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We are still on 1.9 too.

We currently have 38 and we are doing our trial BYOD with them. Overall we are happy with them, with few issues. We are not brave enough to use the beta software in production, so we don't have the zero hand off ability on the unifi's, however this hasn't caused to much of an issue yet. If it continues the way its going at the moment we will probably be ordering another 30 units at easter time. You can't complain at the price. (We are using the PRO's).

I am pretty sure there is normally a readme file on the update CD, I think you need to run the server update on one of your machines first to update the server, then update the clients after that.

We agreed a 5 year fixed deal for 8K a year

We have a Junior school and a senior school approx. 1.3 miles apart. We have a 1GB BT Private circuit, but we also use it for MiS, VOIP and site to site backups.

depends on costs, certainly would be an interesting.

all fine here

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I was off work looking after my sick daughter, so sorry for the delayed response. They can access there files on the school network using Home Access Plus+, but we are looking at buying in Acronis Mobile echo and Active echo as more integrated solutions. Printing is done using Papercut's web printing, this allows you to print .pdf files or any of the Microsoft file types and so far this is working well. Then obviously they can access our VLE, Library system and everything else which is web based. I may also point out that BYOD is primarily aimed at students. There is a computer on every teachers desk, but we can't provide a computer for each child and this is where I see BYOD as being the most important. With the teachers there is much more concern about data security an the approach we have for Staff devices is going to be slightly different.

By the looks of it, our vision of BYOD is completely different to a lot of peoples. We started roll out to the sixth form this September. For us we wanted students to use their own devices in the way they are used to using them, if they want to use pages on their mac, then fine, if they use evernote on an android tablet that is fine. Being comfortable and knowing how to perform a task on software and a device is for us a positive thing, if a student can do a task in five minutes using what they are comfortable with rather than struggling with school software they don't understand, it increases productivity with students. We don't simply want their devices to be a gateway to rds servers. We do provide access to RDS servers and remote apps but they are not essential or necessary for the system. What we look at ourselves as, is a "service Provider". We provide a filtered internet access, which includes being able to filter app traffic, ability to web print, access to VLE, email etc. Yes there are risks and yes we don't have a uber MDM that blocks out all apps etc but we deal with issues like any other issue. Not every problem has to be solved with a technological solution. Our BYOD ssid is a VLAN and it traffic goes to our BYOD firewall, on here we define what gets forwarded to our main school firewall. Between this firewall and our main firewall is a Transparent filter (untangle) this provides us with web filter, application control, virus blocker, spyware blocker, bandwidth control and the Captive portal. The main firewall then routes information either off to the internet or to our internal servers and again there are rules on this firewall to only allow access to servers and specific ports. For this years trial we have not done any fancy radius authorisation, we simply have made an online form, which pupils fill out. This gets emailed to our helpdesk and we give their MAC address an IP. After this trial when we open access to the rest of the school, we will probably change this part of the system. Take up is about 75% of sixth form at the present, but this is because we are working with the teaching staff to incorporate BYOD into their lessons, allowing pupils to use their devices in lessons and helping them to ensure lessons/resources etc are available on the VLE. Pupils still go onto 3G on their phones to get onto blocked sites, but heh ho kids have always done this when they can get away with it so really it has not changed anything. Have we had increase in bullying and cyber bullying..... no. Have we had damages\thefts of own device stuff? NO but what we have got is less booking of the school sixth form laptops, which have benefitted the lower schools, as we can deploy them in busy periods to the lower schools. It is important that you have policies in place and an agreed action plan with punishments set out, so everybody knows where they stand. I forgot to mention, we don't allow charging during the day or using chargers. Devices must be charged and ready to use. If they run out of power because they have been messing around in lunchtime with their device then they learn the hardway. Since most tablets/phones use usb charging we are looking into possible providing USB charging lockers, where they can plug in the relevant cable to their device to charge at lunch time, but this as I said this is a possibility in the future.

First Download Struggling with the site now though

Almost as above, we don't give usernames until year 3, we just have generic logins for reception, yr1 and yr2.

http://82.219.204.201:8080/eportal/ and httsp://82.219.204.201:8443/eportal/ seems to work with /eportal being the default directory eportal is installed on the tomcat. Are you just wanting it to redirect automatically?

nope, I am juniper am afraid.

We put in a dhcp helper on each vlan pointing to the wds server. That worked for us.

We use untangle on our byod network and getting it to work took a bit of time, but was well worth it. We use Bloxx on the school side as a proxy and the untangle as a transparent on the BYOD.

http://www.corel.com/support/deployment_guides/coreldraw-graphics-suite-x6-deployment-guide.pdf Creating a server image part basically makes your silent install. We never got it to deploy correctly, so we do as cookie_monster and install from a share.

I used Zentyal A while ago but not for web filtering... Not used it in a long time. Have you looked at untangle? as an altertnative

Google provide a Group Policy object you can use to control what chrome does.

There not designed to reach boiling point, they are rubbish for tea.... Ok for coffee which is what we use ours for. I have one at home and work.

Do you have all the subnets in active directory sites and services?

We use it loads, staff love the fact its cheap. We must have around 50 staff altogether have bought through the scheme.

ruckus on one site, and unifi on another haven't voted as can only pick one option

If you go unifi, remember that the normal unifi and the LR don't use standard POE. Also the Unifi's do come with POE injectors. We have just used the ones that come with the unifi's.

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