Satvir

Hi, I am trying to set up AirServer at our school. iPad and PC is on the same wifi and the iPad can see the PC. However, when it attempts to connect, it drops after about 10 seconds. Any ideas?

We have fixedthis by running a batch script, every 15 minutes, for both staff and studentshome drives (a separate script for staff and students). This desktopinifile is created every time the user logs onto the network and so it needs to bere-ran every 10 minutes. It takes less than a minute and is not CPU hungry atall. Our batch file is: REM ***********remove student troublesome desktop.ini files*************** REM this mustbe placed in C:\support\scripts run as system user every 1 day @00:15 REM and repeated every 15 mins for 23 hours mdD:\deletearea_Students RoboCopy D:\users\pupils D:\deletearea_Students desktop.ini /MOV /E /LEV:3 /Z/R:1 /W:1 /TS /FP rmdir D:\deletearea_Students /S /Q exit Basically, the script makes a temporary folder on our D:drive on the server. scans each of the user areas searching for the desktop.inifile. If it finds it. it then moves that file into the temporary folder. Onceall the user areas have been scanned, it then deletes the temporary folder whichcontains all of the desktopini files. Works very well and does not cause us any issue. We havebeen using this for over 12 months now.

Hi, We are an independent school looking at Office 365 or Google Docs. My preference would be Office365, since staff and students use Office 2013 anyway. I am ideally looking at a prospective from a private school, but open to ideas from other large schools or Academies who have carried out a full roll out. Each user has an email account that they access via OWA. We have 5 iPad trollies and a laptop trolley as well. Users save to their home drives. How does your school manage Office 365 and staff/students saving to the cloud? Do you sync your home drives to the OneDrive cloud? Does it affect bandwidth with lots of users attempting to save at the same time? Do you give them freedom to save their files to their home drives and their OneDrive area and it is up to them how they manage their areas? What do you do if your Internet goes down - are you pretty much stuffed? It would be good if there was a chance that I could visit a site close to Leicester to see it in action and how you manage it. Thanks in advance for your help.

Thanks. We have an onsite firewall through a company called PANDA (the system is called GateDefender). Our Meru/Panda system is using transparent proxy and so we don't need to put in the proxy settings Capita ran some tests yesterday and we tried to enable advanced SSL but that made no difference either after we had installed their certificate onto some ofour devices. They have now asked us to speak to KCOM as they think thatsomething, somewhere is not right

Hi, We have a Capita broadband link via empsn and a Meru wireless network. Now, iPads and iPhones won't connect to the App store, apps that connect to their own servers don't work and any staff member who has connected their devices built-in mail system to yahoo, Hotmail etc, won't download to the devices. Meru are pretty confident that it is not their setup that is causing the problem but as usual Capita are taking an age getting back to us. Does anyone else using Capita have a similar issue? Have Capita reported or mentioned what they think the problem could be?

Thanks, but unfortunately we don't have SCCM. What about GPO and deploying MSI packages this way? What experiences have you had with that?

Hi, What is the best way that the rest of you install/auto-update the latest Flash and Java onto client PCs? just checked and our image on our newest PCs were created in June and since then there have already been 4 Flash updates. A real pain when Flash needs updating and staff are saying that websites don't work and once Flash has been installed it works fine.

Thanks. But I don't think you can open them before hand and so converting to mp3 won't be an option

That's what I said, but the head of MFL said that students were unfamiliar with portable CD players. What the !! There is a play, stop, pause, forward and rewind. How much more difficult can you get. Cheap £20 each players from Argos is not really rocket science

Now that the exams are over, just interested to know how other schools dealt with exams where CDs needed to be used, such as language listening exams and Music listening exams We used our laptop trolley and they listened using Windows Media Player. Just had an email from the Deputy Head who is now dealing with a couple of parents who said that their children suffered as the laptops stopped working. He wants me to look at suitable alternatives or ways to move forward. The only real issue was that Windows Media player crashed on a student and we were called down to sort it out. We always set up 2 or 3 additional spare laptops in case of such issue but the invigilator and student decided to stay on the same laptop. VLC media player is an alternative program to use as that is more reliable than Windows Media Player. The other alternative solutions that I have provided is 1. Go to portable CD players (no IT issue or system crash can be at fault then). 2. Re-image the laptop trolley laptops ready for the exams and only allow it to be used for the exams and therefore not allowing the trolley to be used as a resource elsewhere in school. 3. Move all the exams into the Music Technology ICT Suite, which have CD drives. However, there is no guarantee that the same thing won't happen again, with software crashing. However, The Music Department will then also suffer will reduced timetables. 4. Buy laptops specifically for exam use and not allow them to be used for anything else throughout the year. However, this is an expensive option and a waste of decent laptops. My preference would be the portable CD players but the Deputy Head is saying that the Head of MFL moved away from this a couple of years ago as that too was unreliable and the students did not know how to use the CD players as they were more used to laptops and the media players on those!!! Any suggestions, ideas or improvements would be a great hel;p.

Just give Microsoft a call on 0800 917 9016. Tell them you need more licenses adding as you have more computers than the full time staff you registered for. You can add 200 or 300 extra and they won't question it Every time you enter your win7 or office activation code this number will go down and so it is always best to have more than you need

Hi, I have just purchased EMCO shutdown software. Unfortunately not free but very cheap, in terms of the return you will get from electricity saving, It is a one off cost with unlimited support and maintenance and so no annual cost. We paid around £212 inc VAT Remote Shutdown - Automatic Shutdown and WOL Software

Or purchase an adapter which fits into the bottom of your iPad and then a VGA cable can go into the adapter, which is connected to the projector

Hi, We are already thinking about summer project work and we are considering Viglen as a brand/supplier. They are not Dell or HP, but do offer very good pricing and a 5yr NBD onsite warranty. Has anyone had any dealings with the company and their equipment? We are looking at either the small form factor or ultra small factor PCs.

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