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This is not our experience at all. We've been all in on OneDrive/Sharepoint since 2020 and were 50% there in 2018-2019. We have 30Tb of files in OneDrive/SharePoint here. 2000 people hot desking over 600-ish devices. Basically no problems. Certainly more reliable than Windows file shares were in 2011-2014. Yes you do have to keep an eye on the number of files any given user is syncing (300,000 is the point at which performance is said to tank). But so far only those who have installed python or powershell modules, or got backups of GPOs/ADMXs in their Onedrive get close to these limits. We broke the legacy staff shared drive into separate SharePoint sites, and most "all staff" resources are accessed via the browser through a "Hub Site". Each team has a Team, and thus one Sharepoint Document Library per department. We initially made efforts with training around syncing document library's but increasingly everyone just uses a browser or the UI built into the Office/365 Apps to access their files. Student OneDrive sync automatically. Every class has a Team, and assignments are set through that (where the output is in Word/Powerpoint etc) For students whose course produce/work with non 365 App file types, we (ab)use the Teams Assignment / Student Work document library system. Teachers of these courses have their students link their class Team student work folder to their OneDrive. It works *really* well - we don't need to maintain any automation beyond SDS, and they need to engage a little with learning how to use the tools (SharePoint/OneDrive/teams) to get the job done - everybody benefits.

I think norphy's first example doesn't need the $ at the front. Generic solution to answer the question "how many 'things' in 'state' are there": (clever powershell cmdlets and filtering to get all the things in a state).count By wrapping some powerhshell cmdlets in parenthesis their output, In effect, becomes a temporary object whose methods and properties can be utilized. In this case the .count property.

You should have a DPIA for any significant change in processing of data. Automation, or running it through an AI where previously it was pure human review I think counts. Whether the basic "if this then that" sort of logic that you have in classcharts would qualify, I think are arguably pretty firmly into the grey area that exists around that particularly line. Given (in my experience) there are always some students / mitigating circumstances where the hard-and-fast if "this-then-that" logic needs to be overridden with information that is not readily incorporated to the automated workflow, final say is always with a human.

Presumably. I'm afraid I have no idea how schools can operate 365 and remain reasonably compliant with safeguarding/data protection requirements, let alone IT operations management, without A3 /A5.

Its a slippery slope though isn't it? There are specific clauses in DPA/GDPR around automated processing of data. The more AI is picking up and reporting on transgressive behaviour seen by the networked cameras, the more SLT are going to need automated support to handle the additional load created by these reports.... and round and down we go until having the AI issue detentions seems like a sane idea.

Data Loss Protection policy. Sender is member of staff and Recipient is student or domain is not "school domain.uk" Then Present tool tip

We use the School-wide PA system. Would use a bell pattern if no PA. Info updates sent via email. Additionally we have a lot of CCTV, Access Control and 2-way radios. PA has two locations from where messaged can be delivered. CCTV and Access Control - Senior managers of relevant systems have remote access from their laptops. We can remotely secure, segment and sweep the school pretty quickly. In practice the flow is something along the lines of a request to talk is heard on the radio with conversation taken to Teams(*), people are pulled into the Teams call on a need-to-know basis. Depending on who is where, there might be another message sent out on the radio which is the code phrase to initiate a lock-down / evac PA announcement, but its likely that someone who is on the call is actually next to the PA system already. There are primary/secondary people defined for each role/activity, and IT Manager or Deputy can take over any role if needed. * - this type of exchange happens multiple times a day, so initially appears to anyone listening as nothing out of the ordinary.

Was trying to get my head around that just yesterday. Is that where you can push via intune/gpo a magic string that then the agent uses to signal the platform which group to use for the traffic from that client? Does that allow for targeted polices that "could" be as granular as the AD/Entra group/user (because you are targeting using GPO/Intune), even when all users appear to share an IP? (it being a limitation, of our particular network/regional/netsweeper implementation of IP subnets, that 'traditional' per user filtering is not possible if many users are coming from the same IP) edit:this is probably specific to my/Paddy's frame of reference, where for historical reasons many customer networks are more like remote offices to a centrally managed network, where as SBB's assumptions are that customers come with their own private administered IP ranges.

https inspection? Some bits of auotpilot/intune hate having their traffic fiddled with.

