CyberNerd

I was just having a play at the DFE school stats here: http://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/zip/sfr092010udzip.zip (from 2010) According to my spreadsheet, there are 482257 full time equivalent teachers, 8,064390 students and 10,195 full time IT technicians (in all schools) So a national average of 1 tech for every 47 teachers and 791 students.

I think you need to set them up the same on both sides - mine are as below. You should change the default snmp write password as well ink-aggregation group 1 mode static link-aggregation group 1 description switch # interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1 broadcast-suppression pps 3000 undo jumboframe enable lacp enable port link-aggregation group 1 apply qos-profile default interface GigabitEthernet3/0/10 broadcast-suppression pps 3000 undo jumboframe enable lacp enable port link-aggregation group 1 apply qos-profile default #

Feck. it sounds as bad as the kids google mail

Indeed. We ditched our county line because of the attitude those like Gloria have taken.

....er... because the rest of the internet doesn't operate on a 2MB contended line. maybe :/

Linux.

embrace it? set up an internal Google+ domain and let people use it? just a thought.

I wound't say a workaround - rather the standard way of doing things since about 1995!

It's usually just a case of lint free wipes, Isopropyl alcohol and a microscope.

Our Mythweb recorded this. 92MB mpg. PM your email and I'll put it somewhere.

A good solution. With redundant leased lines you've got no excuse not to put it all in the cloud now

I'd definitely +1 this. It cuts the amount of time down massively, they are well worth the extra money unless you want to spend hours polishing!

We just upgraded to a lightcrimp kit. Would you be interested in second hand minus the tester?

Google Apps does get updated regularly. If you refer to my post, the reason SMT wanted to keep Google apps is essentially because of the collaborative editing "students to submit essays electronically so they can add comments and let the students work on through those points, they want to be able to see if the student did the essay the night before, if it was plagarised,or if they have thought about it over time, they want to follow students live in lessons and they want revision histories". They also want the live SIMS integration and the range of products that are available for google apps. Perhaps in the years to come MS will up their game - It's good that they have got this far but it isn't up to the competition yet.

That's not what I said. To get the same level of functionality from Office 365 that is available on the educational edition of Google apps you need to combine it with Sharepoint and a locally installed office. To get students access of a locally installed office at home you need A3. The online version of Office web apps don't include that level of functionality. You might be able to use it successfully without A3 - but why do this when it is so basic compared to Google apps.

If you use MSOffice then there isn't a leaning curve at all - you just install the plugin for office and it automatically synchronises files directly into Google apps as soon as a file is changed in office. Outlook works the same, and Google drive just syncs the homedirectory. More adventurous users will want to create and edit files directly in Google docs, which is pretty simple. You will find resistance with whatever you do but Google apps isn't really a barrier when staff start seeing some of the advantages (live sync spreadsheet reports from SIMS etc). Theres also some nice integration with Moodle Google Apps Integration - MoodleDocs

Thanks, that should make interoperability a bit smoother. I guess thats their get-out clause.

can anyone answer this yet?

yes. can you post your config.

Code in is about to start for students.

I can answer that because I recently presented a few options to our SMT with regard to our next 5yr strategy, we took points from staff using MSOffice and those tied into Google Docs. SMT wanted to stick with google docs, not because of the potential savings over MSOffice but because it benefits education more than Office. The reason they found that it had more educational benefits was because teachers in the consultation wanted to be able to do things like allow students to submit essays electronically so they can add comments and let the students work on through those points, they want to be able to see if the student did the essay the night before, if it was plagarised,or if they have thought about it over time, they want to follow students live in lessons and they want revision histories. I'm sure it's possible to do these things in Office 365 but basically need to buy the A3 plan so that every student has access to full office at home: Compare Office 365 Plans and Pricing for Schools - Office 365 you'll need to combine this with sharepoint. Moreover Google apps integrates more seamlessly with android and IOS than does Office365 because to get the higher end features from 365 you basically need to run it in conjunction to MSOffice. Google apps will run in conjunction, but the difference is that the higher level features of Google apps are outside of MSOffice. Google apps uses plugins for MSOffice if you just want a basic automated upload to the cloud, and it has Drive if you want to sync your home drive. All the boring but necessary things like SSO and active directory sync are in Google apps of course. All in all it works very well with MSOffice (including outlook if you have to) and it is as seamless to transfer things as office 365. I've not found a single area where Office365 excels. When you weigh up all of the features within apps but also look at the external features provided by youtube, Google+ (which is sandboxed for education domains), Picasa for sharing photos, Drive - then you'll soon see that Office 365 is several years behind Google in terms of technology (technically they are 6yrs behind!). The really cool bit is that it has Open API's so that anyone can create apps that link into Google Apps - see here Google Apps Marketplace

Does it appear/update in WSUS?

try this on a client: net stop wuauserv reg.exe delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate /v PingID /f reg.exe delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate /v AccountDomainSid /f reg.exe delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate /v SusClientId /f reg.exe delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate /v SusClientIDValidation /f net start wuauserv wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow

Our tech dept built one for about £500 http://www.reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page

yeah there seems to be stacks of 3D printable parts on thingverse Things tagged with 'Quadcopter' - Thingiverse