PotNoodleTech

Did this. Not really much point all I ended up with was a super heavy slow chromebook with poor battery life.

Yep APs are not end user devices though they are already infrastructure. A different classification than pcs phones etc.

98% of end user devices do not need more than 1 gig. Some exceptions might be computer science, media and music creation of those devices are using NAS/SAN storage. This may change, but for the forseeable as we only have 1 gig internet and most usage nowadays and moving forward is all internet - what's the point of having 500 devices each with 10 gig connectivity all going through a gynormous 1gig WAN bottleneck? it would be a total waste of time and money.

Your main problem is that the old 2510G-24 etc are so damn reliable they'll keep working forever. If they'd have died 5 years ago they'd have found the money.

"SLT Buy in" followed by Limited Budget. Problem is SLT don't physically see network switches (like they see ipads or chromebooks having an effect) or understand their significance so it doesnt really exist to them. A lot of schools find it hard to get across the importance.

Eh? So it's not the Data Protection Officers job to filter out the requests but it's whoever is in charge of data protection (should be the DPO??) job? Doesnt make much sense. DPO is ultimatly responsible for it all.

Very impressive!!

Used to be a setting on each printer share on the print server? Not sure if it still is on the newest O/S's

I hope you manage to get there! The reprocussions if not can be severe. One of my neighbours is IT in a Fortune 500 - they literally had to shut down worldwide IT for at least a month due to cyber attack. I think the total cost is now into 9 figures and still going up every day. Because schools get their per pupil income money no matter what - it's very hard to get them secure as there is no carrot "we will go bankrupt" to dangle in front of the donkey, the money will keep coming in the school will stay open, etc.

Bout time - the spanish were totlaly useless at forecasting Uk weather.

Luckily I managed to keep permanent wall mounted as the only option so we don't have any of these. I know some schools do though - particularly primary schools.

In 24 years we've never added an ITT into our MIS. They are just visitors they are not our staff.

Did you know intune in french means "slug" * * i might have completely made that up.

You should have 1 AP per classroom anyway to be honest.

Frankly, no - end user devices do not need more than 1GB at the moment norprobably for the next 5 years. Only exceptions to that could be specialist IT kit, video editing music editing, etc that may need to store large amounts of data on a server. But normal PCs/Laptops/Chromebooks/etc? No.