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CARDIFF HIGH SCHOOL Llandennis Road, Cardiff CF23 6WG Tel: 029 2075 7741 Fax: 029 20680850 11 – 18 LEA Maintained Group 7 Comprehensive NOR 1430 (358 in Sixth Form) www.cardiffhigh.cardiff.sch.uk “Cardiff High School is a very good school with many outstanding features … one of its strengths is high quality teaching and culture of research which empowers staff at all levels to be innovative.” (2007 Inspection Report) DIRECTOR OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES GRADE PO1 (£27,849 - £30,011) We are seeking to appoint an experienced IT practitioner to support and develop all technology within Cardiff High School. The role has arisen due to the promotion of the current postholder. The successful candidate will have an opportunity to contribute to the future development of a high quality learning environment. Applicants will need highly developed management and technical knowledge and will work closely with the ICT Department and Senior Leaders within the school. CLOSING DATE: Monday 20th June 2011 Application and further details are obtainable from our website and can be e-mailed to [email protected] or sent by post for the attention of the Headteacher, Mr. M. Griffiths.

Just an update - solved this by using Telnet to connect to the switch and ran command to set those ports. Worked a treat

Hi all I have a new server that i have setup with teaming on the NICs. As well as this i have a new QNAP NAS box that i have setup with the NICs teamed up. Ideally i want both to be able to utilise LACP which im told needs to be setup on the switches as well. So now I am trying to setup LACP on the ports they are connected to but am having no joy. Not sure if anyone is familiar with Level one switches but we have a managed stack system and under the settings for the switch the server NICs are plugged into, i can go to Trunk and under Port i have all the ports and ready to configure them for LACP. http://www.pikipimp.com/pp/pimped_photo/s/image/58/461/198/LACP.jpg When i change the ports (in this case 20 + 21) i simply set the method to LACP, the group i set to a unique ID of 1 for both and then click apply. But this just sticks at this stage with it going nowhere. If i try to browse other settings on that switch it doesnt display anything. Only when i browse to another switch and go back do they reappear but nothing i changed remains and im stuck in a loop. Any ideas?

Yeah its installed on server - server is fine tested and all ok on different browsers. Seems the clients cannot see the certificate, trying to install it locally on some clients to see if it cures the problem for them

Hi, yes it does but it says "this certificate cannot be verified up to a trusted certification authority" Is the free ipsCA certificate not up to it then? *shock horror!* cant get anything for free these days

Hi all Bit of background on this - i wanted to have access to spiceworks helpdesk at home for staff. Enabled all the https settings and then got my LEA to add a new IP and a dns redirect on helpdesk.schoolname.co.uk (subdomain in our schoolname.sch.uk) to the spiceworks server. On the server i setup the default website on IIS for SSL connection to spiceworks and all works fine. Problem is i get the certificate error from outside the network and would rather everyone didnt have to click on continue every time. So i got my free CA certificate from SSL Certificates SSL Wildcard SSL Free Certificates SSL Server Certificate 256 bits for helpdesk.schoolname.sch.uk installed it on the server without issue. I then followed the SW guide to allocating the certificate to SW's (Assign Your Existing Public SSL Certificate To Spiceworks - Spiceworks Community) but still getting same certificate error. If i check the certificate details it gives me following: helpdesk.schoolname.sch.uk ipsCA Level 1 CA Valid from 05/04/2011 - 12/04/2013 Im worried i should have put it as https://helpdesk.schoolname.sch.uk ? I have also noticed since i imported the certificate onto the server the default website is now stopped? Not sure if related or whether that happens when certificate is installed on server. Any ideas?

This seems to have gone off topic - i dont want to get rid of the existing pidgeon hole just to add an electronic one. So the point is as described - to stop things like paper memo's, word of the day booklets etc. Getting staff to send emails rather than paper notes. Basically internal communications done by email rather than paper. Pete - finally a suggestion for how to achieve it! thanks for that - its something im looking into and if i do find something ill post it up.

Glennda - Ideally i wouldnt mind hosting it on Windows but was looking at the external webserver idea for the ease of management of php and mysql with their built in tools. Richard - Thanks for input but i know nothing about linux and to be frank dont want to. We currently have MRBS on the linux server that we have on site but cant manage as its LEA. The reason for looking now is that we can look after it ourselves as we recently had a load of data go missing but they dont make backups and cant restore anything.

Hi all Im looking for info on how to setup MRBS at our school. I have the documentation for the actual software install but wanted to get a dummies guide to how to setup a webserver (ours are linux and managed by LEA so dont want to get involved with that) and using PHP and MySQL etc etc as dont have much experience of this. Is there a web site package that will have something like phpmyadmin etc built in to make it easier to manage? Can anyone help? Thanks

Yeah we do have moodle Plexer - bingo my way of thinking Cant see me winning that battle though and in all likelihood yes there will need to be the pigeon holes for the post aspect but i hope that all other forms of communication will be electronic rather than paper based by offering something similar to what i want. Plus when if the system works as desired then it will push staff to use email more and maybe get external companies to contact via email and not post. Ive heard of a system working as we want it but just for voicemails, its getting it for emails too.

Morning all, Im looking at getting rid of paper memo's and other wastes of paper by introducing an electonic alternative. Ideally in staff room id like to have an electronic pigeon hole - where on a large display its split into honeycomb sections with staff members name and in there is maybe a display of how many emails or voicemails they have? Has anyone done anything like this and if so, how? Any alternatives to this if its not possible?

Still banging my head on this one! I have fiddled with excel and date from SIMS so have our 1400 student details in a spreadsheet. Using various formula's etc i have setup email addresses based on admission number in SIMS, alias email address on their [email protected], usernames on ST then year started then admissions number (ST07005423 for example). So i can populate the mailboxes fine and also with the source spreadsheet i can simply import new users at start of year and it will populate the rest of the info. The problem i have is getting my head around linking this info to the distribution lists - i want to have it so we can create form class and year group distribution lists. But im struggling to see how we can do it - unless i update each account every year with the latest form class and year (by populating fields such as Department and Postal Code with the year and form class) and then creating distribution lists each year for ones matching year and form - i cant see a simple way of doing it. For example - if i import all my users now everything will be correct. A year 7 called John Smith, adm No. 005000 will be setup as [email protected] and department set as form 7H and post code set as 7. Then i can do distribution lists for year 10's and form 7H by creating dynamic distribution lists for post code = 10 and department = 7H. BUT - next year with new year 7 intake little Johnny Smith wont be in year 7 or in form 7H. Only new users will be imported using csv or powershell and so Johnny's department and postal code will be incorrect. How can i get around this problem? How have people done it? there may be a simple way but my head is spinning at moment!

Thanks for info - who was quote from? Edit - just re-read and saw grey matter.... We are after 151 FTE licenses - if in this agreement is it like select with regards to cheaper other licenses like you have put for server 2008? if so this has only just dawned on me as a bonus...

Who is that quote with? Is that for desktop pro pack?

I see - so how do you then use that username with regards to the email groups? i.e. i want all Year 10 South pupils email - how does office live convert the username to that information?