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Hello Sad to see the pictures coming out of Cumbria at the moment, good luck! For the purposes of this discussion, VPNs come in two basic flavours: - a permanent point-to-point setup where you have a permanently open tunnel between two public IP addresses (which is what I think you're referring to when you ask about a software router) - an ad-hoc setup where the laptop plugs into the Internet and just dials in to the VPN whenever it wants to You say that the laptops will connect to the VPN through home broadband - this implies that the latter kind of setup is in place for these machines already. In theory then all you'd need to do is plug a switch into the router on your public IP, and then plug the laptops into the switch - they can then all connect to the home VPN via that Internet connection as normal. HOWEVER There's plenty of things that can not quite work properly in this situation: Some VPNs don't like NAT Some routers I've seen don't like having more than one VPNing device attached and so on. The only way really is to try it out. I think you're right about the proxies, by the way - unless the VPN they use is SSL based, and then you *might* find that the traffic is allowed. HTH.

Hello Please attempt it again, and make a note of the error message and post it here.

Perhaps a little after the fact, but it's nice to know why these things happened . . . . Had you defined a network in Hyper-V (Action > Virtual Network Manager)? After you've done this, the network card on the virtual server will be available for selection during the machine configuration wizard.

You'll hit problems if you're trying to write to HKLM while a User, or if you're reading from HKCU* as someone who didn't install the software (i.e. the registry entries the installing Administrator wrote are in *their* proflie, not the current one). You may know of Process Explorer - this will tell you exactly what's being accessed. Process Monitor It seems odd that you're not seeing the problem on your PC, but unless you're testing with a clean Windows install, it's not really a fair test.

@deanc Agreed that IT should be working with the school, and that each staff member shares responsibility for T&L in some way. However, this is a review of an individual's performance, and while the things someone does feed into the overall performance of the school, you're measuring the things they do not the school's overall performance. @speckytecky & mattx I was going to make a comment about performance management being mandatory, however looking into it a little this evening I've been able to find reference to mandatory PM only for teachers. In fact I've lifted this quote from the model performance management policy at Teachernet (http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/_doc/11093/PM%20Model%20policy%20FINAL%20Mar%2007.doc) "There are no national performance management regulations which apply to support staff and there is no national agreement on performance management with support staff unions." I'm amazed.

A PM objective should be measurable. So to use your example, in a year's time how would you know whether jobs were being done more quickly? This would suggest some actions/milestones, for example the setting up/monitoring of a central issues log if there's not one in place. This is then your source of evidence, because by looking at it you'd be able to tell that calls were now being closed off more quickly. One of the objectives should relate to personal development - or at the very least, training needs should be captured, along with ways of meeting the agreed needs. As for the other objectives, I'd be tempted to have a look at the school development plan (what ever it's called wherever you work - it goes by at least three names here!) - it may be that the school has already identified some priorities for the next year that you could use as a cue. For example one of ours is to exend the use of the VLE, and an IT person could I guess set some kind of objective around that. The objectives you have there are whole-school things, and while I'd expect to see something like this on the SLT's PM forms, it's hard to see how an IT person in isolation could pull any one of these things off! This is *your* performance that's being managed here, not the school's. HTH.

Hi there I am struggling with this one slightly. Does anyone have their governors use the VLE as a document repository, and would they care to tell what is saved there and most importantly, how security is configured? As I was working this through I thought first of meeting minutes - it's an obvious place to store meeting minutes. However some are of course confidential, even from other governors . . . . . So, before I start drawing out horrible looking document trees on the back of an envelope (I don't smoke so no fag packet is to hand) I though I'd ask if anyone has done this before and found it impossible or if they've got good practice they'd be willing to share?

Word of caution about using disk images as backups - if you are ever in the position of having to restore onto different hardware, you can end up with a machine that doesn't boot.

Hi there You say that you get blocks occuring and that application performance is sometimes poor . . . . Have you checked to see if these coincide? If a query is locking resources then it wouldn't be a surprise that the app was hanging around waiting for data .

More to the point, who the poor luckless ones using Windows ME are? ;-)

Hello Does anyone here sell Dell laptop spares? I am after the bezel for a D630, plus the matching 'lid' part (the LCD itself is fine, but the case took a knock). This has been a bit of a saga . . . . Dell claim they don't sell the latter (eh?) and I have so far waited 7 weeks for the former from them. My patience has now run out! It's really annoying me that I have here an unusable machine just for the sake of two pieces of lavishly tooled naff grey plastic!

