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Picked it up from some guy off one of those FaceBook selling groups, seemed legit but obviously didn't know it's probably worth over 5x that much. I expected it to be goofed, but works great now I've added Win10 2x1080p screens and an SSD. Plays everything I want too, not that it gets used much haha

Few ways: -Vinyl stickers -Different logon and desktop backgrounds -Different coloured label tape -Death threats

I used to be a religious PC nerd, swapping parts every 6 months ago, had C2Q when that first came out, i7 920 when that first cam out, i5 2500k when that came out, then I passed my driving test, sold my PC and now it's spent on fuel, alloys, tyres and suspension. Although I did get myself a bit of a bargain for this winter! -MSI ITx mobo -i5 2500 -24GB XMS3 RAM -2GB GTX660 -19" Screen -As new steel series keyboard -Gaming mouse -Spare generic gaming keyboard -Creative speakers -2x 500GB Samsung drives -3x DVDRW drives -600W PSU All for a whopping £70, plays GTA V great too

What model are they? Strange only coming with one video output!

If the PC matches the spec on the Compaq site, you should have an onboard displayport and VGA port, any reason against not using both of these?

Call merging is also a good one, add a takeaway to the call for a bit more spice

Yeah, whilst I agree with the concept, I totally disagree with the forcing religion upon people, which does happen.

I'd also like to know as I thought I was going crazy the other day! Again all password policies set as apparently they should be, but it still was being a

What drives are you using in the server and what config and what type of files are they accessing?

I was disappointed about the whole Hudl thing. The Galaxy Tab 7" are decent for the price

I had one ring a school the over week and an apprentice actually let them remote in! But yeah, I had a scammer on once, got me to go in event viewer and he said "can you see all the errors" and I was like "nope, nothing here at all" obviously he knew I wasn't telling the truth and then I took the mick, up until the point he said people were coming for me and I was going to jail. I laughed and asked how quick flights were from India and he hung up. Kept me entertained.

Depends on budget, but honestly for a primary seems a bit overkill to me! We look after a primary with 500 people on one physical server and they've not yet managed to fill 4TB of storage and they are relatively heavy users. My ideal system would be: -Server 2012 DC (4/8 Core with around 32GB RAM) hosting everything and SIMS -Given SSD prices, I'd chuck quite a few in a server to host SIMS, server based Apps, user profiles, server OS and have things like shared drives and backups on mech drives where access times don't need to be as quick -Agree on the UniFi, nice and easy! -Exchange, again for a primary it is an unjustified cost, Google Apps and 365 are free for education. -Switches, yeah HP, you can't really go wrong! -As fire as backups go, we just have RAID set up in the servers, a monthly backup which is took off site in a caddy and a daily backup in a fireproof caddy on site. As for displays, in a new build I wouldn't bother with projectors, the touchscreens TVs now are brilliant, virtually no maintenance and a longer life span, paired with i5 desktops and you'll have an easy life and some happy teachers. Dependent upon the budget now and long term plan, it could be a good idea to CAT6 the whole school, the cost now is a fair bit more than CAT5, but in the long term it'll be a hell of a lot cheaper.

I think if you create a power plan and enforce it, brightness can't then be changed and as to volume again lock down via a GPO. As for things that stay when you log off it'll be a case of finding out and locking down whatever you find really

The way I've done it in the past is create a printer account, set login hours to never and created a bat file at startup to map and authenticate the printer.

Virtually everything can be locked down via Group Policy. What Server OS and Client OS are you running and what kind of restricted access and what not do you want and need?

Haha, so true! I despise Coomber stuff, it's overpriced and the design really hasn't changed at all in the last 20 years, same unit only Derek has stuck a USB and SD card reader in now instead of his beloved tape deck.

This any good? But inn all seriousness, is there a specific amount of channels you need and what is going to be connected to? Behringer do some excellent kit for the money, having bought one for the last school I worked at I couldn't recommend them enough!

No matter what machine you get, make sure it has an SSD. Even a machine for most teachers with a Pentium CPU and SSD would feel faster than an i5 and mechanical HDD.

Boards arrived as promised, just want to say thanks again, much appreciated!

WHY ARE WE SHOUTING?

Why not? I use play music and it's really good value, especially the 3 month trial!

As in where dropbox syncs?

Yeah, it may be a good idea then to politely raise the issues, explain how you physically don't have the facilities to do what they are requesting, then give them a few options; 1: Buy us a lot more server space! 2: Buy an external HDD 3: Buy a new machine with large storage Although it does seem a pretty awkward situation. Did they mention how they went about using the files at their last school?

800GB? That sounds very excessive and it'd be a definitive no. In fact, I'd even put storage restrictions in place just so they don't try and download it anyway, which they probably will, I've had it in the past. I'd also make a member of SLT or the head aware, just so they can't really put a complaint in against you, which again, they probably will. I've had it all before!

It's not a sandy bridge machine is it? They had an issue with the SATA controllers degrading on the boards