gomalley

I wouldn't say years (at a guess from your post count) of experience with multiple different vendors is nothing to base it on - it is a good hypothesis - just a shame we can't test the theory!

If this is indeed the case then thank goodness there is only 1 more day till half term - and dear god hopefully that gives them enough time

Wow! Good luck - I've asked many a time about being notified about issues and been no offering from them

TES public website is back - guess they feel that is more important than our services!

Lucky you! I've raised their lack of comms so many times, and yet they obviously have a list they still email, just don't let you join! Can't believe I'm saying it but can't wait for our attendance to move to SIMS Next Gen at this point!

How did you get this - can't get them to notify us of a thing! Also - what on earth does "We expect everything to be back online as normal and as soon as possible." even mean?!?

So Seems I can't find a host that does both, maybe back to Krystal as @Edu-IT and @NokiX have said they support .sch.uk and then someone else for the .school ones.

Why is this so difficult - WebhostUK now say they cannot support .sch.uk (having initially said they could!), and neither can netristar. Anyone know a registrar (other than TSOHost or SWGfL) that supports .sch.uk domains, otherwise I will have to move the hosting to a new provider and leave the domains with TSOHost. Cheers

So Krystal don't support .school domains... http://www.webhostuk.co.uk as recommended by @maya currently looks like front runner

They scheduled it, I was happy where I was but they are apparently decommissioning the servers - not impressed with the hosting going from £50 to £160 pa either!

Just to add to this thread for anyone who finds the topic - I want to scream at TSOHost who migrated us to their new server on Saturday and both school sites I host with them have been down in one form or another since (into day 3 now). Looking at Krystal from comments above the free migration they offer seems good, as well as not the huge costs that TSO now want to charge me!

I don't like the idea of dump it all, there is far too much that people don't know they need until a certain time of year, that said we migrated our student facing shares in one weekend the week they closed schools as realised the remote access solution we had had a fault that no one had told us about and we hadn't seen. We have subsequently moved all student home drives and the staff shared drive also onto OneDrive/SharePoint. It was not without the odd glitch, but we did it without compromising security and as currently 98% plus of our users are remote it was the right thing to do to continue functioning (we are trying to support running a full virtual timetable!). That said I have a 200Mb on Gig bearer internet and 10Gig backbone around site with Gig to the desktop, with 2016 HyperV's, so will be increasing internet bandwidth on return but happy that our infrastructure is up to it, so we are in a very different position to you by the sounds of it, I'm lucky to have a school that has long understood the need to invest in IT infrastructure.

Can't say I've experienced it as we havn't forced password resets in a couple of years, current (even before COVID-19) best practice advice from the NCSC/GCHQ was not to force user password periodic resets, so it maybe easier to disable the expiration all together?

Just had a mailing from Crusader saying they are now the new home for the Rugged headphones Hills used to do - so good news there

I've now found that a GP with Scope filtered by security group seems to fail, but one with item level targeting on the actual Drive maps and "Authenticated Users" at the top level seems more reliable.