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Kent are funding it for the first year - afterwards it costs the school. It doesn't really effect performance, it's just a flash browser in the corner of the screen at the end of the day. It usually runs itself, but can be fiddly if it does stop working for whatever reason. Funniest thing has been the teachers complaining about it, wanting us to get rid of it, & us just happily smiling saying we can't as our ECM Co-Ord has said we must have it, watching them get ready to give her their wrath! Funniest time was us having an external presenter in, who was greeted by a message asking him if he had gonorrhea when he logged on!!

Because it's a dangerous legal step - if they start policing some content, they'll have to police all content. At the moment they're safe under the Safe Harbour law, if they started getting rid of some content, that would be out of the window, they'd then be sued by every copyright holder in the known world for all the links to torrent sites, other illegal downloads, porn in countries where it's illegal, etc. etc. The list would be endless. Google are safe under the fact they're a link index, the issue of content lays with the company hosting the content.

Has anyone found a way of stopping the flamming Open/Save boxes allowing kids to folders at a higher level than the mapped drives? For a program that has so many darn configuration options, they seem to have totally ignored the fact that schools need SECURITY! If anyone has an email address for someone in PTC with half a brain, please let me know! We're seriously fed up of these people now.

Do we know if they've made any progress fixing the security hole? Or anyone know who to contact about it? They don't seem to have anyone technicial who you can talk to! We've refused to install it here because of the browser problem, & our DT Department's attitude is "other schools don't care, why should you?"!!!

In SQL Surface Area Configuration, select "Services & Connections". Navigate to the SIMS SQL Instance --> Database Engine --> Remote Connections on the left-hand pane. Switch to "Local connections only" on the right-hand pane. Then click on Service and Stop & then Start the service. Do what you need to do with SIMS, then go the same route, but change it back to "Local and remote connections" then restart the instance service. Means you have to be on the server (locally or via RDP) or course.

Please read what I wrote "As you move up to more ingrained 3rd part network management, you loose flexibility and innovation, but require less skills. So it's basically a trade off." - I never said that "you use RM, so you must have no skills". I've worked in, & they've stayed, RM schools before, that didn't suddenly mean I became dumb. My point was, and still is, that to successfully run an CC3 network, you need less skills than to run a Vanilla network. You want a fact? Changing a setting in RM Type Manager is easier than setting up, configuring, and linking, a GPO. If RM works for you, & and gained time allows you to use your skills in other areas, than that's great. As for being a trade-off, as with most things, YMMV - we found that CC3 didn't offer us the flexibility we needed, and vanilla did, again, if it works for you, fair enough.

Definately Vanilla if you've got the in-house skills. RM CCx is great if you're a school with limited technical skills, Ranger etc., is great if you have some decent skills, but not enough to really build a network from scratch. As you move up to more ingrained 3rd part network management, you loose flexibility and innovation, but require less skills. So it's basically a trade off. To us, nothing beats building it from scratch and knowing every inch of it perfectly, but the school has got to be comfortable with knowing it's got the in-house skills to develop and run it.

Happy birthday all :D:D Have a great day!

Director of IT Strategy? It's down to the importance the school places on IT at the end of the day. If IT is central to the ethos of the school in providing education, then yes, if it's more discrete, then no.

Get the latest version - it took us 2 YEARS to get it working here properly as the software and server install is plagued with problems & issues. We kept pushing them to send us the latest version (they admitted to us it had "issues"), and finally one version managed to work properly. Getting hold of anyone with a brain there is impossible as they don't really have "technicial support". Had problems on our previous RM network, & our current Vanilla one!

Congratulations!!!

Try using dbAttach to detach the database, then move the mdf & ldf out of the data directory, then use dbAttach to reattach the database. Usually does it.

Well, the homepage refreshes every so often, so re-establishes the connection. So theorically they could be away from the PC at the time. However, they're still logged into SIMS. Personally - we give them plenty of notice, then follow up any "important" users still logged in when it's time to do the upgrade, the others have been given fair warning!

I prefer using SQL Server Management Studio. Connect to the SIMS instance, then Management --> Activity Monitor. Shared folder sessions aren't always acurate. Think stopping the Browser services just stops people listing SQL instances, not stop anyone connecting to them if they already know what they're connecting to (which connect.ini does). To stop people connecting - Go into SQL Server Surface Area Configuration, then Services & Connections. On the left, open up the SIMS instance, then Database Engine, then Remote Connections. Then on the right pane, change Local & Remote Connections to Local Connections Only, then restart the service. Obviously you'll then need to be on the local server to do the upgrade! Change it back once the upgrade is done.

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1200 students - 500 workstations, 200 student laptops - a heck of a lot of other IT kit, very IT-centric school. 1 IT Manager, 1 Senior Tech, 1 Tech.

but then the money and contract ran out, and future generations were doomed.

Not at all - Making their permissions documentation more alligned to the actual permissions would be a rather useful addition!

INTEX on Chatham High Street are the only VUE in Kent AFAIK, they do the CCNA, and I'm pretty sure they do the VCP as well.

You're welcome - & I don't think even Capita understand their security permissions. We're assured it will become better in System Manager 6(?).......

Just to confirm - You are clicking on the preview, not the taskbar again?

Curriculum --> Timetable Printing --> View & Edit.

HTC Touch HD with Windows Mobile here - Syncs with Exchange/Outlook like a dream, and with TouchFlo3D interface, WinMo is perfectly usable. Best phone I've ever had, & I've had quite a few! Any HTC WinMo phone is a great buy.

VMware - brilliant for test stations/virtual test networks!

Hypocrite - "You would rather listen to the false misconceptions about other operating systems and find comfort in that ignorance" - A funny statement considering that's EXACTLY what the article is doing, providing false misconceptions about other operating systems, namely Windows. A shame, Helios always used to be not to bad or a OSS blog.