It’s no surprise I haven’t kept to my blogging, I moved into my own house in September, I have been trying my best to help my 2 kids fit into new schools and nurseries and on the rare occasion I Read more…
Free office! For pretty much every youngster and educator in the UK. Crikey, what a deal! It’s definitely something that gets parents and staff’s attention, with office costing circa £90 for home and student, it is a significant saving, and Read more…
Recently I decided that I wanted to give all my users the free office they can get under EES Student Advantage. I had looked into this before and it was one hell of a nightmare to set up I thought, Read more…
I am a big fan of social media. I have been on twitter since 2009, facebook from before that and I enjoy posting updates. I like to share with family and close friends on facebook, particularly with 2 young kids Read more…
We have whole school enrichment days at our main schools, normally it means all IT is booked out, and the network is just creaking. We don’t always have a direct input – but this is good – staff are confident Read more…
I had a fun job this half term – I had to migrate SIMs from SQL 2008 to 2014 – as the next SIMs release doesn’t support it. Unfortunately the timing wasn’t great, recently we have had a few issues – Read more…
What a week. It all started last week, when our exchange server just decided to stop working. One of my techies was updating SSL certificates as Chrome is sending warnings that it is out of date. A fairly simple process Read more…
I have a few private clients that I have setup Windows Backup on to send data to a NAS drive. All works fine, until I get hit by an email saying backup isn’t working. Twice now, it has turned out Read more…
So our Easter work schedule was pretty manic, perhaps more then expected. We have 3 new ICT work areas now, and they have seemed to fit in quite well, no drama there – infact with WDS in place, it was Read more…
Unrealistic expectations from users is a common theme of tickets and conversations in any IT support team. Our users, as consumers do, demand that products work to their exact specifications. Unfortunately, the world of IT isn’t like that – it Read more…