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Email is now working for us and collecting from our POP box so perhaps it'll be working for you too apinnard. Just got to check now if we can access the servers from outside and then we'll be back and working again.

Synetrix have told me that there is a problem in northants for email receiving and sending and that it will be sorted by lunchtime and only to call back after then if we still have a problem. I'm not sure if we are just being fobbed off. and I cannot get into the portal site still, I've been told that webview usernames i.e. those starting with NHS are not the correct usernames. They will create me a portal username but only after april 1st. I did think that the protal only gave me access to documents but if it's filtering and that too then I really think I need it before April 1st as it may be filtering thats stopping us receiving email.

Looks like you have exactly the same problem as me. Kmount tried it for me and he could connect via telnet to it. I can't connect via telnet so we'll have to get back onto synetrix, maybe the 2 of us together can get them to sort it.

I can't get into any of the portal pages because the webview password we did have is not working and if I request a new password they want to email it which is why I need the password in the first place, because we cannot email.

my old webview password will not work with the new portal so I can't logon to check protocol level filtering, and synetrix can't give us a password. Phoned .ICT and they say that most schools in northants have no email. I don't know how true that is because some of yous seem to be getting on.

Why have they done this, I was quite happy with it as it was, mainly because it was working:D. I've changed the port to 995 and same problem. The mail server I'm trying to connect to is not embc's pop server but an outside one. Cannot telnet on either port. Any other ideas, perhaps it's been filtered?

Plain old port 110 for gathering the POP account, no internal firewall blocking that either. Should they be able to give me the email username over the phone? The woman I spoke to this morning didn't seem to have a clue and would only pass my information on.

I've not had a problem with the pop collector before, I use EFS to collect then pass onto the exchange server. I can only assume it has something to do with the change, but I have no idea what I can do to check this. I can locate the pop server through dns, just get the timeout when trying to pick up the pop box. The relaying thing probably is the username as we have never used one so it's not on the exchange server, I don't even remember seeing anything that said I had to put in a username and I've no idea what it could be. I've placed a call with synetrix and asked for password details for the portal, because I can't get on to see the documents without logging into the portal (webview was a saved password and I lost the written one in the move), according to synetrix I don't have a password and have never had one and they will try and call me back later.

I've got some problems with email this morning too. Can't send any email, they get returned saying client not authorised if I use the old SMTP relay host, and if I use the new one I get Relaying not permitted. Also we collect our school email from a pop box (legacy thing but it works fine normally), however our email server cannot now pick up form the pop box we just get a connection timeout. Oh yea and loads of complaints that staff couldn't access the servers over the weekend. Any one got an idea on the email bit though?

I've got an interview tomorrow

yea, Sylvan prometric, not got as many locations as well. I read that Pearson were not happy about it and had no indication that the exams were to be taken from them. I had a technician due to take an exam with Pearson, luckily they honoured all previously booked exams.

You can do the course yourself from books, you just have to make sure that you're disciplined enough to do it. Plus, I'm not sure if Microsoft have sorted it yet, but it is a different team who write the MCSE books from those that write the exams so sometimes you may come up against something in the exam that you haven't studied in the books. It's well worth getting a few old machines together and setting up your own little network that you don't mind breaking often. And if you do go for the exams remember that Microsoft will be looking for the 'Microsoft answer', not necessarily the easiest or quickest one.

Yep, group policy will do it for you. You can also use group policy to add in particular permissions. i.e. some programs need to allow students to write to the c: you can set permission to apply just to that folder in Computer Config>Windows settings>Security settings>file system

I always do my upgrades on the server and the only time it fails is when a user logs in during the upgrade. I now make a big issue of getting everyone out of sims, email to all staff, get office staff to ring all relevant people. Then check on SQL manager to see who is still in and VNC or use shutdown command to switch their computer off, they soon realise what is going on.

We use offline files for all our staff and apart from the occasional hiccup we don't experience many problems at all. It can be difficult to explain to the teaching staff that if they try to synchronise a large folder that it will take time. I've never had a user be able to access others offline files, the permissions stay the same as if they were still on the domain as the computer should cache the user credentials. Perhaps if it happened a year ago, the permissions were different at that time? you should still be able to check the permissions applied to the files in the offline folder. You can use group policy to control the local settings so that if the domain is not available or the computer is now standalone that there are still restrictions in force. Mine are set so that no one except admin can logon if the domain is not available. Check the settings in - computer conf>windows>security>local policies>