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None, because in 2011 he had the same dropout as we all did, and there have been a couple of other times since. Olympic village - fibre cut. Akamai & a couple of other CDNs whos names escape me LiNX outage All 3 crippled the internet for the entire country - only exception for the latter 2 was you could have gotten around the issues with a VPN. That's all in the last 10 years. Few and far between thankfully but... why not have a backup plan?

How much work do you seem to think is involved in setting up a NAS and having some backup stuff on it? Probably a one-off half a day job. So no, no infrastructure addition, no major changes, just an answer to a "what if". I can certainly say you HAVE had downtime in the last 10 years, as has the entire country. Point is, no matter how good you think your system is, when a little backup plan costs £negligable, why not?

One thing I would add to any serverless setup is some sort of backup on top of redundancy. I know it goes against serverless, but WHEN (this is when and not if) something happens to your one or even two connections that is out of your control; perhaps routing dies because something happens at Telehouse, level 3 or any of the backbones and your backup line suddenly becomes quite useless. Are you going back to pen and paper for the duration? Noone seems to want to admit this is not only a possibility but a likelihood, and it would take SO little to just have something in place locally so you're not breaking out the mini chalkboards. You've already got the stuff internally dealing with DHCP and DNS with the router/firewall typically so a single fileserver (might not even need to be much more than a decent NAS) with disaster recovery/backup plans in place might help. I might be old fashioned, but for so little effort why not?

Why on earth could that be serious? what is ever on PC World's shelves that is suitable for use in a school environment? They're barely any good for home!

Without monitor, that budget should be enough for a ryzen 3600, B450 mainboard (dont recommend the B550) & 16g RAM with SSD and Im sure you can find a hard drive for general storage, 650w PSU and case and indeed a 1650 graphics card. If you hold on a couple of weeks then with the release of the 3000 series graphics cards which are bringing high end prices right down, it should drop the prices of the 1000 series too.

Lenovo L14s here - lovely machines, sturdy, light and excellent feedback from staff so far.

Drivers would be first port of call. Second, try using WEP authentication as a test assuming you're on WPA2 at the moment. We've just got a load of L14's and they seem to absolutely hate WPA2 but fine on Radius.

Still, careful with words like "rampant" please, getting as bad as teachers! "OMG NOTHING WORKING NOONE CAN LOG ON" (one user forgot password...)

Thank you @HPlum78 - that helps explain what went wrong for us when our group emails went belly up - AD all appeared correct, AAD was perfectly correct but Groups/Exchange Groups were doing all sorts of silly things! Ended up deleting and recreating them all to resolve but even a quick skim through that gives me a notion of what happened!

Ah, would you look at that. There's me thinking that being the all singing, all dancing admin, I'd already have that! Never mind, just add to my own permissions and indeed it's there! Fankoo!

Those have been added in by something 3rd party (or indeed a Capita addon looking at CES) so not something that is stock on SIMS.

Can you screenshot those areas for us please? This is useful to know and I can't find either instance of a 3rd party reporting group in reports nor person_id anywhere else in reporting

If it ever comes out, I will eat the tie I used to wear when working for Capita.

Salamander and (although not strictly software) Edulink, purely for saving an absolute fortune and many many grey hairs for us poor SIMSy folk!

Edulink here, many boxes ticked.

Writeback isn't enabled. Also oddly, AzureAD seems fine!

I may be going crazy, it may be 365, I don't know. We have groups in AD for our year of entries - Entry 2020 is year 7 up to Entry 2014 for Year 13. Each has an email address, [email protected], [email protected] etc etc. This all syncs, usually, hunky-dory with Office 365 via AzureAD Connect when we bump them up a year. But not this year. It's gone a little big special. No, seriously... Search our groups in 365 for "year 7" and it shows up just exactly as it should: But wait, there's more! The very moment you click it to inspect contents.... BANG! It changes to this gobbledegook! And to top it off, year 8 is actually year 9, year 9 is actually year 10 etc as if they haven't or won't update. Sync status says everything is perfectly fine! No duplicates or cockups in AD! I have never seen anything like it. If I search for that random looking group name, it doesn't show, either in 365 or local AD. Any clues?

It's literally [person_id] in the sims DB but as was mentioned, inaccessible from the UI unless it's buried deep somewhere.

Edulink One is by far the best addon for SIMS, but to be perfectly honest I would strongly suggest staying well clear of SIMS in the first place.

Only very recently joined a union (Voice) - most others seem too profiteering and childish in action, and felt I could win my way round any possible issues. However, having seen how stupid some human beings are first hand, I've had to bite the bullet and do one thing I vowed never to do. And yes, absolutely feel it's a must these days, especially for staff in academies/private schools.

The fact that it's 100% bunkum doesn't deter you then? It's not new, it's not efficient and it certainly won't be replacing lion/lipo any time soon in vehicles of any shape or size. Let's face some facts, when the thing they're going on about which is roughly the same mass as an 18650 lion cell is capable of a WHOPPING 100 microwatts of energy.... not sure my kids scooter is going to be going too quickly on that let alone a Tesla.

Wellingborough School appear to be after both a technician and senior technician. Unsure as to reasons why - salary is a couple of thousand short of even educational standards on both BUT I will say generally it's a lovely school & setting and may very well suit someone here. https://www.wellingboroughschool.org/who-we-are/vacancies

Good lord, these get so confusing. I assume this is the Sharp we know and not the Sharp that sells utter crud in the UK by letting crap manufacturers like Vestel etc manufacture kit and stick their logo on? Not that it matters too much - I guess I just miss the good old days when you bought a name and it was actually made by that company!

Ditto, roaming profiles were being killed off ages ago and certainly no longer supported. Use the remediation time to change.

Cheers