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Hi guys, This is driving me nuts, and Capita want to charge me a half-day's consultancy to look at it, so any advice greatly appreciated... We recently had the SIMS Learning Gateway installed at our place. I'm quite liking it too - does everything we'd hoped for. However, I cannot for the life of me get remote access working through ISA 2006. I have a Sharepoint publishing rule for SLG, which tests ok, but when I access the site remotely I get the following: - ISA logon screen (which is right) - After putting in a username and password, I get the SLG home page (which is right) - Clicking any link to any SLG page gives me the typically unhelpful 'An unexpected errors has occurred' message. Now, internally this works fine, so I'm guessing this might be something to do with link translation, or alternate accessing mappings? ISA just makes my brain hurt, so I'm struggling to get my head round this... Any suggestions?

Thanks sidewinder - that's exactly the answer I needed to hear... Now all I need to do is dig out my Sharepoint/ISA for Dummies books, I'll be ready for the summer!

To be honest, I'm not really sure what I need it for! Our RBC provide adequate filtering, so it's not really that. I'm putting a Sharepoint server in, and we need remote access to it. I was under the impression that I'd be using ISA server as a firewall, and to provide AD authentication to incoming requests...

We're looking to put in an ISA server over the summer and I've got myself all confused about addressing and where to put it. See, my problem is this: Normally, you'd want your ISA server between your Internet thing and your first switch (is that right?), but I can't put it there. See, our 100MB internet line also feeds three nearby schools who do not need, nor want, all their traffic going through our ISA server. So, if I put the ISA server between this shared switch and our site's first switch, how does the addressing work? The ISA server's 'external' network card will still be on a local IP address. And the 'internal' card would be on the same local network. Surely this can't work? I'm in a pickle. I've never used, seen, set-up or touched an ISA server before in my life, so I kinda need to pick this all up pretty sharpish... (Does anything I've said even make sense?) Thanks in advance...

I'd just like to add my tuppenceworth about Dell... We've been buying exclusively Dell desktops and laptops here for the last two years. There seems to be this common misconception that their support is awful, but on the number of occasions we've had to call them, they've been excellent (although you need to prepare yourself for the twenty questions they'll play with you before you get an engineer sent out). Their home support, on the other hand, is (allegedly) atrocious and is probably the reason they have such a bad reputation.

I spent 7 years with the same (American) company after bombing out of college at 17. I worked for them first in Wembley, then up to Aberdeen for a few years, that back down to London, where I worked in their flagship sales office in Mayfair. I spent time as a desktop support guy (which is probably just about as stressful and technical as a technician job in a school), then an email administrator (back in the days when my modem used to phone the States 4 times a day to transfer all the email back and forth), then running the internal support department (easiest job of my life), and finally as a Mr Fix-it in Mayfair. One big thing about the corporate world is the perks. You'll be lucky to get huge bonuses, share options, non-contributary pensions or private health care working for a school (not that these are assumed in a 'real world' job). On the flip side, I wouldn't even get Christmas Day off unless I took it out of my holiday allowance... To be honest I think I got lucky with the various roles and bosses I had, in that I was never particularly under too much pressure, but I basically ended up bored. Yeah, the expense account, the corporate Amex card, the being taken out for dinner/drinks by clients, the trips around the UK/Europe, etc. were great, but I basically wasn't doing anything for a living. And then there's the back-stabbing, in-fighting, and corporate ladder-climbers that just drove me bonkers... Add all this to a commute on the world's oldest underground mass-transit system and it was pretty easy to turn my back on it all. The education thing was an accident, but this is the second school I've worked at now, and it's far easier, not so badly paid (once I take off the thousands that travel used to cost) and I get the time back that a commute used to rob me of. It's still only a means to pay the bills, but I'd rather be here than the corporate world, any day.

Ah, yes - but this isn't science, it's technology and in modern society this isn't how technology works (or rather, isn't how it should work). Something should be tested, proven, etc. before it is released on the masses. Just like new medicines (which is also science) - you wouldn't find a new drug on the shelves, only to discover a few months down the line that it causes you to develop curly teeth and a limp in your left eye. You have to test these things first. The problem is that people get too caught up in the life-changing potential of these developments and rush headlong into them without the kind of careful forethought that maybe should be required (mobile phones vs. radiation is a case in point). PS: I like mobile phones. And wireless. And certain medicines.

Hi! Love the show, I'm a first-time caller... There's nothing we can do about this until there's actually been some authoritive research into the ill-effects of wireless. Until then, we just need to make sure that if a student (or teacher, for that matter) complains about it, the school have a stance based on the information available. My current stance would be: "Quit your jibber-jabber! Give me proof, and I'll shut down the wireless, fool!" ...partly cos pretending to be Mr T makes me cool. We have to have health scares every so often. It gives certain tabloids something to focus on, other than celebrities and reality TV. Recent examples: Green apples give you cancer Mad Deer Disease Teflon causes blood poisoning Sunday Roasts reduce male fertility Whilst I admit that low-level electro-magnetic radiation is something that is currently causing concern (and possibly with good reason), without any government-backed, conclusive research we can't possibly be expected to worry about it yet. And of course, every kid has a mobile phone practically welded to their ear, probably has wireless at home (and if not, their neighbour does), probably binge-drinks down the park at the weekend, smokes dope at every opportunity and plays chicken with juggernaughts on the A40... Sorry, I have no idea if this is relevant any more. I gave up smoking last week. I'm in ranting mood...