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We've been having staff proxy issues here (Blandford) since last month. Why they can't even send out an email advising schools of this issue is beyond me....they're quick enough when trying to sell you something. Just called them again, waste of time, going to ask our SLT to escalate. We do pay for this "service" after all...

One of these left at £149 ex VAT/carriage if anybody wants it. Brand new, unopened etc

Now £35 +VAT + postage (each) if anybody's interested...

Surplus to requirements - yes the warranty would transfer.

ACTIV-PSU-UKL 4 available, brand new, power supply and power cable £25 each plus postage

Two of these for sale - ideal if you have one of the Netgear managed wifi systems using a WFS709TP These are brand new, boxed, unopened Looking for £45 +VAT each, plus postage WAGL102 Mike

Boxed, unopened etc - absolutely brand new MISCO sell these here OKI C511dn Colour Laser Printer (01327701) - www.misco.co.uk Got two of them - looking for £159 ex VAT each plus carriage (or collection) Drop me a message if interested... Mike

No - Capita weren't able to resolve, and in the end thay had to manually attach FMS database to get it to work. The only clue I could find was that our Frog VLE SIMS extractor stopped working the day after we had SIMS InTouch installed, and was throwing up the exact same error as dbattach, but I haven't been able to pinpoint why or how InTouch could have caused this. We also tried reinstalling .Net on the server but to no avail...

Hopefully someone can help with this - school I'm at have decided to go for FMS. We're already running SIMS (just updated to 2013 Spring release). When we try a dbattach using either the SIMS or FMS version of the program we get the error listed below. We've updated the SIMS setups folder etc but this has made no difference Our County SIMS guy has had a look, and we've even had Capita remote in to try and sort to no avail. There's now talk of a complete SIMS server rebuild which I'm pretty anxious to avoid..so here's hoping that someone out there may have some other suggestions of things to try first...!! Cheers See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at DbAttach.InterfaceModeForm.buttonAttach_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) ************** Loaded Assemblies ************** mscorlib Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.296 (RTMGDR.030319-2900) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework64/v4.0.30319/mscorlib.dll ---------------------------------------- DbAttach Assembly Version: 1.29.28.0 Win32 Version: 1.29.28.0 CodeBase: file:///D:/Microsoft%20SQL%20Server/MSSQL10.SIMS2008/MSSQL/Binn/FMSSQL/DbAttach.exe ---------------------------------------- System.Windows.Forms Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1002 built by: RTMGDR CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Drawing Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1001 built by: RTMGDR CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll ---------------------------------------- System Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1001 built by: RTMGDR CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Data Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 (RTMRel.030319-0100) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_64/System.Data/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Data.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Core Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Core/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Core.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Xml Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Configuration Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 (RTMRel.030319-0100) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Transactions Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 (RTMRel.030319-0100) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_64/System.Transactions/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Transactions.dll ---------------------------------------- System.EnterpriseServices Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 (RTMRel.030319-0100) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_64/System.EnterpriseServices/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.EnterpriseServices.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Numerics Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Numerics/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Numerics.dll ---------------------------------------- ************** JIT Debugging ************** To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this application or computer (machine.config) must have the jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section. The application must also be compiled with debugging enabled. For example: When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer rather than be handled by this dialog box.

Hi - are these new or refurb units? Thanks...

I'd agree - I thought the delivery charges were pretty high when we ordered them. Parcelforce charge £40 to ship a package of this size. The other option is to arrange for your own courier to collect - happy to do that...

