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I am the network manager for a medium sized secondary, leading a small team. I'll try to be helpful in my posts, but I'll also reply with a stupid joke if I can. I specialise in being a Jack of all trades, and certainly a master of none, but I'm a persistent, grumpy, belligerent sort and usually figure things out.
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Microsoft 365 Education - Licensing changes
3s-gtech replied to Smokebomb's topic in Licensing Questions
Yearly or per month? -
We went down once, quite a few years ago, because two bus bars in the school's main distribution board (you're talking ~1000a of three phase capacity, solid copper and fuses like Coke cans) directly shorted to neutral as the shielding failed on a cable that was routed across them. Blew one fuse across the room. We didn't close - it was paper registers, backup worked on the fire alarm (with a handbell for lesson change) and books! I shut the servers down gracefully. Temporarily fixed within a day before total replacement. Nothing to stop a drill other than organisation and disruption to T&L.
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Microsoft 365 Education - Licensing changes
3s-gtech replied to Smokebomb's topic in Licensing Questions
Hwb in Wales is built on this - I wonder what it'll mean for that? I'm guessing by the push for schools to use it it'll mean 'costing the taxpayer a lot more money'. -
OnShape won't render on our 2nd gen i5s - I don't think the old Intel 3000s would do it, so your 4000s may not either. I had to replace the PCs (now Ryzen 8th gen) to use it. Still better than dealing with Solidworks though. We don't pay for SSO.
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Welsh schools - Hwb Intune for Windows devices instead of local domain
3s-gtech replied to Olliekai's topic in General Chat
The Hwb hub site going down for many hours today is an excellent look. The interconnected services should all be working fine though.- 33 replies
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I have a lot of time for the little Brother QL series label printers. Robust, solid drivers, not too bad to strip down and clean the label gack out. You can also buy cheap third-party roll refills.
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Security was becoming a big thing then. Now, it’s head-spinning and you’ll be doing audits, paperwork and trying to keep up with the latest exploits and issues. It’s great!
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Have had to do that in the past - didn’t have the config backed up! Always do so now.
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They’re busy migrating mysql statements to mysqli.
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We've logged a job as it hasn't synced anything for days. Wonde broke, they've hopefully fixed that but my god - I hate trying to negotiate with staff about why something I didn't make, purchase or control doesn't work. Hell I only had admin a few weeks ago. Nor do I have access to the attendance data to know that it's not working.
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What do you mean, heard from Class Charts? They do not communicate, especially with the plebs. They will change the status when they're good and ready. Get them using SIMS instead of CC, then hit TES at renewal.
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You pay for our product, but we suggest that you don't use our product for the designed purpose. Righto chief!
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IT request today. I admire the brass nuts tbh.

