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We have written into our school policy that the school accepts no liability for the use of any IT at home or any additional costs that may occur if they use school equipment at home. We have had one or two staff complain about DA dropping out who are on Sky. The most stable seems to be BT, no changes required but the speed can fluctuate wildly.

File and Folder Permissions Understanding Windows Server 2008 File and Folder Ownership and Permissions - Techotopia Read the above articles, make a cup of tea and re-read. The top article is based on Server 2000 and the bottom is on 2008. More than likley you've had 2008 installed but the top article is still a good read. I would use Groups as much as possible and not individual user accounts. Staff come and go or move sideways more often than the job roles do.

2 digit year of entry, full surname, first 3 digits of christian name. We remove all hyphens. We adopted this from the librarians at the school who said most in the county used something similar. eg: 12smithjam

Will do in the morning and post the results. Cheers

Staff can invoke an 'unfiltered' policy for themselves but they haven't had to. All traffic goes through the same proxy server.

Hi Michael, we use roaming profiles at the school which work well for us. Yes we have deployed the latest version of Flash from Adobe's download site. I've even printed of the Teachers and Students GPOs and gone through them line at a time and I can't see what would setting is making the difference. Any help greatly appreciated.

When a student browsers to some Flash websites (World Maths Day - http://www.worldmathsday.com - World Education Games for example) the site checks if the computer has the latest version of Flash and if not refuses to load. If an admin logs on and visits the site then there is no problem. I can replicate the problem by removing the site (or all domains) from the Shockwave ActiveX Control. I have tried adding a registry key Current User>Software>Microsoft>Windows>EXT>STATS>{CLID}>IEXPLORE\DOMAINS\* {CLID} is the version of Flash we are using. But still not joy. Does anyone know of a way to add which websites they would allow Flash to have full reign on. The sites are in my Trusted Zone. Any help would be greatly recieved. Cheers,

We use IPSCA a Spanish CA that have given us several free certs for Exchange (2007 + 2010) ISA and Access Gateway and internal websites. BooBoo

And it WORKS!! Thanks to Teckedd and all those who have badgered Microsoft for this hot patch. Today was the first time a whole set of laptops connected since upgrading to Windows 7. All on in under 1minute. Result.

Hi Simcfc73, can you tell me who you approached for your two consecutive IPv4 addresses? Was it your Grid, your LEA or do you have a private broadband account? Was it worth the hassle? Thanks in advance, BooBoo

Hi Mat, I was at a presentation from Brune Park Community College in Gosport last week on how they are have deployed Netbooks to their yr10 & yr11. Nearly 650 pupils in total. This is in addition to the standard trolley suites and staff laptops. The college is using MERU for the wireless and Lenevo Netbooks. The Parents are buying the Netbooks from the school at a heavily subsidised rate but the Netbook remains the property of the school until they leave. Talk to their Assistant Principle Liam Stapleton about the how they have implemented and paid for it or Julie Denby their IT Team Leader on how it technicaly works. Tel :02392616000 Solutions Inc was the supplier. I was impressed with the whole setup. They seems to have less drop-outs than us (We've been Cisco for about 5 years) and everyone connects at a faster rate than a normal micro-cell infrastructure. Martin

Absolutely, To rule out any single point of failure you should use two switches to connect your servers and MD together and another switch for network. Connect the iSCSI Controllers from the back of the MD box to the different switches. Now connect the the servers to the switches (iSCSI initiator). You should have two paths per server to the different controllers on the MD box. Make sure you load the MPIO driver and have the latest NIC driver from Intel. Now if one of your switches die the network wont. Dell's 5424 switches are iSCSI certified and can be picked up new but open for less than three hundred per switch. Don't forget to look at Jumbo Frames and off-loading on your whole set-up. If you have this misconfigured your physical hosts wont be able to see your virtual disk mappings. Spend some pennies on System Centre Virtual Machine Manager, a great bit of kit for only having to look in one place to see what is happening.

I've already tried both of those but to no avail. It now looks like with the exception of my Exchange server all of my Win 2008 and Vista machines broadcast on the network immediatley. My next step will be to 'pull' buildings off the network to see if a machine in an adjacent building is telling these machines to broadcast. SpyBot S&D and NOD32 both come back negative. Any other ideas? Martin

Hi Folks, I have a Windows Server 2008 box that on Wednesday starting firing out LLMNR packets on port 5355. At it's peak it was firing 29,000 a second. Which crippled our network and some of the sourounding schools lost the internet. I have disable IPv6 on the NIC and have used group policy and a registry hack to disable LLMNR traffic but I still have the storm occuring. NOD 32 show nothing and Search and Destroy comes back clean. I don't want to rebuild this server as it it one of our application servers. I could use a backup but I'm afraid that without knowing the cause or cure it might occur again. Any ideas?

We use Cisco here. 1100 and 1200 series with A and G. A root bridge connecting to two non-roots. All controlled by a Wireless Lan Solution Engine Express. One of the access points is set as a WDS and we use Certificates for authentication. Very quick, scalable and cheaper than you might think. We tested Netgear, 3Com and Cisco and found that even though we were paying more for Cisco the throughput and range on the Cisco kit outweighed the cost.