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Looks like cloud services by any US based company are a no go as there is a conflict between the US Patriot Act and EU data protection laws - EU cloud data can be secretly accessed by US authorities ? The Register

How about at the next Microsoft/Edugeek conference, Microsoft set up their idea of an educational network and we break it ;-)

If you want routing enabled in the VLAN, yes. It's only needed on the switch doing the routing though.

Check activesync is working properly on that account using https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ The usual problem in incorrect security permissions on the account, to fix go to Active Directory Users and Computer, View, tick Advanced Features. You will now get a security tab when you view the properties of a user account, go onto this and reset the permissions on the account with inherit permissions ticked.

Use server manager,storage right click on disk and select convert the disk to GPT.

Theres bound to have been someone...Google...yep - MAN, 80, KILLED JOYRIDING ON SUPERMARKET TROLLEY - mirror.co.uk

You guessed right ;-)

In the toilet cubicles...

Download and install VAMT 2 and use it to scan your network to check the licence keys are ok on your machines. You can then use it to re-activate those that are having problems.

I've just written a musical, the story is that we are in a financial mess and we give all our money to another country. It's called 'Greece'.

I've just installed a new Kings of Leon smoke alarm. Instead of just beeping it goes: Woooooooooohhhhhhoooooooooo, your house is on fire

The E-Type sculpture looks amazing, see if you can get a pic from underneath looking up:cool:

Not. Jealous. At. All. Have a great time:D

without being in a VLAN config: ip routing (this will enable routing on th eswitch) ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.68.40.1 (this adds your default gateway as the default route)

Yep, that's about right, the ip helper address wants to point to the ip address of your DHCP server, the ip address wants to be an address within the range you have assigned to that VLAN (I tend to use the first IP address in the range) and the ip rip address should be the ip address you've set in the ip address line. The ip rip command enables routing in the vlan and igmp enables multicasting, prob won't need that.

Leave it as it is, it's more secure, unless of course you want to start messing with Access Control Lists on the switches, which you may want to do anyway to prevent traffic routing between client VLANS.

Stick your wireless points on their own VLAN. It's also recommended by HP for better security to put the management interface of the switches on their own VLAN, but that can be a pita. To give you a rough idea of how to set up a VLAN from the command line on the switch: vlan 2 name "Servers" untagged E1-E5 tagged A1 ip helper-address 1.2.3.4 ip address 10.0.0.1 255.255.255.0 ip igmp ip rip 10.0.0.1 exit

Ah, so only suitable for use when the user has accidentally fallen into the industrial blender, ok.

Thanks for that, can i just check one more thing, currently we have a subnet of 255.255.252.0 which has a masive range. This is set as one DHCP scope. If I create scopes for each Vlan on the DHCP server, do I then remove this current subnet and scope? Yes, the easy way is to use a different private IP range if that's possible, especially if you're working on this with the network live. Also, I read somewhere that you have to enter the subnets in AD sites and services, is this true? Yes

Excellent, always good for us BOFH's to have another place to dispose of bodies

Yes, add a printer VLAN, they are terrible culprits for broadcast traffic. Yes, split into subnets. You need to set a route up on the switch for each VLAN and set an IP address for the switch in each VLAN. In each VLAN you want to use DHCP you want to add an IP helper address pointing to your DHCP server. You also want to add an IP helper address to any server that you use for PXE boot such as a windows deployment server. On your DHCP server, yes set up seperate scopes. Have the default gateway as the IP address of the switch in that IP range.

By any chance was this a techie from the Netherlands office? I've learnt never to phone them just after lunch as i think they go for a 'smoke' at lunchtime at the local coffee shop and get a bit paranoid.

And what's even sillier is they sell it on their website for £14.99 with free delivery!

There are standards for these now, make sure you buy one from a manufacturer that is part of the HomePlug Alliance and interoperability will be fine.

Apple are wondering if anyone will buy their latest product make from timber. I would.