckily we dont have to worry about exchange as neither of us use it. They are such a small site, less than 100 total users that i'm tempted to not migrate anything other than data and scrap everything else! So i am right in thinking that using Sites and Services in AD i can allow both groups of users to share resources and log in at both sites?