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Plain choc digestives or plain choc hobnobs - which ever are on offer at the time

Microdirect sell the Samsung drives and kits Solid State Drives - microdirect.co.uk

We run the majority of ours with minimal or no GUI so the metro interface isn't a problem The interface is OK though - at first I didn't like it but I've got used to it now.

Have you set scope option 66 Boot server host name on the DHCP scope for your new Vlan \ global option? If not put the IP address of the server in the string value

This script will get the folder contents (directories only) in the share and assuming the folder name is the student's SAM name will add the student with modify permissions to the folder **This is untested as I'm at home with no access to AD** $InitialFolder = "\\server\share$\" #edit to reflect your path but needs trailing \ $Files = Get-ChildItem $InitialFolder -Directory #get content of share foreach ($file in $files) { $student = $file.name $path = $InitialFolder + $student icacls $path /grant "$student:`(OI`)`(CI`)M" } HTH

We use Document Logistix document management system here, we've had it for about 5 years now and works well, wouldn't say it has really reduced the amount of paper used but it makes MIS, finance and HR's life easier.

We've just had Dell 9010 AIO's and going through our accont manager they were half the cost of what is advertised on the education portal http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h208/old_n07/quote.jpg

That happened to a kensington I had at work too I put it down to me being heavy handed but maybe the plastic was a bit brittle. Anyway I managed to get the peice if plastic under the pins and into a sata cable after much faffing and epoxied the cable to the drive - not pretty to look at but functional. I didn't try sending it back under warranty as it was physical damage so wouldn't be covered

There are issues with USB 3 driver installs using wds as well, it seems to be beacause the driver installs in two stages, the way we got round it was to inject the driver into the WIM image rather than deploying it as a driver pack using DISM Gui. http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-7/99441-windows-7-wds-deployment-usb-3-0-driver-package-wont-install.html

Try Primo IT, they normally beat Misco, BT Business Direct and Equanet on HP pricing. Insight are good on pricing to but their CS was shocking last time we used them. When you Google HP prices some of the suppliers listed come up with pricing that is way cheaper than the average, just make sure it is not a grey import as HP can get a bit funny on warranty

We use Symantec Endpoint Protection, it's been great over the past 3 years compared the Kasperski and Sophos we used before - these needing a lot of manual file exclusions for databases etc and Sophos being a great virus spotter but useless at doing anything with them.

Eduserv agreements are for FE establishments \ charity \ governmen bodies \ councils and give us reduced pricing on certain software agreements subject to signing up to them. With MS they do an EES agrrement and a select agreement. The cost per year is £360 but that will save us over £2k per year on the desktop agreement compared to what we are paying currently based on 450 FTE's Eduserv | Public sector IT specialist | Cloud services, managed hosting, web development, OpenAthens, Chest Agreements

It wasn't Softcat by any chance was it because that has happened to us this time, all the quotes were for 12 months etc then I notciced like you the end date was 2015 and MS say we are tied into the agreement (they will let us swap suppliers but cost will be the same). I have Pugh fighting this for us as we can save over 2K by signing up the eduserv agreement but I won't hold my breath

We've just had 100 Dell 9010 AIO's - seem like a very nice machine but time will tell

If you add the permissions via powershell you can turn off the mapping: Add-MailboxPermission –Identity user.account -User your.name -AccessRights FullAccess -AutoMapping $false

Large doses of J + D seem to keep the nasties at bay too (not recomended for the ankle biters though)

When creating a new appointment in outlook click on the padlock icon (private) in the toolbar this then just shows that appointment as Busy time. http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h208/old_n07/private.jpg

Don't go off the web pricing for Dell, speak to an account manager and they can do some amazing deals EG Lattitude E6530 15.6" screen on the Schools section with the Full HD screen and 8Gb memory is about £1200 where as though our account manager we got them for £650 with 4 year warranty buying 100 units

We've run Toshiba's since 2009 (600 ish) and the latest Sat Pro R850's and Tecra R850's we've had don't seem as well built as the older A300 series we are replacing at the moment. So this time we've gone to Dell with the Latitiude E6530 which is a lot better built.

Mine is a 2009 model and from looking on ebay they are going for £200 to £300 depending on spec. HTH

Just had this with the 9010 AIO as well, used the DISM GUI app to update the WIM to fix the issue as suggested by Thatley

I'm running a MAC mini for a home server which is the best use i could find for a MAC as well , I.ve put the free hyperV core 2012 server on it and run my home server as a VM along with a couple of other guests. It runs silently and with 8Gb of memory installed handles everything easily

Here are the antenna arrays for comparison from a Meraki, Aerohive and HP MSM ap in case anyone is interested. The Meraki and Aerohive use similar antennas. Aerohive AP330 Meraki MR24 HP MSM460

We didn't find that the Aerohive was dearer per AP in fact it was the other way round from the quotes we recieved (with Ruckus being considerably more expensive) when comparing similar spec AP's so we wen't the Aerohive route with the VM controller, ditching the HP wireless solution we were using.

Bit late now I know but no we were not told that was an option, shame really as an in house managed solution being needed is what ruled out a couple of vendors.