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And it goes without saying if you haven't got Black Mesa, get it. It improves and expands on the original.

Thanks all. I imagine in an easy world it would be nice for someone to say "You MUST have this, and this is how you should go about it" but that clearly just isn't possible with far too many variables to consider. I wouldn't want to be the person in charge with putting what they have in writing in a way that covers as much as possible without getting in trouble (and likely why these people have legal teams to check and check again!) Quite an even split between the interpretations and as alluded to earlier, I wonder if there's an element of people reading what they want to read!

Just be sure that if you're not running a pair of them, to have redundant management modules. Being fair, the only reason the 5406 series might start becoming an issue is if you're really heavily leaning towards 10gbit to each edge (and have a lot of them) plus fast SAN storage; they're not the quickest on the backplane. Might even find a 5612 or two floating around which, and please correct me if wrong, I believe have faster backplanes due to the extra capacity? And then of course modules are just straight swaps

Check with suppliers first - still looking at lead times of up to a year for the Procurve series switches. The chassis and some modules may differ. You may find you get better performance and expandability looking at stackables like 6300s.

Cheers all It's not something we want to catch anyone out with including the supplier in question, it's more along the lines of expecting a bit more clarity from the Government. That however is only likely to occur when large, pink, porky mammals start soaring through the sky! I suspect we like many people in our positions would ultimately like the quicker option to be the standard but that may not be what is actually meant!

I ******** LOVE coffee cremes!

Hi all, Just a quick one regarding the DFE recommendations. This may seem daft or pointless, but it's a discussion we're having at the moment with a supplier and I'd like to be able to provide some numbers! This is for secondary, and not relating to/considering backup lines. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/meeting-digital-and-technology-standards-in-schools-and-colleges/broadband-internet-standards-for-schools-and-colleges Many thanks!

Fasthosts will, been happy with their support recently but you may need to speak to them directly rather than going online. The last favourite TSOHost no longer does it but apparently only a temporary stop.

This is what I was trying to say, but put somewhat better!

Work reliably, usable, quick, instant reporting (that's instant in human terms, not "Shall I route your data via Neptune first?" terms). Even now, Senso feels like a constant product in beta.

Slightly off topic but not sure on that - Excel was mid 80s, SIMS late 80s?

Apologies - I do know people in that situation and it's mostly out of necessity (refused to carry on with SIMS, didn't want to jump into another without taking the time to properly investigate and were apparently able to do it the "old fashioned" way. And I mean even more old fashioned than Sims

4 below average size primary schools doesn't really give a wide range of information when compared to another offering; there are larger primary MAT's running on spreadsheet. Not the best choice for a case study! (/tuppence)

To add to this as an end user, like a lot of products the functionality is there, it's just not particularly great for either end users such as safeguarding leads or for IT. Fastvue literally just puts it all together in a way that any layman can use. Smoothwall has an advantage as an edu focused product but even that could do with a FastVue touch IMO!

Wave9 are probably the best I've ever had to deal with - went with them a few years ago due to recommendations on here and as these recommendations never cease, I think that speaks for itself.

May be some difference in expectation between older AP's and new ones - modern wifi 6 is generally down to 1 AP per 1 or 2 rooms depending on the makeup of the rooms, walls and ceilings. One of our older Unifi AC Pro covers 5 times the area of one of our newer Unifi 6 models. Nearly all CtC funded programs are 1 AP per classroom.

Yup, outages across MS online services for most this morning.

Necrothread! Could I possibly have a copy of this guide please? Thanks

Would it not be getting that from the other end?

Ah, I misread/missed about the power, my apologies. FN-GM's idea might not actually be unfeasible, they only use a couple of watts so a very small solar & battery solution would be more than sufficient even in the winter months. But of course you'd also need another AP in the cabin to relay that wifi to clients. 20 watts would be more than enough and should be achievable, if not a small technical project for you

A couple of unifi Nanobeams will do the job perfectly for around £150 a pair, or if you prefer a full gig then the airmax Gigabeams for around £300 the pair are a well tried and tested solution.

That's the ticket, forgot about that bit! Many thanks!

That was my understanding from the documentation, doesn't seem to be behaving though An example, going to lloydsbank.com, certificate issued by Smoothwall-HTTPS-INterception-Certificate-Authority which is apparently not trusted and the page flags up as unsecure as a result. Certificate installed from the GetMITM page however is the default-root-certificate-authority, verified. Edit - wondering if this is iDevice/Safari specific as my android doesn't appear to have the same issues on Chrome.

Morning folks, Our smoothwall appears to be dishing out the wrong certificate on the Getmitm page (the root CA rather than the HTTPS decryption certificate). I can't for the life of me find out how to change it to the decryption cert, nor can I find documentation on that other than something saying they're interchangeable! Is this possible, or am I going to need to re-create everything?

Yes absolutely. MS, Google and many other large suppliers make doing DPIA's extremely easy so there's little reason not to do one, even retrospectively. Do remind SLT that you're doing it to protect them and the school!