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IT Strategy The time has come to take stock of where we are in terms of IT Systems. The past five years have been very good and our systems have performed well. The task now is to look at what we have got and map it against current and future requirements and from this build a Strategy for the next five years. My question to the Edugeek community is this:- ‘Does anyone have a template IT Strategy or an example of one that they would be prepared to make available as an example of good practice?’

I’m trying to sort out a Kerberos issue that requires me to edit /etc/authorization. I have a Mac mounted via Firewire as a drive on another Mac and I can see the contents of the drive in spotlight but not the /etc partition. Can you please tell me how I can get into /etc to edit it. Thanks

AD Infinitum does it for me. Plus it's really good for other AD actions like relocating 1200 Home Folder and TS-Home Folder details or identifying inactivate users by existing login names and last login date. Sure, purists will say that powershell will do this but AD Infinitum does not really need learning or require that you have a programmers orientated brain

I don't suppose that there are any SQL gurus out there who could explain in words of one sylabul or less the key differences between Full and Simple backup recovery models and the effect that each would have on the transaction logs. I'm sure that I'm not the only one out there who is slightly confused by it all. Thanks. Martin

Thanks Mic for your reply. Although it always was the case I had all the photos visible in 10.2 but not in 10.3 until they were renamed. Strange, but it may prove useful to someone. Regards, Martin

Since upgrading to 10.3 we had difficulty viewing the photographs of some students in eportal whilst others displayed fine. A check of security rights showed that all images had the same security settings and the Settings.xml file was checked and correct. After some indepth diagnostics we discovered that student photographs with an upper case extension [.JPG] failed to display whilst others with [.jpg] displayed as normal. Renaming all of the files to a common lower case extension resolved the issue. Work around / fix:- c: cd facility\eportal\webapps\eportal\eportal\images\stuphotos copy *.jpg *.jp1 copy *.jp1 *.jpg Martin Byford-Rew IT Services Thomas Deacon Academy

Call me. I may be able to help. Martin Byford-Rew IT Manager Thomas Deacon Academy 01733 426050

We use CMIS ePortal here (currently) to provide parents with a view of their childs data. This is accessed via an ISA server and authenticated by AD username and password. The same credentials are used within ePortal as SSO is enabled and active. If you follow the BECTA recommendations you should reach the conclusion that parental access only grants access to individual sets of details and not bulk or whole school records, therefore two factor authentication does not need to be applied.

I've discovered that I need to setup a 2008 R2 Cluster to provide access to iSCSI SAN storage and Volunes (LUNS) for hosting .vhd files for VM's created on HYPER-V resulting in high availability and live migration etc. My current configuration is 2 x DELL R410 servers with 2 (two) NICs. These are configured with one for Network Data traffic and the other for the iSCSI LAN. Do I need a third for the Heartbeat or can the Network NIC be used for this purpose.

I've discovered that I need to setup a 2008 R2 Cluster to provide access to iSCSI SAN storage and Volunes (LUNS) for hosting .vhd files for VM's created on HYPER-V resulting in high availability and live migration etc. My current configuration is 2 x DELL R410 servers with 2 (two) NICs. These are configured with one for Network Data traffic and the other for the iSCSI LAN. Do I need a third for the Heartbeat or can the Network NIC be used for this purpose.

Thank you! Time to play again on Monday with this I hope.

Thank you. An excellent article. Very useful. Do you think I would be foolish to create virtual cluster servers with direct access to the SAN using iSCSI initiators from the VM's? This would leave me with 3 three Host servers instead of 1 if I use two of them for the cluster servers?

I have a Dell Equallogic PS4000 iSCSI SAN which is devided up into multiple volumes or LUNS. One of these volumes is called 'VMs' for Virtual Machines which host the .vhd files that make up my Virtual machines on three Hyper-V Host Servers. My experience so far shows me that whilst I can access a single same volume from the three Hyper-V hosts it likely ends in curruption of files so I have resorted to creating three volumes - one for each Hyper-V Host. This appears to work fine (so far) however it brings complications with high availability and moving hosts etc. Is it possible to configure the iSCSI SAN or Host servers so that all of the vhd files reside on the same volume with simultaneous access from all, as this will make fail-over and high availability easier to achieve. Currently I need to change the access rights on the SAN to stop one server and permit another when vm's are moved between hosts. I am happy with the concept of MPIO from multiple NICs on each Host server but this does not help in the above situation.

Thank you Skyw0rca for the comments below. I'd like to pick your brains a little more if I can. Looking at these tables reveals AM and PM Roll CAll attendance data for a student in two different formats as you have said, but it appears only to show the exceptions where a student is late, absent or other. Am I misreading the table data of is there another table for LessonByLesson attendance for every occurance of an attendance submission through ePortal? Thanks Martin

We're running ePortal and recently several users are reporting that their Bitlet are disapearing when the page loads. This prevents them registering and doing events. Nothing has changed in the configuration xml files and it doesn't appear to effect all users. Has anyone else experienced the same thing? If so, did you find out what was causing it? I've currently got a call into the help desk to report the issue to. If I get a solution I'll post here. Many thanks. Martin