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Looks interesting. Seen the idea of printed expendable people before though

Mostly 21. Would revise one or two if there was a use-case. Had one complaint from a student last year saying they weren't comfortable with such a small screen yet perfectly happy using their mobile phone in lesson constantly!

That sounds like quite an odd request for a public forum - my question would be "why on earth hasn't an existing MAT already thought about this and implemented prior to taking on schools" ?

Very pleased with the HP probook range, found the 13 inch models a great compromise of size with good quality and easily fall in that range. Boxes ticked for usb c with power delivery, near identical models available with larger screens and numpads for staff that need.

I really, really wish Smoothwall would use proper indexing on their KB so just about every link ever made to articles don't go walkabouts, just like these categories did

Out of interest, could anyone share the pricing of Trelson please? Never a fan of "Call us for pricing" companies.

Interested to hear thoughts on this too - we're going down the route of Google for now but it's looking likely that we might need to use Bromcom's going forward. Bromcoms pricing isn't must more than most other SMTP services at least.

You can't eliminate the risk, only do as much as you can to reduce it - otherwise we'd be in the dark ages.

This is wider than just MIS data; after all, it's been accessible for years on personal devices whether in someone's pocket, on their tablet, on their home PC, or the public library PC they've logged onto whilst on holiday abroad. The same goes for shared file access, 365/Workspace data, email - all of which can include special category data and therefore the data protection aspects should already be in place from a policy perspective. Risk mitigation should be in place for these - requiring biometric/pin authentication to unlock the device, a "work profile" on personal devices, 2FA etc.

Very much a human thing I'm afraid, keep drilling it into them. You could specify that any emails to students must be done via whatever messaging platform you have with your MIS and ensure pupil usernames are very different from staff, but it still won't stop it happening. Hammer home the GDPR aspect and what it can mean for the school & their job if they do something particularly bad!

I'd be making damn sure that "consultant" never works in IT/security ever again.

Agreed with the above - the "hack" removal has been well advertised recently, and even if it doesn't happen, it could happen at any point in the future with little to no notice, possibly leaving you in quite serious trouble going forward. If you've got an EES agreement with microsoft you could potentially extend Windows 10 support for around a pound a machine which might buy you time.

Heh, same here. Ridiculous. At least it says cpoms rather than meritec now.

Someone from ESS is feeling particularly brave!!

Taken with a pinch of salt. There's absolutely no doubt the removal of phones has a positive impact from the perspective of schools, but it does cause other problems related - withdrawal, attention spans etc. Out of the frying pan, into the fire. Easy to speculate how much of this is down to over reliance on this tech and certainly the modern parental technique of shoving a tablet/phone in a young child's hands as a babysitter.

This is on a "best efforts" approach, so if you don't have the means, it's not the end of the world and the ICO aren't going to come for you and your family for it. Hence very important to do a full data cleanse prior to losing your SIMS license. I'd make it a priority to ensure any special category data is migrated or stored otherwise then ensure that is entirely sanitised from SIMS.

Just keep a copy of the database. It's standard SQL so easy enough to extract data should you need to. Anything else, look at things like Recordlink Exporter for document server etc.

You misunderstand - I meant "let's make it happen" Anyway, for a company so keen on seeing a return, they're not doing a very good job - at least from an outside in perspective, it looks as if they're doing everything they can to bury it!

True. However there's one lawsuit we would all be 100% behind. Bromcom/Arbor/Others/The World vs ESS. Make it happen. Make ESS fold like a piece of tissue paper in an origami tournament.

"Our tender process has been a lengthy and lawful one, taking into consideration all of the major players." "But you haven't included Bromcom, can you explain this decision?" "We have to take into account all factors, including the likelihood of falling foul of litigation whether true or false, and this is deemed an unacceptably high risk with this company" "Fair enough, crack on!" As said before, decent enough product, company ethics border upon American.

I've been doing this for our trust and ended up adding this as a feature request to Google. Would have been nice, as I had over 2000 apps to go through. If the user hadn't set up the app themselves, there was absolutely no way of seeing who was the actual users.

What you save in financial cost, you lose in mental cost. The only thing slower than grannys blocking an aisle in a supermarket is Edusync trying to pull classroom information.

They can't have their cake and eat it "3 monitors is too complicated" "We want 3 monitors". Compromise as psydii's suggestion IMO! Otherwise you'd have to end up with a HDMI splitter as well as the hub, something else to fail.

Why another screen, what benefit does that give? There's one built into the laptops. Straight USB-C docks would be far easier, offering charging, display, audio, network passthrough on the desk.

Yes indeed, my thoughts entirely, but just want to ensure we're covered in case someone throws their Vtech My First Computer out of their pram followed by a lawsuit to anyone that looks at them funny Hoping to get a trust perspective on it; we just don't want to get United Learning'd.