What *exactly* is the error message you get, and when does it appear?

Hi there. A Windows 2008 Standard licence allows you to run a single virtual instance on top of the OS - so you can install Windows on the box and legitimately virtualise your network server with one single licence. Ref: http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/E/C/EECF5D44-9A88-43D8-AFDB-D2AB82BE035C/Win%20Server%20Lic%20Book%20customer%20hi-res.pdf It seems to me that the problems people here have mentioned with virtualising DC's are around using snapshot type features, but it's not something I've paid too much attantion to, so a little more research would be recommended.

Interesting question - I dealt with Herts CC's visual impairment unit a while ago, and they told me that comic sans was a good font to use due to its clarity and also as it uses a shape for 'a' similar to that which you'd write with a pen - for example, look at a lower case 'a' in Arial or Times New Roman and then in Comic Sans. If you search 'comic sans visual impairment' you'll find a fair few supporting websites, for example the British Dyslexia Association (Dyslexia Style Guide- About Dyslexia- The British Dyslexia Association). Other sans serif fonts are available ;-)

Sorry if this is old news, but if getting a refund on OEM-Windows is possible (Dell refunds PC user for rejecting Windows ? The Register) then not only is it a bargain upgrade, but also a few quid off your next PC.

I'd say you're trying to write data of one type into a field that's expecting another (e.g. text into a number field, that kind of thing). Odd that you say it's just started happening though - anything coincide with this, e.g. changes to the pages themselves? Database structure change?

Hello Using the author's name as a key between the two tables will cause you problems if you ever get books by two authors with the same name. Generally you'd use a numeric ID. For example: Create table authors( ID int, name varchar(60)) GO create table books( ID int, author int, title varchar(200)) GO insert into authors (ID, name) values (1, 'Neal Stephenson') insert into authors (ID, name) values (2, 'Robert Pirsig') insert into authors (ID, name) values (3, 'Mick Wall') insert into authors (ID, name) values (4, 'Mark Minasi') insert into authors (ID, name) values (5, 'Somone I made up') insert into authors (ID, name) values (6, 'Hopeless Failure of an Author') GO insert into books (ID, author, title) values (1, 1, 'Snow Crash') insert into books (ID, author, title) values (2, 1, 'Cryptonomicon') insert into books (ID, author, title) values (3, 2,'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance') insert into books (ID, author, title) values (4, 3, 'Market Square Heroes') insert into books (ID, author, title) values (5, 4, 'Loads of cool books about Windows') insert into books (ID, author, title) values (6, 5, 'Zen and the art of educational IT') insert into books (ID, author, title) values (7, 2,'Lila') insert into books (ID, author, title) values (8, 5, 'I like beans') GO In order to do your query you'd need to do the NOT IN as you suggest, but using both tables: select distinct(name) from authors where ID not in (select author from books where title = 'Zen and the art of educational IT') This has the bonus of returning the author whose books aren't in the books table.

Hey - you look like Bubbles!

While this has been an interesting thread on data protection (thank you all), I think there's a larger issue here, namely that DH slept through their CP training or just doesn't have any common sense and probably can't be trusted not to lick a frozen lamp post. How can they even be *asking* this question?

"It is believed the gel was mixed with a drink before it was consumed. " Best get some tonic in, then.

Are you doing this manually through the grid, or via some SQL?

"The only problem is that it wont "share its settings between users". For example, i logon as admin and add the VHD from the mapped drive and it will show up everytime i open the program. But when i log on as a pupil or a different user i will have to re add the VHD." Yeah, Virtual PC is an application really, and wants to store VM's in My Documents by default even (aggravating if you;re every trying to backup someone's My Documents . . . ). The way I'm reading this is that you're going to attempt to share the VHD between users - this will not work, as the first user will lock the file. If I'm reading this wrong and you've multiple VHD files, I'd be tempted to do some timing tests with one and then increasing numbers of users, to see how the perfomance tails off (e.g. go to an empty classroom, login on ten stations at once and then try to boot 10 VM's at once). Although It'd make for a larger deployment package, I'd go with the local VHD every time, fwiw. Good luck!

Hello I am not sure I understand what you're trying to do . . . are you storing the virtual machine VHD file on the network, and trying to run them from there? While I've not tried this myself, I'd imagine that the performance would be horrendous. How do you mean, 'wider scale'?

Can we broaden this out to logins? I used to have a user with the surname WATT and the first initial T, for example.

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