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When we were backing up Google (we moved to Office 365 last year), we used a QNAP NAS with their built in Boxafe tool to back up our Google stuff. An onsite backup of our cloud stuff.

From reading it, there would still be the human doing the work - as the entire thing is about the member of staff asking it stuff. It isn't a totally automated process making decisions. The member of staff still has to go "yes, that is right, we'll use that", making the ultimate decision.

How many cores do your VMs have? 1GB RAM is too low if you're using the desktop experience - you need minimum 2GB. But, as mentioned by @chaplic, 50k local accounts is getting into the world of extremely niche use cases for Windows Server. I'd say you'd be better relooking at how your login/auth processes are working - either move to a service like Active Directory, or move your users into an SQL database and handle authentication differently. You really shouldn't be using Windows logins for website auth.

Pack updated to 1.0.14.

I think that sums up Power Rangers in its entirety!

Earliest gaming memory for me was sitting with my Mom, who was playing Repton on a Acorn Archimedes that my dad brought home from school over summer. I was 3. Then my own gaming was playing Nettrek on a Mac Plus at school.

We have a couple of generic "supply" accounts for each school for those day to day supply staff. Then any who are in for more than a week get set up with their own account instead. Its so quick setting up an account these days, there's real reason not to set them up if they're here for any length of time.

Is this not double dipping then? As they charge suppliers for the service in the first place? So, now they will charge us for something companies are already paying for?

VLAN setup is super simple. You can either assign individual VLANs to ports via the web panel, or via an app. Or, you can make a profile which has multiple VLANS, and you can apply that.

Oh, yeah, we use a Aruba 5406R zl2 for our core switch. But, the "Ubiquiti way" would be to have a UDM or similar as the routing part of it and then everything aggregated with some of their fibre switches.

We have them across the Trust here (though, Connect the Classroom is replacing them soon). They work well enough. We've had a couple die over the years. And they only have a 1 year warranty - those in warranty, you have to ship out of country at your own expense to get remedied. So, they're cheap and cheerful. A good entry-level system IMO. Just plan around not having warranty support - we simply had a spare of each type of switch on a shelf ready to swap in instead.

Inflation in January+ 3.9% I think. All ISPs and mobile companies seem to be doing it. They all have a clause in their contract saying they can increase price yearly by inflation + 3.9%. We've received notices for our mobiles all going up by around that.

He was a superb actor. Currently rewatching Fringe with him in. Only 60 too.

As far as I know, the only way to do this is to set up your new tenancy without the domain you want. Configure everyone with a different domain. Prep your DNS records, by reducing the TTL. Then when you're ready to do the actual swap, you get the domain removed from the old tenant, and add it to your new one, swapping the DNS records. Downtime is then only the time it takes for DNS to update - but that should be low due to the TTL change earlier.

For the print server, yes, you can move that fairly easily - you'll just need to sort out your permissions on any shared printers. If you run anything like PaperCut on it, that would complicate it. For the SQL server, no. You can't really move those across domains. Your best bet is to do a full server migration, using the instructions from Capita/your support unit.

I usually think of the 2 as being processor - doing something FOR you. Controller - doing something for themselves. Also, a firm can be both. Eg. School photographers. On one hand, they take the photos and send them to you to add to your MIS. But, they also sell photos to the parents, via their own systems (ie. the school isn't the one selling photos), so they are both a processor for the first part, and a data controller for the second part.

The connectors really depend on the amount of current you're going to draw. A C13 indicates your UPS is likely smaller than the old one (in terms of current it can draw). Ours are wired in with 16A blue/white IEC 60309 socket on one end, and hardwired in the other end, for example. The desktop one I have for my workstation is a standard C13 though. EDIT: Forgot to say - if you were using C19 on one end but normal 13A plug on the other previously, you end up with the same effect as simply using a C13 anyway. To take proper advantage of a C19, you'd need a 16A circuit to the cabinet.

Only way I know that an admin can share a user's calendar is via PowerShell. Sharing calendars is a user task, so I'd be approaching this as a "why can't you share it yourself" issue rather than doing it for them tbh. http://theitbros.com/add-calendar-permissions-in-office-365-via-powershell/

Do you have any plans to "cloudify"? Ie. moving to Intune etc.? If so, I'd say look at the deployment process in that. Else, it depends what you want to achieve. If you already have all your software installation processes automated somehow, a simple WDS will do fine. Else, if your software is also installed manually, I'd suggest going full Config Manager tbh, that way you can automate imaging and software deployment. But realistically, at this point, the "modern" way forward is the Intune way.

Pebble MISApp is for Tali, cashless catering system I think. All of these things should be documented in your GDPR data asset register, and potentially you should have DPIAs completed for them (depending on what data is sent to where). Who is your DPO? You should speak to them about your data flows.

One of the questions is rather odd with this survey. "What is your maintenance / refreshment plan for the existing technologies at your school? Please select an answer for each of the technologies." Then it bundles Broadband and Wifi together. Except, broadband is an operational expense, done yearly/3 yearly, and wifi is a capital expenditure, done every 5-10 years. Really odd thing to bundle together!

With any major change like this, you have to start right at the beginning - how will you confirm it was a successful and useful project? What is the reason behind wanting to change? And, what does the school hope to achieve? Without determining these things, making these sorts of large-scale changes is somewhat doomed to failure - as no-one will actually appreciate why its done, and you'll end up with complaints from staff due to unclear reasoning. The benefits of change have to be song often and loudly. I think the issue you may face is that whilst your setup is OK today, with the speed of things changing in the IT world and the way LEAs appear to slowly be reducing their input into school IT (passing that buck back to schools themselves in some areas, or shifting it out to units which are owned by them but operate commercially), you may find yourself needing to make changes anyway in a few years. At a minimum, Windows 10's end of life is already known so planning should be in advanced stages for its replacement (and likely many machines will need replacing to accommodate this, going by most schools aging PC stock), so now is likely a good time to look at the whole system with a wider eye. On a personal level - if they want you to make these major changes yourself, you do need to push for training and time to do it. Otherwise, they need to pay for a third party to do the legwork, and then train you to use the new system. Having run projects of this scale a number of times now, I will say they can be incredibly stressful to do.

Bromcom also offer paid email packages as well, for a yearly fee for larger numbers of emails.

This looks ideal to me. I've forwarded it over to the teacher in question to look at. Ideal as we use Chromebooks widely here, so a web based one is always good.

Does anyone know of any simple to use stop motion animation software? When I say simple, I mean something they press a button on to take a photo and add it to their animation. That they can save and load up their projects easily etc... Shotcut, qStopMotion and OpenShot are apparently all too complicated.