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Yeah, we'd rather it went that way - it certainly did go to parents and was a teachable moment but our then DSL gave us the instruction to do that.

Ours is blanket blocked, there's still enough for them to research online if they go to specific sites rather than amazon etc. Amazon was the trigger for us, as even with all the safe searching modes on, a selection of rubbery phalluses (phallus? phallii?) were available within a couple of clicks for any year 7 student. Get the odd moan but it also helps them to search with more care and purpose rather than accepting the first site they hit.

I thought this was now resolved? Had the issue but the updates earlier in Sept fixed them and restore as expected. For those with difficulties still, whats your environment please? os ver, roles etc?

Guest wifi, as they're guests. All they need is external access, usually for email so very little needs to be worried about re filtering. No SSL inspection on that network. Only issue we had was their laptops were always set to not be able to connect to open networks, so we had to ensure the guest wifi was WPA2 as well as the guest portal.

The primary would still be run to core, that just provides a realistic method of getting a semi-diverse route Important thing to remember, these policies and recommendations are likely initially run through experts, then spend months going through committees who's main area of expertise is working a coffee machine rather than a switch

it's rare but could be achievable in a compromise fashion by running uplinks to the next nearest switch. So as well as having a direct link to the core, you could also have a second link going to another switch which might also, at least partially, follow a different route. But like you say, it's rare and something I'd expect to see only in new builds. CtC projects won't even cater for it.

Yes it's possible but does depend on how it failed, something that often you won't know until someone has been able to look at it. if it's a power or controller failure they will be able to read the NVRAM directly, but if it's the nvram chip(s) then you'll be out of luck. Unfortunately not something I've done for nearly 20 years so unable to pass any recommendations

This is my preference, we're just considering options at the moment - my preferred option is to ChromeOS Flex the majority of devices. Unfortunately some software requires a mapped or local drive, whilst the majority can be shipped off to a cloud version there's nearly always costs involved or something being too embedded in a scheme of work.

In both cases it wouldn't affect all of them identically

How are you finding this works please? Slightly off topic, but we're looking at ways to make Google Drive more usable for students including mapping a G: drive for general docs, but to avoid multiple log-ons for students the best way to do that would be to keep them on one computer. That always appears to be a huge struggle for us even with seating plans. I'm sure it's more of a classroom control issue and high levels of cover staffing always make it a free for all!

Absolutely shocking, but unfortunately of no surprise to anyone with half a brain. (Obviously this excludes anyone in America's political administration). I feel so sorry for those kids. Humans get things wrong all the time, we do wrong things all the time, say the wrong things all the time, but that's all part of a learning process that is almost entirely reliant on our empathy and emotion to achieve. AI has the ability to be wonderful, but so little (public) appears to be for the right reasons or is just being used by lazy humans to compensate for something they don't have, or to save money by taking humans out of the equation. I mean, if AI was limited to medical research uses, energy efficiency, crisis management (and all under the control of humans who already know more than enough) instead of "self driving" vehicles, deepfakes, artificial pornography, adverts for the world's worst vacuum cleaners etc, I wonder if they would actually need those thousands of huge datacentres and a planet's worth of water?

We have several digital displays running on Windows LTSC with Google Slides. The displays are mostly iiyama commercial units, model LE4341S. Ever since I've started over 3 years ago, they've all displayed a very odd tendency to shift time & sometimes date with no apparent reasoning. Sometimes forward an hour, sometimes back an hour, sometimes a couple of hours, sometimes it loses or gains entire days. I've gone to Iiyama a couple of times but alas, their support hasn't been great. They've provided a new firmware last year which didn't help. I've been certain it was specific to those devices, until I noticed the same behaviour on a one-off Sharp smart TV last week. Some things of note: There is no network connectivity, wired or wireless, on any of the devices. There are no antennas connected HDMI CEC is turned off All devices do this at exactly the same time, and seems to be once every couple of weeks but have been unable to narrow down when. The windows devices connected display the correct date & time as this comes from AD. All devices have the local controls disabled, and still had the issue when I tested having the IR receivers disabled. Not all of the devices are in areas where students can go, ruling out student tampering. They are spread over a large area in different buildings. I'm at a loss on this, the only vague possibility I can think of would be radio clock settings a bit like wall clocks but none of them show this issue, and the Iiyama's don't appear to have that function anyway. Can anyone else think of what it might be?

They do it a lot better than Google - DriveFS is a mess. But then again, at least MS is sort of properly ingrained into Windows.

Interesting. Does anyone know enough or can read between the lines enough to understand if this would affect volume licensing, client access licenses etc? So for example on EES used to license devices and CAL's based on FTE count, with Entra used for basic device management. Particularly as we're a hybrid setup - we have the above but are Google for most things so don't use mail, onedrive, sharepoint, teams, office 365 online etc and just consulting into what impact not having MS Office apps installed would have on students (TLDR; none.)

Using a couple of examples - CPOMS and Redstor. Former obviously contains MUCH sensitive information, the latter - well, contains everything. SSO/SAML enabled in both cases, yet both require separate MFA. Redstor annoyingly so, you practically have to enter a new MFA code every time you move your mouse!