Sorry, Blandford, Dorset

We have a couple of ex-Olympic Games ones for sale which are surplus to requirements for our school - Gateway / Acer rackmount GR380 F1 (Gateway) / AR380 (Acer) IST1 server Priced at £320 ex VAT each. Collection advised, but we could courier for approx £40 per unit (Parcelforce charges) Boxed, full working order etc but no operating system. Single quad core CPU included but upgradeable to dual CPU Make great school servers... PM me if interested/questions etc Spec: CPU Intel Nehalem EP Xeon E5520 Processor number and speed 1 x Quad Core 2.26GHz Memory Configured: 12GB (6x2GB) Dimm (DDR3 1333, ECC Unbuffered I/O slots 2 x PCI-e slots required 6 x PCI slots available Ethernet ports Onboard: quad 10/100/1000M BASE-T Additional: quad 10/100/1000M BASE-T Total: 8 ports USB ports 2 x 2.0 required 6 x 2.0 available Internal disks Configured: 2x 146GB 10K rpm SAS 2.5 “disks Array SAS/SATA RAID 0,1,10,5,50,6, 60 controller, 8 ports. PCI-Express, 256MB Cache (LSI 8708EM2) Internal DVD-ROM None Power supplies 2 (1+1redundant), with separate power cords, UK Standard power cord. Environmental Specifications Power draw, operating: Maximum 720 watts BTU’s:xxx BTU/hr Front-to-back cooling Rack mounting 2RU, with rack mounting kit Other  SNMP V2 support  PS/2 port for mouse and keyboard  Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies with independent power cords  Hot-swappable, Hot pluggable front-accessible disk drives, cables for Hot Plug Backplane included  Remote management/monitoring for fans, temperatures, power supplies, disks, etc  Chassis Intrusion detection and Hardware Management features

Scrub that - its a known problem apparently ! Thanks a lot SWGFL for the time that we've wasted because you couldn't be bothered to send a notice around to the affected schools :-(((

Hi Has anybody else been getting the following message when trying to access web via staff proxy: "Sorry, the service you tried to access is not available on this workstation" Seems to happen randomly with various machines/browsers/users etc Thanks

Hi - has anybody been able to install XP on these ? Cheers

Can I ask what your experience has been of them ? We have 20 ourselves - the first few we've built seem to randomly restart. Fans/temp check out OK...just wonder if anyone else has had problems ?

Actually looking at event log it would seem that SIMSExtractor crashes (.Net runtime error) !

Cheers - that matches our settings and I'm still being told that changes made in SIMS aren't getting to Frog. Also noted that the task when run manually takes about an hour; the scheduled task finishes within 15 minutes...

Using 2.6.17 Just as a sanity check, has anybody been able to run this as a scheduled task ? Runs OK interactively but scheduling results in almost immediate crash with access violation (on XP and Win 2008 R2) Cheers

That's the story I got. Our school currently on 20Mb copper link. We want to go fibre but DCC are saying that "construction costs" (i.e. digging up roads) could cost up to £30k if we do this under DPSN ! What appeals about the Updata offering is that they are waiving ALL installation costs. So we could go fibre for less than the cost of copper from DCC...tempting. I'm trying to get a handle on what services this might affect though - and DCC talk about other costs that may be incurred if we don't migrate to DPSN... Cheers

Cross posted as it was supposed to be in SWGfl not SEGfl...

Hi there DCC secondary schools are now faced with a choice of remaining with DCC (DPSN Dorset Public Sector Network using KCom as the supplier) or moving to an independent supplier. Up until now, DCC used Updata to provide service. Updata are going it alone and have written to schools with a more competitively priced offering. Anybody out there have any thoughts on this ? Or already made the decision to go with DPSN / Updata / other ? Would be interested to hear... Mike

Hi there DCC secondary schools are now faced with a choice of remaining with DCC (DPSN Dorset Public Sector Network using KCom as the supplier) or moving to an independent supplier. Up until now, DCC used Updata to provide service. Updata are going it alone and have written to schools with a more competitively priced offering. Anybody out there have any thoughts on this ? Or already made the decision to go with DPSN / Updata / other ? Would be interested to hear... Mike

Thanks- I would go with network home folders over AFP, and our network should be up to it, but our users are already configured in AD for Windows RM CC3 network homes (their N: drive) , and I can't change these. What I need is a "dual home" setup which I think is possible but only by extending the AD schema .. unless anybody knows different ?