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No MFD's here just standard Hp laserjets. they are normally pretty good with printing it just stoppping the few individuals who ruin it for the rest. thanks again all Paul

Fair comment...... Think i will then look at both options and see which is best. Thank you all for you valued help on this.

Yeh i have had PaperCut before and PCounter too, but i used all the reporting and user management too. I just want to stop people sending the same job 500 times over and seem silly spending all that money to do this when i might at well let them for the money i would outlay on the software. Fitosoft ticks all the boxes but there are no reviews on this so a little cautious. paul

Ok papercut will do the logging using the free version but not stopping the multiple copies of prints. begrude paying just for that option ? or am i wrong ?? Seen fitosoft but a little cautious as never seen this before or used it. any comments ?

Hi all. getting a little fed up with the amound of paper we are wasting here ! But my needs are not great when it come to requirements so i was wondering if you had any suggestions? All i really need is to stop people printing multiple copies of the same document within a time frame or similar. I went to one of my ICt suites this morning to find nearly 500 copies of a screen shot !!! :-( I dont need print credits as i can do this in impero if i can track print users then that might be also useful. I use windows 7 desktop with 2012R2 servers. thank you all Paul

Hi all, a bit of a strange one....... We are running Windows 7 Desktops with 2012 server backend. No other overlays to speak of. My issuse is when the PC be it desktop or laptop start up and gets to the logon screen the cursor is not in the "Username" box. Infact it does not seem to be focused anywhere at all even hitting the tab button doesnt seem to make the cursor appear there at all. However if i logon to the machine then off again the cursor is happily blinking in the username field. From when the system were installed as FRESH no migrations of setttings nothing. however we have put a corporate background on the logon screen which displays the school logo etc. Could this have caused this ?? Can i set in group policy the username field is focused on start up ?? As i say this is purely a niggle not life and death. Thanks all for your time on this. Paul

Thank you Zourous.

Yes it seems in future i am going to have to choose a new source for toners.

I did, in fact i wrote then quite a long email asking then why they don't take them back but got no response.

I have been looking round for a few weeks now on how to recycle these remanufactured toner but am struggling. Its real nice that companies do this but forget we need to dispose of the used products, but where ? the boxes of old toners are mounting up now......... Any ideas ?? Paul

Thank you all for you help on this. As 75% of my staff use complex password this may not be an issues plus with the inclusion of AD sync too. The interface is not really an issues to me as most use the M$ Outlook. If anyone has any other major gripes then please let me know. Thank you all for you valued help on this Regards Paul

I have been looking at Office 365 over the past 6 months now and have even gone as far as setting up users and groups so just need to change the mail record and off i jolly well go !! We use a paid for service at the moment with only a few gripes like i have to email or phone to get accounts set up or changed or groups added or removed other than that is the price tag each year for the privilege. What are the pro's and con's of 365 ?? i have signed up and have more than enough accounts for my staff and even students now which i would not have had before and it looks like i can ask for more if i need them. 90% of my users use Office Outlook on their resident machines so they should not notice the difference. Is there somthing i am missing in all this ???? Paul

We had a similar problem here running old cc3. Brought Qnap mini nas. moved the shared drives to qnap. u can either use iscsi or just remap drives. Then you have the gained space to increase user areas. Be warned RM will not support this at all and will get very much in a knot about it and could cause you problems with support. Qnap plus drives not all that expensive. HTH Paul Got an old box ?? buy some cheap drives and use freenas if its still about

No i think your right and also one size doesn't always fit all. Plus it doesn't harm to go over the basics even if we should already have a grasp on them. I think what my governors would like here is just to see what others are doing and who out there feels they have a firm grip on what schools are really doing well with I.T in general. This doesn't have to be I.T based lessons. Again if you feel you have this in hand and don't mind me coming over to see you then give me a PM. Paul

Thank for the replies ! what about in the classroom ?? are teachers actively using whiteboard "interactively" ?? We have just spent allot of money here replacing the server end of things and kind of wiping the slate clean and only replacing the software that was needed. Upon doing an audit i foudn there was many titles that are a number of years out of date ! Think the key here is engaging lessons and technology being used properly. Many reports out there to damn I.T within schools saying that I.T based lessons are boring ! Hence why my ask for any schools who feel that they have addressed these issues and more. Paul