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We're using PowerBI and it's awesome. It's very easy to hook to different datasources and you can create some very nice looking and drillable dashboards with it. There are lots of resources out there teaching you how to use it. Personally I realy like the videos by guy in a cube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFp1vaKzpfvoGai0vE5VJ0w

I'd be surprised if your html folder is of any real size so you probably won't gain a huge ammount of space. However, if have your moodle set up with vhosts then edit /etc/apaches2/site-avaiable/sitename.conf Find the line 'DocumentRoot' and point this to the new folder location If you don't have a vhost (And you really should) then you shuld edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-defualt.conf and change the DocumentRoot there.

Hi You probably don't need to do any linking (I take it you mean symlinks). In the config.php just change the filepath to the moodle data folder to the new location. For the moodle folder itself change the apache config for the site to also point at the new file location and restart apache.

We are looking for a Senior Reporting & Systems Developer to provide high level support to the Business Intelligence Reporting & Systems Manager in the development, production and maintenance of proprietary and in-house reporting systems, taking responsibility for the continual development and maintenance of the Business Intelligence solution, including the College's data warehouse, all reporting, dashboards and any other component of the BI layer to ensure the business and curriculum needs of the College are met, in order to produce accurate reports and focused data sets that support the College's business intelligence strategy. More Details and apllication form here: https://cvminder.com/jobportal/cvmindervacancy.php?gid=30&jobid=15068&pk=9256482889965370053822241126233&preview=1&jobwrapper=1

I've used this in the past. Easy Hosting Control Panel | for Ubuntu and alikes...- Free Fast Opensource web hosting control panel for your server ** it's pretty simple to set up webspace and ftp for the students to upload stuff.

One of the things we did was to connect remotely to a machine with the modules on via PSsession. So for example connect to a hyperv scvm server and load the management modules from there. This stops you having to install them locally. Although the downside is that are then slower to run: # #make the credentionals $this.passwordSecure = $this.password|ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force $cred2 = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PsCredential($this.username, $this.passwordSecure) # # connect to the remove scvm server $this.session = New-PSSession -ComputerName $this.hypervHost -Credential $cred2 ## Load the scvm modules from the remote server Invoke-Command -Session $this.session {Import-Module -Name VirtualMachineManager} Import-PSSession -Session $this.session -Module VirtualMachineManager

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We are using SSRS combined with SSIS to create a datawarehouse. This is very complex to set up but done correctly you end up with nice neat de-normalised tables to report from. It also becomes reltivly easy to manage once the learning curve starts to flatten. I've also found the Apex SQL search plugin super useful when reverse engineering tables.

How about workplace join as a 4th option. This will give a level of control and let you map printers etc. You could then do sims as a terminal server or remote app as mentioned above.

So I have to ask. Skype for business replaced Lync. Why would you want to start with Lync and not the latest and greatest?

we use urbackup pretty sucessfully https://www.urbackup.org/

if you have the database credentials you could install phpmyadmin and use that to backup the DB whilst they might not have a control panel they must have s/ftp access to allow you to connection and put the files up there.

git is a version control system. It's used by programmers to work with code in teams and is pretty much an idustry standard. it's not an ide - but is often used with an IDE such visual studio. It a really good thing for students to get exposure to - we're just rolling it out here fro our students. It sounds like your HoC has some good plans for her students.

you can use bgcolor : January but you imho you really should use CSS. Things often start small and then grow.

Hello There have been debates here over the total cost of ownership for Macs Vs PCs. Googling around I could find some information about this from and enterprise perspective but I could find much for education. Does anyone have this that they could share? One argument that has been mooted is that Macs are better built and so break less - ie the hinges break less from continual opening and closing etc etc. I'm not sure I buy this at all. Dan

something like this can create that data: https://www.mockaroo.com/

I'm not familiar with sims. But would all the data that would be needed to extract be in the same place from school to school? If so it's just a case of writing a databridge that can pull data from Sims into the new system. Similar scripts could then be produced for each other system as needed. Assuming this is the case the next step would be to get the SQL together to extract and load this information.

Hello I'm part of the IT team at a college that is currently on it's journey to excellence after a few not so good Ofsted visits. As part of this the team have been having lots of discussions about o365, wireless, laptop provision, 1:1 devices etc etc. We're really keen to visit the IT department of an Ofsted outstanding FE college to see what the IT department and provision looks like in one of these institutions and give us some inspiration. Would anyone be up for a visit like this please?

Not thin clients but we've been using these for Xibo Beelink Z83 Windows 10 Mini PC x5-Z8350 2G/32G TV Box 4K 1000M 5G WiFi | eBay The work really well and are v cheap

Thanks to this post we were contacted by a member of lightspeed support. They organised a time with us to apply a patch to our lightspeed box and we now have it correctly generating sha256 certificates. So everything is awesome!

best bet is get down to the local market and buy up soft fruit. Esp strawberries Slice them up,lay flat on a tray and freeze them. Then put them into boxes. Then put a handful of strawbs, a dash of lemon juice and a good slug of vodka. Blitz and then top off with lemonade for a daiquiri. Also works really well with loganberries if you can get them. If you insist on being healthy then a handfull frozen strawbs, a small youghurt such as a bunch bunch, a handfull of oats, a bananna and top of with water.

I haven't been dealing with this directly but the support team seemed to imply that this is the just the way it is and there is no fix. The version 3 firmware might be it but when the techs here tried it they said it was horribly broken at the moment. This is tricky. The lightspeed box generates the replacement certificates. So the first time a user visits a https site a cert will be generated - so it will have a validity past 2015 and therefore trigger the warning. Also chrome version 42 was the version that implemented the warnings about sha1 - this was released in 2015, currently my chrome is on version 55. Chrome also auto updates - so installing a set version isn't so simple.

Hello We have recently set up our lightspeed to work in proxy mode - we are only proxying a select list of site. This is so that we can intercept https pages such as google searches to filter and report on them. However the lightspeed box seems to only be able to generate SHA1 certificates. SHA1 has been deprecated in Google Chrome so that if you go to a page with a SHA1 certificate it will flag up a warning message and show red in the URL. We are on the version 2 lightspeed firmware and don't want to have to go to version 3 as it's still in a release candidate state. Has anyone else seen this problem and do they have any strategy to deal with it? Any they just telling users to ignore it or is there some setting that we've missed. Dan

you can just schedule a backup and restore of the database via a script/cronjob

I assuming this must be a physical server. If it was virtual then I'd take is as an opportunity to build a fresh server with the lastest SQL that you can and shift your databases accros to it.