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We have a couple of the Phaser printers here, the running costs are lower compared to Inkjet printers. The cost of the Phasers versus the Xerox colour copiers is almost the same to be honest. However the quality of the prints is far better on the Phasers.

Hi all, I've been browsing the forum for a week or two and became a member a couple of days ago. My name is Andy, I work for a FE college in Oldham (Greater Manchester) and I support all the IT infrastructure at 2nd/3rd line level. Anyway, HI ALL

Have you looked into RICHPROFILE? If you can make use of MAPI then that may be your answer, RICHPROFILE can be included in your login script to configure the Outlook 2003 client.

To be honest I really can't remeber how we exported/imported out DHCP settings from the old 2003 box to the 2008 box as it was a fair while ago and I didn't have the fortune of being assigned that task. I do remember one of my colleagues talking about using the NETSH command though. I'll quiz him on Monday and post up how he did it

New to the forum to - Nice to meet you I'm sure you will have few problems with 2008, as we are finding here. One thing that is holding us back (and has really annoyed me to be honest) is upgrading our print servers from 2003 to 2008. One was due for being retired over half term and we have ended up replacing it with another 2003 R2 box. I had loads of problems with drivers for HP printers and Xerox copiers, plus the PAS (Print Accounting Software) and Pcounter ports didn't like the 2008 OS! So until Pcounter and the driver vendors sort things out we will be stuck with 2003 print servers for a while

Summer just gone we rolled out Vista to all 1200+ workstations across the campus. The only XP machines left are in the HR and Finance departments (due to software compatibility issues), but I think VMware Player may be sorting that out some time soon! Also, just upgraded the DC's and Exchange clusters to 2008. To be honest we was expecting a lot of problems but all has gone very well indeed - A few teething troubles with WDS at first but its all sorted out now We did find that most of our MSI's had to be repackaged, which was an absolute pain in the bum as I copped for most of them

We had a similar issue a couple of years back... We had six workstations in the college's gym, one a register PC and five other staff workstations. The gym is on the other side of a small adopted road at the rear of the campus with an electrical supply independent of the colleges on-site substation. At the time the workstations interconnected using a 3Com 4228G switch, in turn uplinking to the main campus network using SOHO D-Link wireless bridges and external high gain antennas. As time passed by we soon realised that the speed and reliability of the WiFi link (not to mention the potential security risks too!) was not suitable for carrying domain traffic. Also, having roaming profiles and folder redirection enabled didn't help with logon times for those using the gym workstations. We ended up looking into throwing a Cat5e cable over from one building to the gym (attached to a tether cable) and we soon discovered the issues surrounding buildings with different power sources and the building regulations preventing this solution. As mentioned by the peeps above the best solution would be to go fibre, that's exactly what we did and now the gym is uplinked at a healthy 1Gb/s to the campus backbone. If I remember correctly the cost of the fibre installation didn't break the bank, the only real cost was that of the fibre modules for the switching kit.

Another good one is PhotoFiltre - It's free to use and can be deployed by MSI very easily. It's a good alternative to Photoshop, I deploy it to all workstations on campus and it's used by a lot of the students for basic image editing. Obviously the more advanced users prefer to go and find a workstation with Photoshop.

Hi guys, I've got a good old Dell X51v running Windows Mobile version 5... I've been using it for about two years now and I love it to bits! Looking at upgrading to a smaller device with better onboard WiFi and storage capacity.

Hi all, first post on the forum so a BIG hello to everyone! Last summer we introduced a Dell/EMC AX150i 6TB disk array to our SAN, very impressed with the unit so far. Setup and installation was easy-peasy, iSCSI configuration was a piece or cake too. And for the price I feel EMC do some really good hardware. We have just ordered an EMC Ax4-5 9TB disk array to act as a mirror for DR (hosted in another server room).