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First of all to answer your first question wireless and telephony are separate solutions. For a cost effective telephone solution, consider FreePBX, The "Free" Stands for Freedom | FreePBX, which is well within your price range and allows VOIP. For wireless the most cost effective solution is Ubiquiti, UniFi | Ubiquiti Networks, Inc., I have not used it personally but it allows for a staged install as you describe, you simply buy access points as and when you can, there is a wealth of opinion on this site about this solution. Hope this helps

400,000 pa (yearly) is not high volume, do you mean per month?

MicroDigitUK is spot on, there is a scripting recipe for this called "Require Approval Code", however i don't know how to cycle through PIN codes automatically, might be worth asking papercut support they are very helpful.

You can create a shared account with a PIN code if that is what you are asking?

The application form states Doncaster, although they also have offices in Leeds

Director of ICT Start Date: April 2014 The Coombe Secondary Schools Academy Trust is looking to appoint a dynamic, forward thinking Director of ICT. This post is a major leadership role under the overall direction of the Headteacher to develop and direct the strategic ICT vision for the Trust’s schools. The successful candidate will have overall responsibility for the management, installation, maintenance, availability and security of the schools’ networks, hardware and software, and management of the ICT teams at each school. Grade: K51 – K56 £45,606 – £50,334 Hours: 36 hours a week - 52 weeks a year To apply please download an application form and email it to [email protected] or call 020 8942 1242 for an application pack. Closing date: 6th February 2014 Director of ICT Post *Please note that I am not involved with this school, I am posting this as I thought it might be of interest*

From past experience, Linux is a little pain to get working, however it just runs after that, my CDserver ran on vmware without a hitch for three years. If authentication is not a problem then a samba share available to everyone is the easiest way. I would plumb for Ubuntu as the community is fairly strong. The process if you decide to go this way is described in the following link Build a Virtual CD-ROM Jukebox | Linux Journal

Do you have a linux server kicking around with some storage space?

You can create your own MSI wrapper for an EXE http://http://stackoverflow.com/questions/854873/how-to-make-an-msi-that-simply-wraps-an-exe-file, this link has a good discussion about the various alternatives.

I think the main reason is that printers are very "chatty", if you plug in wireshark into your network, you'll be surprised at the amount of printer talk going on, this is on my to-do list, but as stated above, its not a deal breaker

Ian, If this vacancy is still open it might be worth stating the new deadline as the original advert puts this in October.

You can run a dsquery on the command line against active directory to find a) stale computer records and b) the operating system of the workstation, Sample Query On Link

This is a re-badged hitachi pen, it looks like the Primary Classboard pen - White with Gray Stripe is a direct replacement however it does say that is the board is over 7 years old that it might not work, at which point you will need to buy the pen+charger combo at £92.

I think if you separate the need to display the choices they have made you can achieve this with google docs, wufoo or even surveymonkey, the requirement to see the choices they made can be included in an email with the survey link, that way you eliminate the need for securing access to the information and more importantly preventing other people from seeing other peoples choices. Wufoo allows branching based on choices, so that would fulfill one of your requirements, and of course these services are very good at summary. The only problem i see is user verification which you can enforce with a unique reference on the email.

Sounds like you have an encrypted hard drive, I would try a different computer, some of these programs run on flash or java, might be worth updating these, I would personally keep the encryption but if you can't resolve format the hard drive to remove the encrpytion.