rclough

We have no budget and are on target to spend 35k this year! 1750 students 200 staff

We consolodated two domains down to one so now have some 600 machines to re-image and make sure are on the new domain.... (for the greater good) Some 85 new Dell laptops (3 additional trolleys and 40 staff laptops) have been delayed until the 3rd September Then they have to be sent off to be branded (laptop lids painted) - lead time 4 weeks. So no laptops till October! 16 smartboards to be installed - which havent been started yet... 85 network points to be instaled - started this week. 1 computer room fully refurb - only just had new carpet laid. 2 computer rooms to be refurbed - not even started - not even bought new kit yet.... SIMS mobile registration to get working on 8 pda and get wireless in place - have the 8 pdas but no wireless aps or sims software yet. So all in all - starting to worry a little

were having a similar issue and we simply limited the size of their roaming profile size in GPO to be max of 10mb. this was we force them to cut down on the c*** they have on the desktop and have them save it to their H: drive where we can back it up. Works for us.

We currently have the lids of all new laptops branded. This contains our school logo on a nice blue background. its the best theft deterent there is for a laptop - try shifting that on Ebay or in the pub! We currently have this done through Equanet. Can anyone suggest any other companies that do this and does anyone else do the same?!