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I hate problems like this. 2 users are having this error message details in the KB doc here: https://customer.support-ess.com/csm?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0023216&sys_kb_id=a81c47aa1b135d509f2142a7b04bcb0a&spa=1 However, the problem does not occur for them, using their own account, on any other machine. Nor does the problem occur for any other user of that same machine, even if logged onto the same windows account. So, "windowsuser1" logs onto PC, logs onto SIMS as "simsuser1" and they get the error. If the same user is logged on but "simsuser2" logs on to SIMS, it works fine. "simsuser1" logs onto SIMS onto a different PC, either as "windowsuser1" or any other windows users, it works fine. Clearly that can't be permissions? I'm stuck

Agreed to a point, however that may be all moot until you can translate that into Tin Foil Hat Parent. There's your hard sell! It's not really any different to finger printing in how it works and how the data is stored but the DPIA still needs to consider it as "higher risk" than fingerprinting because of the connotations involved with facial recognition. Cunninghams didn't even mention it to us when installing over the summer - we did ask about it in passing and it appears as if they've been suggested to not give it the hard sell at the moment!

Yeah, saw that as soon as it come up the first time round after Cunninghams introduced that tech. Alarms bells should have been ringing the moment "opt-out" was mentioned but clearly the school didn't have the staff, expertise or support required to make an informed decision. I don't think FRT is available any more possibly as a direct result - it'd be a hard sell for any DPIA to show it has benefits that balance out the risks.

Why is it any different to a school supplied laptop? Surely you allow those to connect to people's home wifi?

Not FMS but for another finance system, rather than having a server sat redundant I've moved it all onto a laptop for the relevant staff to use as it shouldn't be needed too often. Saves energy costs, hypervisor resources, and as it's read only there's no loss should something happen & a backup is easily retrievable.

The CPS's information there is clearly from someone with no expertise or input other than perhaps prosecution. For years I assumed "making" referred to taking the original photographs or manipulating them, however the term is just too loosely used. And indeed it *could* have implications, especially as you point out things like automatic pop-ups to which the user may have absolutely zero control over. Even we, with the best filtering systems known to man short of turning off the internet can not 100% guarantee that our users or indeed we are safe from them; just mitigate the risk.This is why it is absolutely imperitive to log everything we do; every change we make to the filtering system whether it's a URL whitelisted or blocked, why, if it was in reference to an incident whether it's safeguarding related or not (most of it will be behaviour/class control). Even currently I don't log false positives that come through; perhaps I should be, even if just to show due diligence in checking context, why's and what fors. We of course then run into the risk of more paper than work, but maybe a necessity. On an aside, the language needs clearing up. The oxford dictionary has a clear definition on "Making" so it shocks me to this day that these supposedly vastly intelligent legal folks continue with the use of language in this way. I mean why can't it be differentiated? Manufacturing, distributing, viewing, manipulating etc. Not difficult to understand, each may have a different level of severity. The so called definition you've said comes from the CPS there basically classes 99% of us as child predators...

Southern Communications are great for our Splicecom - although we are moving away. Not due to Southern, but splicecom is the phone system equivalent of FMS!

I'd definitely be interested in "other" brands so any experience welcomed. 2-Power is out - I won't touch them with a barge pole thanks to their exploding batteries. I've seen a few others that just seem too small to be useful; they need to be static on a desk and some of the smaller ones would just go walkies!

That sounds lovely! Have to ask though... audio on CCTV?

Upgraded to Maiden over the weekend. VPN connectivity is much improved, however wasn't told that the Smoothwall SSL VPN client is now removed. Going on previous comments I tried OpenVPN v3 which never worked previously and does work now. I believe you can also push this out via whatever method you desire and include the original OVPN file from Smoothwall so upgrading users isn't a massive effort. Performance on Maiden seems good, although frankly I should hope so with noone in school

For management purposes I think I'd be suggesting ChromeOS across the board in that scenario. Personally, W11 here at a Google trust, mostly down to the disparity of function between Office products online and off. Out of having some people on Office and the rest online, or just having Office available across the board, the latter is much preferable in our case. May change in the future, particularly when SIMS does a running jump!

And now you can compare that frankly massive 1GB sd card to a 1TB microSD. Scary!

Good to see - this is something that has been asked for and needed for the last few years, and I know a fair few schools/multiple trusts who have moved away as a result of the reliance on local servers even when the staff have really rather enjoyed the product!

Why did I read this in Cave Johnson (JK Simmons') voice?

Interesting thread - I've been getting this a lot recently, however inconsistently. Sometimes it'll just work, sometimes it won't with the above error message. Sometimes a reboot will solve it, often not. Trying to restart the service, it hangs on stopping service and won't cancel/come back until a reboot.

Back in the "good old days" someone from Google said something along the lines of "there's no need for things as archaic as folders or directories, with search being an integral part of a system there's just no need" Presumably someone with a combination of common sense and intelligence and the ability to use them concurrently put them straight, but it often feels like usability is second fiddle.

That's one way to get the kids to do their chores!

Hugh Symons are quite decent for us.

Android 11+ is a PITA on radius - frankly I'd be surprised if you get a decent rate of success doing this. There's a reason BYOD is going the way of the dodo, this and MITM HTTPS

Also vastly expensive subscription which goes up on their whim - really best avoided. Stick to Eufy!

Its's uninvasive enough to warrant having it on all school owned devices these days, but at the very least it should be on for staff laptops & desktops. It's not so much rules and regulations, but risk mitigation should something happen such as the theft of a device. Many modern setups means there is very little to no information stored on local laptops any more, but there are still cached files which could be an issue if they fell into the wrong hands. Obviously this is much less of an issue for students.

Well one thing I've learned from this, was that CMA doesn't necessarily stop at 18. It stops at 16 if the child is not in non-advanced (further) education and that includes going up to 18 years old; it's therefore possible that it continues up until 20 years old. So it's easy to see a tangled web regarding education, parental responsibility, child maintenance etc. It's also very easy to see why you see so many parents fighting hard (see father's for justice as an example). I did deal with a case a few years ago under my DPO responsibilities where the student (year7-11) was estranged from one of the parents and wanted no contact, yet legally that parent still had rights and the student did not consent for information to be provided. I can't recall the exact circumstances, but the resolution came with a compromise on the understanding that going the legal route would be painful for all involved. Some educational information was therefore provided but some specifics were removed, leaving both parents and the student satisfied. My involvement was minimal as I could provide information courtesy of the ICO recommendations but as they can only make recommendations, I echoed those and left it in the hands of people more politically apt.

My mancave sound system was one of those until I picked up a proper set from a local auction house last year! I bought them new in around 2001! Cambridge Audio. Posher people had Altec Lansing ones.

Indeed, onboard audio was generally awful until comparatively modern times. I had an Awe64 and SBLive, both with the drive bay addons. Friend had an Awe64 Gold. Awesome cards! Although they used to serve more purpose than that, with connections for CDRom drives too (sometimes up to 3, Sony, Panasonic and Matsushita IIRC) plus analogue audio!

Yes, I believe that. Generally speaking, the only time this would ever become a problem is if the parent is the problem. There's a lot of scenarios that could affect this - the parent could be estranged, abusive or worse, and being a parent does not automatically give you control over another person unless as has been mentioned there is paperwork to support this relating to culpability, power of attorney etc. Worst case scenarios of course, but no less relevant.