NotwerkManager

Haha! I had completely forgotten about that! I swear that none of these have been used for "monitoring purposes"

Hi all, I have whole bunch of Dell E170Sc 17" flat-screen monitors which we're no longer using. Not sure when they were last PAT tested, and I've not tested any of them. However - due to office moves etc. I have somewhere around 30 of these things clogging up my workroom! According to the model spec, they'll support up to 1280 x 1024. Free to collector (East Sussex). You can have anywhere between one, all, or some of them. Ping me a message and we can make some arrangements

These have now been picked up :-)

I bought a Dell PowerEdge 210 off them once - to be delivered to work, but for home use. Never. Ever. Again. They said it'd be delivered in 2 days. After 2 weeks of me chasing by email, and eventually by phone, they finally delivered a server which was of a significantly lower specification than the one I paid for (less RAM, smaller slower HDD, etc.), and then pretended that everyone was out of the office (playing "I'm just the janitor") whenever I called. I finally called pretending to be a new customer, at which point they were very helpful, but then hung up on me when I asked about my under-specced delivery. I eventually had to resort to filing a PayPal claim, which eventually got me my money back. I then bought the same unit for less money elsewhere [EuroPC], which arrived on time and was as advertised.

Hi, I have two metal laptop trolleys which are no longer in use. Photos attached. They're in reasonable condition, move well, have brakes, and the locks work fine. Each has 8 reasonably large open shelves, but enough power sockets for 16 devices. I have 2 keys for each and both locks on the front use the same key, so you can use one, and keep one as a spare. If you take both trolleys, I'll give you all of the keys. One of them also has a signing in and out folder chained to the top. I can remove this, or you can have it. Your choice! Free to collector - you can take either or both. I just need them out of my store-room! :-)

We do. We had a bit of a chat on Friday. I know we currently have all of the Smoothwall reporting and any email from or to student accounts which contains potentially inflammatory words gets forwarded to ICT for assessment and reporting through CPOMS if appropriate. I've not yet tested to see what happens if something pops up on the guest access and how easy/hard it is to identify. I've already identified that nobody seems to track which WiFi guest logons are given to who, but I can chuck together a simple procedure to rectify that.

That's great. It may even be something that we've got in place already - I'll have to check. It's something I've always wanted to get more involved in, but it's not fallen under my remit until this week - so I've got a lot to catch up on!

My instinct is to avoid BYOD due to being unable to verify whether a unit is 'safe'. You get one genius with something particularly nasty which wipes out a load of kids' devices, and suddenly it's all "our fault" because they were on our network at the time. I do accept that it's the way things are going though, and therefore it's our problem to solve now. Where I am, we currently manage BYOD through use of 4-hour guest passes on the WiFi (generated in bulk and printed off for issue), keeping pretty strict filters on Smoothwall, and hiving it all away from the main network on a separate VLAN.

Hi all, I'm a new Network Manager at a secondary academy in East Sussex. Been tech-ing most of my adult life and have done a bit of FE teaching as well. I've just taken my first steps into everything being my fault, but things seem to be going okay so far 😁