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Yes Yes -Ken

Yeah, took it and passed it. Failed the beta though. I'm looking at the MCITP: EDA7 track instead of the MCITP: EDST7 track -ken

Post: IT Technician Employer: Sir Christopher Hatton School Area: Northants area Salary: NJC Scale 2, Point 12 (£15, 039 FTE) - Initially 1 year temporary contract Closing Date: Thursday, the 13th of May 2010 Brief Job Description: The post holder will provide IT technical support services to Primary Schools and small businesses locally under the direction of the IT Manager. In addition, provide in-school IT support to admin and curriculum areas Brief Person Spec: The successful candiate will have strong experience in supporting Microsoft environments, have a good understanding of customer services and troubleshooting skills. You will also be highly motivated with good presentation and communication skills, with the ability to work with minimum supervision. Applicants should have the Comptia A+/MCP/MCTS (or equivalent) and a minimum of 1 years relevant experience. We are currently the only Comptia ACS for Networks & Servers in the UK, a 2X Partner and currently going for the Microsoft Small Business Specialist credential. For more information/application pack, please PM me. -Ken

That may be taking into consideration London Weighting Allowance since it's in Wembley... -Ken

I would say approx £29k to £35k, see here (click on NJC Salary 2009-10, which opens up an Excel doc). -Ken

Didn't realise, I've put on some weight -Ken

Hi all, Just letting you know that a couple of us have posted free Microsoft second shot vouchers here for anyone to use for their MS exam(s), currently there are vouchers for the UK & US. If they all get used up, let us know and we'll post more. Each voucher is valid for one exam retake (if the first attempt failed) and one Practice Test discounted 40% before June 30, 2010. -Ken

Added to that, they can also List99 you -Ken

I would say, use Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) 8. It allows you do create customised IE .msi/.exe packages, as well as allowing you to do on-going configuration/maintenance after deployment.

500 are up for grabs, the first 150 got a free training book (by the time I finished the modules, the 150 mark was already reached ). -ken

But what if something happens to him? An accident, he leaves, he gets fired or even something as simple as he's on A/L and not contactable? I'm not saying that Novell is better than Microsoft or vice versa, but SLT and the IT manager has to think along the lines of Succession Management and Continuity of Business. If they want to keep Novell, fair enough, however a decent training package should also be given. Considering that, while they have a good user-base, it's not as large as Microsoft's user base. So "community support" isn't as large. My two cents, anyway -Ken

Hi All, To following on from this thread, I was wondering how many of us are members of (a) Professional Organisation/Body and what they were... This is different from the Professional Status/Registration. Membership shows that you abide by the Code of Conduct and that you support your choosen profession (but does not show the level of work that you do). Again I want to gauge how this is viewed and taken on in the education sector. -Ken

"king towards one in the near future (please state)." Should be: "working towards one in the near future (please state)." Not sure what happened there... -Ken

Hi All, Like the title asks: Professional Status/registration, how many do we have here? I'm not asking about qualifications/certifications like the MCSE, MCSA, MCDST, BSc, NVQ, etc... Or Professional Organsations membership levels like AMBCS, MBCS, TMIET, MIET, etc... (I'll ask that in a different poll) But Professional registrations that a person has to be assessed for; like the CITP, CEng, IEng, ICTTech, EngTech, etc... (including other non-IT/Engineering related Chartered status like CMgr, Chartered Librarian, etc). To show the level of work that they do. I want to gauge how this is viewed and taken on in the education sector. -Ken

Not sure if these will help: Shockwave: Adobe Forums: Uninstallation methods Flash: How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and ActiveX control (as you've said that you've tried the shockwave uninstaller, but you didn't say if you tried the flash uninstaller). Run these as a start-up script per suite as you do them, then afterwards, remove the startup script and place a new one to deploy the new flash/shockwave. -Ken

Here one reason: Other reasons, you can read about from the following links, including TCO: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/unix/reduce-tco.mspx (also includes case studies) Not sure what context you're refering to however: Novell started in 1979 (hardware), then in 1983 moved over to developing/producing the multi-platform network operating system (NOS): Novell NetWare. Microsoft started in 1975, but didn't really product a business OS until 1993 with Windows NT 3.1. Up to that point it was mainly DOS, Windows really aimed at home users and applications. Citrix started 1989, in the early 90's dealt with remote access to Windows/DOS - a joint vendure between themselves and MS resulted in Windows Terminal Server (before that MS & Intel funded Citrix). All three have moved on to bigger and better things, surely it's not a question of who came first, but which offers the best for your organisation... -Ken

You can use a USB drive in Hyper-V, however it's not as easy as in (say) their competitor VMWare: -Ken

I've done the MCAS: Vista and the MCAS: Outlook. Both were pretty much straight forward, done both without studying for it. One thing to note that from mid year, there will be no MCAS - Microsoft is reverting back to the MOS structure for the Information worker certifications. -Ken

Different architecture and ways of doing things. It's really the one that meets the needs of the organisation. Well Novell is the company name, so no. Added to that Novell does things like ZenWorks and Linux. Create a poll here and find out, personally from the school's (primaries, secondaries as well as public/private) & colleges/Uni's I've visted, support(ed) and/or went to all run a Windows domain (one of the college's I went to had a dedicated Unix lab, and a few schools had a couple of Mac's but that's about it), either a vanilla one or one with bolt-on software, eg RM, Ranger, etc... Personally, I do to. But I'm bias, most of my certifications are Microsoft ones If you believe that there is a business case (eg cost savings due to operations and/or technical training, usability, extra features, etc) to migrate from Novell to a Microsoft environment, put it forward to SLT and let them decide. -Ken

Not going to upgrade Sims/FMS 'til 2nd week Easter, if you can wait until then... -ken

It doesn't look as if the system supports nested groups, eg staff1 is a member of staff_group, staff_group is a member of the helpdesk group. staff1 has to be a member of the helpdesk group directly. -Ken

Happy birthday mate -ken

my bad -Ken

The same wage as a Tech who specialises in Microsoft or Cisco technology -Ken

Happy birthday mate -ken