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Alright, I give, when are they chucking a battery and cell radio into one of their 42" TVs then adding sholder straps, I'll just wait for that: BBC News - Samsung unveils 6.3in Galaxy Mega smartphone

Oh, finally, well I've been using xbox music instead (avalible for months - Xbox Music/Zune Pass now available in New Zealand. ) and it works fine, no need to wait for Google to deam us non-americans worthy of their substandard products.

I'm guessing that Paycheck - Die Abrechnung (2003) - IMDb has just hit cinimas over there

That is quite a question and may benifit from being broken down into seporate specific questions with a link back to this one for an overview. The main thing you need to figure out is what you want to achive and where you want to go. If you are looking at Office365 and cloud stuff then you may not need the SAN/Exchange etc. It will be easier to work backwards from what you want to provide rather than forwards from the hardware/software. I would go with Server 2012 and personally I'd use Hyper-V for virtualisation unless you are looking at running linux stuff as VMs, it has a lot more features for free than VMWare. Network wise it depends again on your setup - spread out or compact - with buildings. I would still be looking at managed switches for the student areas as I would question the wisdom of full BYOD. You will also need decent managed wireless and a decent backbone for this to run on, the strength of a wireless network can be easily compromised by rubbish network backhaul. Windows 8 is good but quite a challange to manage at the moment so it may be better to use the fully patched and upgraded 7 then look at Blue(9) when it comes out. 8 is great for tablets and BYOD but central managment is just not catered for at the moment. You need to look at what services will be required and where they are required from. Something like papercut for print managment and submitting jobs from BYOD devices. Monitering and filtering of BYOD stuff with the content filter etc. For any future setup I would be looking at merging the two domains to cut down on waste and making sure that the underpinnings are quick and sturdy as whichever solution you go with this will help in the long run.

As long as there are drivers avalible they will work but touch screen will be absoloute rubbish on 7 in comparison to 8.

Maybe in another 5 months, and in limited quantities, it is the Nexus line we are talking about.

Have you looked at procmon to see where it is getting to before failing and are there any events in the main event logs or the per application ones.

You don't, you use the certificates snapin in mmc pointed to the computer account, it is probably under personal certs.

How does the problem manifest, is it just the recursive test in the dns snapin?

Yes, as long as the cert private key is exportable or avalible

They are never going to be bombproof, no solution is, you are looking at best effort. Yes you can bypass security in safemode, you can do that with PCs and Macs too. You do have the option of the custom firmware but that is a PITA. As with all tablets you are going to be fighting an uphill battle with the students that now have an easily hidable, quickly changeable device that is insanely difficult to monitor when talking about a class load of them. The best you can probably do is lock it down as best you can and have them filtered separately so you can enable/disable sites at will if you need that level of control. It is not as if the other solutions are some kind of miracle with security either, the iPad spent quite some time where all you needed to bypass its lockscreen security was a magnet. You must set your expectations at what is possible and think about how much you actually need to lock them down. This is why tablets are still a dubious proposition in schools and why some have come out and called them the worst decision they ever made for classroom control. In the end you can only solve so much technologically and the rest is behavioural, the best solution will have to be a combination of both and leave the rest of the burden where it should be, with the teachers and people who wanted them in the first place.

Why not both if you are really pushing the whole distributed, inside outside flow thing. This is the kind of thing where I think big la broadband providers could make themselves really useful by offering colocation so you can have a mirrored service infrastructure if you want to. Best of both worlds unless you like that helpless feeling of the nebulous cloud.

Make sure to switch off VMware client time sync to otherwise they will still be fighting each other and this will cause drift over time.

No cloud here either for the same reasons, they can still access everything remotely because our internet connection works both ways, we can get stuff from the internet (revolutionary I know), like cloud stuff if we wanted and also share services from inside out. We get many things from having possession of it ourselves the main one being power over it and accountability. Most cloud providers will happily give you an SLA of when we get to it and you have no other options. Our internet connections are not fantastic and our bandwidth is worse. Sure there is a bottleneck either way but with our setup its not when the students are at school trying to do work. At home you are less likely to get a whole school load of people hitting it at the same time and it means you can use fun stuff like HD video and big documents without melting the internet connection. It also means that if the internet connection goes down the whole school is not paralyzed without services. It is bad enough now when the internet links fail let alone if every little thing was out there. You also have the issue of trusting an American company to play by any other rules than their own, sure there is safe harbour etc. but if they really wanted to that would wash away very quickly with a decent amount of government pressure. The 'cloud' may have some good points but it has a hell of a lot of bad ones too not least the degeneration of decisions to an external party which always works out sooo well.

The primary thing they need to do to get it onto networks is make it manageable, Just starting a fresh reimage with Office 2013 and the post sp1 hotfixes integrated. If I could have managed the start screen it would have been 8 but I can't so it will be Blue - IF - it is actually manageable. Sure we use 8 on the tablets but for general consumption it is not there.

After fixing the overlap try looking for updated firmware and restarting them all. The hardware and software of the Netgear stuff can be quite squiffy. I'd be tempted to look into the avalibility of open firmware like tomato or open-WRT to replace the stock firmware with something a little more reliable.

Not UK, New Zealand, we easily pay double or more what the UK does for networking gear and the UK lot still get ripped of in comparison to the US. Cisco stuff is new car level of prices for the lowest mid level switches under educational pricing.

What virtualisation environment and do you have host time sync enabled. If you do it can end up competing between the network NTP time and the dominant host sync time. These two conflicting can easily cause issues especially if your AD servers are virtualised.

Yes that means it does extend past the local switch and that is the point, it is how many networks are setup and that is fine. Maybe in Canada but we get ripped apart on pricing so it can easily be double and the low end l3 stuff is not really worth having anyway. It would be nice to be given effecivly free hardware but the corporate overloards deam us to be a market that they wring every last drop of cash out of so they can afford a few more olympic sized pools for their homes. Indeed, colapsed core is fine and the right solution for smaller networks, we only have about 400-500 clients so the three layer design is not nessisary.

I wonder if there will be an ongoing market for antique hardware to run it on, kind of classic car terriroty like that company in India that makes new 1960's cars that was on Top Gear (I think that is where I saw it).

quota entries?

Three, at the school I have only been culling rubbish at for a year, another week or so and there should be none. None for years now in the other schools thankfully, soo much less rubbish to deal with without them.

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If this if for a big multimoniter system or somethign like MPS I would do as above with several of the cheap 5450s and using a z series chipset which also has two video outputs, you can easily get a stack of moniters off one PC cheaply.

Log in to live.com or I think it is passport.net and see if it wants any more info. Also have a look at the myphone portal, may just be phone now that gives you the find your phone stuff and see if it is all working. With third party if you mean stuff like fb and twitter then yes their apps are better than the integrated stuff but the integrated stuff is really handy at informing you of stuff at a glance and posting stuff in a hurry if desired. Most of the built in stuff works great for me like email, music, video etc. But its up to personal preference. As to apps have a look at the windows phone owners group on here as I think there is a discussion on it. The one I usse most is ConnectMe, an rdp client that supports damn near everything so you can conect to server all the way up to 2012 instead of just 2003 and below.