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Hello, Are there any LEA schools who've recently tried to use Open Reach? Open Reach need to drill at hole at two of our three sites, and at our third site pull and existing cable out and replace it. EDSI - effectively the landlord for Birmingham schools, is insisting on targetted asbestos surveys. Even if the general site Abestos report lists no abestos anywhere near the drill locations - or even worse where a cable installed just four years ago needs pulling out! I'm re-posting this in General as well in case any other LEA's have come across this. Thanks, Matt

Hello, Are there any LEA schools who've recently tried to use Open Reach? Open Reach need to drill at hole at two of our three sites, and at our third site pull and existing cable out and replace it. EDSI - effectively the landlord, is insisting on targetted asbestos surveys. Even if the general site Abestos report lists no abestos anywhere near the drill locations - or even worse where a cable installed just four years ago needs pulling out! I'm re-posting this in General as well in case any other LEA's have come across this. Thanks, Matt

Hello, Who do people use for WEEE disposal these days, and do any still do it for free (with a proper waste transfer notice!) Cheers, Matt

Thanks for the advice folks. Millgate won in the end, due to their better pricing. I did have another company come back offering to match, but I tend to go with stuff like this your first quote is your best quote.

What does everyone use at home for their AV solution, or is the built in Windows solution good enough? I've used everything under the sun from McAfee before he went gun toting mad in the 90s, to NOD, to others I can't remember, had Kaspersky on a 2 yr 5 PC deal but since then I've been a bit naughty and used our work Sophos, by treating my PC as an off site staff laptop and updating using the external server. I'd love to say my guilty conscience has forced me to change, but we're moving away from Sophos so I can't do it anymore! Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Now a lot of smaller firms that I used to quote from have been gobbled up by Capita, what firms do you folks use for your EES licensing?

We currently have an old centrex style system. This worked fine when we were a single primary school. Now we have three sites, over 200 children and the doesnt work. At the new sites were given (and had no choice in) a hybrid system. This ran each copper line to a comms cabs and you patcheda room network port into it. The cliet end of trhe network socket had an RJ11 to RJ45 coverroe to use a stanrdard phone. THe problem we have is: * All three sites are sperated by about 1/4 of a mile each * We are a BCC maintained special so no will touch us. * Virgin refused to help * BCC offered their to range CISCO system. Boviously our concerns are running several conncurrent IDSN lines (and whether we'd ever break even) or if the industry is moving to IT only what happens if our internet line goes down? I'm currently on a phased return so please contact via between 10am nd 2pm at the moment.

Well that makes me feel old! Be assured

Hello, If a school had migrated all it's data (H: drives, Shared, DSL stuff, basically any document) from a physical RAID array to a MS VHD what could be the consequences of that? My pre-1999 thinking on suck issues causes an immediate reaction of "WHAT IF ONE BYTE IS CORRUPTED! HOW WILL YOU ACCESS IT!!!" etc. Is this becoming common and best practice?

I would! Thanks

Hello Folks, Can anyone unravel this for me? We have Paxton Net2 fobs (the blue stripped ones) which we use for door access across our three sites. I've also been rolling them out to use with our signing in system (Inventry) and now PaperCut for print management. The big problem I have is having to manually enroll everyone three times - once for Net2, then physically presenting the fob to Inventry with auto-code on and finally on the photocopier after entering their AD user/pass they again need to physically present their fob. This works, but it takes forever. Ideally I'd want to have their fob ID in their Active Directory record and then sync that across to PaperCut and Inventry, which I know is supported. However all three systems give me three totally different fob IDs! Net2 is like this: 12340005 Inventry is like this: 123ABACA PaperCut is like this: 12345678900 Help! Is it possible to work out some algorithm so the Net2 code can be translated into Inventry and PaperCut speak, or is this just a total non-starter?

Anyone else having the same problem? I've got it across all three of my sites. Pinging eduproxy.bgfl.org goes to 10.120.232.50 and times out. I've got round it by changing GPP to remove the HTTP proxy and use the transparent as that is working fine. Really quite odd!

This dude is awesome - capturing frame by frame the entire BBC Domesday Project laserdiscs! Domesday Duplicator – Domesday86.com

Has anyone else had trouble connecting VPN this weekend? vpn1-3000.bgfl.org just isn't pinging.

I used a GoPro to time lapse a portakbain block being lifted on top of an existing building.