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Exciting things.
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…
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Making people listen
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…
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Tales of woe: Exchange, SAN and Smoothwall failures
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 One of my techies was updating SSL certificates as Chrome is sending warnings that it is out of date.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…
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How to fix Error code: 0x81000037 when using Windows 7’s Backup and Restore.
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…
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Damn you, Netgear.
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…
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Expectations
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…
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Projects Update
So it is getting closer to Easter, an unusual time for me to have big projects on the go, but with our new financial year as an academy running alongside the academic year, Easter, and not the summer holidays is Read more…
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Fighting talk
Having an IT team to manage is something relatively new to me, I’ve had a tech to manage for nearly 4 years, but I now have a senior tech and 2 technicians, and a 4th I line manage at one Read more…
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Why iPad’s just don’t work in Education.
I am not a Windows fanboy. I may have a new Nokia Lumia running Windows 8.1 as my new phone, Windows 10 on my laptop, just ordered nearly 400 Windows 8.1 tablets, and manage over 1200 windows devices – but Read more…
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Changing Primary ICT Provision
When I moved from a secondary, to a middle school (years 5-8) I was faced with a primary phase network. By a primary phase network – I mean a network with one thing bolted onto the other, kept going by Read more…