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I seem to remember in the darkest depths when I first bought VMware licences the different between Essentials and Essentials Plus was only about £300... well worth the extra. vMotion is a god-send when patching/updating hosts.

I'm intrigued... why Essentials rather than Essentials Plus? HA and vMotion are definitely worth having.

No probs - will pm shortly once I've dug out the last renewal.

I can only PM you what we pay as an independent, if you'd like? I know the pricing model is different for others though.

It's based on the numbers of pupil on role and the modules that are in use.

Well... this is where it gets interesting. If you have "force local home directory on startup disk" unticked - it'll use the AD home directory by default... But... I've been having some issues with the size of the library folder that gets created there: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/mac/133003-library-folder-can-redirected.html

Skim read and missed this - why not use the advanced binding options to connect the user's AD home directory? See here: http://information-technology.web.cern.ch/sites/information-technology.web.cern.ch/files/screen09.jpg

We've got a suite of iMacs running 10.8 which are bound to AD. We initially had the binding options set to "Force local home directory on startup disk" and "Use UNC path from Active Directory..." This worked ok, but it meant that the default save location for our users was on the local disk and I couldn't see a way to automatically add their home directory to the side bar in the Finder window. So... then I unticked the "Force local home directory on startup disk" and then the default save location is their AD home directory - lovely! But... some of the apps (Sibelius and Logic in particular) put some MASSIVE files in the Library folder. Can anyone offer any advice? Thanks, Ant

I got the permissions wrong - they actually need "List Folder / Read Data" permissions.

It's permissions - users will need (I think) "Traverse folder" custom permissions on the folders above... then OSX will happily map it. I'll double check - I've got it documented somewhere!

I've been playing since I was about 15 on and off, although mostly off! I've currently got a white USA Strat (with lace sensors), a Rickenbacker 330 (which I'm thinking of selling... it never gets used!), a Fender JagStang and a cheap gold Les Paul copy. I've also recently picked up an Aria bass and I'm trying to get a bit funky... with limited success... I thought fewer strings would be easy! As far as a recommendation for an entry level guitar goes, I'd seriously look at the cheap Ibanez super-strats - nice skinny necks which you'd probably find much easier and comfier when learning.

Another SSID wouldn't help - the clients would still be on the same VLAN and so would be able to communicate.

Yes, absolutely. It's fine and probably very sensible to do this.

Yep - they certainly do. The proper procurve HP switches (and not the rebranded 3Com stuff) will happily use Cisco style ACLs. For example: remark "Allow access from iPad VLAN-120 to DHCP and DNS" 10 permit udp 10.120.0.0 0.0.0.255 10.1.10.1 0.0.0.0 eq 68 20 permit udp 10.120.0.0 0.0.0.255 10.1.10.0 0.0.0.3 eq 53 30 permit tcp 10.120.0.0 0.0.0.255 10.1.10.0 0.0.0.3 eq 53 40 permit udp 10.120.0.0 0.0.0.255 10.1.10.8 0.0.0.0 eq 53 50 permit tcp 10.120.0.0 0.0.0.255 10.1.10.8 0.0.0.0 eq 53

Excellent - ok then next step is to see if the firewall knows about the VLAN. E.g. Does the firewall have a route back to VLAN 10? I suspect that the firewall just needs a route configuring so it knows how to get back to 172.15.0.0/21. Also - just read @FN-GMs post - he's quite right...

Ok - that's all good then, make perfect sense. Does the core switch have a route out to the internet? (or your proxy / firewall etc.). I'm guessing by your config above that it's an HP switch - so you'd have something along the lines of: ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 1.2.3.4 Where 1.2.3.4 is the ip address of your edge firewall/proxy.

Do they have a route to your router? (and does the router know a route back to the client?!)

@Gaz - yep, that's fair enough!

Sorry to barge in as such - but would anyone really use this as an edge firewall? Just curious... and a little bit snobby about open source stuff!

I think as others have already said, this section will allow you to tell them to Foxtrox Oscar: Section 43(2) - Commercial interests Information is exempt it is disclosure would prejudice, or would be likely to prejudice, the commercial interests of your organisation or anyone else. Speak to your FOI person, then tell them to go and do one.

Sounds like the offline cache has gone a bit skwiffy... I'd follow the instructions here: Delete Offline Files Cache Windows 7 | Offline Files and Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 Tips to delete the cache. Then reboot and re-enable and force a manual sync and see what happens. Offline files in Win7 has, in my experience, been a bit flakey..

You can't from that... what type of server is it? Any iLO or anything on it?

Exactly - disable the computer account in AD... then when they bring it in it has some catastrophic hard disk failure et voila! It's returned with Windows 7...

Yep - you can, to a certain extent, ignore the megapixel argument. It could even be argued that the more megapixels you have the more flaws in technique/lenses you're likely to 'see'. Good glass is usually more important that a good camera body - although having said that the 18-55mm IS lens is a cracker and a bargain - must better than the non-IS version.

Personally with D-SLRs I'd always buy the best you can afford... if you're reasonably serious about taking decent shots then you'll soon want something bigger, shinier, and betterer... :-) Generally speaking, with Canon cameras the fewer digits before the "D" the better the body is. I'd go for something like a 30D, or, if you can afford it a 40D is a fine camera - these are more towards the "semi-pro" end and will be slightly better built and have slightly better feature sets than a xxxD. I wouldn't bother getting a second-hand "nifty-fifty" - I've got one and although they're great, they are quite fragile so the warranty is definitely worth having. They're also only about £75 on Amazon...