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Yeah fast user switching shouldn't be a thing for students IMO - no real need for it. Locking actively encouraged for obvious reasons, but no issues with locking and IDEX here. I would expect fast user switching still has a paddy.

It won't stop working nor be removed, just the support/updates as you mention. There isn't anything inherently present that would make older versions unsecure, the only issue is going to be if ADK's go out of date. That however will be unlikely as SCCM uses them in exactly the same way.

MDT is still fully usable and workable, we have no intention of replacing it just for the hell of it. The solutions like DeployR look awesome but costly compared to the cost of 0 with MDT It isn't being actively removed, you can install and run it from server 2025 and still push out the latest versions of windows 11 without any hassle. We're still using the same task sequences as we did with windows 10 with no modifications, just works

That's just standard unifi console (in our case running on a cloud key). We were only looking for those that have authenticated so we can ensure the forms are being used correctly We can see those connecting to it now but not authenticating but that's not of any real concern.

Fully open, absolutely not. In our case it's open only to allow the captive portal which provides a daily changing password, and we use a form to log who has access and when which covers the latter bit

Insights no longer has that information, it's updated so it's only threats in that section Aha, found it! There's a "hotspot" tab which only shows as an icon top left and gives you the auth method there

It's easy to see who's connected to a network on UniFi, however I have a query about the guest using the built in captive portal. I believe it shows everyone connecting to the Guest network, but is it possible to show who is actually authenticated? I need to be able to see who's actually using it rather than just connecting automatically to an open network and not authenticated.

ah man, huge presence in snooker and 80s/90s entertainment. Lovely bloke too, time for anyone, seen in many an exhibition. Great commentator, and loved Big Break back in the day!

Blimey! I thought (naively, clearly!) schemes of work usually suggested a few packages. Someone at the LEA probably picking up commission from Adobe

Makes a change, their subscription has changed so much recently that my opinion on Creative Cloud has gone from "bad value for money" to "damn near scandal". Changing things like Acrobat to the "Pro" level is the biggest bugbear. And surely no curriculum demands use of any specific package?

I signed up with BCS a few years ago - I think it was RITTech? I can't remember what it entailed but it certainly didn't offer anything useful. Didn't have it longer than a year.

What are peoples thoughts on S2? Think it's just gotten better and better, absolutely adore the attention to detail and it's the first series in a long time that's actually got me gripped waiting for the next episode.

If multiple had gone it's likely a teamed NIC issue which isn't uncommon with driver updates. Also what's the host OS? 2022/2025 also have deprecated NIC teaming via the server manager, so wonder if an update might have enforced that? You now need to manage those teams with powershell (SET teams? Only did ours a couple weeks ago and already forgotten!) That will certainly include clustered configurations. Would advise removing all teams and resetting them up as switch embedded teams - quick reference at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-local/concepts/host-network-requirements?view=azloc-2601#switch-embedded-teaming-set?context=/windows-server/context/windows-server-virtualization

Really well surprisingly. I'd heard it was possible so gave it a go, found it just worked. Just have to put some information in the username & password for the connection but it's just generic random fluff so it isn't blank. So far it's more stable than the Sky router ever was! Ours used to crash every week and need a restart, a replacement did the same - that and the need to try and limit my kids' screen time made me want to try it.

Very good to hear! I had a play with Pihole at home but ultimately decided on using opnsense instead so I could just get rid of my awful sky router. Same plugins pretty much and work wonders, even with the pesky ads in mobile games!

Google AI providing you the method to bypass Google advertising - inception!

Does anyone do anything fancy with their VOIP for backup failover? From what I understand it's a manual process of getting your supplier to switch the IP which takes time in itself.

It really doesn't look like it - have been following this since announcement and it feels very much more like an IP grab than any sort of proper Carmageddon. It might appeal to the mainstream perhaps, but if you want something modern and more akin to the originals then Carmageddon Max Damage is your best bet - at least it was made by the people actually involved in the game to start with unlike this. Happy to be proven wrong though, will wait and see.

Cheers, glad I'm making some sort of sense!

What an awful idea. I mean you could do exactly the same as Blackout using <insert any MDM here>. But as it's down to policy to have it installed.... what's the difference to having the policy to stay professional? That's for staff though. For students? Good luck with that.

Not sure if this is best suited to Cloud Services for the cloud backup, or Windows for HyperV so please move if necessary! Anyway, after a tweak of our server estate I'm looking at how our Redstor is set up. Previously we were clustered, so were unable to use Redstor to backup hyperV VM's natively. Now we can. Redstor's guides state not to double up the backups but it's wise to back up via the host hypervisor and only back up individual VM's if you are going to need file level restoration. That makes sense to me - so I'd exclude our file server from the hypervisor backup and have the ESE installed on that VM. However this is where it gets a bit murky and wondered if anyone knew the party line So in Redstor console, the HyperV tab lists all the detected VMs. I can right click and exclude the file server. What it doesn't do however is exclude the files - so if I then go to the File tab, the necessary folders for the VM and the VHDs are not excluded and nowhere does it appear to state they should be. Should I exclude them manually? I did somewhat over-complicate the best-practice, so I have the VMs and snapshots stored on a separate drive to paging files and VHDs, but I don't think that makes a difference.

They won't, so schools won't It's unworkable, but it's also only "recommendation" - so pinch of salt.

That's awaiting update - the chancellor wrote to all schools saying staff should not use phones in front of students in any circumstances!

That won't happen. Not unless the chancellor is going to fork out a million per school to sort out the shortfalls. Otherwise it's just a baseless recommendation from a tone deaf MP. Unless she also happens to have shares in an MFA token company of course! Covid PPE flashbacks?

I've been skeptical about these pouches, mostly because frankly they shouldn't be necessary. However keeping track of everyone is damn near impossible these days especially as staff are increasingly loaded with responsibilities. It's difficult enough in some lessons, and some of these kids are absolutely addicted. At the start of no-phone policies with confiscations on site, I've seen kids bring in dummy phones for that exact purpose - they "hand" that in and keep using their actual device. So perhaps they are an increasing necessity. There is a problem, kids spend FAR too much time on their phones. I see it with my own, I see my own son piddling away his grades because he's playing games on his phone - more than aware I flunked 6th form myself because I spent every spare minute playing Virtual Pool on the school's shiny new 486 computers. Same problems, smaller screen.