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Terminal Server Gateway. Essentially allows users to connect over a ssl VPN to terminal servers on site. Essentially a precursor to Direct Access.

I can't imagine keeping any other system going for as long as we supported XP. Not only because of the impossibility of getting worthwhile support from Microsoft for products like that again but because the reason operating systems are moving to a more rapid release cycle is because peoples needs are changing so fast. Having said that, I can see moving to an 'every other release' cycle for Windows. We're happy enough with Windows 7 here (though we have a windows 8.1 build of our system that works well too, which is in use on @Norphy's pc, mine, and a few others in the IT department) and we're targeting Windows 9 for our next big update. Having said that, with the current uncertainty over release dates, we might well end up producing Windows 7, 8.1 and 9 builds of our base system for next academic year, even if we only deploy one of them to the users.

No AV is proof against intrusions (I assume you're running Windows 8 on this beast as Windows Defender in earlier versions wasn't a AV scanner at all) in the same way that a seatbelt doesn't actually make it safe to drive into walls at a high speed. This is why we don't give staff any kind of admin access to our computers; not a bullet-proof precaution either of course but will certainly cut down on a lot of this kind of thing.

Apart from the new (well not so new now, I suppose) "start screen"... thing... which simply ain't right with god, but is easily fixed (with Start Is Back in my case) I have to say I find Windows 8.1 with update 1 to be a big improvement on Windows 8. And a small but worthwhile improvement on Windows 7.

Not everyone is going to agree, and I accept their experiences might be different to mine, but in my experience you get better performance and reliability from netgear equipment by writing a string of binary on the side of it with a marker pen and then throwing it at the person you're trying to communicate with than you do from plugging it in and trying to network it...

That philips... thing... is like some unholy abomination that god forgot. In fairness, many of the other hifis around at the moment are equally ugly. It seems to be something of a dying market these days, I suppose most people are just linking their ipod/phone/whatever to a speaker and letting rip with that, these days.

I got a PS4 just the other week. I decided to change to that from an xbox360 because I really wanted to play The Last Of Us and because I played with an xbox one in a shop and thought it was good but there were no "I _must_ play this game" titles (at least to my tastes) on it. I have to say I'm really impressed with the PS4. I don't have many games but I am impressed with all the ones I do have. It has replaced my bluray player as well as my xbox, and it also can play movies from plex via the web browser, so it might well end up with me moving my mac mini that runs both my 'main' plex client and the plex server into my 'server cupboard' and having a much tidier tv cabinet.

I wouldn't worry too much about "Nvida vs. AMD" on the graphics card side of things. Much like the "PS4 vs. Xbox One" debate, (assuming we're talking about comparable levels of card, obviously) while one might be slightly better than the other depending on what exactly you want to do, they're both good good choices that will serve you well. I'd definitely say intel rather than AMD on the processor side of things. While AMD make good processors and are a reasonable choice, intel are currently make great processors and are a better choice.

We use Tripleplay, which again seems a bit clunky to me. I'm certainly advocating here that we look at Xibo if we decide to change things in the future. Even if it turns out to be clunky then it's not like that would be worse than what we have now...

I know what you mean about the assistant solving everything but in this case I thought it made a point about him being blind to what the Dalek could be, because he was blinded by his hatred of what he knew Daleks in general to be. She didn't so much solve the problem for him as give him the external frame of reference he needed to see the solution himself.

I like Capaldi too, think he'll do well. Thought Matt Smith wasn't needed but I wonder if his phonecall to clara was actually a letter from the director to all the fans who came on board for the "pretty boys". In any case, I think regeneration episode plots are always a bust. There's just too much tidying up of the interaction between the doctor and his companions to build a decent plot into it too, especially within a 1-episode story arc.

I had a bunch of services from Virgin - the lowest TV and Phone deals because I don't use either much plus their biggest internet package. I switched to their "Big Kahuna" package that gives you their higher tier phone and TV services as well and my bill went down a decent lump of cash. Enough to cover the cost of the Tivo and still save money. It makes no sense to me. I suspect it's not supposed to make sense to us mere mortals.

Both of them will use all the RAM they possibly can, regardless of which one takes the most RAM up front. This is a good thing because this improves throughput, and besides, any RAM that's installed on a server but not used is RAM you wasted money buying.

Assuming you're applying this to the machines in a logon script, then why not block domain users from the share and only allow domain computers to access it? Or you can do it with GPOs now I believe. You might find this helpful.

I'm afraid that wanting CCx for your home network is very much "All I know are hammers, so everything needs to be a nail". It's a vastly complex product to deploy and manage at the infrastructure/server level and is likely to be overkill for anything you're doing in a home scenario, including running a business from home. As others say, everything it could do can be done with the standard windows tools these days. And there are also other tools that are geared to small business/large home support these days. If you don't want to stick with the standard microsoft tools, and just want to deploy a standard set of freeware/shareware tools to computers, check and tweak the health of those computers and maybe indulge in a little bit of remote control of those computers to provide support then you could do worse than give soluto a look: https://www.soluto.com And Exchange? Get Office 365. There's no way any kind of home use scenario or 99% of small business deployments will involve enough users or enough specialist requirements to make running an exchange server of your own a sensible idea.