I'd have thought that if it is demonstrably worse than a 10yr+ equivalent spec (as you have described) you should be able to return it as not meeting standard/expectation under which your employer entered the contract to purchase it.

Common Sense and Health and Safety are born from shared experiences or lack there of, depending on your perspective. You experienced the worst end of things, and now you ask for what others might consider "health and safety gone mad". At some point managers above you will start to question why things cost a bit more when you are overseeing/responsible, and when you move on they will make sure they don't hire someone who is so intrinsically motivated to provide a safe/effective operating environment, or at least that's how it seems to have worked out in LA land. That and changing the contractors every year, with no hand over and no contractual obligation for the new team to review the O&M/H&S Manuals and logs.

https://www.viewsonicglobal.com/public/products_download/user_guide/projector/LS510W_LS510WH_LS510WH-2_LS560W_LS560WH_LS560HDH/LS510W_LS510WH_LS510WH-2_LS560W_LS560WH_LS560HDH_UG_ENG.pdf?pass Check if its running in Eco/Dynamic mode, if it is try it in 'Normal': Menu: Advanced > Light Source Settings > Light Source Mode Looking at the price of that one, it is just under what I would expect to be paying for a basic bright enough projector. But I've been out of the projector game for 6+ years now, so my benchmarks are probably off.

Are you a MAT? I've noticed that operating standards have slipped dramatically for schools outside of "enforced" managed services. Those doing delivery (or contracting out the work) often don't realise or understand that they are operating below standards, because they've been hired or promoted to those positions without that knowledge by strategic/regional "powers that be" in order to keep costs down. That said, I know someone well outside the urban centres who sometimes digs holes for special occasions in remote locations, he usually drags his wife along and they have phones on separate networks because coverage is patchy. Its a bad look if there is already a dead body in the grave when the funeral party arrive.

As long as a powerful head/deputy owns the project, you'll be fine, even if you have a few bumpy days a year. If it was sold as "well IT said we had to move to this new thing", then riding out any bad days might be tough - slt and teachers can be an unforgiving audience. Always always have a backup plan for registers ready to go at a moments notice. Always have some (backup) independent system for keeping track of students on the safeguarding register. Always have a independent backup system for staff and student contacts. Pretty much everything else you can survive (i.e. keep the school open) without. [EDIT] Exam entries - you need a backup system for these too. JQC get very grumpy if you don't.

That position is in line with the approach of the other big two. Timetabling is one of those systems that may forever be locked to the platform on which it was developed. NT4 -> NT6 took probably a decade before everyone had made the move. Bromcom e-Timetable was developed twenty years ago, and while the frameworks on which it was built were supposed to allow for easy portability into a web-delivered solution, it's taken quite a while to get there. and Arbor's Timetabler (formerly 'Keith Johnson's Timetabler') is basically as old as (if not older than) NovaT4 would be today. I would not be surprised in the least if in 20 years time, when we are all using completely different PC Operating system/architectures, many schools keep an Windows 11 (equivalent) VM around simply for the timetable software.

That's a bold stance to take. The power and influence the Timetabler has, it seems to me is the only thing keeping some schools on SIMS, and if NovaT goes, then so does that tether. I'm all for it, because when the timetabler says "over my dead body" it takes us to one of the murkier corners of change management.

Any company name that might conceivably be pronounced "is sus" is, as far as I am concerned, sus. No I shall not be installing that software until somebody I trust tells me its not a scam. That is all.

you can to a team channel (email address) - it goes to a folder in a sharepoint site.

Sorry, I had injected "it would" into your sentence! Let us not forget that its a £100M+ per annum market, and with only three (soon to be two?) viable players, burning the occasional 1M to ensure they get their 33M-50M revenue, unfortunately is likely a necessary expense. Historically they have only launched action where they are at least partially justified (as born out by results so far). I know when I went looking, it was clear that Private Equity firms were backing both of their competitors, while Bromcom appeared to only invest from revenue derived capital. - but I am not an accountant/company secretary/legal so maybe I've missed some nuances (or even something obvious). Pure speculation now: So perhaps that ownership dance back in 2020(ish) is the cause/was caused by one of those blips in accounts that result in an organisation ceasing to be solvent, but, as long as nobody notices, the moment of crisis passes and everyone just carries on. ...until it does matter to somebody that they weren't technically solvent in that moment (i.e. they were in a bid that required them to be, and they subsequently won it.)

