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TMG works a treat

Try explaining that to staff - "But it's a security error!!!"

Be warned they expired yesterday!

I've got a work one as I refuse to support the bloody things without knowing how to use it myself. That said now I've figured it out it just stays at home so I'm going to give it back after the Summer - I still find pen and paper much better for taking notes than a restrictive app.

Can anyone recommend any companies for this?

Hello, Does anyone have a copy of a recent (Single Status issue) job description for a Grade 4 IT Operations Manager (or the equivilient job title in your school) you could send my way? I don't have access to the HR Portal, and I'd prefer not to ask for one from the office staff in case any gossiping starts! Cheers

I've got a cheap coffee machine (filter job in my office with a warming plate and jug) fill it up once a day and off you go! Bought it for home, but never used it. Caffine required at work more

Two days wasted on this! Apparantly someone before me upgraded one of the DCs from 2003 to 2008 R2, but left the second exisiting one as 2003. From what I've read offline file encryption in XP uses a local admin account (with cert) as the decryption manager. With Win 7 it's all in Group Policy. In 2003 a cert was issued in AD to the Administrator account for encryption. I assume on XP it was for the high level crypto stuff. This cert was only issued for a couple of years. Mine expired in 2009. As it turns out of the cert has expired Win 7 starts to offline your files, then gets access denied for all users on that laptop unless your format the CSC cache and turn sync off. Even if your connected to the network, as it's still reading from the CSC cache which is encrypted, which it can't read as the cert is out of date! Two days of head scratching later finally figure out. You have to delete the existing cert in GPO, then create a new one. 2008 R2 issues a 100 year cert. After that it all works. They don't pay me enough for this crap

I've got a semi-old, semi-spare laptop at work where the battery is totally knackered. I'm moving between schools at the moment and I could really do with an always machine at one of them that isn't a server. However desktops are in very short supply, so I was considering leaving this laptop on, and as the battery is dead treating it as a desktop. This has always worried me. I'm not sure why we leave desktops on all the time with much more powerful PSUs, and NAS boxes with effectively the same external power source with no problem. Can anyone else see an issue with doing this?!

Anyone else having problems connecting to UK sites - Telegraph, BBC etc. Anything in the US is fine.

City council to conduct health check of Service Birmingham deal - West Midlands News - News - Birmingham Post Perhaps they'll action change requests in under two weeks, without a letter to the Director of Link!

Bah still not upgraded in Birmingham yet. They could at least make up for blocking Pirate Bay http://www.speedtest.net/result/1932942051.png

We don't have EEES - not yet anyway. Everything was bought ad hoc. I can't find any paperwork relating to CALs - only to the Server OS license and the OEM licenses for Windows on each machine.

Just to be absolutely sure in my mind in a standard Windows client/server network you need: 1) 1 server OS license per processor per server (multi-core classed as one processor) 2) 1 Windows desktop (XP, 7) licenses for each machine - usually the OEM sticker 3) A CAL for either each device or user. Without the CALs if your desktop Windows client connects to the Windows server you are unlicensed? Does Server 2008 R2 come with any "inbuilt" CALs - I know at my place we got 5 user licenses bundled, but I'm sure it was a deal. It took me long enough to figure this out a year out, and now I've got a mess at another site. I need to be more than 99% sure in my head before taking this to Governors. I also assume if the school used a third party company to advise on licensing, if the school missed buying CALs the responsibility is with the school - not the professional (third party) advice they sought out? Cheers!

I assume you loose all the Service Desk support from L2ICT if you move to another ISP?

The vast majority of iPad apps are not proxy aware - there's nothing you can do sadly. One reason why they still aren't great for "business" use - we use them fine for the kids, but the SLT who prefer them to laptops for ease of use have massive problems with productivity apps that are not proxy aware such as Skype and Dragon Naturally.

Hello, Have any schools got a spare Polycom V/C unit sitting around which they won't be using for a few terms? I could do with borrowing two full sets to be used at two partner schools. I know most of you secondaries have them boxed up anyway Cheers

Yeah I've found the Polycom system this afternoon which works well internally. Another reason why iPads aren't business friendly

Does anyone know of any iPad video conferencing app that supports a proxy? Here Facetime is blocked and all the major apps do not support proxys. It's irritating to say the least.

Those bloody C64 tape decks, that always needed the azimuth tool to get them to load anything. I had a dodgy copy of a Popeye game which never, ever loaded. Thank Jebus for the cartridge games (buying them them from the Littewoods catalogue store) Transporting my cherished Acorn A3010 back from John Lewis in Nottingham on the park and ride bus, whilst my Dad was paranoid about being mugged (it was Nottingham after all!) Never quite made Elite, although I used to pretend as I was flying after jumping to the station that all those ships en route were boardable - I was an only child, there wasn't much entertainment! Having a 4MB area on the old Acorn Econet, when everyone else just had 1MB! Being taught BBC Basic by the techie at secondary school and helping him find faults in the old coax network. Being allowed to use the schools [email protected] account, and having a key to unlock the phone port to plug in. Borrowing my Geography teachers laptop back in '98 (with permission) and finding out the Careers Library had a phone socket that dialed out Racking up £300 on a monthly phone bill playing Quake 1 online - I was banned for a year (hence the Geography teachers laptop)

I come from a long line of socialist Labour supporting miners, and even my Dad who sat on the bloody NUM committee for Leicestershire gets wound up by the fact Labour refuse to acknowledge they spent too much, and continue on as if it was all rainbows during the last three years of the previous Government.

Better yet, just ban the Interwebs!

Apparently this is old, old, old news. Been around for months, if not at least a year. I'm surprised no ones mentioned it before.

Actually Opera is using %3A for ":" and %2F for "/" - in any other browser it's spat back out as gibberish. Perhaps that's what's getting through. Might be an idea for anyone with this configuration - although lets be honest everyone is probably using Safari - to take a look.

It lets you in. Reported it to the network team. It makes you wonder what the hell Opera is doing with the request