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I would advise a repeater for this purpose if your radios are used for any form of critical communication, be it evac comms; safeguarding; medical... We have our radios programmed to use a repeater on 2 channels for day-to-day use for best coverage, with back-to-back channels for "private" comms or building emergency (for example, if the repeater is on fire). As others have said, I wouldn't want to rely on wireless or cellular networks for this level. There's too much complexity where it can go wrong.

I'm not sure that there's a general requirement for augmented reality, but we are providing a computer science course that has it as a module. We used to have a DB module that needed Access but I don't believe that's part of our course now. Either that, or they finally don't need support with it!

Currently have 7 dailys on site; 4 weeklys on a storage box on another site; 3 monthly and 4 quarterly on a seperate box on the main site; latest daily on a daily rotated USB. We're in the process of migrating to cloud backup where we would have 1 local copy, 1 cloud copy, and 1 obfuscated copy. I've not used an LTO tape since 2012...

Correct. 4 Merits for @DalekSec!

Funny you should say that... They were the last ones to transition, and even now, 7 years later, are relying on MS Office far more than they should. Unfortunately they were the first department to get teacher desktops, so have window machines rather than chrome desktops. We don't fancy the tantrums that taking Windows away completely will cause. Even though they still use Windows desktops, lessons are still delivered through Google Classroom. There are probably not that many applications keeping them on Windows these days, though art use Photoshop, and music use Cubase and Sibelius, which are the most difficult ones. Now that the requirements for AR in ICT have been relaxed significantly, that is potentially one to look at first.

Single LA secondary. Administration and specialist subjects (ICT, DT, Photography, Music, Art) use Windows and MS Office; everyone else is on Google Workspace. Teachers all have chromebooks and all classrooms have chrome desktops. Email is in Google and almost all document storage is Google Drive. Back-end is mostly MS servers with an on-prem AD structure synced to Google for authentication. There are some quirks, but for the most part this setup works well for us. the majority of the issues we have are because Google works in a very different way to traditional administration methods.

We use both OUs and groups for different user types. I can confirm that OU searching is recursive as that's our primary use case. Staff and student OUs are selected in PaperCut, but "Staff/Teaching", "Staff/Support", "Students/26Entry", etc are all populated.

Personally recommend ICT-Direct. According to their Stock List they have 1000 HP Chromebook 11 G9 EE devices from £115, or below £100, you can get the G8s, which are supported until 2029. If you're happy with 'C' grade, it looks like you can get them for £30 each!

Without wanting to sound like an extreme conspiracy theorist, this kind of thing is one of a great many reasons I don't use Windows at home. Application installation security has always been a sore point there, this is just a company being caught using one of Microsoft's flaws for their own gain. It'll be interesting to see if this affects cyber security guidelines gooing forward.

Glad its working. Until MS kill off Group Policy in favour of Intune, at least. Can't wait for that one... 😒

Eveyone seems to hide the goodies away now. I know that a lot of stands were complaining that the children that were let loose just took handfulls of sweets that seemed to be abundant this year. @Rob_D the little ICT-Direct box is a screen cleaner spray with cloth Most of what I got this year was bags and sweets. The highlights were a Verkada Yeti mug, an ICT-Direct thermal mug, and a beautiful 43 piece precision toolkit. I neglected to get any photos, so if I remember, I'll get some when I get home tonight (of course it didn't get to the office, thats what the paperwork is for!).

It should only apply to objects that match the security filter. I assume your security filter on the 'Scope' setting has only the object that you want affected? The screenshots I listed are from a fully functional GPO in my domain, as that's how we primarily do device specific software installation. We used to have the same settings in production for users, but don't any more. What does Group Policy Results show for that GPO against your users, both that you're expecting it to apply to and not?

I've put some examples in here. This is from an object applied to computers for software installation depending on group membership, but the premise is the same.

The security filter should have the 'Authenticated Users' removed, but that also removes it from the security settings, meaning that Windows won't be able to read the policy to apply it. You need to add 'Authenticated Users' back into the security settings with read permissions for it to apply.

I've found myself gravitating to old favourites recently. Project Zombiod - Fantasticly realistic zombie apocalypse survival game that's brutally challenging. Factorio Space Age - Top down, complex factory builder. Dying Light - Zombie apocalypse FPS parkour. 7 Days to Die - Zombie apocolypse FPS survival crafting game. Ostranauts - Rogue-like top down ship breaking/building game. Most of those are multiplayer, but i mostly play alone. Factorio is great with friends, and thats how I started, but mostly I play singleplayer. 7D2D is another one that is great multiplayer and I've run a few servers for a small group of friends, but I've logged nearly 8k hours since ~2018