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Good Evening All, I am looking for the SIMS Training Datasets such as Green Abby and if they are still available. I can't seem to find them anywhere on the Capita My Account website. Was wondering if maybe someone could provide me with a link to the page I need, or some kind of article number? Or is this a case of I need to contact Capita Service Desk? Many Thanks James

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and dedicated IT professional to join our IT department which is committed to providing the best possible support for our staff and students at the school. For more information click here This is a great opportunity for an individual who: Has a passionate for IT; Has excellent troubleshooting skills and enjoys problem solving; Enjoys providing people with guidance on IT matters; Has a willingness to learn and develop new skills; Has an aptitude for fixing hardware, software and investigating IT problems; Has good interpersonal skills and enjoys working as part of a team. The post is for 37 hours per week. It attracts a Grade 5 (Points 5 - 7) with a salary of £18,795 – £19,554 (depending on experience). The position comes with 24 days’ of annual leave in addition to Bank Holidays and membership of a comprehensive Healthcare Benefits Plan. Visits to the school prior to interview are warmly welcomed. To arrange a visit or if you would like more information about the role, please contact Kartik Raturi, Head of IT Services, at: [email protected] or on 01865 755 274

Azure and AWS is not the only cloud service provider out there. Oracle in order to get people qualified (ok for the fundamentals of their system) and (what I can see) hopefully get more people to use their "as a service", they are offering their fundamental training and exam for free. Not sure if this is a time limited offering, but I can say that the course was interesting, even if it is just to compare what is out there and to make a more informed decision when deciding on cloud services You can access the training and exam here.

Hi all, I know we have run a number of sessions with Boxphish on EduGeek over the last 6 months, and off the back of these, we have run a lot of 1-on-1 demos. If you find yourself in a position where you would like to know more about cyber awareness/phishing simulation solutions, or Boxphish in particular - then please let me know and we can set up a 15-20 minute live demo/discussion. These are a great way to see the platform and ask any questions. Alternatively, if you would like some pricing beforehand we can also supply this upfront. Pricing requests have to go over to Boxphish so there is a short delay with this. Video links to previous sessions: Managing Cyber Security Risk in Education - https://www.net-ctrl.com/boxphish-webinar/ Enhancing Cyber Security Awareness - A Client's Perspective - https://www.net-ctrl.com/boxphish-webinar-a-clients-perspective/ Please let me know if you have any questions.

I am delighted to confirm that we are advertising for an IT apprentice. If you know of anyone interested, please ask them to complete the application form below: IT Technician Apprentice Kind Regards

Hi All, Hope you are well. I have just launched a FREE online ITIL Foundation Quiz, it's primarily designed for those preparing to take the ITIL Foundation course/exam, and also for those who are about to take ITIL Intermediate training who need to brush up on their basic ITIL knowledge prior to attending the course. Of course, you can just take it for fun...... http://itsm-itil.groupsite.com/javascripts/tinymce-3.0.7/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-smile.gif Every time you access the quiz, 40 random questions will be selected from our question bank, so you can take it over and over again. I will also be loading new questions on a daily basis to keep it fresh. If you have any ideas for questions then please feel free to contribute. I would love to hear any constructive feedback that you may have. Thank you for taking the time to read this. If you think that this could be useful to you then please follow the link https://purplegriffon.com/quizzes

Region: London (This is a home based role, but will require travel to schools within the region) Hours: Full Time Salary: £45k – £55k dependant on experience As the Technology Partner you will provide strategic support to schools to assist and guide them in making outstanding use of technology to support all aspects of their work, as well as being the Group’s point of expertise for certain key technologies/ processes. The main elements of the role include: - Being responsible for the strategic relationship with schools in a defined region; - Advising and challenging their work to use technology effectively for school improvement; - Providing training for school staff – experience of the effective use of tablet computers in education would be an advantage; - Advising on capital spend by schools on technology, likely to be up to £1m. To apply please visit: Technology Partner | United Learning Careers

