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Its actually been sorted to my satisfaction by your tech guys. Very efficient thanks. Simon

Grab the Opensource edition http://www.zimbra.com/community/downloads.html EEk! Now I'm not a wuss but I get all sweaty and nervous when I consider Open source for the school systems. I'm quite happy to use joomla for websites or any other number of small gpl utilities but the whole school email, calendaring, collaboration system :gulp: now that's serious! Are you sure this would be a good idea... I recall a saying "nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft" 8O

We,ve just been quoted $5000 for Zimbra!! Am I looking in the wrong place as M$ would only cost around £250 a year on our schools agreement. I really can't get on with the webmail, I agree everything is there you need and it's very robust but the interface is dire and its use of IMAP seems flakey to me, too many users problems seting up up folders etc..! Also and more importantly no macs in school can run through its proxy or filtering, just refuses to accept the password. The Navaho support I have to say leaves me cold and they have also declared the box obsolete now. I'll investigate the filtering software suggested by everyone, thanks Simon

Hiya, looking for some advice here... We currently have an ancient Navaho TeamCat server which supplies us with integrated proxy, internet filtering, email system and webaccess to email and folders. Now everyone here including me hates the email and collaboration side but I have to admit the internet filtering is pretty good, especially the facility where users are temporarily disabled from Internet access when they try to visit 20 blacklisted sites. I have been asked to replace the server so I am investigating alternatives. Ideally I'd like solutions that I could use on our mac osx servers but I'm probably going to go with exchange server and citrix for folder access. I was wondering whether there are any suggestions for a decent filtering solution that I could use? Simon

I've just started at a new school and have to get my head around the whole topography and setup. One of the first jobs is to get hold of a new gigabit switch as we have run out of ports. Now I feel like a complete plonka here but my fiber experience is zero so I apologise now! We have a DES6000 component switch which the server and a few fiber links are patched into, there is 1 free SC/SX port free in a 6006 module. I am on a very tight budget and want to buy a D-Link DGS-1224T to connect an Xserve via link aggregation. Now can I just get a patch lead and connect the SC port on the 6006 to an lc connector via 311gt gbic module on the DGS-1224T? I also have another DGS-1224T about 10m away so can I use gbic modules and a long LC patch lead to connect the 2? Sorry, seems so much easier with cat5!!