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Hi All, Anyone know or recommend a company that will do onsite projector repairs in central London? Specifically Smart. We used to use Steljes but they are no longer trading. Thanks.

Ah, thanks. Yes, usually Exchange would usually point to internal dns but can also be configured to look outside within the properties of the hub transport role in certain circumstances. Not the most common scenario but worth checking

Is there security filtering on the group policy object? If so is it still in place? Are you using group policy preferences to target the drive to staff only?

Exchange could be configured with external forwarders. Anything that is vlan'd away from your internal DNS and has its own DHCP server (such as enterprise wifi or telephony) may well look outside for dns. Shouldn't be too hard to find out though. Is it common for ransomware to require access to public dns records? Guess so...

Position going at my place: http://www.ihlondon.com/about/careers-with-us/current-vacancies/senior-it-technician/ CV with covering letter to [email protected] Please post or pm with any questions. Thanks.

Hi OB, Thanks for the info. We've actually managed to line up demos of both now down at Steljes place in Bagshot so all good. Cheers, Stuart

Hi All, After a bit of a favour really. My school are looking at replacing our Smart IWBs with either Smart or BenQ (with Smart Notebook) interactive flat panels. We would quite like to see them in a real environment. Does anybody in the London area have either / or and would you be willing for a small group of us to come and have a look? We'd be very grateful. All the best, Stuart

Turns out this is indeed the case. Thanks for your reply, Matt.

Hi All, We are in the early stages of testing Airwatch MDM with iOS. Our devices (iPads) have been upgraded to iOS 7.0. This is the issue - we can't find a way to install free Apps silently, i.e without having to enter the central Apple ID password. Is this even possible? Help very gratefully received. Cheers!

Hi, Anyone here use Video Furnace IPTV? If so, have you had any luck running the IPTV launcher without unrestricting %userprofile%\* ? Can't get it to work with anything more restrictive than the above. Cheers, Stu

They won't fit.....

Hi All, SLT here has requested infromation on how much student laptops are being used. What they want is a breakdown, laptop trolley by laptop trolley, of the amount of time they are in use throughout the school week. Is anyone else doing this? If so, how do you do it? Cheers, Stu

Hi All, We are currently using GPOs to map printers but would prefer to use Group policy Preferences (not least because Server 2008R2/W7 combination seems keen on having printers "follow" the user instead of just mapping the printers in the relevant OU) to allow much more flexibility in targetting. The problem that we've come across in testing is that GPP seems limited to spooling print jobs on the local workstation (and not on the print server). This is particularly troublesome where there are multiple computers in one location (i.e. an IT suite). If a dodgy print job blocks the queue then other users cannot print to the same printer until it is cleared. The problem being that the local queue where the dodgy print job is can only be seen on the local machine and, therefore, cannot be cleared by any other user. Obviously it is important that staff can delete student print jobs as necessary. Any suggestions as to how to deal with this? or is it just a limitation of GPPs that we would have to live with? Any help gratefully received! Cheers.

ravens, Missed it by a whisker I'm afraid. Invitations to interview were sent out yesterday and all accepted so I can't see that the SLT will squeaze in another. Thanks for the heads up though. Cheers.

Hi Ravens, Thanks for your reply. Nail on the head! jdoyle - yes. thanks for pointing it out.