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Waltham Forest is also Ramesys, and i thought that Dfes Computers for Pupils was down to each LEA to sort out for themselves i doubt that that whole country would be down to RM.

hi just wondering if anyone ever had any luck finding out what was causing this, or more importantly how to fix this.

alot of it depends on who you get as your managed service provider, the situation here is that the original company has pulled out and now another company has taken over. i promise no cold call's, the job is an intergration engineer, so basially going out and setting up servers/switches etc.

Today is my last day at my current school, next week i start work at ramesys. Been working in schools for 5 years now, started as a technician and worked my way up. The main reason ive decided to move on is that my current school is being taken over by bsf in the very near future (they were supposed to start building last summer but has been delayed till this summer) im sick of waiting around for the ICT provider to come along and take over, no one had any idea of what or when something is gonna happen and over the past year the school has taken a back seat when it comes to IT they're just quite happy to wait around until BSF comes in and applies there magic. Edugeek has been an amazing resource while i've been working in school, and i will keep an eye on the site and hope that it will be a useful resource in my new job.

im not sure if its supposed to be case specific but the problem i had was that in the script the computer name had to be lower case otherwise i didn't pick it up ie instead of Case "PRN1" try case "prn1"

have a look at svs juice had a play with it a while back, it lets you install software to its own virtual layer. so you should be able to install both versions of office, and they should both act as if the other one is not there,

sun are one of the partners for BSF in leicester city, they currently have a test bed set up, they are using solarus for the front end, but they also have a windows server, so they can publish windows apps to the desktop. ive had a quick play and done a bit of testing seems to be working fairly well.

i use picasa, get it to scan the student area's, it will pick up all the images, then you just have to flick through them, its much better at scrolling through the pictures than windows search.

have a look at the trainnig materials from trainsignal. a bit more expensive than just books, its a set of video tutorials, you can get them on cd or an external harddrive. if you get the full set, you get all the training materials for mcse, its about $1000 and the exchange rate is fairly good at the min. trainsignal

computers for pupils im in leicester city and we've started going through this aswell, theres loads to think about, we've had one company trying to sell us a thin client solution, basically drop a thin client into each house, cuts down on the nickability and maintainence, also we've been looking at laptops probably gonna go down the laptop route but its still in the early stages for us.

at my last school we had a design teacher that had given his password out to a number of students. we also suspected that some of the students knew at least 2 other staff passwords. we sent round an email telling all the staff that due to a security breach ie students knowing a staff password that a number of sensitive documents with staff details on have been printed off by a student. (was a lie but got the message across) we also listed a number of other reasons such as the student would have access to there emails etc. therefore all staff need to change there password then from AD selected all the staff and ticked Change password on next logon, set the policy to, cant use the same password.

what about something like deep freeze or microsoft shared computer tool kit. you will be able to give the students that extra bit of access, and then just restart the pc to reset it back to normal. ive got a feeling that you can give them access the command prompt but then limit the tools they can use. ill see if i can find the instructions

just had this emailed to me from the dfes http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/teachingandlearning/secondary/ks3/year9tests/ictpilot/ if you read the FAQ's at the bottom Does this mean I don't have to use the test? Yes. The use of the test will be optional, but we strongly recommend schools to take part in the summer pilot and use the materials that will support assessment for learning.

we've got lanschool at my place. one of my fav features has to be the multiple remote control, found it really useful for situations like the ks3 test, ie get into the room 5mins before the lesson, log all the machines in one go, start the testing software on all the pc's. also really good if you need to install a piece of software on all the pc's in one room. ive heard the next verison which is in beta, has white/black list for websites, also has application blocking, as for security, if you look through the support tools there is a peice of monitioring software which will pick up all lanschool traffic across the network so you can find out if there is anyone running the teacher module

i haven't got a problem with thin client, but i think the main issue there gonna have is that they've chosen sun thin client. moving from windows fat to windows thin wouldn't be too bad but there looking at moving to sun(linux) thin, with the amount of software that has been purchased over the past few years (thank you e-learning credits) half of which hardly ever gets used, its a case of trying to get all these bits of software working on it.