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Just preordered both as I knew I could not choose, finally got my copy of Halo 4 today.

There is a link down the bottom that says, legacy licencing site or something like that, that is the one you want. I had the same issue. I've already got a select few of the staff from each school using 2013 with good results so far and a view to roll it out January 2013 if only for the great 365 support.

Usually you use VLAN1 as the management VLAN and dump everything else on other VLANs, why did you choose to go the other route?

Right now, Adobe, Apple and Oracle Java are the worst offenders for application vulnerabilities, they really need to look at basic security as the next big feature they tackle.

Big thing with any of these is to wait for the next gen CPUs, the Atom ones are already out giving you 9hrs of battery life. The i5 ones are due shortly, with surface Pro which should also manage a decent battery life. Current gen CPUs will cut that in half, if you want it to work well get the next gen CPU version or grab the Atom ones if you need them now.

Grrrrr, stupid NZ logic, just found the first few places selling Windows RT based tablets (note we don't get surface as MS doesn't give an excrement). The RT stuff is $400 more than the x86 stuff. Acer W8 - $800, Samsung RT - $1200. That is about 600 pounds for the cut down version. Looks like x86 really is the only option, at least here where the less featurefull device is 1/3 more than the more advanced one. NZ is a hateful country. I should just milk cows or something.

It's not entirely the case, if you are using KMS or Windows Update it is much better to sysprep it otherwise it will make a big mess.

Does it really matter, its the same evil just wearing different faces.

Interesting and useful, Mac can 'work' in the enterprise you just need a lot of expensive or complex sticky tape and glue to make it work.

Oh and before I forget, I must spend wayyyyy to much time on here Post count:

You could get the power adapter for it here for that, I know it probably charges off any usb port, I'm taking that into account.

Should help

Scheduled task on laptop startup that runs this The DevCon command-line utility functions as an alternative to Device Manager to enable the wireless each time if it is not already enabled maybe.

Going for the middle one in size and support, 600 students 160 client devices. 6hrs a fortnight term time. We do have a good hardware rollover plan though which means most stuff is newish and easy to maintain, centralized settings via GP and W7 and W8 laptops. That also does not include extra projects like server upgrades or site wide reimages. It does depend heavily on the school and staff though, I take a very strict training role in 'helping users not to be helpless'. Most end up absorbing the training if only from the repetition of the lecture over and over and over...

Surprisingly quick to get it up and going, I've spent days trying to get various flavours running on certain laptops. Haven't tried lately though.

Likewise, could make tracking down stuff in my car's engine bay easier.

Dedupe just works by linking stuff that is the same to the same place in the behind the scenes bit of the file system. When it is read out it reads out as a stream including the 'multiple' files as it is transparent to the user or unaware client programs. It would then be deduped again by Veeam. No big mystery.

Google does aim for disposability, that choice ensures it

If you need to thin client the whole school and run all the servers on the same VM cluster. I wouldn't mind it for some of my AI ideas though

Good call on the delay if it is for that but still ashame that after all these years its still a wintel hold being put on the cool new MS stuff.

Cool I totally understand, I disregarded lots of the bad press on the D-Links after we got our first few as they seemed to work well and I could easily blame bad PXE implementations or dodgy cabling or something for the rare faults. We got more and more thanks to the cost then they started showing their true colours, I think someone feed them after midnight or something Good to hear that you are going the efficient route, your original post did not specify, there are lots of very power efficient ways to do computing stuff which can be decent. Some of it is down to the manufacturing processes as well, the average industrial switch will have thicker copper layers in its motherboard, longer lasting components and redundant PSUs. As you say though it is all down to your setups and methods. If you have the documentation and staff that can cover it as well as the spares/facility to replace burnt out stuff. Both ways have their benefits and detriments, as long as these are catered for you can end up with a decent solution from each.

Could be easier to just get a free public one StartSSL not SAN though so you need to tweak things to all run on the sae subdomain. Exchange generates a self signed cert but only with the local computer name/info.

Dedupe has been used in backups forever, if you are that worried about the media failing then you are not testing it adequately with verification and are still using tapes in a disk and SSD world. If it concerns you, you are paranoid or not taking enough backups anyway.

Just signed up for it: Link with details and sign up: https://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/join Took about 10 minutes to sign up in order to do free apps, can fill in the tax forms and pay out account if I get around to doing much with it. You can developer unlock three phones, down from 5 but a really cheap way to get full access to your WP7 or 8 device all legal like. Sure it stung my CC for NZD $140 initially but should end up at about NZD $12 (price of a foot long Subway Sandwich) in a week or so.

But then you get to deal with other hassles like downgrading client security for a couple of years till SMB2 was supported properly, slowdowns thanks to TCP window shaping and you get to deal with the whole thing all over again with SMB3, yay. You can do it on Linux, you can do it on some storage boxes and have been able to for some time, you can even hack it together using WIM storage images if you really want but none of those are a substitute for a nice natively integrated feature that requires no extra stuffing about, platform collecting and overhead.