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Might be a daft question, but I'd rather not waste money trying my luck! Promethean pens for activpanels - does it matter which we buy? Some appear to named or sold specifically for models like the Platinum or Titanium, V7, V8, V9 etc but I can't imagine there would/should be a difference. Can anyone confirm please? (Just thinking of a few of these for our mixture of boards - https://promethean-reseller.co.uk/products/promethean-v7-nickel-pen )

There might be an extremely fit technician running round with an army of USB drives and CDRoms grateful, after 10 years!

In laymans terms, they're unaware of the subnet. My 7 layers memory is a bit Uncle Albert, but from I recall it's not transmitted as part of the packets (please correct me if wrong!) so as long as the receiving system gets the traffic on what it perceives as the right subnet it will reply (i.e. only the traffic marked for that first /24 and not the second /24).

In which case, please don't take it to heart - it's likely the Bromcom case study which is what made your post sound overly familiar. People will often have their concerns and own opinions over how or why someone would swap between providers that many times in a short space, but without being in your situation it's all conjecture. And yes, that includes me as I would have my own concerns about the process. The big BUT here, is your own experience with the transition to Bromcom regardless of what it was from, and that is useful information to others. Personally, as I've made clear before, Bromcom clearly has ongoing performance issues which appear to be improving, and a questionable ethic as a company but the product appears to be solid. Compared to SIMS, it's frankly godlike.

Wonder if this is Corinium Trust?

Yeah, likewise. Set the autorecovery location back to the default appdata, and put in an update for Office 365. Also confirmed it doesn't happen with Word or Excel. Setting it to the home folder gave us exactly the same symptoms as you - Google Drive was then safe, but the home drive lost files but not folders. I'll move to a subfolder in summer A very oddly specific bug this one!

I'm almost certain that exactly wording was used in another SIMS/Bromcom/Arbor thread recently. I strongly suspect it's spam and have reported it as such.

6 years? We're more likely to see Half Life 3!

Would strongly suggest getting rid of the school count in which case - it doesn't seem to serve any purpose other than to confuse!

The fact they have a count of how many schools are on the front page which to me insinuates the amount of schools that use them - which obviously isn't the case - seems very dodgy. Bargepole!

Nova is one of the things SIMS/Capita did exceptionally well, to the point that I suspect it's still easily the best overall timetabling software available. It is old and not particularly elegant (much like most of ESS offerings) but extremely functional. I'd rate it higher than Timetabler from personal limited experience, but couldn't say from a timetabler's perspective because so many will be biased against change. If memory serves me correctly, the cost of Timetabler was less than the cost of running just Nova alone so that often helps

Once it's in the panel it's not coming out - if it ever did (left in a box with silica gell packets would be best) it would be permanently marked/distorted. Best written off.

I hate to say it, but anything Zoostorm is shooting yourself in the foot and only one step up from a Temu PC. From experience, I'd say they will have underspecified power supplies which could theoretically cause little niggles like that. Seriously, I'd return them as not fit for purpose and spend a little more money on something decent.

Very are high on our list for desktop suppliers. Important to note that their hardware/chassis is all whitebox - for example the Flex you'll also find with Zoostorm badges on, but big differences are the quality of whats inside (Zoostorm will be cheese grade chinesium with weapons grade power supplies) and of course the support/aftersales, and I don't think VeryPC are easy to beat for that!

But it isn't comparable is it, it's AI vs Human. And we all know how well AI is working at the moment.

What's your alternative, @Net_Man ?

Check with your school and LA about this as well, quite often PP means the devices are purchased specifically for the students and belong to them. This isn't the case everywhere (there was a discussion about this elsewhere if I recall correctly!) and that takes some of the headache of paperwork out plus maintenance & management.

Likewise it's used heavily here, and is useful for our DSL who is not particularly IT literate. Digital safeguarding is so much harder now than it used to be and IT can't always be on hand to help decipher what some things mean and context. Monitor as you say is literally human manned who's jobs it is to do exactly that. It's worth it's weight in gold - without it, we would absolutely have to have another member of staff involved. Immediate cost saving right there. For the above post, I can't agree - there is *no* free service anything close, and having someone on site looking at some of these things for context and meaning can often take that amount of time too. You can't have everything instant.

They've let their SSL certificate lapse. Again.

We've just replaced ours with Probook 445's. Lovely devices, and don't have the ruddy awful Iris graphics chipsets some of the Latitudes seem to have been lumbered with which cause issues with any HDMI cable not purchased from Harrods on a silver platter. Sturdy, nice to look at and use.

That's the thing - those of us at a certain "vintage" remember what Thinkpad's used to be. If a member of staff run over one with their Citreon 2CV, they'd need to replace their suspension. You could play cricket with them with real cricket balls, and they would still be intact. They could even be used by teachers and held by the edge of the screen whilst being swung in the direction of an errant pupil, and wouldn't have a scratch. Plus the excellent keyboards and trackpads miles better than anything else. What we have now, even the higher end stuff is a Temu approximation of what they used to be.

Just adding to this - an affected user I've had logged on for 2 days hasn't had an issue. I've just opened Powerpoint, started a new file - 5 minutes later and *bang* - deletions. Autorecovery is set to G:\My Drive in this instance so not the home folder which is H:\ Changing this now and testing

Ooooh this is getting interesting - @Badaz52 what version of Office are you running exactly please? Powerpoint specifically, the build number. We're on 2201 which looking at the update page might be a little old. If you're on similar...

Likewise - out of nearly 90 staff it only affected about 15. Kept hitting dead ends in investigation as it didn't impact support staff, didn't impact desktop computers, however as very few support staff had laptops it was a bit of a red herring. Although one member of staff who had 40,000 files deleted at one time, I have the laptop and account to hand and I can't for the life of me make it happen again. Next time I get 5 minutes I'm going to check some things like if the Office app updated.

This sounds eerily similar to the issue we have with Google Drive - Google's support have been poor regarding how long it's taken them to investigate but their most recent offering suggests deletions were taking place courtesy of Office applications. From the log's perspective, the users "did it themselves" which we can prove isn't true. Offline files was also a query for us as it appeared to start happening when I made a change to it (change being removing it entirely via GPO).