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I see that you offer Web Design / SEO Services - Yes, we do do that. Using the guise of a schools IT department -_-

Not Amazon but I got this sent to my helpdesk email (viewable on our website) the other day: Hi, My name is Veronica Rathore. We are an IT based company. I see that you offer Web Design / SEO Services and would like to know if you are willing to outsource some or part SEO Campaigns or web related work to us. We have our internal systems geared up for such an association and should you be interested kindly drop me a quick mail and I will revert. Also if you want, we can set up a call to explore mutual synergies. SEO PRICING: We believe that each website is different and require different strategy and effort to rank on search engines. We offer customized solution to all our customers after doing a detailed analysis of the site. If you can give me a sample URL I can do a detailed analysis and send quotes accordingly. If you are experiencing some issue please discuss with us. I look forward to hear from you. Best Regards, Veronica Rathore

Option 1 seems to be the common usage and was my preference however you cannot download apps. Reading this http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/C/8/EC839D39-0059-4E66-A024-F795DD6CBD81/Deploying%20Windows%20RT%208.1%20-%20A%20Guide%20for%20Education.pdf You can sideload them, but you need another product key!

Fully O365.

Can anyone help?

Just as I thought. Thanks. Anyone else use them?

See I'd prefer to give them out, 1:1 style. I want to try to build up enough evidence as to why we should do that.

We have 30 Surface RT's here and I am at a loss with them at the moment. I see two options with them. 1) Use Local accounts on them, they can be used for web browsing, office suite. Prevents use of Apps. 2) Use a shared MS account on them all. Can use Apps using this method but it requires a sign in at the start and my concern is, what if the MS account password is changed. Will that lock all 30 surfaces out? Please can someone with knowledge of these things get back to me on what I can do with them. The head is pushing toward shared (trolley) use.

I agree. A company as big as Google who push this into schools who then don't offer support to those that need is not helping themselves. A try weekly and still not working

Quite impressive that at 0:44 the keyboard is still visible and the screen held up!

Sorted!

Ohh I like that one.

I remember when I did my work experience I wanted to see servers, data cabs, proper networking stuff. Instead all I did was build an IIS server in a VM on a workstation and build a network (2PC's & a switch). I want him to enjoy IT and get into it. Perhaps I will do both as even Network Managers have to get dirty cleaning projectors sometimes!

Hi all, Another work experience thread i'm afraid! One of our ex pupils has asked to come back and visit the IT department for his work experience week. What sort of things should I be getting him to do? I don't want to be giving him the medial tasks, more server configs etc. TIA

To be honest I have no idea. I tried using local host but used server \instance as that worked too

Open your web.config file, your SQLConnectionString line should look like this. Did you change the instance name in the web.config?

Got it, ta. Do I just push that via GPO? And host it on the website so if others want to use DirecEdit on their machines they just install it?

Oh yeah! Awesome! Thankyou Nick.

Hi Nick, It would appear I have sorted this, I have migrated over to using SQL for my helpdesk, much faster! However, I have no dialog box when I click Update like I did in v9 do I cant close any cases!

As it was my suggestion I thought i'd play with DirectEdit on my v10 install. Am I right in saying that the http://www.nbdev.co.uk/hap/directedit.aspx is down? I cannot get in, I get a 404.

Ah that'll be it. I didn't recreate the hapconfig.XML. I copied it from my v9 install.

Hmmm I'll turn it off to test. Works with the same settings on v9.7.

This one is the error when creating a new ticket An error occurred in Home Access Plus+ Page: mscorlib Value cannot be null. Parameter name: inputBuffer System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: inputBuffer at System.Security.Cryptography.RijndaelManagedTransform.TransformFinalBlock(Byte[] inputBuffer, Int32 inputOffset, Int32 inputCount) at System.Security.Cryptography.CryptoStream.FlushFinalBlock() at System.Security.Cryptography.CryptoStream.Dispose(Boolean disposing) at System.IO.Stream.Close() at HAP.Web.Configuration.SMTP.get_Password() at HAP.HelpDesk.API.FileTicket(String Subject, String Room, String Note, Attachment[] Attachments) at SyncInvokeFileTicket(Object , Object[] , Object[] ) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.SyncMethodInvoker.Invoke(Object instance, Object[] inputs, Object[]& outputs) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.DispatchOperationRuntime.InvokeBegin(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage5(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage31(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.MessageRpc.Process(Boolean isOperationContextSet) at System.Security.Cryptography.RijndaelManagedTransform.TransformFinalBlock(Byte[] inputBuffer, Int32 inputOffset, Int32 inputCount) at System.Security.Cryptography.CryptoStream.FlushFinalBlock() at System.Security.Cryptography.CryptoStream.Dispose(Boolean disposing) at System.IO.Stream.Close() at HAP.Web.Configuration.SMTP.get_Password() at HAP.HelpDesk.API.FileTicket(String Subject, String Room, String Note, Attachment[] Attachments) at SyncInvokeFileTicket(Object , Object[] , Object[] ) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.SyncMethodInvoker.Invoke(Object instance, Object[] inputs, Object[]& outputs) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.DispatchOperationRuntime.InvokeBegin(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage5(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage31(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.MessageRpc.Process(Boolean isOperationContextSet)

This is the error in the Event log relating to the ticket updating. An error occurred in Home Access Plus+ Page: mscorlib Value cannot be null. Parameter name: inputBuffer System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: inputBuffer at System.Security.Cryptography.RijndaelManagedTransform.TransformFinalBlock(Byte[] inputBuffer, Int32 inputOffset, Int32 inputCount) at System.Security.Cryptography.CryptoStream.FlushFinalBlock() at System.Security.Cryptography.CryptoStream.Dispose(Boolean disposing) at System.IO.Stream.Close() at HAP.Web.Configuration.SMTP.get_Password() at HAP.HelpDesk.API.UpdateTicket(String Id, String Note, String State, String Priority, String ShowTo, String FAQ, String Subject, String AssignTo, Attachment[] Attachments) at SyncInvokeUpdateTicket(Object , Object[] , Object[] ) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.SyncMethodInvoker.Invoke(Object instance, Object[] inputs, Object[]& outputs) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.DispatchOperationRuntime.InvokeBegin(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage5(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage31(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.MessageRpc.Process(Boolean isOperationContextSet) at System.Security.Cryptography.RijndaelManagedTransform.TransformFinalBlock(Byte[] inputBuffer, Int32 inputOffset, Int32 inputCount) at System.Security.Cryptography.CryptoStream.FlushFinalBlock() at System.Security.Cryptography.CryptoStream.Dispose(Boolean disposing) at System.IO.Stream.Close() at HAP.Web.Configuration.SMTP.get_Password() at HAP.HelpDesk.API.UpdateTicket(String Id, String Note, String State, String Priority, String ShowTo, String FAQ, String Subject, String AssignTo, Attachment[] Attachments) at SyncInvokeUpdateTicket(Object , Object[] , Object[] ) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.SyncMethodInvoker.Invoke(Object instance, Object[] inputs, Object[]& outputs) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.DispatchOperationRuntime.InvokeBegin(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage5(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage31(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.MessageRpc.Process(Boolean isOperationContextSet)

Ah yes, this. Just be sure to use 8 whenever you create / convert a VM.