AngryTechnician

My main concern is simply that I don't trust ISPs to get it right (now or any time soon). Even Smoothwall, as good as they are, sometimes end up with sites on the blocklist that shouldn't be. I suspect a lot of the resistance stems from a similar view.

It should not cause any major issues with CC3. Your main concern will be log size, and therefore retention period. You will typically have at least 1 order of magnitude more success audits than failure audits, so you will reach the maximum log size much more quickly once they enabled, leading to a much shorter log retention period (unless you increase the maximum log size).

I think I can answer that one: you just put an order through in the same way you did the first time. Since it's ordered as part of EES, I believe we'll need to specify the same link item and required student numbers each time we renew too.

Check the Event logs under Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > Deployment-Services-Diagnostics and see if there are any clues there.

I found exactly the same thing using DHCP options. Switching to using ip helper on the switches resolved the EFI/BIOS problem, though I haven't been able to get 32-bit EFI to work. Suspect this may be down to inadequate support on the devices I've been testing, however.

A US talk show brought in their own signer to see what (if anything) he was saying. Hilarity ensued.

.NET 3.5 is required too.

They've been available for over a year, we got a trolley of them in Summer 2012. We paid £520+VAT for Core i3's with SSDs back then; don;t know what the pricing now would be.

IIRC, you can use a different Apple ID for activation that for the iTunes store. Maybe use a school-created Apple ID to activate and then the staff use their own ID for everything else?

This will help enormously with the config: Specops Password Policy Basic Free, though you have to fork over your email address. Specops aren't cowboys though, I get occasional marketing from them but that's it.

And I do mean the one in the main foyer, not the one in your office. Note: new job when you get fired for doing this is NOT guaranteed.

I usually just configure WSB using the command line to get around problems like this. That doesn't give two hoots what the actual device is so long as it's NTFS formatted. Windows Backup (on client SKUs) won't show iSCSI drives in the list despite them showing in the server version, but set it up using the command line and it backs up just fine.

That's fair enough, I was thinking more about new deployments I suppose. Curious about what you;'e seeing with the StartSSL pages, I redid our certs just over a week ago and it was fine for me.

Do you absolutely have to use the .sch.uk domain? A cheaper option might be to simply get a .co.uk domain for the school and use a free cert from StartSSL for it. CS New Media will register you a .co.uk for £9 for 2 years.

There is no single activation; you have to stay logged in to the Office desktop applications using your O365 credentials for the licence to be applied, so if you're on a different user account it will prompt for login credentials.

My money is on embedding a flash game as an OLE object.

I never found a technical solution to this, so we now use a system called 'class supervision'. Don your finest flame proof jacket and ask SMT if they've heard of it.

Someone would have to tell them first*. They're not exactly renowned for investigative journalism. * Don't all rush at once

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What are the permissions on the share? You'll need to do this in computer GPP which will mean GPP is using the AD machine account to access the network.

If we're actually talking about SMART™ Boards here (rather than 'smart board' as a generic term), the software should be able to do this correctly. We have pretty much the same setup here and it works. Are you running the latest version?

Ahhh good old RM. Dynamic disks, too, I'm guessing? You should be able to make them inactive in diskpart.

I think the key line here is "Can't have more then one active partition on a disk" and you've stated that D-G are all active as well as C. Ignoring how this was done, do you know why D-G are set as active? If they aren't boot partitions I can't imagine why they would need to be.

SMT need to consider how it could be perceived by parents if they found out their school was funding a convicted sex offender. A good rule of thumb is "if you wouldn't employ them at the school, you shouldn't be funding their business". Heads that condone SparkleBox probably don't understand how the ad-funded 'free' resource sites work. Another thing to consider is what the school's response would be if the Daily Fail ran a headline of "SCHOOL USES DISPLAYS MADE BY PAEDOPHILE TEACHER". Do they think they could come out of that looking good? I would suggest probably not.