I arrived to the Unplugged event about ten minutes late due to a misguided right turn on the road before the venue which led me several kilometers away to the end of a long queue of traffic which added fifteen minutes to my travel time. I’ll summarize some of the things that I found interesting which you may or may not know about Office 2010. First up Office Web Access, this is an online implementation of the Office applications that replicates much of the functionality of the full Office suite in any standards compliant browser using HTML and JavaScript. Although not full featured it does appear to have a large amount of the functionality and the same UI as the desktop version. To get access to it all you need is a Professional or Standard version of Office 2010, your documents and Office Web Apps can be hosted for free on MS Sky Drive with a Windows Live ID or locally inside your own network on a server with either the free SharePoint Foundation server or full SharePoint Server. The sky drive implementation allows for multiple users to access and edit the documents at the same time. SharePoint goes much further with version tracking, searching and other features. A big thing that I will find useful is the fact that you can embed full Office document views into web pages for easy viewing or printing in any modern browser. No more PDF newsletters or forms, given the rights control on Sky drive you should not even need your own SharePoint server to do this. Just a live ID. The software itself has also, like Windows 7 been written for speed, the minimum requirements were quoted at just 256MB or RAM and a 500MHz CPU on Windows XP SP3 or above. It does apparently use 1.5GB more HD space but I am unsure on this as the Beta was smaller than 2007. Other big global changes are the ribbon, for one the Office Orb is gone - replaced with the trusty File tab for the less adaptable. The ribbon is also fully per user customizable allowing you create whole new tabs on the ribbon with your own choice of commands. These are all stored in an XML file and are deployable with the initial installation, they may also be deployable with Group Policy but I have not confirmed that yet. A small upwards arrow is now also included on the bottom right hand corner of the ribbon to minimize it. You could minimize it in Office 2007 by double clicking any of the tab names in the ribbon but I like many users had not found this feature. Backstage and the ribbon are now in all Office applications too, backstage is the new term for the area that allows you to share your document by printing it, saving it, publishing it to SharePoint or your Sky Drive. This area organizes all of these tasks into an easy common UI to simplify these tasks. One feature that I am excited about in this is the print feature and its automatic preview. The print action will bring up a print preview beside your printing options showing you live what the pages will look like. I don’t know about others but I have tried many times to get users to check the print preview first so they don’t waste paper, this shoves it in their face as a matter of course which is a great improvement. OneNote, the note taking and organizing program is now included in all editions of Office which is another positive step as it is a very good tool for gathering and processing information. Its tasks also still follow you into Outlook to remind you to follow up on the content. PowerPoint has quite a few new tricks, the first of which is an entirely rewritten graphics engine based on DirectX9. This means much fancier and smoother transitions and effects, probably even over an RDP connection as RDP now encapsulates some DirectX stuff. This should still run on a PC without a DX9 GPU though as it can be rendered in software so it won’t stop working on older machines. There are new graphics tools like the easy background removal tool which can usually strip out the background of a photo with very little effort; this little trick was picked up out of MS research’s bag of tricks. Thanks to the new graphics engine and the new video features it is now easy to grab a video from somewhere and crop out the beginning or end. You can also apply transforms on the video of shape, color or other enhancements just like you can with images. PowerPoint now also includes a broadcast feature which will turn your slides into an HTML and JavaScript version then upload them to a space on Sky Drive giving you a link in return. You can send this link to you participants and as you progress through the slides on your PC they progress on the participants PCs to. This feature does not include all of the flash transitions because of the lack of the DX9 engine the web solution and will not transport your voice across but is still quite cool. SharePoint Workspace is the renamed and upspec’ed version of the old Groove collaboration tool. It is like an offline files feature for your SharePoint server allowing you to check out and work on documents then sync them back. This uses intelligent file management and tracking so that only changes are synced, very important if you are working remotely and change two words in a 500MB PowerPoint stack. This can be controlled by group policy and configured to work in a peer to peer fashion like Groove also. Outlook has been much improved, behind the scenes and in front. It now supports up to ten Exchange Server accounts in a single MAPI profile allowing you to have Outlook connecting to different schools Exchange Servers if you deal with more than one site. The nickname cache (.nk2 files) feature where Outlook remembers all addresses that you typed in the “to” box is now server side meaning no more complaining users (about this fault) when their profiles have to be reset. As it’s on the server it follows you between clients and even to webmail. The favorites have also gotten the same treatment allowing for the same experience. Quicksteps are another new feature, kind of like macros for Outlook allowing you to complete a string of common tasks with a single click, one of the built in ones are reply and delete but you can customize and add more to suite your work flow. Outlook Social Connector is an extension that is built in to Office 2010 but is downloadable for 2007 and 2003. Personally I don’t think that the name does it justice as it is more of a compiler of information. By default it will show you all previous emails from the contact in question and pull personal information on the contact from your local SharePoint if it exists. The big feature for me is that is also shows you in a list all of the attachments that you have received from the user and allows you to go right to them something which has eaten far too much of my time in the past. There is a plug-in for LinkedIn which will grab details from there too but this is about as close as it gets to the Social aspect of its name. Excel has seen a large amount of performance tuning allowing truly huge datasets, massive with the 64bit version and access to even more ram. One of the demos was a comparison of the graphing engines when faced with a huge dataset (hundreds of thousands of rows I think). Office 2003 rendered it but took several seconds and the redraws were slow and jerky, Office 2007 crashed like a champ after about ten seconds and 2010 rendered it in less than a second with very quick redraws. It could even resize it smoothly. Are there file format changes between 2007 and 2010? Yes but these are minor between Office 2007 SP2 and 2010, they should still open fine. Will there be an Office 2010 Compatibility Pack for Office 2003? Possibly. What about security warning dialogue boxes? Outlook now runs automatically in sandboxed mode allowing the user to see a non active version of the document without a warning, they will only be prompted to enable the document if they open it and want macros. This can be turned off in group policy.

