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Hi All, We have two secondary schools within our MAT which we want to enable to collaborate better together and make working together more seamless. The long term plan is to migrate them into our central domain and 365 tenant however this is going to realistically be a few years off. What have others done in terms of GALS, Sharepoint sites etc - should we be looking at cross tenant synch and etc? Is a trust relationship worth it in 2024? Moving files to Teams/Onedrive and using something like CDM would help make file access more fluid (we do this at primary) - files are all on prem at the moment etc Interested to hear what others have done in similar positions or

Hi Team, Ok here's the scenario 25 School trust We've been told by Microsoft we can't move from our existing OVS agreements until next year/renewal cycle. At that point we would look to consolidate agreements into a single ESS (Campus). We use Win 10 LTSC and Office 2021 LTSC, mixture of A1 and A1 plus deployed to staff and students. We've got some bits in a Azure (P1 and E5 license) and use CDM for mounting Sharepoint/Teams where majority of files are saved these days. We have a higher staff ratio than some due to a number of SEMH schools and the cost from Softcar to move to M365 A3 is about £100,000 extra on top of our OVS Our security stack consists of Darktrace (Email and SAAS), Wazuh, Fortigate etc so we haven't really gone down the defender route (yet). Are we mad for considering staying on A1 (not plus for obvious reasons) until the next renewal or should I consider O365 A3 which is considerably cheaper than M365 and keeps desktop apps, live events and gives us bookings etc. Any opinions much appreciated

Yes I believe I can, Ive just been comparing them via console connection/putty - Ill dump it out tomorrow as I powered the stack offline before heading home this afternoon

Ok update time again Think Ive narrowed it down to one of two things The stack config is just buggered Spanning Tree or the like is blocking the stack from communicating? I swapped over fibres and various other bits today but to no avail

Thank you for the replies guys - its been a long day but I was scared to have this hanging over me on monday As it stands now I (think) I've narrowed it down to a single cabinet/switch stack. I restarted this stack and now can't get on it via IP (they are dell switches) but can access via console, since this stack when down and hasn't come back up properly it would appear printing is stable - hopefully not concidence. I can now ping addresses in the printing vlan with no latency so my thoughts are its either the fibre to the stack, the stack itself, a dodgy spf module or the like. I tried unsuccessfully today to power on each switch one by one but there is no connectity (cant ping the stack and stack via console can't connect to core) Cores seem to be happy and all other edge stacks are accessible Wish me luck - any further ideas apppreciated Thus far Tried different gbics Tried different fibre cables Tried powering on switch one by one

Hello, Long term lurker first time poster I work as a technician in a fairly large secondary, my network manager is sadly on long term sick Recently I've been having an issue where all of my printers on my print server (server 2008R2) go offline, the devices are not pingable from the print server The printers are on their own VLAN and from what I can tell nothing outside of this is affected. There is to my knowledge no configuration changes that have taken place, I've done a walkaround the best I can and cannot see any physical loops however..... In desperation I powered down all of the switch stacks today across the site and printing seemed to return to normal, I could print, ping the devices from the print server this lasted for an hour or two however this evening I've dialled in to check and it appears the issue persists. I can't ping the devices from the print server or/and at the very best i might get a response every once in a while. My next plan is to run continious pings and power down the cabs one by one, wait - and see if this changes anything. Is there anything else I should be looking for?? Please be gentle as some of this is fairly new to me (server management, vlans etc) Many Thanks Shaun