JordanT91

That was awful.

I think Future Digital (Policy Central) have, or will soon, an IOS version of their software. It's a full monitoring tool but I think it can be used for just checking web activity as well.

As cpjitservices said, do you have support? Either with NEC or installers? If not, the first thing I'd do is a reboot of the SIP server/PBX and see if things improve. Failing that, I'd try to run wireshark to see the volume of packets going to the phone. Easiest way to do that is to mirror the switch ports the phones are connected to. It's quite possible that the phones are faulty and are spewing traffic to the SIP server/to each other. I suppose it could be a non-network fault with the phones but if it's happening on all 3 I'd lean towards a network issue.

We have the same rule, though I think it's a self-imposed rule and not from the LEA. It's not really to do with disruption, more safeguarding. Something to do with an incident in Plymouth? Any contractors or other visitors coming on site must leave their phone in the car or hand it in at reception. If they need it for the purpose of their visit (to call their office or to access an app) they must be supervised by a member of staff. Officially staff must have their phone off or on silent and locked away in their classrooms or whatever.

They do, and it works relatively well. We got our MSI from our LA, it then gets pushed out by group policy. Does the job. The only time anyone has to enter their credentials now is on the iPads or their mobile phones.

If the students need to use the keyboard/mouse/monitor from the PCs, can you not get some KVM switches? All the students would have to do is press a button, no unplugging of cables required. Of course you'd still have to solve your power problem.

Have you tried updating the firmware? Find the version of your switch and get the files from here: NETGEAR Support | GS748Tv1 | Smart Switches

Can you log into the switch's management site? Maybe you could have a look at the logs? I'm not an expert at network hardware but could it be the switch is being overloaded? Maybe there's a loop? Can you turn STP on at all?

1TB hard drive? Really? If she genuinely has 1TB of data it probably shouldn't be stored on a laptop - it's a lot to lose if the hard disk fails or the laptop gets stolen. I personally would try to persuade her to get a 500GB SSD. More storage space than she'll probably ever need and it will be a hell of a lot quicker than a 1TB mechanical drive. Maybe you could use that as a selling point? I use Very PC for my laptops. An i5 with 8GB RAM and 500GB SSD and a decent warranty from Very PC will be better than a Sony Vaio.

I think I already know the answer to this but here we go. On the Government guidance page posted earlier it says schools must publish KS2 and KS4 results: percentage of pupils who achieved level 4 or above in reading, writing and maths percentage of pupils who have improved by 2 or more levels in reading, writing and maths between key stage 1 (KS1) and KS2 percentage of pupils who achieved level 5 or above in reading and writing percentage of pupils who achieved level 5 or above in maths percentage of pupils who achieved a C or above in GCSEs (or equivalent) in 5 or more subjects, including English and maths percentage of pupils who achieved the English Baccalaureate percentage of pupils who have achieved at least the minimum expected levels of progress in English and maths between KS2 and KS4 We are a special school. I'm not sure the exact figures but I would suspect most of our pupils will not leave school with one or two GCSE above a C or D. A lot probably wouldn't even be entered for GCSEs. One of our students recently left after getting an A or B grade in A-level maths and it was a very big deal for the school, it doesn't happen very often at all. I'm not sure how our pupils do with KS2 results. Compared to even the worst mainstream school our results would look very bad. You would hope that most people would recognise that special schools are extremely difficult to compare to even other special schools, never mind mainstream schools. We do not publish any results on our website. I've had a look at the websites of some other special schools within 20 miles of us and I can't find any mention of results on their websites either. Is it necessary for special schools to publish these results on their website?

I'm sure there's an easier way but you could always have different versions of the layout for every day. Just change the ticker to say what you want for each one. Somebody will probably have a better way involving datasets or something.

