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I'm guessing it must be setup as Business. - Doesn't help I have never touch Google Workspaces until this morning Currently it is showing as G Suite Legacy - When I look at the upgrade options, under Get More Services - only Business Workspaces are available for switching. Under Google Workspace for Education - It shows an Not available to purchase. Thankfully there only 4 (including my new admin account) active on this workspace. Might have to get them to subscribe to Standard Business Workspace short term, while I look at possibly moving the domain name over to Office 365 and export mail from the gmail accounts. Unless there is a way to migrate everything over to an Educational Workspace.... Thanks for the help @paulkerton - it is very much appreciated

I have no idea, was done some time before my arrival - looking at the Admin Console, it was created Feb 2013, but doesn't tell me if Edu or Bus. - How can I find how it was setup? I've been here since Nov 2014 and up until last week, this was the first time I knew about this google workspace. Apparently, it was created with the intention of going down the google route, but then when Office 365 came around, they jump on this but the Finance department have been using it for some time and are reluctant to change, as they would need to change/inform lots of people. And now I'm getting a headache thinking, could I transfer the domain over to 365 and put various rules in place to the domain keeps working........

We have a Google workspace/domain - is was setup over 10 years ago and I have nothing to do with it but is used for just finance dept. We have a domain name assigned to it - again I have no dealing with this. We (finance) are now being promoted to choose between personal or business. As I’ve never used Google I need to ask a couple of questions. If they choose personal, I take it we won’t be able to managed account etc If using personal, they they still use the domain they have? I’m thinking choose business to be on the safe side but can someone more knowledgeable about Google let me know please. Cheers

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So after taking on board what people has mentioned. Tower Configuration - Maximum Dimension - 180 x 408 x 355 mm (WxDxH) Intel Core i5-11400 CPU (or equivalent CPU) 8 GB RAM (minimum capacity) 256 GB SSD or NVMe Drive (minimum capacity) TPM 2.0 PXE bootable Network Adapter 4 x USB 2.0 (Type A Connector) 4 x USB 3.1 Type A (2 front, 2 rear) 1 x VGA, DVI-D and HDMI Display outputs No optical drive Wired Keyboard & Mouse Windows 10/11 Pro/Education 5 Year Next Business Day Warranty How does this sound? Very hard to be generic, yet specifying what what I'm looking for. Cheers

16Gb isnt a bad shout to be fair - expecially when they are going to be using the machines for Visual Studio and Unity etc....

Ok.... for those who have used Cresent to get quotes....... it mentions Would this be the best way of putting details of the spec I am after? Tower Configuration (dimensions) Intel Core i5-11400 CPU (or equivalent CPU) 8 GB RAM (minimum capacity) 256 GB SSD or NVMe Drive (minimum capacity) Wired Keyboard & Mouse Windows 10/11 Pro/Education 5 year On-site Warranty Cheers

Looks like I'm going to have to do some reading on how to use Crescent......

Breaking away from buying Refurbs this year as need to look at hardware to run Windows 11 in preparation for 2025 and which will give me another another couple of years afterwards. The Spec I am looking at (an open to change) Intel Core i5-11400 CPU 8 GB RAM 256 GB SSD Windows 10/11 Who do people use for new hardware? I've sent feelers our to VeryPC Misco Stone Anyone else I should be looking at? Cheers

I'm looking to replace some old desktops with i5 Dell Optiplex 5060 - so I can start to meet Win11 specs.... but need to check with fellow edugeekers for help on the specs. CPU, Ram and SSD should be ok, but it the Graphics that I need help with...... We run Unity and Adobe Animate and Photoshop. I know Unity and Photoshop will be ok, but will the onboard Intel UHD Graphics 630 be up to handling the specs for Adobe Animate? Adobe Animate requires - OpenGL version 3.3 or higher (DirectX 12 with feature level 12_0 recommended) @ICTDirect_Dave - looking at your here Cheers Mark

Where do you get your rolls of fibre from?

Next question is do I go pre-terminated or buy a roll of fibre and find someone to terminate them….. Looks like I’m going to be sick at 300mb as the UniFi 10gb modules I have/use are only rated up to 300mb. Not the end of the world as I think the longest run will be approx 150m

I've slowly been replacing OM1 fibres with OM3 fibres on areas which have been easy to replace where they have from gone from Cab to Core, the last set I replaced before COVID. I have a situation where I have a fibre run where main set of fibres have been run from Cab A (Core) to Cab B. From there cables have been run from Cab B to Cab C and from Cab B to Cab D, where they have been patched back to Cab A (Core) I am looking to replace OM1 fibres with OM3/4 and I'm in a quandary - do I run the new fibres like the current fibre runs, or do I do a run from Cab A (Core) to each Cab? I'm inclined to do a run from Cab A (Core) to each individual Cab as in the current Fibre config, if anything happens to the run between A and B, then all the other Cabs are affected. Does this makes sense and a sensible approach? Hope that all makes sense.