No it wouldn't. ESS is backed by effectively bottomless pockets with a vested interest in seeing a return on their investment https://montagu.com/#hub Bromcom used to harry Capita all the time, but against international PE they are being more careful, that said I think The Key might be 51-74% owned by CBPE so ::shrug::

That would need to be subject to a DPIA for the redaction service. By the time you are redacting, you have processed the data for the purpose you recorded it without using AI. Using AI/Machine learning to streamline the completion of a compliance piece does not IMO need to be covered by the CCTV Policy DPIA per se. Pretty sure most modern video redaction software already is face tracking using ML algorithms, and until recently ran locally. When its sending footage to third party servers for analysis things become more murky.

Is WONDE in play? If so perhaps they can smooth the migration?

SIP and RTSP are *old*. Here is an exerpt from Building Internet Firewalls 2nd Edition (2000) "Protocols for distributing audio and video tend to be based on UDP becasue people are more tolerant of having small amounts of data loss than hof having pauses. With TCP, if a packet is lost, there will be a wait for retransmission, which is much more annoying than just going on the the next packet. Audio and video protocols also tend to use multiple ports in order to maximise efficiency. Becasue of these characteristics, these protocols tend to be difficult to support through firewalls" The customer base for cloud PBX's skews more to non-technical and having a network engineer on staff is unlikely, as is having anyone in the procurement chain to advocate for the more expensive options (like a gateway product, or one with limited UDP ranges or encryption). It is also a buisness decision on the providers part - they cannot support (i.e. basically re-design and troubleshoot) all thier non-technical customer's networks; they need to keep it simple so it works under basically all circumstances. If the customer wants better security, the customer should have paid for better security. I'm technical. I don't like it, but here we are.

Isn't ED:Gen a rebranded iSAMS? There have been isams<->sims migrations in the past, so maybe the thinking goes they'd have less disruption with a temporary hop to SIMS rather than having to basically reenter all the data by hand going into Arbor. This reads to me like an exploring options to rule them out though. (you'd need something like classcharts on the side to minimise classroom distruption IMHO, though *maybe* SIMS NG is just good enough to hold it together for a year or so for them?) ...that said, this might be a chance for ESS to earn brownie points by giving you a temporary port in the storm, maybe they give you safe harbor, and you trial NG for a bit before moving on - no harm no foul.

Yeah done a phased roll out. Was lucky that I had a lot of network sockets around the place. We had a survey done so we knew the optimal location for APs to meet our SNR and devivce density requirements. THe new APs were so much better than the old ones that we were confident that as long as we had the new ones in the same room as the design we'd have adequate basic service. The new APs had a new SSID. We installed 4 APs in an area and deployed wifi setting to devices that were mostly used in that area to prefer the new ssid, and monitored how things went. Once we had proven that devices within the 4 AP cells were performing extremely well, we identified spare sockets near the target location for the new APs and one saturday just stashed them all into those locations (very very janky). We allowed the APs to get the lay of the RF land (auto tuning/DFS etc). After a day or so we increased the number of devices that recieved the GPO for the new SSID and very quickly moved everybody over to the new APs. We then shutdown the old APs. A few weeks later a team came in and installed cables, containment and mounted the new APs into their correct location. We had a spreadsheet with APs, Network Switch Sockets (temporary) and Network switch socket (permenant) and tracked the roll out and snags through that. There was very little time where both the old and the new were running side-by-side (apart from when we only had 4 test aps), but we had several weeks where the old infrastrcutre was still in place so we had an off-ramp if something wasn't going well with the new kit. The key really is have the necessary cabling in place so you can deploy the new kit in a day, the phases were not one area after another, but one entire "layer" of the system at a time. Planning was key.