One of the schools i support in Cambridgeshire has received an email from West Northampton shire pen records.

They are unsure if this is spam\phishing etc everything from the forwarded email (awaiting for original email as attachment to confirm if genuine) appears to be above board. But it contains a link to egress secure reader.

Does PEN Record mean something else other than Pen test for network security. Is anyone able to shed any further light on this before i give school my opinion\instruction

Have already asked re if they've had a new transfer

I have a new head who wants to use the head@ email, but the previous head doesn't know the password or settings. Also just found out that one of our academys doesn't have a northants-ecl.gov.uk email 5 years after opening.

Thanks

1. LCC's contract with emPSN ends on 31st October 2022
   
2. From then on, schools will be paying for broadband from their budgets.
   
3. Can schools indicate whether they're interested in a group buy from emPSN orchestrated by LCC or if they're likely to go their own way.
   

I understand the need for a binary option for 3, but the real answer will be "it depends".

We're seeing connectivity drops on a regular (not-quite-daily) basis at two of our sites in Lincolnshire. Both are affected at the same time.

We raised a previous ticket and the finger was pointed at BT kit past the local exchange, but it's still an issue.

Is anyone else seeing similar drops?

Many Thanks

Paul Ellam

Good Afternoon all!

The 3rd East Midlands ANME meeting is on the 2nd March 2018 at Impero HQ, Nottingham.

Free for all members as always, refreshments and lunch provided...

More information here, more will be added soon: East Midlands Meeting 3 - EM03 - Events - ANME

Good Afternoon all!

The 2nd East Midlands ANME meeting is on the 30th November at the Derbyshire Hotel, Derby!

Free for all members as always, refreshments and lunch provided...

More information here, more will be added soon: East Midlands Meeting 02 (EM02) | Association of Network Managers in Education ANME

Derbyshire schools may wish to submit an unblock request.

I am introducing G4S behaviour module shortly, we already use the assessment tool.

I've set up the behaviour classification section with scores and immediate and follow up actions and tested these out - no problems. However I do have a couple of questions if anyone can help...

1 What is the effect of ticking the 'prioritise' button?

2 With regard to FTE and other high level incidents - do you still record these on SIMS in addition to G4S?

Thanks

A

We've just announced our East Midlands Regional Sponsor and first East Midlands Meeting!

East Midlands Meeting 01 (EM01) | Association of Network Managers in Education ANME

0900-1300 on 05 May at the Derby Conference Centre

Free for members as always, free to join - Join | Association of Network Managers in Education ANME

It'd be great to meet as many members as possible there!

We use them for a few bits and bobs (email pre-filtering, external DNS management, acting a as "chase $connectivity_breaking_culprit for an ETtF" gopher. etc) so will be looking for alternate provision.

Just in case anyone else if still using them for stuff.

I've filed a ticket with them, but they haven't got back to me yet - i can't imagine they are busy!

They're currently having major issues - and it looks like they're using the backup (which isn't very quick and is being flooded with users now...)

I'm aware it could be a simple case of "whatever's feeding data to those graphs can't keep up" or "someone's messing around with the monitoring", but given it's customer-facing monitoring I'd expect a "hey, we're messing about and it might look a bit odd" note on the portal if that were the case.

And the Internet has been non-specifically grindy at times unrelated to the little darling's escapades.

DNS was fine, as was querying external Google DNS directly. KCOM could connect to our router and verify all looked well.

Our internal proxy was fine (though we took it out of the loop while diagnosing just in case).

Sites hosted within EMBC were available, but anything on the wider Internet wasn't available.

Kier weren't aware of anything and promised to call back (didn't happen). I've chased them again this morning.

Unable to ping the Mouchel Proxy servers and external access is down.

Called Mouchel and are aware...working with KCOM and BT to diagnose where the issue is. what a day to go down with the exam results day tomorrow!

Hopefully it will be sorted before 8am tomorrow so I don't walk in to complaints!

Mouchel / KCOM always mention about backup connections, but never actually seen this happen - services seem to work or not!

The site times out for us and a few schools we called but BSS says there's nothing wrong and to talk to Leamis. This of course is dumb as Leamis have nothing to do with the Anycomms site.

Arrgh!

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