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I'm confused then. What's the point of Privacy Shield? I thought the whole point of it was that you could treat companies signed up to it as being deemed compliant with EU data protection rules for the purpose of handling data (obviously you'd then have to look at individual actions/behaviours on top but I'm talking in general). Telemetry can be turned off, so a blanket determination seems rather OTT also? Surely a determination "schools should be looking at and disabling telemetry where necessary" would be more appropriate? Office telemetry reg keys - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/compat/manage-the-privacy-of-data-monitored-by-telemetry-in-office Windows 10 telemetry - https://github.com/adolfintel/Windows10-Privacy Fundamentally, the ruling seems to be against US companies, rather than platforms. G Suite in the EU hosts its data in the EU, so ultimately the issue would come back to the company being owned by a US company. If this is the line the Germans are taking with US companies, I'm not sure how any US company can provide services to the EU at all and be compliant.

Not sure why they are talking about consent - as consent is only 1 of the legal bases for processing of data. Also, Office 365 is covered by the new privacy shield, which has yet to be struck down... So, not really sure about this at all!

It does look like they've almost standardised how they do this now. Took me months to get it sorted as it was passed from pillar to post for us!

Can I just ask what people think of as "expensive" btw? As its a relative term - putting our EAD PTP lines in was *cheap* for us compared to other options, for example.

Your options are: 1. VPN over existing connections (site to site, with routing rules on the core switch/edge routers to direct traffic to each site) 2. Get a point to point ethernet connection. A 1Gbps OpenReach ethernet extension should be less than £3k a year via pretty much any reseller - we use Exa 3. Replace both connections with a MPLS/VPLS with internet breakout or similar. We do number 2 - all our sites have one of those circuits back to our main site, then we have a normal leased line out to the net at the main site. We did number 1 originally. If you've got line of site, you could use something like an Airfibre wireless link. Or you could look at microwave links.

It all depends on your school's finance policy. In this case, you appear to have gone to tender in a law compliant way, so use of frameworks isn't relevant - using frameworks is generally when you don't need to tender at all (as they are already tendered to be on the framework agreement in the first place). When we do our MFP contracts, we generally just get quotes, but specify we want them under a framework (either CPC or CCS). Saves a lot of hassle.

I would always advise sticking to the officially supported editions of software when it comes to SIMS. You don't know what weirdness may happen and then you'll find yourself stuck if your support don't want to help because of it.

Personally, I'd go for something like the Nokia 5.

It might be about £82 - I've not finished this month yet. I'll be able to give an accurate picture at the end of next month. My figures for this month are skewed as I've been changing stuff so I did a 9.5TB upload over the last 4 days instead of the usual 1.5TB on a weekend. OK. So the billing system is confusing and doesn't really make sense to me. According to the metrics, I have 80.8TB of data in archive storage but for some reason they are only listing 24.95TB chargeable. So I'm a little confused by them!

This is the page for it - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/storage/blobs/ It is just storage. You have to figure out how to back up to it yourself - I use CloudBerry Ultimate, but there are other options.

Azure Archive Tier Blob Storage.

You pay for the storage you use - so, if your backup data totals 3TB, you pay for 3TB. If an incremental adds 200GB, you pay for 3.2TB that month. We don't use Azure Site Recovery - doing so would cost us about £750 a month to cover all our VMs, compared to £50pm for just storing data in blob storage (60+TB for that).

The article is not very good at all. This section in particular annoys me: We make up 2 of those schools that self reported, with no further action required. 1 report was due to a widespread phishing email scam that a number of staff had clicked on and logged into. No action was required as we had already disabled the accounts, had them checked, checked all machines for malware, changed passwords and then implemented a new training programme - all staff now undergo online phishing/gdpr/malware etc... training. The other one was a laptop that had been left on a pavement. The laptop was encrypted, but we weren't sure if the case also contained personal information that was printed out - the teacher wasn't sure if it contained reports and a diary. We reported it because it could potentially have been a breach. Luckily, we got the laptop back 2 days later as the person's neighbour had found it and got it back to her. No further action required because we got it all back and the case turned out to not have any personal data printed in it. Both were most definitely requiring reporting. We certainly didn't report prematurely, and the ICO were clear with that also.

