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West Somerset Academies Trust are looking for a Senior IT Technician to join our small and busy team. The Trust is based in the beautiful area of West Somerset, taking in both Exmoor and the Quantock Hills. We provide centralised IT services to our 6 schools and 4 nurseries, across 7 sites. The job itself will be based at Danesfield Church of England Middle School in Williton. Details can be found here:https://www.indeed.co.uk/cmp/West-Somerset-Academies-Trust/jobs/Senior-Ict-Technician-c107542b527d67ef?sjdu=QwrRXKrqZ3CNX5W-O9jEvVjzixLraRFpLqkTTrefsU00VWaqSQga0sG5eM2VY9CNfBkn3a1eDCgBzvhaOGNIlBYVBW9so0LcLm19pwvIR-k&tk=1ddqki56k97gj803&adid=298684628&vjs=3 or Trust-Wide Positions | West Somerset Academies Trust Any questions, feel free to PM me!

No real point in going domestic style to be honest. 49" commercial screen is £444 (https://www.avpartsmaster.co.uk/p-81727-samsung-lh49dcjplgc-signage-display-1245-cm-49-led-full-hd-digital-signage-flat-panel-bla.aspx). Though, the price increases rapidly with size. 65" commercial is £1050 at least.

We use ParentMail - the more texts we pre-buy, the cheaper they are. However, the idea of using a "do it yourself" solution has a few pitfalls - 1. A normal contract will likely get very upset at you if you keep sending bulk messages out on it, and I would hazard a guess they usually include a clause disallowing this. 2. You get what you pay for with texts - there's different levels of delivery priority. If you want your text delivered immediately, it will cost more than a cheaper "whenever" text. Telling whether an SMS was delivered is all well and good, but it doesn't change point 2 above.

How much does FastVue cost? It looks like it'd be costly...

If your friend is insistent on RDP, you could implement it in Azure for about £160pm (1 DC, 1 VM for RD Gateway/Web, 1 VM for connection broker/licensing, then 1 VM for session hosts). That's the MS recommended set up anyway - you can scale it by adding more RDSH hosts if you need them in the future. That'd be pay as you go with standard support. If you go for 1 year reserved, it knocks £60 off the price per month. 3 years reserved brings it down to about £70pm. Add the cost of Office on top of that - I'd go with Office 365 anyway, and use OneDrive as the storage for your users. Your other option would be to use Windows VDI in Azure instead. That way you spin up individual VMs for end users on demand, though that's still in preview and not a released product yet.

This is exactly what we do at the moment too - we have 4 feeds going to a screen from unifi CCTV cameras. Think its a 3B+ we're running.

That was my first thought lol

Seems there is something going on with the internet today - large swathes of services are down or slow etc... Cloudflare are reporting a "routing leak". Anyone else seeing this? https://downdetector.co.uk/ is showing a nice grid of services experiencing issues.

Yeah, my guess is you may have confused it with incorrect settings when connecting? Have you tried restarting it and connecting using the settings in the manual on the page you linked @Jcx500?

Can't really help without the details to be honest - every switch is different. Also, had never heard of Edgecore before!

What make/model switch?

Could you spin up a cheap VM in Azure or AWS and use their storage as a back-end for it? Can scale according to use then, and don't need to buy a box.

What do you mean by this? Do you mean so you have someone on the end of a phone if things go wrong? If so, there are companies that offer support for 3CX. There's even some that host it for you. I know one company that charges £38pm for the 8 concurrent call version, plus your SIP trunks/calls on top.

Personally, I would do ethernet over power to the inside of that wall nearest the outbuilding, then use an Ubiquiti NanoBeam to do the link between the buildings. They are super cheap. Depending on what you then want the other end, any cheap wireless AP would do the job. The M5 16dBi models are about £55 each (with your needing 2). You can get a simple AP to cover the internal area of the outbuilding for £30 - something like a TP-Link WA910ND. We used to use this sort of setup for a portable classroom that was about the same distance away. (Though we used a Ruckus AP inside the building)

What sort of distance are you talking here? And what're the walls of the building you need connectivity in made of?

Cloudberry copies the Veeam backups separately. Not the most elegant solution but it is so very cheap.

We back up to a local NAS with Veeam, than back up the last 30 days (rolling) to Azure with Cloudberry Ultimate. This also allows us to set a "delete old backups after" time, so we can set that to 180 days, to ensure we don't get hit by the "you stored it for less time" charges with Archive tier storage. We currently have 62TB of data in our backup storage on Azure.

With modern networking? You'll barely notice it in the stats. 1080p/30 fps is between 3Mbps and 6Mbps depending on camera and how they do things. You'd need 166 cameras to saturate a 1Gbps link. Not many schools running that many. They're usually spread out too, so not all on one link somewhere.

One of the many reasons we're going Google to be honest. The plan is over the next 5 years roll out Chromebooks to all on a 1:1 basis, and migrate general files etc into Google apps. We also have a soft goal of getting rid of onsite servers in 2 years. Or, at the least, not replacing our current ones and making them last until we're fully "cloudy". Our licensing is about £18k this year.

Well, no, not really. None of the services run in the way you describe, with config and data kept in nice tidy locations easy to split out etc... and I highly suspect that Microsoft won't be rearchitecting all their service to mimic the way Linux services store their configs, when they want people to use native Azure services instead. That's kinda my point really - you're proposing that people basically rebuild their networks in a much more complex way to save money if moving to the cloud, when they'd be more simply served with native services and a hybrid solution. Your way requires a lot more technical expertise and more management time keeping it all running than schools do even if they run it all in house on servers now. Containers are great for services that scale - that's what they're for. But schools don't need scale. We don't need to grow from 1 to 20 apache servers and then back down. We run a couple of DNS servers, a print server, etc... My advice is to follow the KISS principle - if there is a native cloud application that does what you need, use that. If there isn't, host it internally on the cheapest server you can get away with until there is a native cloud application that does it.

This all sounds like Linux stuff to be honest, when most schools run Windows for everything. So, if you were going to make a huge jump from Windows to Linux, you'd more realistically make the jump to SaaS and PaaS stuff instead of building your own. There will be very few schools who would do what you have listed. And forgoing Capita support for SIMS would be a major no-no, as SIMS is so important from a safeguarding and data protection POV. Support is a necessity. Lamp? Why not just use the native web hosting plans with Azure, and native Mysql hosting? Radius I can see, as there doesn't appear to be a native radius service in Azure as yet. DHCP? Not sure of the value of that - its one of the few things you'd leave on-site. DNS, Azure Private DNS, etc...

You get a little bit of discount - think we pay £73.50 for £80 of credit IIRC.

We buy credit via an MS reseller, and pay as we go.

I'm just trying to think of any service in use in a school that would work in containers like this, and I'm struggling to think of any...