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A call out to fellow EduGeeks. There is a technical conference being held over in blackpool and everyone is welcome!!! A technical conference with no scheduled speakers. The attendees dictate the format and subject content on the day. In the past sessions on the day have ranged from introducing Ruby, testing and object oriented techniques to geocaching, ferret husbandry, new gadgets and even wikipedia played on the ukelale. This is a free event is open to everyone and anyone who would like to socialise with passionate people and learn new stuff! [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp]BarCamp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame] Hope to see some of you there!!! http://barcampblackpool.com/

That's a screenshot of my v-win on my mac, its just interesting to know howmuch i use some software, its not on the school network. Link

I have setup a full working school calender on google. only the two front office girls can change the data so i don't have to worry about it overflowing with useless data. And for staff i made an active desktop website wallpaper with the several things but set front page as the google cal so no one can say thay did not have access to dates and deadlines, its right in front of them as they log in.

I just wanted to let others know my recent experience with our school DC's and hyper-v, and hope this will help save some one the horror of almost losing AD. I will keep it short, (parts and steps may have been missed) We are running on 2 blade servers each one has a DC, replicating... The problem was when for a reason or other we needed to restore a backup. Now any one who uses VMWare, Hyper-v or indeed was at the last educonf will know you can take a snapshot of the server in its current state and then have the option to rollback to a previous state if you have a problem. Such a time came, so with out hesitation a rollback was done. This is when the problems started. Our first problem was we got an error stating netlogon was paused, and replication failed After several min of looking at logs... we decided another rollback (Still unaware this was the problem) and still not fixed the netlogon issue. We decided to isolate, demote and remove our backup DC then rebuild it. Having done so we rebooted both servers only to find on our DC had no users, workstations. Both of us (network manager n' me) in order then then At this point we found a few posts from other forums (Yes, shock to me that others are out there) but Edugeek FTW) that having a V-DC and using snapshots, rollbacks... would make issues like the one we where having. As we did not have a "Normal" backup of our DC another rollback was done on both to a time that where only a few min apart from each other, in the mind set well it cant get much worse then loosing ones AD. Thankfully, this worked. we where still in the same spot of not having a working netlogon and replication but all the users... where back. more digging and we found a simple command to fix the connection for replication. repadmin /options -DISABLE_INBOUND_REPL and repadmin /options -DISABLE_OUTBOUND_REPL both restored the connection and forcing the netlogon service to run, so users where back and they could log on now we are still having issues with the server and NM is in the proses of working out if a rebuild of the DC or some other option is out there, but what i want to tell you is definitely go for some sort of V-DC just to read this **LINK** before you attempt it. I hope i have helped some one buy sending out this warning, that or every one already knows the problem and it was an oversight on our part.

Congrats on the new office. I know Preston dock very well, and i know you will love being down there. May need a poster or two to remove that prison cell look. May pop down for a coffee if there are invites. P.S The Green Frog make super crepes

I'm after some one in the AV installation trade to help out at my school to: Move some interactive boards and projectors, and setup to computer. also to give a quote on a new promethean board, sound and projector. If some one could PM me ASAP to can arrange a visit.

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Link to the new Ad: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP8gV_VQUWs]YouTube - iphone3gs[/ame] i like the look of the Pasco science kit, [Link]

Tory for me. http://www.sywol.org/images/Conservative%20Party.gif

Let me know when you all get to the la frog and I'll pop down!

2nd that! Easy to do, convert or buy a computer with min 2 sata ports, add 2 1tb drives and install openfiler or freenas.

Big-up to freenas, use it at home. For my school we have 2 of them Dell £99 servers (Offer ended) put 2 1TB drives and installed openfiler, then setup iscsi for all the servers. Good vid on setting up on itidiots.com or via itunes.

Apple Airport Extreme 4TW

Running XP-Pro and 2008 Terminal server (Thin client). Apart from our office, we are running on iMacs with VMware (XP/Vista/Linux...)

hmm, "• Improving ICT skills (e.g. learning to use macromedia flash)" Short for playing games

Starting to get into it, and recently attended the 1st PrestonTweetup event, that was surreal, half the room talking via twitter. Arran Wicher (AWicher) on Twitter

Mugs, but I'll take the penguins if on offer.

i'll take 3.

We have 2 NAS setup on 2 £100 Dell servers. I installed 2 250gig HD and installed openfiler for OS. Works a treat, then on server(s) setup a scheduled task and shadow copy.

lancsngfl.ac.uk does seem to be down, But Emails seems to be working thank god.

It may be not what you are looking for but we have just finished out school wireless cloud. Originally we had a hand full of the D-Links AP, and now we have 14 Airport Extreme AP. We manage them on our iMacs using airport utility (Windows version available).

I'll also add that the time i was off was paid holiday.

I have just come back from a 2 week holiday in Mexico taken the 2 weeks school came back after Christmas. All i had to do was give a letter to the head and one for the governors, leave for a few months and get a nice letter back approving the time off. But there is a chance you could get a no. as said a few post back, you need to work out cover.

-Black MacBook -iMac -primary school list -lyreco catalogue -100's yellow post its + 100's of jobs on them -cd/dvd's that i not 100% sure whats on them. -2 broken Fujitsu scenics -3 dell £100 servers -And a cup of coffee that is always full and cold despite the fact i have been making fresh ones all day -Sony dvd handycam -several copies of computer weekly and a copy of dev weekly -oh and just arrived, the schools "Holiday" timetable. dont know why i have one.

You will want to look into group policy, set restriction and as we have make your own start menu, defining exactly whats in the start menu. there are some good vide on GP by itidiots should still be able to access there old vids on iTunes.