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
May 27, 2015
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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
May 27, 2015
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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
May 14, 2015
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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
May 14, 2015
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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
April 28, 2015
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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
April 28, 2015
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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
March 25, 2015
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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
March 8, 2015
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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,
March 6, 2015
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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
February 21, 2015
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