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Hello I have a teacher who is getting married this summer and would like to change her network username and email address to show her new name from the Autumn term. I have seen a few technet articles and read some suggestions on another techie forum and am now a bit confused. I tried it once a couple of years ago with another member of staff and she had logging on issues after becasue she had a local profile folder in her old name and then a new folder in iher new name, but with the same SSIDs I guess which was why. I just changed her network home folder, her AD entry and her email address. She didn't have any email problem just loggon issues and I had to delte her old user folder manually several times because it kept reappearing and on differnt machines she used in school. We use local (Static) profiles in our school not roaming, Server 2008 R2, Windows 7 client machines and I am using Exchange 2010. Is there a definitive best way to do this? Our previous network manager did it a couple of times a few years ago without any problems, but didnt show me how she did it, (I was much more part time until she left us!) and unfortunatly I am not a experienced as she was, but I am learning fast! Ladies changing their surnames this is so old fashioned, perhaps it is about time the men did it? less hassle in schools with 99% young female staff!

Hi I had an issue this morning on a teacher machine connected to a Smartboard SB660. Yesterday I had to uninstall Notebook 11.1 and put Notebook 10.8 back on her machine due to glitches with the Smart Ink plugin in Word and other issues. I also upgraded her browser to IE9 as part of a rolling upgrade. When she uses Espresso, there is a lag between what she sees on her computer screen and what she sees on the Smartboard. The Smartboard doesn't update the image until she taps the Smartboard surface then it works fine until she changes to another page in Espresso and the same thing happens. It didn't do this in IE8 yesterday apparently and she doesn't have any lag problems flicking between pages of a Smart Notebook file or other flash based websites such as PhonicsPlay or Teachyourmonsterstoread.com I have updated her Flashplayer to the latest version. The PC is an all in one and the board is usb connected and projector gets its image through a USB to VGA convertor. Also this problem doesn't occur when using Chrome. There is no lag between the PC image and the board image. Any suggestions?

Hello this is my first post on Edugeeks. I am an ICT technician in a large through primary school and also teach a bit. At my school we have been having the same conversations as SJB about our ICT suite. We have had ours for 10 or so years and have been through one update of PCs and these have now reached the end of their life and are due for another update. Our school has grown a lot due to taking bulge year groups and now have over 500 pupils. It became apparent that our ICT suite while very useful the school is now too large to allow timetabling of all the classes in the suite. This coupled with the changes to the ICT/Computing curriculum meant we have been expanding the numbers of laptops trolleys in our school. We purchased a set of 16 to be shared by our year 5/6 children so we could take them off the suite timetable altogether. Installing a managed wireless system two years ago has meant the use of the laptops in the classrooms has become easier and really helped the teachers embed computing and tech across the curriculum really successfully here. So we have taken the radical decision to change our ICT suite into one of two learning resource rooms in conjunction with our school library. We are planning to make two rooms with mixed media, laptops, tablets, desktops and books in each room, with one for foundation and KS1 and one for KS2. Our librarian and ICT coordinator have between them found hidden talents for planning and have drawn up plans to use existing furniture and split the books according to age. I will be taking my original budget to replace the suite desktops and get creative with getting some mobile devices (we really like the Learnpad tablets) and a couple of desktops for the Ks1 area. We are all quite excited about it and have planned to have it up and running for September. We have organised a focus for the teaching staff for September to use the rooms (yet to be properly named) and will be asking them to teach their humanities topics in there so the focus is on research skills using mixed media, so hopefully both rooms will get used. They will also be used for small group interventions as well. Our ICT suite already has a smart board and projector which will stay, we are planning to be able to still get 30 children in their and leaving this in place keeps it usefulness as a teaching base and a training are for staff and meetings. I hope to persuade SLT to budget next year for an interactive projector in the current library which means we can put up an write-on whiteboard for the time being which I can set up a portable projector for teachers to use in groups lessons in that room and then extend that next year to full interactivity if the requirement is there.