Glad you got it working :-)

@vijayg I use SCCM to run an batch file to deploy Cubase 11, so should be the same... or at the very least could help you in some way. REM Cubase LE AI Elements 9 Installation BatchFile REM ------------------------------------------------------- ::01.eLicenserControlSetup certutil -addstore "TrustedPublisher" "\\SCCM\Applications\Cubase_Elements_11\01.eLicenserControlSetup\CubaseLicenseControl.cer" "\\SCCM\Applications\Cubase_Elements_11\01.eLicenserControlSetup\eLicenserControlSetup.exe" --mode unattended ::02.Steinberg_Library_Manager msiexec /i "\\SCCM\Applications\Cubase_Elements_11\02.Steinberg_Library_Manager\LibraryManager.msi" /qb ALLUSERS=1 /L*V "C:\Windows\Temp\_CB11_LibraryManager.log" ::03.Cubase LE AI Elements 11 msiexec /i "\\SCCM\Applications\Cubase_Elements_11\03.Cubase LE AI Elements 11\Additional Content\Installer\Cubase_LE_AI_Elements_11.msi" /qb ALLUSERS=1 /L*V "C:\Windows\Temp\_CB11_LE_AI_Elements_11.log" msiexec /i "\\SCCM\Applications\Cubase_Elements_11\03.Cubase LE AI Elements 11\Additional Content\Installer\Generic_Lower_Latency_ASIO_Driver_64bit.msi" /qb ALLUSERS=1 /L*V "C:\Windows\Temp\_CB11_Generic_Lower_Latency_ASIO_Driver.log" ::04.HALion Sonic SE 3.4.30 msiexec /i "\\SCCM\Applications\Cubase_Elements_11\04.HALion Sonic SE 3.4.30\HALionSonicSE.msi" /qb ALLUSERS=1 /L*V "C:\Windows\Temp\_CB11_HALionSonicSE.log" ::05.HALion_Sonic_SE_3_Content_Basic ::VST Files "C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Steinberg Library Manager\Steinberg Library Manager.exe" "\\SCCM\Applications\Cubase_Elements_11\05.HALion_Sonic_SE_3_Content_Basic" -unattended -autoclose -supportold -copyto "C:\ProgramData\Steinberg\Content\VST Sound" ::06.Groove Agent SE 5 msiexec /i "\\SCCM\Applications\Cubase_Elements_11\06.Groove_Agent_SE_5\GrooveAgentSE_64bit.msi" /qb ALLUSERS=1 /L*V "C:\Windows\Temp\_CB11_GrooveAgentSE.log" ::07.Groove_Agent_SE_5_Content ::VST Files "C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Steinberg Library Manager\Steinberg Library Manager.exe" "\\SCCM\Applications\Cubase_Elements_11\07.Groove_Agent_SE_5_Content" -unattended -autoclose -supportold -copyto "C:\ProgramData\Steinberg\Content\VST Sound" ::08.VST Sounds ::VST File "C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Steinberg Library Manager\Steinberg Library Manager.exe" "\\SCCM\Applications\Cubase_Elements_11\08.VST Sounds" -unattended -autoclose -supportold -copyto "C:\ProgramData\Steinberg\Content\VST Sound"

Thanks for all the replies - will give the Surface a miss this time around.

Thanks for the link - didnt think about looking on their site I'm not so much bothered about the processor as they will only be having Windows and Office 365 apps installed, so wont be intended for anything other than very basic usage. Currently have some Dell Latitude 3190 (thanks to the DFE) in a trolley and they work a treat, only downside is the 64Gb storage, but just enough for Windows and Office.

Just looking at laptops for a laptop trolley and the Surface Laptop SE has caught my eye - saw it at BETT and liked how most of the laptop parts are user changeble. Does anyone know if it will run the Full version of Windows 11 rather Windows 11 SE? Alternatively - Looking for suitable laptops around the £250 - £300 mark. It is only going to be used for basic office and internet usage - so doesnt have to be anything fancy. Cheers

I'm based in Manchester and have 45 x Nano HD Access Points. Been in since beginning of 2019 and had no major issues - other than a dodgy firmware release. Did take a couple of weeks to iron out some teething problems as no real support other than via forums, and we did it as a self install - so it depends if you need support etc. Have it setup with a Windows NPS authenticating users and then dynamically assigning them to a VLAN, depending if staff, student etc. Use the Guest Wifi with Portal for visitors and they grab single use Wifi codes from our office - as cannot assign Filter rules codes or people ont he guest Wifi, I have set the Guest Wifi to use Student Filtering Biggest issue is getting users to realise they need to install the Smoothwall certificate - as they never follow the guide. You cannot do anything fancy with the Unifi Setup as some "feature" require the Unifi Gateway, such as Traffic Insights, Bandwidth shaping, traffic blocking such as VPNs etc which I tried and it caused issues with Smoothwall. Price was our biggest factor - would I cosider looking at other vendors when I come to replace the Unifi APs Yes as different systems offer different things and also depends on what supprt is required. It is also worth noting that you will need some kind of Controller to Manager your APs - I have an Local VM running Ubuntu with their controller software, but they also offer Cloud Keys (which never used so cannot comment on them) Have for you to message and and arrange a visit if you want. Cheers Mark

I was hoping to print directly from Net2 and it do all the work.

Have done a SAR with Three, it has been 10 calendar days without so much of any acknowledgement of receiving the SAR. Is this normal? I have tried to chase it by asking if they have received it and cannot get a definitive Yes or No! All they have said is that after receiving the form and identification they will send a response within one calendar month and If I wanted, the complaints team I was on the phone to can complete the SAR on their side to make sure if has been sent - which I declined as I have already sent twice - both times asking for an acknowledment of receiveing the SAR. So - I am now left waiting!

Ahhh…. So if I went for a USB printer with built in read that should do the job. Well prefer to do it that way than to keep manually sorting cards :-)

Looking to replace out existing USB ID Card Printer (Zebra ZX Series 3) which has done well and is 5 years old. Ideally, I am looking for a network ID Card Printer which will also populate the card number into Net2 when printed. Do such printers exist? At the moment, we have the print the cards and then manually assign the cards - so ideally would like to slimeline if possible. Cheers

Just been taking a look at the live webfilter reports and I have been seeing Safeguarding Exclusions appearing in the Category column. Where do I find this list as woud like to what is included in this category. Cheers

Looks like rebooting the core switch has cured the issue! No idea what, why or how it got confused but at least it now working. Cheers