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Announcing the next EduGeek Modded Minecraft server OceanBlock 2 Server address: mc.edugeek.net:25566 BlueMap address: http://mc.edugeek.net:8192 This is a 1.21.1 Neoforged modded Minecraft pack. You can download it via FTB App. NOTE: The version in Curseforge seems to stay 1 version behind. So, the latest version is always on FTB App. NOTE 2: Check the RAM settings for the pack. It defaulted to 3GB on my machine, which I highly doubt is enough. Current pack version: 1.7.0 At the moment, there is no automatic whitelisting due to Edugeek V6. If you are not whitelisted, PM me on here and I'll get you sorted. Up to date information is always available via the Discord channel.

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For the DMS, you'll need a tool such as Salamander's SIMS Student Document Exporter.

Which is more likely? A company offering a cloud MIS not having expertise in running a cloud MIS, or a school offering fairly low wages having an expert in running an MIS? Expand that for cyber security. For resilience as well. The reality is the opposite of the things you wrote - you are far more likely to have downtime with an onsite system than a cloud one.

Parental consent for additional services has been needed for a while. For example, Youtube needs parental consent if people are logging into it, due to its use of the data for its own purposes such as advertising (and not simply to gain access).

We generally migrate people to the new Outlook whenever they report an issue with the old one now - most of the time, it is an issue with shared mailboxes (they are so unreliable with old Outlook, but seem to be pretty solid in new). There's a learning curve, but so far most people we've migrated seem to accept it. The reality is, Microsoft have long been sounding the end of old Outlook, so we'd be better to work on migrating everyone over sooner rather than it be a big shock and switch when the day does eventually come. The date I've heard is 2029 for the EOL.

I'd say you've needed 2 servers for at least a decade - as so much critical tech runs via your network. Having a single box means you risk downtime if it fails. Having 2 provides resilience. Which is why cloud tech is so useful, especially for primary schools that don't have the funds to run such setups. SIMS is not a cloud MIS - it isn't SaaS. It may be hosting on a cloud system (PaaS), and remote access provided via Remote Desktop or similar, but that doesn't make it a cloud MIS. Until it is entirely web based, it should be classed as an old-style MIS. For SIMS? Yes, you need a server for Wonde. But I'd say that its time to start looking at more modern options. When I moved my last employer from SIMS + its various add-ons to make it all functional, we saved 10s of thousands each year by moving to a true cloud MIS (which had most of those add-ons built in).

We have a Dell SAN, but I would advise to go a different route (I didn't buy it). The better route for schools these days is to spec out a system with HCI instead. At my last place, I bought 3 Dell servers from @ICTDirect_Dave, plus a bunch of brand new 4TB enterprise SSDs, and some HBA storage adapters (so not RAID), and then set up Windows HCI, using Storage Spaces Direct. It means you don't have to have an expensive SAN as all the data runs between the servers instead. You just need 10GbE or better for the networking side.

Only the smallest of schools would have SIMS run on the free version. Wonde doesn't require a dedicated machine if you're running a cloud MIS. Net2 would need some sort of server, sure, but it can work in the cloud if you have a VPN link set up (just like any other server that can use a VPN) AD is not a necessity these days - we only have it for ease of certain things. We could theoretically eliminate it entirely, and manage all our identity needs in Entra ID. None of our client devices are in it any more, and users sign in using Entra ID. File storage? We only have some here for our Mac suite - nothing else is hosted for storage onsite. And if you're following digital standards in education, you'd not just have "a" server - you'd have at least 2, with failover. So, immediately, your pricing is going up. Your points only really make sense in the case of tiny schools tbh.

I've run Fujitsu, HPE and Dell. Of the 3? Dell is my choice because of boot times alone. Our HPE units took *forever* to boot. The Dell's took a third of the time.

Yes... getting up to date firmware. Of course. I do wish we had some connect the classroom funding though, as it'd make my current work easier - putting together the business case for replacing all our switches and APs!

If it were done on IT need, they'd need a much bigger budget @DrCheese. Looking at my current school as an example. Our oldest switches are from 2008!

My thoughts exactly. Those Unifi prices, even with extended warranties, are double the RRP from Unifi. UI Care on those APs is £59 per unit (extending the warranty to 5 years). So, U6-Enterprise + 5 year warranty should be about £300 per devices, around £45,000.

The Unifi stuff comes to about £50k from those items listed, so "big chunk" is an understatement for the cabling! Your site must be really large to need single mode fibre too, as 10GbE on OM4 can go 400m.

My go to was Exa for years at my last place (in contract with others here at the moment). Great service, and helpful in general

You should name names, as that seems extremely odd. The big player in onsite MIS charges considerably more than any of the cloud MIS's from what I saw. We don't store any of those files onsite. They are all in a cloud solution, which the 2 main providers offer for free (Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace). Generally though, yes, you need some form of server onsite due to needing infrastructure at a minimum. But when you buy your servers you simply size them for the task in hand. Hosting an MIS onsite is not just a case of having it on a server you already own. The costs of running it onsite are considerable in terms of maintenance and licensing (eg. paying for an SQL Server license for the database). Do a proper TCO analysis, and the outcome very quickly swings away from onsite.

https://admin.microsoft.com/#/servicehealth/:/alerts/EX1036712 That's the URL. The site stripped the # and it became https://admin.microsoft.com//servicehealth/:/alerts/EX1036712 I re-edited the post and added it back in, and it seems to have stayed now.

I created the thread below last week. I copied and pasted the URL to the MS admin centre alert, but coming back to look at the thread today to grab the URL for someone, I found that the # had been stripped, rendering the link broken. I've edited and re-added it now, but thought I'd report it as a possible issue.

If anyone is having issues with emails being sent to you today and you use Exchange Online as part of Office 365, it seems they have an ongoing issue due to a failed migration. The symptoms are that when someone external emails you, they get a 550 5.7.64 TenantAttribution; Relay Access Denied error. This confused me a lot, as I couldn't figure out how external users were being treated as internal users trying to relay email.

Honestly, I would still question why you'd not run it on your virtualised infrastructure - you need to maintain the SBC system anyway, and putting it on its own physical box just reduces the redundancy you have in place (that box fails, you've lost your phones, vs one of your virtual hosts failing, the VM moves to another host and you've lost nothing). We run ours as a VM and it uses very little in terms of resources, and we run about 100 extensions. The VM is currently using 1.2GB RAM, and barely any CPU at all (in Vmware terms, 359Mhz of CPU).

I've always liked QNAP tbh. Reliable devices and their support is good too, if you need assistance with any of their apps on the box.

All virtual here, but we run 2 different server rooms, with 1 housing our proper cluster of 2 servers + SAN, and the other running our failover server which runs backups and a DC.

The All Activity page would function nicely as a replacement to iSpy if the auto update was a true auto update. At the moment, it appears to simply add a line saying there's new stuff that you have to manually click. Somehow being able to get it to just show the updated lines would vastly improve it.

Best method for this? Use a framework. No extra costs from the MIS providers with something like G Cloud. As its all listed right there up front.