Jay

3.5” FDD Not seen one of these specced on a server in some time.

Didn't know that, but it explains a restriction we have with a reverse proxy solution that servers multiple sites. I assumed the host address was presented to the server in the initial handshake. (lesson for today, never assume.) Cheers, Jay

Have you tried configuring different certificates for each location using in https.conf? (never tried it, but can't see why it wouldn't work.) You could also use a wildcard certificate which would cover *.blah.com, makes things easier as well as cheaper assuming all your virtual hosts are of the format [host].blah.com.

A better way would be to rewrite the custom error page to redirect, or (if the 403 error code permits a URL) simply send the user to the https page. By turning off "Require SSL", users could remove the s from https and get unencrypted access (why they would I don't know, but they could). J

The majority of Norfolk primaries (300+) use Netmedia, although there are a few using Frog in conjuction with a local secondary.

For info: Our supplier informed me that CISCO recommended broadcast domains of no more than 1024 hosts.

For HTTP/HTTPS you could configure a reverse proxy (Apache or similar) to handle multiple host addresses via a single IP, this also gives you additional security as the proxy is the server exposed to the net.

RM Integris G2 is web based as well, never used it though.

Check you have the networking in bridged mode so that ESX acts as a gateway for the two server networking cards. PS: Assuming the vSwitch is similar to VMWare server, not used ESX yet.

Enlarging the subnet mask should affect anything currently in place. Your machines on 192.168.0.X will still be able to talk to anything else on 192.168.0.X. You only need to worry if you make the mask smaller.

at the risk of sounding daft, have you cleared the XP machines DNS cache?

I was under the impression March was the deadline for the UK to implement the EU directive, but that it had been dropped from the Queen's speech and put back to 2010.

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet]Power over Ethernet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame] This seems to state 50V DC is wire max at fairly small current values. That's sounds a bit more like it, although I'm willing to bet there are a few products willing to ignore the wattage limits and cook your cables. I think some of the insurance worries are more for the fact you're drilling through walls with water/gas pipes and electrical power cables than any concerns over the cabling itself. @SimpleSi: I'm guessing you saw the 240v, I've no idea where I got that from. It looked like rubbish the minute I'd written it.

Its worth being aware that CAT5e etc and others are not only used for ethernet. Some of the remote VoIP and Video kit I've seen can pump 240v down them. (Hopefully low amperage) Here is one audio thingy as an example: Cambridge Audio (only cause I want it in my house) Edit: Upon rereading, I'm not 100% sure if the PSU is at the other end, so it might not be as high as 240v, I can't recall from memory.

We get a meal allowance if we are asked to go in an offical capacity. If its a case of *if you want to go then you can have the time off* it tends to be at own cost. (county council)

ePortal works as a JSP thingy, so I'm guessing (no copy to hand) it expands a WAR file within Tomcat. The good side is you can alter/edit the expanded files under Tomcat (program files/apache etc/tomcat/webapps/ePortal/ I'd guess). The downside is that when you restart it may overwrite them. Sorry, without looking at ePortal directly, can't tell too much more.

I can see what you mean about master->master, its really just two master/slave combinations in opposition to each other. Each machine is both master and slave, master 1 sending updates to slave 2, slave 1 accepting updates from master 2. Both master and slave sharing the same tables on the same machine. Can't see how you would get around collisions with autonumbers though? I might have a read later on.

Blackberrys can use IMAP to pull data from Exchange. Although I'd go with Windows Mobile/Active Sync as you also get calendars etc.

Nope, September is when the decision on the model is due to be made or at least the papers published. I think we start 2011 for implementation. I found this on the schools website, have to admit its the first time I can recall seeing it, seems fairly new (Nov). Norfolk Schools - Building Schools for the Future

As far as I'm aware your schools will have to sign up to BSF, its not imposed from above, although the money available may have have some influence on the SMT. I don't know a huge amount yet but its one of the things thats being talked about a fair amount at the moment. I think county are looking at various models of how it could be done. External supplier is one, LEP (local education partnership i think) is another, no doubt there are others. Its highly probable that most of us at ICT solutions will be tupied across to whatever new ICT support unit is created. Can't say i really mind personally, as long as we all get the chance to influence and improve things it could be a good thing, some times we seem to be very distant from one another (county IT/schools IT).

Have you looked at the MySQL clustering edition, if your after load balancing *and* failover thats is your answer. Master/Slave(s) replication is pretty much for performance only and performing tasks such as backup without affecting the master. Master/Master is impossible as far as I'm aware, (I'm guessing what you really mean is clustering). The only other solution I can think of would be to use a heartbeat and switch the slave to master when the heartbeat fails (so it can accept updates). Don't know about the last option, but clustering should be documented on the mysql website.

The sony bravias are superb, I bought a 40 inch one a year ago for use with Sky HD and it upscales so well that you can't really tell the difference from the standard transmission on the movie channels, (football is much clearer though). I bought it from sound and vision for £600 inc delivery, its a low wattage model, one of the V series I think.

I used a Windows box with Hauppage Satellite card and some software built out of the Xbox Media Centre project. It was pretty good feature wise, although performance was slow in beta. Its now a full release so I might give it another go. MEDIAPORTAL - free media center - Home I also tried MythTV on a linux box which worked a lot faster but unfortunatly was a sod to configure (matching EPG XML from radio times took ages for 1000+ channels). It's capable of streaming video to a number of clients and can skip commercials though, although I've not used either feature. MythTV

GridView.DataSource = getFoo() GridView.DataBind() Normally I would pop the above in some sort of function I can call whenever I need to refresh the contents of the gridview. That way I can either: 1) Implement some custom paging/sorting/searching etc using parameters to only present the results I want back from the database. 2) I can use the built in (dot net 2) paging/sorting/searching functions without going back to the database at all at the cost of a larger initial query (entire results set) . With both appropaches you have to get the data back from the database once its been changed. (particularly in a multi-user system)

Just make sure you install sp1, as OWA will not permit local distribution lists without it. Also you can't share calendars/mailboxes with the base install, I don't know if thats also fixed in sp1 or not, I suspect not. It's good enough for most purposes though, certainly for students.