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woohoo! No more paper cups for me! Thank you Very PC, As this is the first thing I have won this decade I have brought a lottery ticket, but with all the time travel going on there are going to be 2499 winners at the mo so the Mug is the best prize (-:

We use Meetingplanner from http://www.emergingsoft.com Its OK but tbh you could do the same with a cleaver exchange setup (if your users are comfortable with proper outlook calender usage) As for the school diaries we are just about to go live with something these guys: http://www.schoolssports.com have developed called Pro Event / Pro Admin which looks really quite cool. Its still being trialled but worth making contact with them for a chat.

I really like the leap, but for games and geeky things. Once mastered it can be really intricate, fun and the apps coming out for it are very innovative. However I still think its a personal device, not a classroom tool. A teacher would be better off taking a gyromouse around the room than a leap and the students would have fun trying but be able to do little with it mounted. Please post back with how you found it.

Hey all, Just wondering what the Ave size of your users mailboxes are? Ours: Total size of all mail Databases: 900Gb Total number of mailboxes: 900 Ave Size - 1Gb Cheers, James.

Job Vacancies | Benenden School Full details in the link.

Head of IT IT Ops Manager Server tech Network tech Sharepoint tech DB / dev tech General full time tech General part time tech 70 Servers, 500 school owned devices, 2000 student owned devices, 50 printers etc etc Le edit: 550 Students, 350 staff

4 laptops 2 phones 1 ipad 1 raspPi 2 Consoles 1 Mac Mini 5.5 per person But this may be bias due to the laptop / multimedia setup in the shed (-:

There will be a few of us (Teachers and IT) from Kent, prob on the Friday, PM me closer to the time for an update

My account managers, who are quite good, know the two key things: I don't have time to speak for ages on the phone: keep it quick but professional No bidding contests: The first quote you submit is the final, It a fair playing field and any extras (discount or service) they add on after the call is not accepted. They know that I will always ask at least three of them to quote and pick the lowest. Also that if any poor customer service is experienced I will bring it up and if not sorted they will not be one of the three. I find this way everyone knows the way we work, we get the best price / service / goods for the school and all in all the account managers do their best and don't try and sell things we are not interested in however still get a chance o meet their quota.

Full details here: http://www.benenden.kent.sch.uk/userfiles/benenden/JobVacancies/IT%20Development%20and%20Integration%20Technician/Development%20and%20Integration%20technician%20Job%20Overview.pdf Job Vacancies | Benenden School

Hi all, Has anyone used Airgroup before and if so what for? We are looking to enable Airprint / Airplay over the network for staff and student VLANs and Airgroup seams to enable this but I am unsure about how it intergrates with things like FollowMe Printing and Bradford Campus manager Any comments about these or other products would be most welcome. Jamin.

HP servers from OCSL ave been very good for us, we have had problems OOTB (MS related) but OCSL have been great at sorting them and very proactive. I am also a big fan of Stones desktop services but not had much dealings with the servers

One for each here. SCSM, SCCM, SCORCH, SCOM, SCVMM, WebPortal, SQL X 2 and SQL-Datawarehouse. It sounds a bit over kill (and some rolls could probably be combined) But the data warehouse server is 4 core / 16Gb and still runs out of RAM while processing cubes.

Worth noting it is a requirement that lift emergency phones to be working (and copper not VOIP) or shut down the lift.

+1 to Stone onsite repairs, very good service.