AngryTechnician

If only we had a wireless network.

Simple: cost. Once you get past about 40", interactive screens are still an order of magnitude more expensive for equivalent display area.

If you go down this route, be aware that most versions of VNC use comparatively weak password encryption. Remote Desktop is more secure.

Also registered.

How much does that cost? The difficulty for us is that right now we only buy DPM licences (which are per-server). I worry that this will not be available in future and we will have to buy something like this pack, which I suspect is much more expensive.

Oh, I see now. In the other Clickview thread today you mentioned downloading and I assumed you meant downloading from a website.

What site are you downloading these from @mole?

To be fair, McAfee has never really done the job it's supposed to.

The way EES works is that you buy licences for staff, and the number of computers is largely irrelevant. In theory you could have a staff of 10 with 10,000 computers and still install on every computer even though you've only bought 10 licenses. A ridiculous example, but that's how it works.

According to Walkthrough: Deploy an Image by using PXE, the loading of wdsnbp.com is an earlier step in the boot process, before it gets to winpe.wim. So mine is failing before I get as far as anything with drivers in it. Bugger.

I don't think SMART were showing this off at BETT but it was featured in a follow-up email I got yesterday. The SMART LightRaise 40wi is a short-throw interactive projector that senses a special pen on any surface, without a SMART board. We have a couple of InFocus interactive projectors that do something similar and I know at least one other EduGeeker uses an Epson one. We've found them to be quite good in classrooms where we don't have the space or money to fit a full IWB solution, and having one that works right with SMART Notebook will make this a compelling purchase for us. Announcement video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUa6Dg1g-Ms The real gem from this video however, is at 2:12 when they mention the future 60wi model: I literally yelled "wait... WHAT?!" at the screen.

Hmm, that's the one I'm using, but I think I may have more intrinsic problems. PxE never even gets any further than downloading the WDSNBP file and repeats that step about 5 times... (Click to zoom) Architecture: x86 Contacting Server: 192.168.3.6. TFTP Download: \boot\x86\wdsnbp.com Downloaded WSDNBP... Press any key to cancel network boot service Then it will sart spitting out the following error over and over for about 3 minutes... EHCI Ctrl Xfer ERROR: USB_URB_STATUS_ERROR! ...before eventually stopping at: Failed to restart TFTP. TFTP download failed. Some of the time it doesn't even get this far, claiming there is no network link (same port and network cable will PxE boot other machines just fine though). Starting to wonder if I've got a dodgy dock.

Which driver did you use in the end to get WDS working? I've been unsuccessful so far too.

We tried actual gloss laser paper in our printers once but it turned out to be a total waste of time for photos. As jonathon28 says above, laser toner sticks to the surface instead of permeating like inks do, so all you get is a layer of matt toner on top of some really expensive paper - the gloss effect of the paper was cancelled out unless your photo was mostly white.

Yestrday Microsoft announced that System Center 2012 has gone to Release Candidate status, along with a major twist: the individual editions of the various System Center branded products are no more. System Center 2012 will be released only as a single suite of the following products: App Controller Configuration Manager Data Protection Manager Endpoint Protection Operations Manager Orchestrator Service Manager Virtual Machine Manager There are two editions (Standard and Datacenter), but the only difference between the two is that Standard allows for 2 VMs per licence, while Datacenter allows for unlimited (similar to Windows Server licensing). The feature set is otherwise identical. All the info is on the System Center site: Microsoft System Center 2012 | System Center Next Version Personally, this concerns me. Having previously used System Center Essentials 2010, I've seen first hand the dogs dinner Microsoft made of 'integrating' System Center products into one package. Hopefully they've done a better job this time, and for those using multiple System Center products already, I suspect the new all-you-can-eat licensing will work out cheaper. However, I use ONLY Data Protection Manager right now, which on EES/Schools Agreement is extremely cheap, and relatively light on server resources (storage excepted, obviously). My concern is that we'll be paying more for the rest of the suite, which I don't need, and that I'll need to commit a lot more RAM and processor power to it. Even if I don't upgrade, will we still be able to buy annual EES licences for the old versions? Past experience with ILM/FIM suggests it will be difficult, even if its possible at all.

Unfortunately I've never been able to work out exactly what causes the problems. All I know is that the various iterations of or RM SmartCache caused problems, but our Smoothwall doesn't. You could determine whether Sophos is to blame by setting up one of the standard logins to bypass the proxy temporarily, if that's possible in your environment.

All the problems I've ever had with the Wordpress uploader have been to do with proxying. What proxy/filtering system are you using?

Are the two silver ones on the left from Crick and Lenovo by any chance?

You can stop other people from adding new content to the wall, but you cannot proactively stop people adding comments to existing content. You can reactively remove comments or ban individual user accounts. Screenshot of the current permissions screen if that's any use:

That would be an absolute coup for Edugeek if we actually got some engagement from Google. In my experience they aren't big on customer dialogue. I was quite surprised to see them at BETT in the first place. Pleasantly surprised, but surprised nonetheless.

And yet they are! Simple example: enabling MailTips. Should be a nothing more than a tickbox in the EMC, but instead you have to look up the PowerShell command. Granted, it's not a complicated command, but you still have to look it up when it could just be a sodding tickbox. For a more complicated example, I would say that even the simplest transport rule is a lot easier to set up in the EMC than using PowerShell. I don't even want to think about trying a complex transport rule on the command line.

Normally I'm a Dell fan, but I'm not impressed with their AIO offerings so far. The Optiplex ones aren't true AIO machines, they just bolt together the existing small form factor models with a screen on a special stand, and it looks a bit ugly. The only 'true' AIO models, where the components are actually in a single chassis, are in their small business Vostro line. These don't have the same support offerings and extended product lifecycle as the Optiplex models as they are basically rebadged Inspirons (Dell's consumer models). Last year I bought a couple of Lenovo ThinkCentre M90z AIOs instead, and on their stand at BETT this year they had the new ThinkCentre Edge AIOs which look even nicer. In particular, the touchscreen surface is now flush with the surrounding bezel (not inset) which I think will be a lot more important with the gestures in Windows 8 which require you to swipe from the edge of the screen.

I'd be concerned at RM claiming to be a specialist in anything. During most of my dealings with them they didn't even seem to understand their own products.

Not a problem as long as they continue to produce admin MMC snapins so we can administer from the workstation. Omitting any kind of GUI management isn't 'adapting to the market', it's just lazy. I already resent the amount of functionality in Exchange 2010 for which the only exposed interface is Powershell. All it does is slow down basic configuration for no good reason.

Have you tried running chkdsk followed by sfc /scannow to check for any system file corruption?