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im also planning a move from smoothwall to fortigate devices this summer so would also be interested in this althought we are also going to implement lightspeed as well.

I currently reviewing our broadband supplier and firewall/filtering device as they are up for renewal in a few months. Currently we have Virgin Media with 1Gb/1Gb line and 2x Smoothwalls running in failover plus also using their cloud filtering and also have Netsupport School Cloud software. Im thinking about a new line 2Gb/10Gb plus 1Gb/1Gb for failover. Im considering moving away from Virgin as service & support is bad at the moment and BT are easiliy undercutting their prices. Im struggling to decided what to do about the firewalls & filtering. I have a price from Smoothwall for an S15 appliance but not fully convinced this is best way for future especially if school grows and needs to look after more schools. It has been suggested to use either a Fortigate or PaloAlto box and then use Smoothwall Cloud Filtering to protect devices in & out of school keeping with the Net Support offering to help pick up on phrases being typed in Word/teams etc. We have approx 500+ devices using the web in school and majority are InTune registered. There are also a number of school devices that also used in the home environment that still need to be protected. BT at the moment appear to be offering a good 1 stop shop for the whole soultion. What are other schools using and what would you recommend?

I have recently been looking at Microsoft storage spaces as a Dell partner has recommend it over the traditional San storage for hyper-v. We are currently looking at renewing our server environment and replacing all servers with two new hyper-visor hosts and creating a whole new virtual server environment. We have been looking at the traditional method of hosts, fibre switches and san for shared storage. Has anyone taken the plunge yet and used storage spaces instead of the old traditional methods? To me it is looking more cost effective using the new system but it also looks too good to be true. Is this tech going to be the next VHS & Betamax war and if you choose the wrong one you are stuck for years with failing support? It would be interesting to hear other peoples thoughts

I have a user account in school that keeps send spam emails. I have checked Office 365 and cannot see a way of blocking this users. I suspect that a machine onsite may be compromised by need to find out where the user last logged into. Does anyone know an easy way to find out this info? The PC's are Win 7 & domain is running 2012 logon servers Any help would be appreciated, Thanks.

I have setup a remote desktop server running server 2012 R2. On this server I have installed Sims & Finance onto this server. Sims runs ok but when I run Finance I get a message saying that the Crystal Reports is missing and we cannot produce any reports. The administrator account gets this message. I have run all the correct FMS installers & have re-run the FMS Application setup plus the infrastructure installer. My users can login remotely login ok to the session & run the software but they also get the error with Crystal Reports Anyone got any ideas what could be wrong?

Thanks for help the akeeba module worked well & we were able to backup all current website

We have a lancs.sch.uk dfes style DNS name & want to keep it. It has been a hassle trying to get a copy of our DNS zone & also get the ip DNS tag released to Virgin media. We have now managed this but what a hassle trying to get all info I needed as could not call anyone plus all old IT has been one connected! I have now also found out that county have not altered their routing for email to us so any lancs school who is sending us mail it having it bounced. Nice of them to let me know we had to request an extra change. One connect has now got so impersonal and even less flexible for schools than before.

Currently our school website is hosted by lancs county council (one connect) & we use joomla. I can download site data via FTP as we are moving provider so are going to host this ourselves. Does anyone know how I can get access to the myphp so I can download the database file associated with our site? Emailed one connect but not getting any joy.

We just signed up with virgin with 200mb & adsl failover backup line for £12k a year on 3 year deal. Thus was direct with them. Now just need to get all correct info off one connect what a pain that is

I have just checked our speed today. We used to get towards 75 on speediest.net but today only getting around 20. Has anyone logged a call with OneConnect?

Has the Admins Nasty File Search Utility died now? Can anyone suggest a replacement that works on server 2008? Want to easily weed out music & games from pupils areas and the ANSFS was quite good at this.

I name all our servers after space ships from the star trek series. Enterprise Voyager Defiant DS9 etc

Looks like there is a known random fault that only effects some machines using 2008 & 2008 R2. Spoke to MS tech Rep who gave me the following solution. When I did the tasks all worked fine straight away. More Information: ================= Starting from Windows Server 2008 onwards, we won't wait on automatic services startup to load explorer.exe Automatic Service startup process carried over in the background while user logon process continues. So we get to the desktop quickly. In this case we are waiting for http.sys driver load and http waiting on cryptsvc for startup. Resolution: ========== To resolve this issue: Set Cryptsvc as DependOnService on HTTP driver. HKLM\CurrentControlSet\Serivces\HTTP and create following value. Name: DependOnService Value: Mult_sz Click DepenOnService Set CryptSvc on the value. Then reboot the server.

Server appears to have installed updates but now taking ages to log on as admin plus not all services running correctly. Not sure what the update is but it appears to have completly messed up this server!

When I last attempted to boot into safe mode it looked like it finished the updates and re-booted server. Server then said updates not installed correctly and it was un-doing the updates. I thought great, so left it to it. Just been back and server appears to be hung still trying to reverts the installed updates. re-started server again to attempt to get into safe mode. Get same message again attempting to un-do updates. It is just sat there for ages but does not appear to be doing anything. At the start of the process I get drive activity but after a while it appers to stop. Going to have to wait this one out to see if it eventually wakes up and finishes what it is doing.