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If you're using it in appdata then be careful if that is redirected or part of a roaming profile, especially if offline files are enabled. Worth moving it out to another location or adding an exception to offline files.

Ah yes - sorry, I still have onedrive in my head so I forget google calls it mirroring We're streaming too, I'll keep an eye for similar as we're also on Sophos and drive app v 92.0.1.0

Not sure, sophos has been known to do funny things with it and was one of the many issues I looked at when we had major problems. Are you streaming or syncing?

DEFINITELY you must exclude the sync folder otherwise you'll be hammering CPU and you'll have core i7's with 16gb ram falling over. There's no safety issue with excluding that folder as it's being scanned already as part of the drive, what you're doing by adding the exception is stopping it being scanned twice.

Easy check, see if you can browse the admin share from the local account, usually inv-pc-xxxx\administrator and the daft password It's also worth being sure noone is over-reacting - it's good people are taking security this seriously, even when some people who should know better, don't. Just because something has always been a certain way, doesn't mean it should continue being so.

Yes, it needs enabling in the settings though. And to echo the thoughts above, it is off for all, or on for all, otherwise it makes it entirely pointless. Headteacher in this case needs some more information to help them understand.

I think I mentioned before, but if the pin is still XXXX (the worst PIN code in history) and the system password is the name of the product and a date circa 40 years ago then someone needs to have serious words with them.

I agree. It took a fair bit of whinging for me to get them to change the default passwords, likewise for us to add them to our domain and install Sophos AV to ensure they comply with basic security standards. Oh, and get them to remote in to clear up enough space for windows update to work, because frankly the 64gb storage they have is just daft even on win 10 LTSC. It is indeed very lax, and I'd be happy to see the back of it.

I mean he's worked with Seth a few times before, Ted and indeed a Million Ways to Die in the West and works well there. Quite a different role though. I'm not sure it's cognitive dissonance being surprised to see him laying down, bare cheeked with a daisy sprouting from his sheriffs badge! But still.

A very divisive character, but EXTREMELY good at judging his target audience. The Orville was a better Star Trek than most Star Trek whilst being funny to boot, as he was effectively writing a love letter to it. I still can't get my head round Liam Neeson though. I mean, I doubt there are many better at keeping a straight face but this, like a glass coffin - remains to be seen. Bdum tish!

"Just because everyone does it, doesn't meant it's right" regarding their silly comment about 1000s of schools using their service. And indeed, I think it was HegartyMaths back in the day who used Vimeo to start with prior to their Sparx merger, and they were happy to provide a list of URLs for whitelisting. There would be no/neglibable performance hit, your filtering is already checking against tens of thousands of words for every hit anyway.

My thoughts too. I'd absolutely love to see this, as the original is a masterpiece - much of that however is due to those wonderful people. The prospect of Rick coming back has been "possible" for a while, but considering how much he turned down for the last Ghostbusters, I'd say it's highly unlikely. Could be wrong. I mean, I can't see how the new Naked Gun reboots will work without Leslie Neilson, but one thing we can do with is silly, brain in neutral, slapstick fun.

Well, that I wasn't expecting! That's an interesting prospect!

To be completely frank, Veeam is worth it's weight in gold. You could easily replace it with just about anything else but it'll never be as easy. And backups in an IT infrastructure are like a power supply in a decent computer - the one item you must never skimp on. Keep it!

Honestly, that's something you need to do in conjunction with your DPO. Speak to them first and foremost, they will have done DPIA's for a lot of things and are best placed to guide you through this.

Yeah, I couldn't find anything enteprise based unfortunately. The sort of thing UniFi might conjure up one day though! It's definitely mobile app based but that's workable to a point even if it means running bluestacks on something. Will see how it works later today hopefully. If starting from scratch I'd have just made sure the displays had Android built in as @NegativeKillDeath has, but just making the most of what's in place. Lovely Iiyama screens, unfortunately dumb ** Edit - just on the offchance googled Unifi smart plug. They do them, US only

Our testing one is fine - after researching the specs found that the current FireTV Stick Lite is more than man enough, and if it'll do Trilby it'll certainly do Xibo and the likes too. I originally tested with one of my fire TV sticks from home, but it couldn't cope - it was one of the originals from around 2013 though

Aye, one of the stumbling blocks for me was getting a restart scheduled. In Mosyle, Google Manager etc this is easy enough but in case they need physically turning on, without WoL we're at a bit of a loss. Got a TP110 on order to trial - it might be we have a workable mix of Crapple TVs and Firesticks with schedules set up. I did think about using many of the Chromebooks we have with broken screens, but typically they don't have HDMI out!

*please* stop recommending other signage solutions, this isn't asking about that.

Yeah, unfortunately the signage solution isn't up for discussion - I'm happy with Trilby as it means I can stay entirely hands off It's more the hardware. I'm loathed to go down the route of PC's/laptops as it means securely mounting them somewhere, and behind the screens isn't an option. The ATVs are generally thrown on top of the TV or in the ceiling tiles, which H&S aren't happy about. The Pi's aren't a bad shout though as they can definitely be powered by 500ma (the older ones at least). Still interested if anyone is using any smart plugs for timing though. Worst case I can just add a couple of hours either side to discount DST, the screens are already on a schedule.

We're struggling with our digital signage (Trilby TV) - the software works well, but whatever player we use just falls over after a day or two. I'd like to keep things a) simple and b) cheap. Previously, and apparently on Trilby's recommendation the school bought a batch of Apple TVs. Not bad for home, awful for this scenario. Some of them are manageable via MDM (the few we have with ethernet ports anyway), the others were E-Waste the moment they came out of their box (the wifi models). Tested some E-Waste laptops (found a use for the DfE Whinerbooks!) - again work, would be managable over Impero etc, but a bit bulky to hide. I'd prefer to go down the route of something that is smaller, such as FireTV sticks. Bought one for testing, works well - falls over after a couple of days. Modern ones can't be powered by the TV, not enough current. Simplest solution appears to be plug in timers. Digital ones are all well and good but anything that can handle DST is stupidly expensive. "Smart" switches however might be workable, but I don't have experience of this in a school/business environment. Anyone have any thoughts or recommendations please?

Can they be reliably filtered, and the users identified in case of a safeguarding issue? That'll be a big one to make them think - on the assumption the answer is no, then it goes against KCSIE and they are putting students at risk. They've made a cock up and rather than their hands up and saying so, they're trying to plaster over the cracks until someone else takes responsibility.

I'm already plotting a move to Bath.

Is it still actually working? From memory, that's underpower condition and generally still works, but shows the PoE injector or switch isn't providing enough juice or the cable is bad.

Just double check on that requirement. It's *extremely* unlikely they will all need to dial out at once. We can get by with 4 concurrent calls, with 60 handsets on site. We have 8, but haven't gone above 4. And of course that does not include internal calls, only external.