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Thanks for confirming this, I wasn't as rusty as I thought I was. Everything is up and running now on a few switches, tested and have passthrough working. Just the rest of the sites now!

We're using SBCs. Calling plans looked messy and expensive.

Hi all, Has anyone else had the request to allow students in computing (Y11 and Y13) to install EXE files? It's apparently part of the curriculum now but I've not heard of it. It's a very random end of year request! Now, the obvious security issues aside; Realistically, as programming and so on continues to be taught and the subject matter increases in complexity this will be needed if not now but in the future. Rather than work against the curriculum being taught, I'm exploring options to work with them in a controlled way and to implement it with security as the key design point. I'm considering implementing windows sandboxing but this will mean upgrading to Pro or Enterprise which is fine but I'd be interested to know how others have/would deal with this? The areas I'm also looking at is completely offline devices that can be used, GPOs with accounts only allowed to work on certain machines and only for allocated times and having a mini switch with select numbers of devices VLANed off in an isolated and filtered way (I'm tempted to do this as I'm going to be creating a privileged access VLAN for admin works so can use it as a test). I may even do a combination of them all. Cheers

Most of our users aren't ready to adopt Teams as a phone system through a PC (crazy I know). So we have physical handsets that will remain in use for a few years before we gradually phase them out. I also what to separate out for dedicated VOIP traffic so that we can rectify other networking issues and isolating per device type enables us to do that. I'll check the link. Thanks for replying Cheers

Hi everyone, I've not touched networking in a few years and I'm a bit rusty. I'm migrating to Teams as our phone system and have created a new VLAN from VOIP. What's the best way to configure the core and edge switches to get them working? So far I've created the DHCP scope on our server, created the VLAN, assigned an IP address to the interface and created IP helpers for the DHCP server. I still need to tag the VLAN on the trunks and then assign switch ports and add the VLAN as a VOIP VLAN. Is there anything else I need to do to make sure it works? I'm thinking potentially needing a static route out to the firewall/internet? Or perhaps someone has a little crib sheet I can follow? Again, quite rusty so any help is great. Cheers

I was unsure on this to start off with but after the first episode, I quickly binge watched both seasons. A great call back to the original films and not unbelievable where everyone ended up

Hi all, new to the forum as a member but have been in the shadows for a few years. I've been in IT for over 14 years and so far, I've only got a few battle scars! Look forward to contributing