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Another one for you all- this one is a daily encounter multiplied by 10.
Pupil: I can't log on.
Me: Okay, what message pops up when you type in your username and password?
Pupil: I type my password and it doesn't log me in.
Me: I know, what ERROR message pops up when you press ENTER?
Pupil: "Your password is incorrect"
Me: Thanks for narrowing it down! What is your username? (Our username scheme is last two digits of the year they enrolled + surname + first letter of their name. For example: 11smithj)
Pupil: John Smith.
Me: Not your name, your username- what do you type in when you log-in? What number is it? (I could just look for smithj but we have 7 OUs with different years and the search function crashed my AD xD)
Pupil: The letter is S.
Me: What year did you come to this school?
Pupil: *Thinks for 10 seconds* 2011
Me: So your username is 11smithj?
Pupil: Yes.

I kid you not, that happens on a daily basis.

Finally! After 2 months I have finally got it... THE virtualization server we always wanted. We got the cheapest price from a work college who does school IT kit now for next to nothing. A branded server- Fujitsu Primergy RX2540 M1.Specs are as following:
2x Intel Xeon E5-2620v3 (6c/12t) @2.4GHz
64GB DDR4 RAM @ 2133MHz in quad channel
3x 300GB SAS drives 15K in RAID 5
6x 3TB Hard Drives (WD Enterprise) in RAID 6
2x PRAID EP400i
4x additional SATA ports at the back- we might do SSD caching in the future
4x Emulex 10GBASE-T ports
2x Intel 10GB over fiber
2x 800W 80+ Platinum PSUs
5 years next day on site help :)

MMMM... give me 5 minutes alone :D

24 watt fans? YES PLS!

This baby is already running 11 virtual machines, using on average 70% CPU all the time with 60GB RAM utilization.

Not my post but sums up some of the things we put up with...


*A very powerful monitoring software. Look it up- it's amazing.

I've got asked by one of the teachers to look at some CCTV. It revealed a student peeing in one of the corridors and then realizing there was a camera looking right at him- he began running to the nearest toilet, grabbing TP and cleaning the puddle he made. When he finished he walked away looking at the camera with the most shameful face I've ever seen.
 
Some people... xD

Teacher: Hey, can you tell me which button takes a screenshot of the screen?
Me: Yea, there is a button on your keyboard called "PrtScr/Print Screen". You have to click that once and then go to paint or word and paste it.
Teacher: Thanks!
 
Which button is the enter button? The one with Enter written on it... :|

I've got asked by one of the teachers to look at some CCTV. It revealed a student peeing in one of the corridors and then realizing there was a camera looking right at him- he began running to the nearest toilet, grabbing TP and cleaning the puddle he made. When he finished he walked away looking at the camera with the most shameful face I've ever seen.
 
Some people... xD

I've got asked by one of the teachers to look at some CCTV. It revealed a student peeing in one of the corridors and then realizing there was a camera looking right at him- he began running to the nearest toilet, grabbing TP and cleaning the puddle he made. When he finished he walked away looking at the camera with the most shameful face I've ever seen.
 
Some people... xD