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That's how I do it, using GPPs. There is no noticeable impact on login times, I have verbose logon messages enabled and you don't even see the GPO being applied!

Hmm, we have a redundant controller, wasn't that much, guess you might be talking to the wrong people?

Aw heck. Ruckus have been awesome up 'till now, flawless kit at a decent price. Hope this isn't the end of that

Labour seeking cross party alliance to block academies bill: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/apr/04/labour-help-tory-backbenchers-block-academies-drive

Proposals in trouble? 1922 Committee are now involved threatening backbench revolt http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/apr/02/backbench-pressure-on-osborne-academy-scheme

Agreed it's not an easy task, as a consumer they aren't interested in this stuff. Perhaps asking all affected staff to make a joint complaint might do something?

Well our ISP is RM, which partner with TalkTalk that use BT lines. Bit a tangled web when trying to get stuff done :/ Can't get to the bottom of it at the moment.

Sounds kinda simliar to an issue here. Users with TalkTalk lines can't use our SSL VPN or DirectAccess. Everyone else is fine. Sorry not helpful but it does sound like ISP issue (routing?).

Has there been any indication if this will go forward before the brexit vote? I ask as there is a strong feeling that Cameron (and perhaps Osborne) will only survive with a strong remain vote. Any successor could make a quick win by dumping an unpopular policy.

LGA parties unite call for academy bill to be stopped: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35905260 The resistance against this is growing.

Even Tories are now coming out against the academy plans: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35897430 Wonder if we will see another u-turn like the disability cuts. The government is losing a lot of battles at the moment.

Academy account fiddling. Coming to a school near you soon. Half kidding Academy trust boss was paid second salary - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35890448

From the website selling that splitter: Those type of splitters do not allow you to run two signals, you need a proper splitter as I linked above.

You mean something like this: RJ45 Ethernet Splitter/Economiser - Pair - Cable adaptor that carri...

NSFW, some of the tweets: Microsoft deletes racist, genocidal tweets from AI chatbot Tay - Business Insider Oops.

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We've not had LA Ed Psychs for years. We have to pay for them ourselves.

Ok odd one, I'll describe as best as I can. Trying to reply to thread and the app slowed right down, eg waiting for a few seconds per button press for text to appear. Noticed that the thread list on the left was flicking rapidly back and forwards between two different forums. Also the text entry box wouldn't scroll down, eg I was typing and the text went off the bottom of the box and I couldn't see it or scroll down to it. Had to force quit. Restarted app and couldn't recreate it but thought I'd better report it.

Yeah we have Windows firewall enabled on clients and server. Not sure why you wouldn't.

Just got that too. Good stuff.

Primary with 600 pupils and about 100 staff. HP ProLiant ML350 Gen9 x1 Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz 32GB RAM x2 300GB HDD for OS and VMs (RAID 1) x4 1.2TB HDD for Storage (RAID 6) This runs the following VMs DC 1 - PDC, DHCP (primary), DNS DC 2 - DHCP (secondary), DNS, printers, KMS File server Direct Access server I would always run with x2 DC so you know its replicated somewhere. Unfortunately our second server (HP ML 350 Gen5) died last week which could do with replacing to add the extra redundancy back in). Edit: Virtualise!

As above I install as little as possible on servers (and Java on as little a possible in general!)

Told me that it couldn't use my apple ID couldn't be used with the service. Then whirred :S

Yikes! Even Fasna are questioning the plans, and they support full academisation: Speedy academisation plan risky, says school body - BBC News

Mmm I agree. Then you can upgrade with no disruption to the end user which is what we want isn't it?