Hi I am very new to this forum and am desperate for any advice regarding our Network i am the network manager and have very little experience as no training on windows although have requested on numerous occasions mostly self taught I have an assistant Jayne and together have kept a stable and efficient network,we are a small secondary school with approx 430 pupils, 120 networked machines(mostly need replacing no budget,no policy rollover which has been requested time and time again), XP, one little server 2003, RM overlay, 6 years with RM (CC3 present) and had no training for anything else but RM. We have just recently had a big change in staffing new head and deputy backed up by newly assigned SLT of which one has become my line manager who knows jack about networks and big ideas, before our change to 2003 xp we had our own exchange server which was not replaced as the bursar didnt think it necessary at the time to have one and thought it would save money so our email is now sourced externally ( I wont go into that one as you may well can imagine) this was NT 4 then with which I was fairly confident with but now they are looking for perhaps other options or maybe staying with RM due to extending the network and applying for specialist music status and a larger intake. I have had an independent guy in who has advised me that RM are only for primary schools and I ought to be going down the full vanilla road,I must say I am not familiar with any of this and am quite willing to try whatever comes our way but not having knowledge is starting to make me wonder whats around the corner. Where do I start with all this? Does the whole of the Infrastructure need ripping out and reapplying. RM v server 2008? What training do you advise? This is just the tip of the iceberg as both Jayne and myself have spent hours trying to get quotes from various companies only to find the management not knowing themselves what they want at the end of it. Please help if you can Many Thanks hope all this makes some sort of sense
