AngryTechnician

Some discussion on how DPA relates to this: If anyone is in any doubt, students work is 'personal data' under the DPA as it meets the definition found here of "Data 'obviously about' a particular individual". However, it would not usually be considered sensitive personal data, which is subject to stricter safeguards. You are allowed to access or process personal data if proper consent is given. Depending on the age of your pupils, this consent is either given by the pupils themselves or their parents. In most cases, consent will already have been given for teachers to access more sensitive information that is normally stored in pupil areas (i.e. confidential pupil records) and most MIS products do not limit this access to teachers who actually teach a pupil. Whether existing consent applies to files in a pupil's work area will depend on the wording used in your school. Our staff have read-only access to all pupils via a mapped drive. We are primary level. We have the relevant consent in place and it is made very clear to the pupils that staff can access the files stored in their area. My take on it is this: a student's work area is not intended to be for personal use, it is for school use. Those files are not their personal files. They are work produced for the school*. Teachers would have equal (or greater) access to anything put in their drawer in the classroom or physically stored almost anywhere else in the school. The exception to this might be pupil's lockers, if you have them. We don't. I can see the argument that the area can be perceived as 'personal' because it is secured by a password, but the password is not there to keep teachers out and create a private area; it is there to prevent tampering by other pupils. * Also worth noting that in the case of employees (teachers), work produced for the school is specifically defined by contract as the legal property of the school. The same usually applies to students' work in universities. While I don't know that we state it explicitly for our pupils' work, I'd be very surprised if the position differed for schools.

Phew. We only have a couple, but luckily our serials are coming back as Not Affected.

You've almost answered your own question. You could indeed add an A record for adslcache.rmplc.co.uk to your internal DNS server and have it resolve to 127.0.0.1 or any other dummy address. Do check that your onsite proxy isn't using it as an upstream proxy though.

I used to really like Kyocera printers. This this happened. Never again.

Was talking to a colleague earlier about this, and this supplier has the datasheet for the new Pro AP on their site: Ubiquiti UniFi UAP Pro

I know that with US-bought Dell laptops, if they are still under warranty you can transfer the warranty to the UK. It should be available for other countries too. Try the service tag on this site: Ownership-Tag Transfer | Dell

We've gone with Canon for our managed printers, which so far is working out very well (absolutely zero driver issues AT ALL). I don't have any experience with Oki I'm afraid.

I was just lamenting the fate of the poor numpty who sourced the incorrect part for one of the most hotly-demanded products of the year so far (no bonus this year, me old chum). Then I thought about what would happen if something like this happened to another hotly-anticipated product from a certain other fruit-named company. I think it would go something like this: Ignore the issue for at least a week, then: Tell everyone they are inserting the plug wrong. About a week after that, admit there is a problem with the way some people insert the plug, and promise to fix it with a software update. Issue a software update that reports the plug as being connected even when it isn't. Eventually, offer free self-fit magnet kits to work around the problem.

What you're after is a POP3 connector. There are some commercial ones listed here, and a limited free one here. There are probably others available, hopefully someone can suggest one they've used.

Without going into too much detail, we have some anti-theft mechanisms such as using security screws to prevent opportunists, but our main focus has always been on building security first. Were the projectors stolen all in one go or in separate incidents? That sais, I am also curious about the above device. I wonder if it's waterproof, i.e. could you squirt water into the speaker holes with a syringe and short it out?

Don't use a 12V adapter on it! I can confirm the above linked adapters are still working fine for us, so I strongly recommend them. The official replacements from RM are outrageously expensive.

What software setup are you running for this? Is the image uploaded or is it pulled live on page refresh?

There's a group policy for it. Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options Interactive logon: Message text for users attempting to log on Interactive logon: Message title for users attempting to log on

At a guess, it sounds to me like your reg key has had a load of spaces put in to emulate line breaks, and now with the wider text area the line breaks aren't right. Am I in the right ballpark?

Just gave this a quick try since I was halfway through looking at a performance issue anyway. Results are still pending. If you get the following error when you try it: (An unexpected error has occurred. Error code: 0xC00CE558) It's a proxy authentication issue. I had to add the following hosts to a Noauth rule on our Smoothwall: dcodews.partners.extranet.microsoft.com dcupload.microsoft.com support.microsoft.com

I am. I installed without adding any drivers at first and then added them one by one. From memory I've only added the wired ethernet for the dock, the wireless driver, the nTrig driver, and the graphics driver. The first three were from the Dell website, but I got the graphics driver from the Intel website as it's a later version.

Sounds like you've not used a Mac for any significant amount of time. The OS X UI is packed with this, especially on settings dialogues. The number of times I've found the 'magic' hidden options screen by holding down Cmd to find that a particular button changes into a different button! Photoshop is the same, try holding down Ctrl or Alt next time you're in something like the Curves dialogue.

And you can continue to do exactly the same thing with Windows 8.

If you're crazy like me and are testing Windows 8 on your existing domain, you may find that it doesn't like talking to your WSUS server. Much like Windows 7 before it, Windows 8 will only talk to the right version of WSUS: the version that comes with Windows Server 8. Now, I don't suggest you go ahead and upgrade your WSUS server to a beta server OS, so you might just want to install a separate server. However, if you're using something like Local Update Publisher to install applications via WSUS (as well as updates), you will probably want to test this without having to recreate your entire WSUS environment on a separate server. So: Install Windows Server 8 Beta Add the Windows Server Update Services role. Configure WSUS to get its updates from your regular WSUS server as an upstream server. Set the new WSUS server as a Replica server: Perform at least one sync with the upstream server (will take ages). Configure the Windows 8 client(s) to get their updates from the new WSUS server. Check for updates on the client. Computer should appear in Unassigned computers in the WSUS console on the new server. Move it to the correct group. Perform another manual sync with the upstream server. Check for updates again, any applicable updates should now come through (probably only Windows Defender unless you have locally published updates). This will mean all the updates and existing approvals on your regular WSUS server are copied to the new WSUS server, but now Windows 8 will actually talk to it. (Note that you'll still need to give the new WSUS server some storage so that it actually takes a copy of the updates. During the role install you get to choose whether to download a copy of the updates or stream them from the original Microsoft Update server. Don't try to be clever and think that because you'll be configuring an upstream server you can choose not to download a copy to the new server. It won't work and you'll have some very obscure error messages to look at.)

How is that any different to using Remote Desktop to administer a server? I haven't sat at the local console of a server in years, they are all in a different room.

Well we're all supposed to be running Server Core soon anyway...

If you scroll down a bit further in the pane that says "This update is superseded..." there is a section under Additional Details that says "Updates superseding this update:" with a link to the newer update.

On a touchscreen, drag down from the top edge all the way to the bottom edge. Don't think there is a way to do it with the mouse. So far to me it looks like touch will be fine, and (semi-proficient) keyboard users will be fine, but mouse users really get screwed.

Seems like my earlier disconnect was a blessing in disguise, restarted the download with IE9 and was coming down at 1.5Mbps, now done on both x86 and x64. My guess is that some of the load balancers they've brought up since aren't as rammed.

We fitted a SMART 6052i interactive display in our Nursery, so no projector worries, but they are not cheap. Ours is fixed at a low height for the children to use - the teachers have to crouch or sit if they want to use it. I don't know of any height-adjustable mount that will take the weight of it at 60kg. Edit: http://www.wedgwood-group.com/flatscreen_trolleys.htm do some but they are serious money.