RichardDS

600 PCs 100 Laptops 2040 Students 2 IT Technicians 1 Media/Art Technican 2 Administrators (SIMS.net, VLE, Website, Intranet, Sharepoint, etc.) 1 Supervisor (Me) 1 Technical Manager (Budgets, Policy, etc) If you count the ICT Technicians, the Media/Art Technician and me that is 175:1. If you count the whole team it is 100:1.

5 minutes till they leave, I love my job but it is a releif when I get some time off. Never-the-less I will spend the next two weeks wondering why no one has asked me "why did you block bebo?"

I agree with ChrisH, whilst scripts are great, using Advanced Installer to create a MSI will avoid registering the OCX multiple times and supports upgrade and removal.

200 Staff 2000 Pupils 700 Windows XP Workstations 8 Servers 200 Laptops 30 Printers 50 Interactive Whiteboards Supported By: 1x Technical Support Manager 1x ICT Technical Support Supervisor (Me) 2x ICT Technicians 1x AV/Media Technician 1x Systems Manager (SIMS) 1x ICT Administrator 1x Part-Time Techician (0.2 FT)

We have used wireless keyboards and mice before, my concern is that they are far easier to go missing and more expensive to replace. Has anyone found a way of mitigating this risk... and don't say tie them to the wall.

Some of the plans for the newly refurbished science labs didn't really take into account the space a PC would take up in front of a SMARTBoard, whilst the base unit can fit on a shelf that isn't partcuarly wide the monitor and keyboard tend to take up more space. I had a thought while I was talking to the Head of Science about it: it might be viable to install wall mounted articulated arms in those situations to allow the monitor, keyboard and mouse to be repositioned out of the way. Typing it out, it sounds a bit over the top. Has anyone used it or tried it before?

I personally like the NEC line, mount them to the celing and that is usualy the last I hear of them untill the bulb blows a few years down the line.

Can't see where you are going wrong but here is my conf I use to protect subversion: Options FollowSymLinks Order allow,deny Allow from all AuthLDAPAuthoritative on AuthType Basic AuthName "CNCS Domain Subversion Access" AuthLDAPBindDN "CN=Apache LDAP,OU=Service Accounts,DC=cncs,DC=co,DC=uk" AuthLDAPBindPassword AuthLDAPURL "ldap://skoda.cncs.co.uk:389/OU=Users,OU=Administrators,DC=cncs,DC=co,DC=uk?sAMAccountName?sub?(objectClass=*)"

running BGInfo in startup script works well, I run this on all workstation (Servers have their own one). Command Line used: bginfo.exe CNCSWorkstations.bgi /timer:0 /silent /nolicprompt cncsworkstations.zip

My name is Richard (bet you didn't guess that), I am a technician at a large school in Brighton, my primary area of responsability is Windows Servers, although as with everyone I am sure I am also asked to do many other things. I have just come up to 3 years working in School IT, two at my current job one at my previous. Before that I spent 4 years at university studying for BSc Computer Science, while I was studying I did an industrial placement with HP... and that pretty much sums up my IT experence, unless you count the random part time technical support job I did while at university. [edit]Oh... I have also played EVE Online for the past 3 years... seen a few EVE avatars on here, and 90% of the players are IT peeps it seems.[/edit]

You can't have it on a seperate server, it won't let you select a non-local drive as a target. Shadow copies can not be used as a substitute for off-server (ideally off-site) backups. As if VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) can't keep up with the I/O it will just stop and delete all previous versions... handy eh! The amount of space required can be configured as an upper limit on the drive you store your shadow copies on, the shadow copies tab in drive properties will tell you how much space you will need to enable shadow copies the first time.

Check the network statistic on the network ports on the switches between the NAS and the server. We occasionaly get this error message on clients, and it is usualy because either the NIC or the port on the switch has packed up.

Ok, say that this is your scenario: Your IIS server is called "server1" and your domain is "mydomain.com", you want to host three websites on it: "www.mydomain.com", "intranet.mydomain.com" and "extranet.mydomain.com". Each site should be configured as a different website in IIS Manager (on server1: right click my computer -> manage -> services and applications -> internet information services (IIS) manager) 1) Right click on the first one (www) 2) in the "Web Site" tab, click Advanced 3) remove anything from the top list 4) click Add 5) Select the IP address to listen on (or select All if you only have one IP address) 6) Enter "80" for the port 7) Enter "www" for the host header value 8) Click OK 9) Click Add Again 10) select IP address as in (5) 11) Enter "80" for the port as in (6) 12) Enter "www.mydomain.com" for the host header value 13) Click OK, then OK again, and OK once more 14) on your DNS server, create a CNAME record pointing to the A record for server 1. a) Open DNS Management (on your domain controller/DNS server: start -> run -> type "dnsmgmt.msc" -> press enter) b) expand out the server c) expand out forward lookup zones d) right click "mydomain.com" e) choose "New Alias (CNAME)" f) type "www" in the alias name g) type "server1.mydomain.com." in the "Fully qualified domain name...." box h) press OK i) make sure it has replicated, by doing a nslookup http://www.mydomain.com on another computer. Repeat the process for the other websites. Hope that helps