Every year Microsoft holds several 'Unplugged' events which are usually two free half day presentations on their new software. I have been to several of these events and they are quite good with presentations given by knowledgeable people within Microsoft and it is a great opertunity to ask questions and make contacts along with getting a heads up on the latest developments. They are free to attend, you just have to register your name with an email address. This march the events are focused on Office 2010 and Sharepoint 2010 held the first and second half of the day respectivly. Session 1: What's new for IT Professionals in Office 2010 8:45am - 10:30am Morning Tea Break 10:30am - 11:00am Session 2: SharePoint 2010 Overview 11:00am - 12:30pm Wellington: 2 March - Intercontinental Hotel Wellington Christchurch: 3 March - Christchurch Convention Centre Dunedin: 4 March - Scenic Circle Southern Cross Auckland: 9 March - SkyCity Convention Centre Hamilton: 10 March - SkyCity Hamilton Full details and links to register can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/nz/events/unplugged/technet-mar10.mspx I will probably be attending the Auckland one if I can make it and hope to see some other schools represented there too. http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/5129/nz/events/images/unplugged/header.gif

Hi all Just a little question for you. Is there any worth to doing a Exchange 2007 training course that deals primarily with configuration? The reason I ask is that installing Exchange 2007 is pretty easy and with their Best Practices Analyzer tool, you can get pretty much everything as far as setup goes sorted, but where I'm a little worried is the actual config of Exchange goes i.e. how do I know if i configured everything correctly? are the send connectors setup correctly and do i really understand how they work? did i manage to move all the databases and files to the appropriate iSCSI storage places? etc, etc.. Naturally there is a wealth of info out there but I'm that sort of paranoid kind of person that makes me doubt whether everything I've setup is correct and safe from problems. I found this: MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Configuration - Microsoft Certification Training - SEEK Learning UK that looks to be the kind of thing that would echo what I was after. Has anyone been on one of these courses or anything similar? Was it worth doing? Incidentally, I've had a bit of training that covered the overall stuff i.e. various scenario's, do's and dont's and general stuff, but its the configuring side of things that I'd want to know whether its worth it [or not]. Cheers Nath.

Hi I'm curently working as an ICT Techncian in a school and have recently passed my MCDST. I was wondering if anyone could advise me on what would be the best qualification to pursue next. I was thinking about the MCSE but I'm not sure if there are any other paths that could be lucrative. I do want to work my way up to being an ICT Manager but I was also thinking I may like some qualifications in programming. And maybe even some (Dare I say it) Mac/iOS qualifications. Thanks for any help you can give me.

Does anyone know of any good one or two day basic AD training? I would like to send my technician on something. Something that incorporates a little bit of policies maybe. Preferably in the South East region. I know there used to be a woman named Sarah Something in the Reigate area but she doesn't do it anymore, which is a shame as she was really good.

Come and find out about our School Centred PGCE courses by visiting us at our lead school for computer science with ICT and Geography. If you are interested in a career in teaching and you are considering applying to Leeds SCITT, then this is the ideal opportunity to visit us at one of our lead schools. During the evening you will: view some of the facilities in Leeds SCITT Lead Schools. have talks from past and current trainees. get to meet the subject lead tutors and ask any questions. see what a Leeds SCITT teacher's lesson is like. Talks will run at 4.30pm and 5.30pm. Please email Michelle Oldfield ([email protected]) if you would like any further information.

Firstly, congratulations! You'll want to register the warranty to ensure you get the full 5 years (RE, RM, RP 65" and larger) - Warranty Extension IFP | BenQ UK In the unlikely event of your product being faulty, please contact our customer care team - BenQ Customer Support Our interactive displays can be used as large monitors, interactive displays or wireless casting screens, there really is no "correct" way to use them. We also offer a host of complimentary benefits that you may find useful: DMS - Device Management System (this has recently had a big upgrade at no cost) - LINK AMS - Account Management Service - LINK Broadcast - Messaging service - LINK Now all these cloud services do require internet connectivity, all the panels come with built in LAN ports or alternatively there is a wireless dongle that is available as an optional accessory for the RE03, RM03 screens; however it is included as standard with the RP03 screens. On our latest screens there is also EZWrite 6, a huge step forward from us with the built in whiteboard software. It is also available at no extra cost for PC & Mac - LINK I fully appreciate that that is probably a lot to take in, which is why we have launched the BenQ Academy - BenQ Academy Users can log in to their account (once set up) and they can track their progress through the various videos hosted here. We are CPD certified and are well on our way to getting the BenQ Academy certified as well. Should you have any questions or would like to arrange so training sessions for you or your staff please drop me a message. I'll do what I can to help.

We've got a few of us monitoring our school's computers - responding to flagged things from classroom.cloud and from smoothwall (needs a few of us because there are SO many things to check). School wondering whether there is any useful training that would help us be better equipped to know what things to worry about. Even the "urgent" captures from classroom.cloud seem mostly to be false alarms - so we'd like to be more than just rely on our gut instinct. We could do the full DSL safeguarding training - but we're only really wanting to be better skilled at the filtering aspect of the role - so the DSL training seems too much. Thanks

Since my current technician (stu) has the cheek to want to better himself by going to uni I'm going to be in need of a new apprentice as of September. I wasn't particularly impressed by Blackpool and Fylde College (where stu studied) so I'm wondering where else there may be to offer me some more options. Ideas people? Also, if anybody is looking for an apprenticeship in this area, feel free to contact me.