AngryTechnician

Pretty much exactly what is says: your external IP (213.18.248.93) doesn't have a reverse lookup entry in public DNS, so many servers will reject the message as spam. I can't explain why it's not been an issue before as this sort of behaviour isn't new. If that is indeed your public IP, you need to alter your public DNS records so that something resolves to it. If that isn't your public IP, someone else is sending spam with your from address, and there's not much you can do about that.

I have a folder in Google Reader with the RSS feeds of about 50 different product blogs I have to keep track of updates for. That doesn't include the products that are managed by WSUS. If you're using WSUS (pretty sure you will be since you have SCCM) then check you have all of the products that you use ticked in the Products and Classifications screen, if they are available. There is a whole section for Forefront, including TMG.

Worth noting that according to the datasheet, the upcoming UniFi UAP-Pro has 2 gigabit ethernet ports...

How have you disabled commenting on content the school posts? I can't find that setting on our page.

Similar terms tend to apply when you send photos to the local paper, but few parents complain about that. However, we do err on the side of caution. We link to photos on our own website rather than upload them. The photos we have uploaded do not contain children.

The most significant advantage to having an official page is about controlling the school's digital presence. Like it or not, your parents are using Facebook and are probably discussing the school there. If you search for your school name, do you get results that are about the school? We did, and they weren't always positive, as there were groups set up by pupils and in one case disgruntled parents. Essentially, the school was not in control of its own image on Facebook. In a couple of cases we were able to have unwanted content removed, but not always. Our aim was therefore to crowd out the negative content with quality positive content. What you want is exactly the same as you want for Google and any other search engine: when someone searches for your school, you want your content to be the first result. We recently launched our official school page, with an associated Place location, and that gets far more activity (even though we so far have only around 60 likes) and is always returned first in results. Ours is set up largely as an automated page that pulls results from the school's RSS news feed. People who Like the page are allowed to comment on our content (which we carefully monitor) but cannot post new content themselves. If you have the proper photograph permissions in place, you should not have any legal issue with using them on Facebook page. Check the wording of your photograph permissions carefully to see if this applies. We have had no complaints or conerns from parents about posting content there.

Mousetrap just inside the opening.

That's very much a "how long is a piece of string" question, but if all they are doing is using SIMS and maybe transferring a few files, then 50GB a month should be more than enough.

Nope. There is a commercial plugin that can help with scheduling by period, but even that doesn't change the time slots that are displayed: Academic Calendar makes Microsoft Outlook understand the way schools and colleges work

Given that it simply reports the users quota as the size of a mapped drive, you should be able to use any disk space monitoring tool. I had a quick Google for one that has a system tray icon but the ones I found were a bit old and clunky - if anyone has a good one I'd be interested.

If the DfE don't want to be open about what is quite a significant dismissal of their responsibilities, I'm more than happy for Smoothwall to tell us what's going on. I think it's worth mentioning that Simon from Smoothwall has started an e-petition to call for this to be reversed, and I for one fully support it: Delivering Safe On-line Environments in Schools - e-petitions

There's a thread on this from last month: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/licensing-questions/90044-changes-student-licencing-home-use-office-2010-windows-7-a.html Post #8 is a response from Microsoft.

*sputter* This has nothing to do with practicalities!

Top information guys, thanks.

On the Apple Store (UK) site it mentions free engraving on new iPods and iPads when you purchase. Does anyone know if this is available when buying in bulk for schools? Would be great to have the school name engraved on them from the get-go as a security marking.

Slightly OT but you might want to take a look at the search function on your website - I just went on and searched for "ipad" and "mac mini" and neither search returned any results despite the fact you sell both!

Can you give some examples of the specific URLs being accessed?

Which GPO exactly are you using? We have proxy set by GPO here, and any user granted admin rights can go in and untick the box. Even if the UI was locked down, they could still remove the policy values from the registry.

The pupils are admins, so can just turn off the proxy setting. The only solution I can think of that doesn't involve removing admin rights is to recommend the families to use something like OpenDNS to filter their home network. That won't allow for time restrictions, however.

Questions over reliability aside, the main issue with consumer grade disk is warranty. For example, WD reserve the right to replace failed consumer drives with an 'equivalent or better' drive under warranty. If you're using RAID, any difference in the drive might make it incompatible with the RAID array. With server drives, the warranty ensures you get a drive back that will work with the existing RAID.

When we moved to Windows 7 we also reorganised our user areas to match the Vista/7 pattern, so Pictures, Documents, Videos, etc., are not just all subfolders of My Documents, but separate folders as they would be on a local profile in Vista/7. The user shares that have our redirected folders are arranged like this: \\server\userdata\username\ \Desktop \Documents \Downloads \Favorites \Music \Pictures \Videos So while each redirected Documents folder does get appear as "My Documents", that doesn't matter because the \username folder appears with the user name as normal.

We recently switched away from LoveFilm to Blockbuster, due to the long-running dispute between LoveFilm and Universal Pictures, which means LoveFilm do not carry most Universal Pictures films or NBC TV shows after 2009. We also started to find other annoying gaps in their catalogue, such as not having any of How I Met Your Mother on DVD after season 2 (Blockbuster have all the currently released seasons). We watch a lot of US TV shows on DVD due to not having Sky or Virgin, so this eventually became a deal-breaker for us. I think Blockbuster is slightly more expensive, but we haven't noticed any difference in service between the two, other than Blockbuster having a superior selection.

Yes, but only if there is 'reasonable suspicion' that they are doing something with it that they shouldn't be. Fishing expeditions are still out. Teachers can now search for and confiscate a phone simply due to it not being allowed in school, but to look through it they need to have a good reason. For example, if an accusation of cyberbullying was made, or the teacher themselves reasonably suspected this was the case, they could search the phone for evidence of cyberbullying.

It depends on your end goal, but in general, password exposure is always more serious than a password reset because: Most people re-use passwords, so you would likely get access to other systems as well without having to compromise them. If you reset the password, the user will likely realise their account has been compromised and act accordingly. If you simply discover their password, they may be none the wiser. This is why anyone whose 'forgotten password' procedure is to email the existing password needs to be shot.

That's one person's opinion that giving access to all staff would not be appropriate. It's not a fact. It might be correct, but without actual legal guidance I would take it with a pinch of salt. As I mentioned, most MIS systems give access to confidential data to teachers that don't teach a child. Do you also regard that not appropriate, and should we therefore automatically assume those systems are not DPA compliant? I suppose what I should really have said is that student work areas are not private areas. Data can be "personal" under the DPA without being private.