katie.lawe

Hi I am looking at implementing a disk based backup system, possibly qnap or something similar. I have been reading lots of different ways of doing backups, what I want to know is can you run a system through a disk based backup like a tape system, eg keeping backup sets on a weekly cycle etc, instead of it overwriting/replicating the same files each night? Thanks

Hi Thanks for the info As the projector is going in our heads office I want a neat tidy install on her wall, that is not on a huge arm hence the request for an ultra short throw. I will be attached to a solid brick wall. She will have a pull down screen for it to project to. The laptop needs to connect to is wirelessly, probably via a dongle although we will have a full site wide wireless system in place too. As she has many different people potentially giving presentations from laptops in her office, so the wireless connection to the projector is essential. As im just investigating this at the moment I do not have a price i need to keep to.

Hi I need a ultra short throw projector which can be connected to a laptop wirelessly. Its for our heads office, any recommendations? Thanks

Hello We are looking at implementing a site wide wireless system here and need to produce a tender specification document? Has anyone had to do the same? and know what I need to put in it? We are in the process of writing it and dont want to miss anything out so any suggestions/help would be much appreciated. Katie

Fixed - I found that the computers didn't have the latest network controller driver installed and that they were just running the drivers windows 7 puts on. Also on a different motherboard the was an option in the advanced properties called shutdown wake up, this was disable. Thanks for everyone advice.

Thanks for that - this is what I have been telling them for the last couple of months. Any ideas what could be stopping it from working? could it be a ports issues??

Hello Is anyone using the Impero WOL feature with Windows 7 x64 machines? Thanks Katie

Thats Ok, we have a seperate DfE number for the Joint Sixth Form, and it has been managed on one of the schools MIS systems like this for a few years now.

Im thinking that having a third system to keep the 6th form separate would be the best idea. It has its own dfes number so wouldn't be an issue. The main issue which we are trying to resolve is the inconsistency of the data as it is being transferred from 2 MIS systems, to a small third party MIS (which doesn't do what we want it to) and spreadsheets on both sites! total nightmare!!!. Scholarpack don't have an exams module so would need to think how that could be managed but I think that that would be fairly easy to do on one of our current system? Does anyone else use Scholar pack and have this issue?

Both schools are on different MIS at the moment, boys appear as guests on the girls schools system and vice versa. We dont have a plan at the moment so just looking for any ideas which could be from continuing as we are and using something to marry them up or using a completely different third party MIS just for the sixth form.

Hi We have a joint sixth form (approx 300 on roll) that is split over two schools, teaching is carried out on both sites (2.5 days for each year on each site). At present we have a MIS which is less than effective. Does anyone have any experience/comments about the following solutions we have found and are investigation SIMS Partnership Exchange Serco Progresso Scholar Pack We need to have we access from both sites (not bothered on who hosts, or remote hosting at present), It needs to be at a reasonable cost The support needs to be proven to be good and responsive. Reporting to parents would be an advantage (or the ability to link into Moodle or equivalent) Reporting to the authority for census purposes would also be good. Thanks for any comments in advance Many thanks in advance

We're having some issues with our USB smart board 680's, where the smart board service isn't starting when the user logs on, which causes the green LED to keep flashing and you can't use the pens to write. If the user runs the connection wizard, it starts the service, the LED goes solid green and the board jumps into life, but this isn’t exactly ideal to run every time the board doesn’t work. It's also worth pointing out that it is doesn’t happen every time someone logs on. Has anyone else had the same problems and if so any solutions? Thanks

Hello We are having real problems using FOG to ghost our Windows 7 64bit computers. The main issue is the 100mb partition. We have the image and it uploads fine to the FOG server but after deployment to a machine the machine will not boot up as it has labelled the 100mb partition as C and the main partition as D! We have tried many solutions which have included fog prep and sysprep but not come across a working one yet! Has anyone got this working? Is it possible to do? Thanks

Hi We are having issues with this too, we have found that it is making the first partition (100mb one) C and then the windows partition D. Does anyone have a solution to this please? We have run Fogprep but had no luck as of yet.

Hi I would like a copy of both of these if possible please. Thanks