RobFuller

What insurance cover from your drones and operators are you using within your school's?

I was under the impression if you where using a drone for business, and would have thought an employee of a school would class as such, they needed to have a PfCO (Permissions for Commercial Operations) license and appropriate insurance.

Is that meeting room (full) or common phone (basic)?

Do you have to purchase licences for your command area phones inaddtion to users licences?

@Tefters is that anyNode costing just hosting or the software licence as well? If Im looking at 200 users this is adding up very fast lol, had a recent quote from a Teams Direct Routing partner, £1k per month (inc calls) before phone system licence.

Struggling to find any reseller to give me a price on the license other than a uni indicating they pay around £2 a seat.

I couldn't get Solus working over DA, in the end I used a in-house written application which runs as a shutdown script to execute SIMSLoad.exe I get my staff to reboot there laptops to apply any SIMS release (just done the Spring 2020 update and this worked fine on nearly 200 laptops remotely! I might look at streamlining this into SCCM so I can avoid the reboot.

I will PM you, cheers!

@ass17 can't get the Override_Option_ADGroup to work. Tried making the group without spaces added and removed the membership but I cannot get it to override a default disable spell check. Any advice? Thought now is as good time as any to make these changes I've been waiting to do! 😁

We have some students who are hearing impaired so voice only isn't really ideal. Our normal policy for everyone else is no 1-2-1 or video calls.

Interested in point 2 if you find the answer.

Why can you not apply this per group Microsoft instead of individually.

When applying policies, can you apply to a group or do you have to apply to individual users? I know can be done en-mass but I want to avoid repeatedly applying the setting to new students and applying to the group would make this automatic. Interested to know how others are doing it. Thanks

I'm in the exact same position as yourself @localzuk re-writing our DA plan and trying to work out the best "temporary" recovery location for our data. Cloud hosting makes the most sense and TBC to get such a quick recovery in a total disaster I don't think £5k per month would be a balking point for us, given this would only be a temporary arrangement until on-site facilities were ready to takeover.

Just doing the very same thing now, looking forward to the future update where you can use it for lesson marks. Our SLT are keen for this for Sixth Form study periods so they have an attendance register but without the staffing cost.

Yes they can

No worries cheers

Do people have any issues using the seating planner? We are have real issues with getting larger rooms to fit onto the screen and fitting all the information on? Its ok if you use a high resolution monitor. I'm pushing to rid us of SMHW and this is the last bit that isn't up to scratch for us yet that's holding the project back. Otherwise very please with the whole product and the support!

So it does support networking via the USB>Lightning cable or do you need another adaptor like @Brimstone posted?

I've found cheap PoE power adaptors no problem, plenty, just trying to combine the two.

Installing a couple of fixed iPads (yes in robust mounts) for a Sixth Form and Visitor registration project. Looking for a PoE adaptor that both powers and also offers ethernet so I don't have to worry about WiFi signal strength and as they are fixed locations make sense to hardwire. Plus the locations don't have power sockets nearby so PoE will make it cheaper even factoring in an adaptor cost! Found this which is perfect https://www.poetexas.com/collections/all-products/products/gaf-lightning-p-d but just getting it shipped to UK. Wondered if anyone else has used or got anything recommendations?

That's good to know! I was of the understanding it used the alternative band that your device was connected to for infrastructure mode?

If you want to stick to Miracast as your display technology of choice you'll need something and devices that support the 5GHz band rather than the limited 2.4Ghz range which I think the Microsoft adaptor only support. We use ActionTec as they support touchscreens wirelessly which was a game changer for us but you'll need the 960 series or better to have 5GHz. https://www.screenbeam.com/products/screenbeam-960/

OBS Open Broadcaster Software live streams into Microsoft Stream now, not done it myself but if you have O365 tenant another 'free' option.

Did you find a solution to this, looking to migrate to IDstore to automate this information flow from SIMS into Impact so would love to know it this works. Thanks