ICT for Education

Blog Move

After blogging on this site for a while now I have decided to move to a dedicated hosting blog environment. The new blog can be found at http://edutechnow.com If you want to subscribe to the RSS feed it’s http://edutechnow.com/?feed=rss2

Published 06-23-2010 12:39 AM by Alan Richards

Deploying Windows 7 – Installing Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010

In the second of this series I am going to detail the installation and configuration of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010. MDT 2010 can be downloaded from the Microsoft website You will also need to download the Windows 7 Automated Installation kit from...

Published 06-22-2010 1:35 AM by Alan Richards

Deploying Windows 7 – Installing Windows Deployment Services

Its approaching the summer break for Schools so I thought it was time to repeat a series I did a few months ago about deploying Windows 7. Over the next few days I will do a series of posts that explain the steps we used to deploy Windows 7 across our...

Published 06-20-2010 8:00 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Windows 7, Microsoft, Deployment Toolkit, Installing Windows 7, WDS, Windows Deployment Services, Windows

Deploying Windows 7 - An Event For Network Managers

THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL - SORRY Windows 7 is a year old this summer and many people will be getting ready to install it across their PC network. As the first School in Europe to fully deploy Windows 7, West Hatch High School is putting on an event on the...

Published 05-26-2010 3:34 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Windows 7, Microsoft, Installing Windows 7

Setting Up Exchange 2007 ActiveSync – Part 2 (The iPhone)

This is part 2 of a series on setting up Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway and the Apple iPhone so that you can access your work Email. Part 1 showed setting up TMG, the instructions below show setting up the iPhone. From the iPhone main screen...

Published 04-23-2010 7:24 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Microsoft, Forefront, Exchange Server, Exchange, Threat Management Gateway, TMG, iPhone, Exchange ActiveSync, Apple

Setting Up Exchange 2007 ActiveSync –Part 1

In our organisation we have a number of staff who use iPhones and for a while now they have been asking me if they can get their work email on their phone. For a long while I have resisted the pressure due to the fact that you know it will increase the...

Published 04-23-2010 1:50 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Microsoft, SmartPhone, Forefront, Exchange Server, Exchange, Threat Management Gateway, TMG, iPhone, Exchange ActiveSync

Introduction to SharePoint 2010 – Free Event

UPDATE: The 14th May date is now full. A 2nd date has been added - 14th June. On May the 14th I along with fellow network manager Dave Coleman from Twynham School will be presenting a session called Moving to SharePoint 2010- why, how, when and where...

Published 04-22-2010 12:09 PM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Microsoft, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Server

A blueprint for all School Learning Gateway ?

You may wonder why the title of this post is a question, well that's because I downloaded and read an e-book yesterday and wondered if what the book portrayed should be how all School learning gateways should be setup. I will be emailing the e-book...

Published 03-23-2010 3:16 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint Server, Mike Herrity, Twyhnam School

Microsoft SQL 2008 Failover Cluster – Part 3

So if you’ve followed all the previous posts you now have a Hyper-V cluster with a SQL Cluster within it. MSDTC has been setup as a highly available service and now its time to install SQL – nearly. Roles and Features Some are added automatically when...

Published 03-16-2010 8:20 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Microsoft, Failover Clustering, Clustering, SQL 2008, SQL, SQL Failover Cluster

Microsoft SQL Failover Cluster – Part 2 - MSDTC

Over the last few posts I have detailed how I setup our Hyper-V cluster with a mixture of text posts and videos and then talked about my plan for a SQL failover cluster within the Hyper-V environment The next stage of this journey was to create the SQL...

Published 03-15-2010 4:20 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Failover Clustering, Clustering, Hyper-V, SQL 2008, SQL, SQL Failover Cluster, MSDTC

Microsoft SQL Failover Cluster – Part 1

If you’ve been reading the blog then you will have seen the videos I posted on setting up a Microsoft Hyper-V failover cluster. The next step in our plan was to create a Microsoft SQL failover cluster within the Hyper-V cluster. Sounds strange,...

Published 03-10-2010 4:25 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Microsoft, Windows Server 2008 R2, Failover Clustering, Clustering, Hyper-V, iSCSI, SQL 2008, SQL, SQL Failover Cluster

Microsoft Hyper-V Clustering – Final Design

After months of trials and rebuilding of network designs and servers I have finally settled on a design for my Hyper-V clustering setup. The diagram below shows 1 Hyper-V server (we have 5 in total) and the network connections plus the 4 other physical...

Published 03-08-2010 7:04 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Microsoft, HyperV, Failover Clustering, Clustering, Hyper-V

Hyper-V Clustering – Live Migration

This is the final video of the series which shows the live migration feature of failover clustering. This video has no sound, but uses the Windows 7 snap feature to show a video being played from the C: drive of one of the virtual machines on one side...

Published 03-04-2010 3:46 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Windows Server 2008 R2, Failover Clustering, Clustering, Hyper-V, Live Migration

Hyper-V Clustering – Installing Hyper-V

Here's video 4 of the series, showing the installation of Hyper-V in our clustered environment.

Published 03-04-2010 3:42 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Microsoft, Windows Server 2008 R2, Dell, Failover Clustering, Clustering, Hyper-V, iSCSI

Hyper-V Clustering – Clustered Shared Volumes

So this post is number 3 in the series about our Hyper-V cluster installation. The video below shows the setting up of clustered shared volumes, a new feature in Windows Server 2008 R2. Essentially it creates a ‘mount’ point on the C: drive of each of...

Published 03-04-2010 3:40 AM by Alan Richards