Thanks for all the advice everyone. I think I'll follow minimoo's advice and get the wireless network VLANed off. At the minute we don't really have guest WiFi because they still hit the Lightspeed filter at the other end of our internet connection which authenticates against our AD meaning they need to have a school username & password. Our network is likely to grow but any new devices are likely to be laptops. Ideally I'd have printers, VOIP and servers/PCs in seperate VLANs but for now at least it's going to be too much hassle with the 5 or 6 rooms relying on desktop switches. I've checked the amount of broadcast packets my PC is receiving (and it's not too many to be honest). I suppose I should port-mirror on the core switch and do it properly though.

It's just a text box ticker. The text editor is a bit naff with the background and text colours but apart from that it's really easy.

I am looking into the possibility of setting up VLANs on my network but I'm unclear on a few things. Background On the device side at the moment my network has: 7 servers (2 physical, 5 virtual) 45 laptops 77 desktops 24 printers 5 iPads 5 IP phones (the rest are digital) 2 NASs We will soon be purchasing 30+ additional iPads and possibly a CCTV system with at least 3 cameras. We have a new Ruckus wireless network with 10 access points. For switches I have 3 HP 2920-48G (linked with 10GB fibre), 2 HP 2530-48G and 2 Netgear GS724TP (4GB link agg.) There are a few classrooms and offices that do not have enough network points and so Netgear Gigabit desktop switches are used. There is no possibility of rewiring. I have a 10.xxx.xxx.xxx /23 IP range though I have been told I can only use half for curriculum so 250 addresses are being wasted because we only have a couple of admin PCs on the LA admin network. There are no issues with the way the network is currently set up but I think that adding a lot more Apple devices and CCTV cameras may cause performance issues with broadcasts etc. This is something I have never done in the real world, having only very briefly set up VLANS on Cisco switches at university. I’ve done quite a lot of research into VLANs, including reading the threads on here. A lot of people seem to be setting up VLANS this year! I’ve read conflicting advice; some people say that all data devices (servers, PCs, printers) should be together in a data VLAN. Other people say that servers and printers should be in their own VLANs. I’m more inclined to go with the first option, at least at first. I think I’d like: VLAN 1 – nothing (best practice, apparently) VLAN 2 – management VLAN 3 – data VLAN 4 – VOIP VLAN 5 – CCTV VLAN 6 – Apple VLAN 7 – internet only (for guest WiFi)? Does anyone have any comments on this? Does the naming scheme and classification look okay? Secondly, how do VLANS play with unmanaged desktop switches? Even in my own office I have a VOIP phone, NAS and my PC on the same desktop switch because there is only one wall point. I don’t want to connect my PC through the phone because I don’t want it limited to 100Mb. The phone has the ability to work with VLANs. If a switch figures out which VLAN a device is in by the port it is connected to how would it work with multiple device types connecting to the port? I can't get my head around it. Thanks in advance!

To be honest I haven't looked into it. In the year we've had it I've only had to physically turn it on twice, both times after the power has been cut to the school.

What does the Apache error say? As a side note, I installed Xibo Server and Xibo Client on a NUC running Windows 7 which is located in a false ceiling above the screen. I can log into the administration site from anywhere on the network or I can VNC to the NUC and configure it locally. It's quite simple really. The only issue I've come across so far is that the embed website function doesn't like our school website, the formatting is all off and what is shown on screen doesn't resemble our website at all. One piece of advice would be to preview your layouts on the layout builder screen but also check what it looks like on the Xibo Client as well because sometimes the layout is totally off even if the preview looks fine.

ADT installed and maintain our access control system. They use Kantech gear. ADT themselves are quite expensive but they are somewhat reliable. Everything needed to fob-protect a door is usually over £1000 for power supply, interface, maglock, fob reader etc.

Admittedly I haven't tried this new show but it started to annoy me on the old show how he was getting all pally with these celebrities and he was always namedropping etc. 10-15 years ago he was completely different, he turned into the person he used to take the piss out of. He almost became a parody of himself.

