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Does anybody know of any figures concerning how much external managed ICT services cost? Would be helpful if you could relate these to school size and level of service that is provided. Thanks

This is where i was going wrong. Thanks!

Yeah I have that done via GPO, this is what removes the 'Switch User' feature and enables the more classic style login. But at the same time makes this frame appear empty. Seems like a silly feature of Microsoft, I would much prefer to have no frame there or our school logo in the frame but am getting no where with it. Any other ideas about what to do with empty frame? It just looks sloppy and untidy on all the login screens, at the moment I am just leaving it as is as I cannot get this DLL working but I'm interested in what other people have done about it.

This is one of the files that I have tried editting but it is as if whatever I put into the middle of the frame is transparent, the only changes that show are edits I make to the actual frame. It appears some people have changed this file successfully though which is why I wanted to see a copy of one that has been changed and works.

Does anybody have an editted authui.dll file they could share to change the user account image from an empty frame to a desired logo. I have tried editting many of the BMPs within this dll but all I have managed to do is change the colour of this empty frame. Would be a massive help if somebody has changed this and could share. Thanks.

Thanks for the reply. The RAID5 on host servers was purely because we already have the hard drives in place for this and thought why not have the redundancy there (these are 10K 146GB drives). The RAID50 does look like a better option but what improvements would 12x450 have over 8x600 as this would increase costs, it is an option but would the performance increase be worth it? With the host servers having 2 existing servers and 1 new 24GB server we would not be able to pool them due to the different processor chips (as far as I am aware), so what benefits would this have? Ideally I would like to purchase 2 of the 24GB servers in a pool but having 4 old servers with no roles seems too wasteful. We are looking at spending around 8k, with my option 1 coming in at around 7k, option 2 at around 5k and your option 3 at around 10k. Not sure still, I like the idea of having a 4 server pool am wary of the lifetime of these oldish (3-4y years) servers. This option 1 is however 3k under budget so there must be a better option available. Edit: Another thing I am considering is to add another processor to each of the 4 old servers so that they each have 2x3.2 Xeon 2 core and changing the 8GB RAM to 12GB as this would give them abit more longivity, keep the pooling ability and I would still have the money for a large SAN.

Don't mean to hijack thread but would like some advice on virtulisation plans we currently have and didn't want to start a new list. The current plan is to have 2 new DCs running on physical servers, our SIMS on a physical server as it is relatively new, an old server converted into a cheap backup box with large SATA drives in RAID5. We are then considering 2 options for virtualisation. Option 1 Purchasing a new host for XenServer with the spec of 2 x Xeon X5650 2.66GHz 6 core, 24GB RAM and then 3 small SAS drives in RAID5. Converting one of our current DCs (1 x Xeon 3.2 GHz 2 core, 2GB RAM) into a OpenFiler SAN consisting of 6 x 600GB 15K SAS2 drives in RAID5 to create 3TB of storage OR Option 2 Pooling 4 of our current servers which are all running 1 x Xeon 3.2 GHz 2 core, 2GB RAM (which would be upgraded to 8) and again all using 3 small SAS drives in RAID5. Using this option would also allow us to increase the storage in the above SAN due this option costing less. Purchasing a server with 1 x Xeon 2.0GHz 4 core and 2GB RAM and putting 8 x 600GB 15K SAS2 drives in RAID5 to create ~4TB of storage We are planning on virtualising approximately 15 servers with this solution. Opinions on these setups appreciated!

Any chance you could post a copy of that please maniac, sounds really good.

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By default ours backup to the same size as the virtual disk.

Would be great if we could get some quotes for 28 laptops, ideally with an Intel core 2 chipset, vista business and 2GB+ memory. Thanks.

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We have the same issue with ours ric, seems strange.

We have ~70 of these to setup over the summer. Seem like decent laptops.

Also just installed that Geoff. Fantastic tool.