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You may also wish to consider perfomance - if the app is one one network and the data is on another, you could find it performs quite slowly.

Am I right in thinking that with DFS you still need to nominate one server as the host for the root, so there is still a single point of failure there?

So, things were in place: - early am call to get the website updated with a "we're closed" message - message sent to local radio station - Parentmail contacted with relevant information All done nice and early, we're ahead of the game. Let's see how we did: - local radio station an early casualty, web server collapsed under load - school website died soon after, along with all the others in Herts learning grid that I tried - sometime later, Herts webserver cames back online but was returning the homepage for a different school. And not just for us, I tried numerous North Herts schools and all were showing the homepage for this one primary school in Hemel Hempstead. Presumably the people at St Rose's were unaware of this, and will be absolutely floored when they next review their hit count :-) - and at 10:59am, I get an email from Parentmail telling me that the school is closed. So, after much planning, expenditure of time, effort and money, the message was spread in the old fashioned way, by parents ringing each other up and spreading the word. Why do we bother?

2.4 metres. This is rubbish with a trackpad! :-)

Once lived with a cat that used the toilet . . . .

Going through similar pain at the moment! I'm not aware of any tools I'm afraid, the way we're approaching it is to have a Word-based template that is on the VLE, and people are adding their parts to it individually.

You work in IT. They'll just be thankful you remembered to get dressed ;-) Better answer: shoes (polished). shirt & trousers (clean & ironed) has seen me safely through all work christmas do's safely..... Or, you can find the organiser and ask "is there a dress code?" - I think that's a fair-enough question as you've not been to one of these before. Have a good evening!

Eh? We should periodically rise up and execute one of them?

Yep, and two of my production servers have just gone down. HOW DO THEY KNOW?!!!!!

See, told you :-)

You'll probably get a better definition, but a podcast is a recorded broadcast that you can download - often episodic. The BBC provide them too, e.g. BBC - Podcasts - Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 A lot of folk use itunes as it's a good portal, but also provide similar content on their websites, or those like MySpace or YouTube (e.g. marillion.com | NEWS - Journal and Archive - 11 February 2009 | The Official Marillion Website). It depends on where the content is available as to how you need to download it.

Hi there. Just to add in some extra info on MSSQL SQL syntax: when you're selecting from a table, you can say either: select [fields] from ...which assumes that you are connected to a particular database as a particular user, OR you can be quite specific and include the database name too, as you've attempted to do. However, if you do this you also need to specify the schema name of the owner of the table: select [fields] from [database].[schemaowner]. I don't know how SIMS is set up, but you may well find that the schema is dbo, hence something like: select * from sims.dbo.stud_reg_group Having said all that I'd second everything MattMitchell said - from what I've read on these forums direct access to the SIMS database is not to be attempted. Other threads here have referenced CommandReporter and it would be preferable to tinker with that and use your PHP to parse the output.

Oops, I hadn't intended to imply that this was limited to VNC, sorry. We're in a position of trust, just as the finance people are trusted with money - and just as with finance I think there's two aspects to it: 1) acting in a trustworthy and professional manner, and being seen to be doing so 2) being prepared for when trust breaks down. By this I mean that although 99% of the time everything's fine, at some point there could be a situation where either a member of technical staff deliberately does something wrong, or an accusation is levelled at an innocent person. Admins don't have to have access to everything, it's quite possible to lock yourself out of a share - but letting yourself back in again leaves tracks, and that's your protection.....

I think the documents comparison is a red herring - you'd generally find that permissions lock people out of places they shouldn't be, and that actions like taking ownership are logged. So, while you can't prevent people snooping, you can make sure you can find they've done it. The problem with VNC is that snooping without detection is possible. It's been a while since I've used VNC, but at the last place we had it run automatically for all students, but staff had to start the server manually (there was a shortcut on the desktop too, so we could describe it easily on the phone!).

You might also wish to consider failover - if the physical host dies, you lose all of those services at once. While it might not be a probem for some services, it could cause problems for the entire network if the DHCP server vanishes . . . . As with Dos_Box, I am not saying "don't do it", just saying "think about the day it all goes wrong". Because my friend, that day will come :-)

This has to be one of the more bizarre implementations of copy/paste I've seen - on the console there's a menu item called 'clipboard'. The first option types the block of text you've got on the clipboard.

Antivirus *should* catch viruses . . . . . Perimeter security *should* keep you safe from attack from outside . . . . . But all technology has off days. Zero day exploits exist, AV software does not catch all viruses, and not all attacks come from outside. If you get a worm inside the network and there's not security between machines, then you're stuffed. One other important thing to think about is that not all PCs stay on site - laptops will get taken home, plugged into home networks and in some cases directly into the Internet. And what's the first thing numpty ISP tech support tells the home user to do? Disable their firewalls & antivirus software . . . . So I set up like this: all machines have the firewall on, via group policy, and can't be turned off by the user. When connected to the domain, exceptions are there for WMI, Remote Desktop and the odd one or two that require file/print sharing (or something more exotic). When not connected, there are no exceptions allowed.

Ah, you missed The Power of Love by Jennifer Rush (1985) and The Power of Love by Frankie Goes to Hollywood (1984)!

The basic problem is that the minutes of the governing body are for the most part public property, but should be confidential when discussing matters deemed confidential, or named individuals. So you say, OK, we'll make the governors area restricted, and they can hand out whatever they need to - however, 'named individuals' can also include individual governors (an easy example is staff governors) - so you can end up with a situation where the minutes need to be kept even from certain governors. While it's possible to achieve with file level permissions, it is of course an enormous administrative faff. One school I know of gets round this by just keeping the public record stuff electronically, and the confidential stuff gets locked in a box in a dark room - while I hate the idea, I am coming round to accepting that this may just have to be the way it is.

Both types of area are useful. There's technical stuff that's useful to end users, and stuff that's relevant to techies only (network maps and the like), some of which could be considered 'sensitive' (configuration documents etc). At the moment I am trying to set up an area for non-tech people - we've decided to start with easy win documents, and have found what these are by asking the techs what people ask them a lot, and by asking the users what they can never remember and have to ask :-)

Can you do it with a rule? I am not hooked up to Exchange so I am not sure it's the same, but Outlook willl allow me to copy a sent message to a folder.

Nooooooo, I take it back! I think what started as a stupid joke actually is right (joke's on me, eh?) seacider, I think you're right - for a normal distribution. However, we don't want a bell curve, we want a distribution weighted heavily at the 'good' end. I can illustrate this with a sum. Let's imagine that we can give scores to schools for how good they are. I dunno, perhaps some arbitrary scale from 1 to 4, where 1 is inadequate and 4 is outstanding. I know it seems implausible, but bear with me. You've got four schools, and three of them are outstanding (score = 4) and one of them is inadequate (score = 1). Average score is 3.25, and so three of the schools are above average, one is below.

Yeah, agree that the three statements could well be true on their own, but on the face of it there's no causality there. I'm feeling generous and suggesting it could be bad editing . . . . However, coming back to your gripe, surely we should be aiming for an education system where the majority of schools are above average?

If you know the username, you know half the login details. Admittedly the smaller half (!), but every little helps . . . . If network folders have been changed, it means that either the compromised local accounts have access to the network folders (unlikely?), his account has access to do that to the network (unlikely?) OR that he's compromised a network account that has the relevant access. Given that many of your staff will be using their fave football team as their password, that won't have been rocket surgery. Who has access to modify those folders? Enforce a password change, and for added fun scan the logs for failed login attempts in the next few days and see if you can catch him red-handed :-) Good luck with the MOD ;-)

I have just realised how massively inappropriate my username is at this moment . . . . .