I knocked this up quickly a few months ago. I get the head to put ticks in the approved column and then get him to sign and date it. I then staple it to the receipt from whichever disposal company I use and file it away. You could probably adapt it for your needs. https://www.pdfhost.net/index.php?Action=Download&File=0067f5b08c1f1aa0f9e3d9ab5ead0bc7

Can't you just virtualise it all with hyper-v? Create a virtual switch in hyper-v, then make your domain computers and DC, servers etc and set them to use the virtual switch connection. They will effectively 'share' your hyper-v host's internet access. Any traffic bound for the internet from your VMs will come from just your hyper-v host's internal IP address.

I've been clearing out our server room and found some documentation and a disc. You're welcome to it and and a box full of APs if you like. Let me know.

In the day to day running on the PCs they are unlikely to max out the 1GbE connection.The only time I think you'd have any issues is maybe during deployments (WSUS patches, whole images via WDS, applications with GP or SCCM etc.) or if the users will be doing large file transfers. I'm assuming you don't have a stupidly fast internet connection? Having 5 port switches isn't ideal (I have many around school in the older rooms) but unless you have the funds to get some cabling done I wouldn't worry about it. If you start getting complaints ("these PCs take ages to log on compared to the other ones!") then look into the load on the NICs and if they are indeed being maxed out then consider your options. I think I have used PRTG for this purpose in the past. Like IrritableTech said, it's likely your biggest issue will be users turning off the switches and wondering why they can't log in. You don't have that problem when you're plugged directly into the wall... Edit: I don't mean check if the NICs themselves are being maxed, they won't be. Check if the total load going through the NICs adds up to or gets anywhere near to the theoretical limit of 128MB/s for a 1GbE connection.

NFC I don't care about. Quickcharge would have been very nice to have so that's a bit of a let down. I'm seriously considering the LG G4 now.

Hi all. I've got a bit of a weird issue with an NEC DT300 series phone. When you call that particular extension, the phone beeps once and automatically answers the call. This is causing a problem because the phone is located in the staff room and nobody knows the phone is ringing. I've checked the ring tone is correct and I've trawled the online manuals for this model but there's nothing that mentions automatic answering. There's an intercom feature but as far as I can tell that isn't the issue. There's also the handsfree feature but that still requires pressing the speaker button when the phone is ringing. Has anyone come across this before? It's only been happening for a couple of days and I haven't changed anything on the NEC SV8300 server for months so I assume someone has pressed the wrong button with fat fingers. Thanks in advance.

I'm looking to purchase a new server but I'm a bit unclear on the licensing. We have an Open Value Subscription with the following licenses: [TABLE=width: 841] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Version[/TD] [TD]Effective Quantity[/TD] [TD]Unresolved Quantity[/TD] [TD]Active SA Quantity[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Office Professional[/TD] [TD]Plus 2013[/TD] [TD]58[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]58[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Exchange Server Standard CAL[/TD] [TD]2013[/TD] [TD]58[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]58[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]SharePoint Server Standard CAL[/TD] [TD]2013[/TD] [TD]58[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]58[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Skype for Business Server Standard CAL[/TD] [TD]2015[/TD] [TD]58[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]58[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]System Center Configuration Manager Client ML[/TD] [TD]2012 R2[/TD] [TD]58[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]58[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]System Center Endpoint Protection[/TD] [TD]2012 R2[/TD] [TD]58[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]58[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Windows Server CAL[/TD] [TD]2012[/TD] [TD]58[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]58[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Windows Server Datacenter - 2 Proc[/TD] [TD]2012 R2[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Windows[/TD] [TD]8.1 Enterprise[/TD] [TD]58[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]58[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] The Datacenter license is quite new as we only recently purchased a server that is used as a VM host. When I'm purchasing this new server, do I need still need to purchase it with a base OEM license, like you do with desktops? Also, it says quantity 1 (0 left) but I though the whole point of having OVS is that you pay the subscription and can use the licenses as many times as you like. Also, our CALS are down as 2012 but the server I purchased recently is 2012R2 and all the VMs are 2012R2. It isn't being used in production yet because I've been setting up a new domain on it but in the Summer it will replace our old 2012 server. Will I need 2012R2 CALS? Thanks in advance.