What precise functionality will you get from "Disabling them until they log back in again" that isn't granted by just, y'know, leaving them?

The biggest problem is defining what "BYOD" means. Just reading a few posts around edugeek and a few other educational discussions, I've seen people attempting to support any and each end user's devices, others only supporting a limited subset of devices, some supporting a "list of devices" with one entry (e.g. 'we only support iPads') and some places where the devices are purchased by the school (or by the parents but via the school) and then locked down by the school and handed back to students. All those people described their scheme as "BYOD". Which one of them is right? We've just invested a fair amount of money in adding a decent amount of Aruba access points and a ClearPass server to our network in order to improve our support of wireless devices, both college-owned, "BYOD", and visitors. Other than that we're pursuing a policy of making as much data as possible available to users via HTTP/HTTPS so that just they can access both their work and the data we share with students (e.g. attendance, electronic payment card balances, library loans, etc) on just about any half-reasonable, half recent device (we tested connecting to the wireless network and looking at both our VLE and our student data on our director's iPhone 3GS today). Are we supporting "BYOD" with this? I think so but others may disagree. One thing I have seen some institutions miss is that if you want to invest in supporting mobile devices, it requires a rethink of a lot of layers of your provision. The impact of a BYOD project on infrastructure, server configuration, end-user technical support requirements and classroom management/lesson delivery all need to be considered to make this kind of thing work effectively, and we all know that quite a lot of places forget the back-end stuff because they get sold something shiny by a person in a nice suit. No point in giving all staff and students new tablets for free if the school day is 7 hours long and the tablet battery life is only 4 hours; or if the wireless access points only support 20 connections in a room before they start to struggle, and you have 30 students in a class.

What you've got here is, respectfully, a bit of a muddle. From what I can tell, the Netgear R114 is also a router, even if you're not using it as such, and all the routers you have are domestic/small business routers and making these kinds of products play nicely on the same network as one-another was not a priority in the minds of their designers. Ideally you'd look at replacing those home wireless routers with something a bit more 'business class' if you want a wireless network that roams between several access points without problems but at the very least you should make sure you've configured them all consistently. You need to do the following as a basic starting point: * If you're using the DHCP service offered by these routers then make sure you only have oneDHCP server on the network, assuming you're using DHCP at all, of course. * Make sure you're not connecting all these home router "switches" to one another via their "internet/uplink" ports, e.g. you should only use the shared/LAN ports to connect devices if you want one network, this includes connections between the "switches" themselves. * Check that none of the routers have firewalls/filters turned on that block LAN clients from talking to one another (unlikely but you never know). That seems a bit patronising and uncalled for, especially as your original post is somewhat confusing and people are just trying to clarify what is going on. You're not going to get people wanting to help you if you get your nose out of joint at someone trying to make sense of what you're trying to do.

Sorry but that's about the worst-designed website I've ever seen in terms of clearly sharing product info. I can't find the answer to this on the site so I'm asking: How is it a substitute for clearpass?

Apple might not do the on-site thing and that might well be a deal-breaker in some cases but in terms of sticking to what they say they will deliver and having a generally reliable product in the first place, I've had nothing but good experiences with Apple support as both a personal and business customer, and very good experiences with Toucan, who are our apple reseller of choice.

My one concern in recommending it is that while I can see the attractiveness at the low end, there's nowhere to go when you outgrow it, whereas platforms like Blackboard and Moodle can be whatever you want them to be. In fairness, if it's aimed at primary schools and the like, I'll freely admit I've got no idea what happens at that end of the market, so I don't know how realistic a threat 'outgrowing' the product as it stands is. It will be interesting to see if Google develop it further or let it languish... in my experience people who are hit by a complex product on day one can be overwhelmed and scared off... but equally people who are hit with a simple product that encourages them to get to grips with it can often end up wanting more.

So it's a rubbish (in the sense that it's lacking in features) VLE then?

To be honest, we stopped messing around with GPOs and scripts a few years ago and just purchased printer installer. It's everything that printer management should be. It not only makes it trivial to allocate printers based on location and other printers based on the user, but it also makes it so simple for end users to allocate their own printers that it has drastically reduced the amount of time lost to simple printer setup queries by both staff, students and IT staff that it's quite unreal. I know that suggesting that people spend money on systems management tools is unfashionable in educational IT but this is some of the best money I've ever spent for my lot.

The most likely explanation is that someone's connecting to your wireless network and spoofing the ip address, and possibly MAC address too, of your server.

There is nothing to 'add' to DHCP for a domain controller. DNS is your choice as to whether or not to add it, but two servers is probably adequate for clients.