We had a similar thread recently - http://www.edugeek.net/forums/cloud-services/207170-using-azure.html

Original iPad Air? Terrible idea. It is at the end of its support from Apple - it won't support iPadOS. You'll need a nano SIM I believe. But it should work, yes.

Aye, the ICO has a nice new set of sharp teeth now it seems!

All depends on your needs. If you only have a couple of Unifi devices, a cloud key will work fine. If you've got a lot more, then it would likely struggle. The sizing recommendations are: Gen 1 - 1000 connected clients on the network, 1 switch, 23 APs Gen 2 - 2000 connected clients on the network, 10 switches, 40 APs Gen 2 Plus - As Gen 2 but with ability to control cameras too. If, like us, you have more devices than that, you can look at: XG-Server - a rackmount appliance Running the controller in a VM/on your own hardware. If you overload a key, they will crash constantly. We moved to the XG server here. Been solid really.

This all comes down to what you use it for. If you spin up VMs, do video editing and the like, then a beefy machine isn't a bad thing to have. If you deal with a lot of people and need different software to open quickly so they're not kept waiting (and therefore reducing their T&L time) again, a beefy machine isn't a bad thing. If you don't need to do those things, and your current machine manages what you do without ever being an issue? No real need to update it. I'd say you probably wouldn't go wrong adding some more RAM to your machine though. 4GB is OK in user-land, but I find just having my "base" set of software open uses more than that these days.

Hmm... We get 5 hops: tracert 82.219.4.24 Tracing route to cache0.exa-networks.co.uk [82.219.4.24] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.20.4.1 2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.10.0.1 3 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms gw.mineheadmiddle.ce.exa.net.uk [82.219.52.142] 4 9 ms 6 ms 6 ms r2.lon-the.exa.net.uk [82.219.49.149] 5 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms cache0.exa-networks.co.uk [82.219.4.24] So core switch, sophos UTM, their router on our site, their router at their DC, then their cache. @Alis_Klar, you seem to have a device (100.126.54.254 in between your core and their supplier router adding 9ms to your connection times - I'd suggest that this is your issue. All the kit between an edge device and their router adds less than 1ms for me. @k-strider, it seems odd that the time between your core and their router varies so much, from 2-12ms? Can't give an explanation for the increased times on their kit though there.

No idea sorry. We've not used FMS here for 2 or 3 years now. So my memory is long gone.

The process is fairly simple - you do a backup, install it, and restore the backup. You don't need license keys etc... as they come across in the backup.

Interesting. For us, we see: >ping 82.219.4.24 Pinging 82.219.4.24 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 82.219.4.24: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=60 Reply from 82.219.4.24: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=60 Reply from 82.219.4.24: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=60 Reply from 82.219.4.24: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=60 Ping statistics for 82.219.4.24: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 6ms, Maximum = 7ms, Average = 6ms What traceroute do you get to that address?

The 75" MX275 is 165x92.8cm or 66.5x38 inches The 78" Promethean 500 Pro is 162x117cm or 63.9x46.3 So, the difference is 6 inches. I'd suggest that is down to the aspect ratio being different though to be honest (plus the 3" difference in diagonal size), as the ActivBoard is 16:10 (to match the popular for the time 1280x800 resolution of the matching projectors), but the SMART (and most touchscreens) are 16:9, to match the more modern 1366x768 or 1920x1080 aspect ratio used by most devices. If you found a 16:10 display or projector and board to project on, and projected at the modern resolutions, you'd just end up with black bars at the top and bottom anyway.

One of the reasons I went for this form factor was the 3 DisplayPort ports (wow that looks weird to write), and the ability to have a card reader and DVD writer built in. Covers all the bases I know I'll get asked to deal with, without having to scatter a bunch of USB devices all over my desk.

Nvidia Quadro P400.