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Has anyone got a definitive answer from Microsoft whether schools with EES can use Enterprise as an upgrade path from OEM Windows x, or do we have to use Education?

Just posting this here to see anyone else has had a problem with this. We're an all-age special, but the quote for Smoothwall with a server came in at over £8000! Now my finance team balked at this, and they want to fill the eSafety gap using Policy Central via the LEA. That only costs £600 a year. I've used PC before and it can be awful. Has anyone managed to get Smoothwall down a bit with the costs?

Hi Folks, Has anyone turned this feature on? How do you attach an AD account to an ePortal account? Most of our staff now have a random code. For example if I joined the school in the 1990s my code would be my initials such as MJP. Now the admin team are just assigning the next random code that is free such as BAW. Thanks

The bat file above doesn't seem to work. If you run it when logged on it records the info, but not automatically at logon.

No snapshots - just deleted the line from the .vmx and it works fine now. Thanks for the suggestion.

Cannot find anything about this online - best I can find it's related to how VMware deals with snapshots when the machine is off. Value "autoCommit" for variable "snapshot.action" is not a valid value Best I can think is when I upgraded the VM from 11 to 12 obsolete settings were left in the .vmx file - I assume if I back it up and remove the offending lines it should solve it? Not sure why I upgraded from 11 to 12 Pro - apart from it being the newest and best. Still with an edu license it was only £58!

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Seriously guys all the info I'm getting from my re-seller and a call to MS is that unless you choose the LTSB schools do not have the right under EES to use Windows 10 Enterprise. They have to use Education. At the end of the day instead of going round in circles I'd suggest you all email your re-sellers and get their advice in writing and stick to what they say. If you do end up with a BSA audit and you use 10 Enterprise, and they say you can't at least you have an email from your re-seller saying you can. Why would Microsoft release an Education SKU virtually the same as Enterprise and then let you use either? They know everyone would just choose Enterprise.

I've always had my Enterprise key. I just keep being told by my re-seller that I cannot use it, unless on LTSB

And if not how can you prove that what you do is secure? At the moment we do, purely because we had an SQL server running on staff laptops with student assessment data. That is now being sent the way of the dinosaur. Now I've been thinking that if: 1) All local profile directories are re-directed to their Home drive (Desktop, Downloads, Documents etc.) 2) They can't change those locations, and remove admin access to their user accounts and make them power users so they can install software, but nothing else 3) Encrypt offline files (already done) 4) 90% of the time staff at home use VPN to connect back to the network so 4a) We could remove offline files entirely and have staff only use VPN and only access files physically on our servers over a secure link Then if someone gets hold of their laptop they'd be unable to decrypt the encrypted offline files, so the data is secure. If the user left the laptop logged on and unlocked - well that's exactly the same if it's encrypted or not. Is there a hole somewhere I can't see between not being able to access the whole disc (with no student files stored outside of encrypted offline) and accessing the disc but not being able to logon and decrypt offline files. If I remember correctly all NTFS-Account tools can only change the password on local accounts - and a local admin account still can't decrypt those files. If all this is true, how can it be proved to Ofsted that it is safe when the holy grail at the moment is to encrypt everything?

I have a feeling this will be deleted, however, found a site with direct links to all the latest versions of HP's Integrated Lights-Out firmware: Latest HP ILO firmwares - PingTool.org Major help - even some of my registered and under warranty servers have problem coughing the iLO file up from HP

From t'other post I've got my head around it, and have emailed Capita for comment: OH! I see. It's not a CLEAN install of Enterprise on a home stickered machine, it's an INPLACE upgrade from Home to Enterprise. That's just assinie. Only small schools with no IT team or external support will benefit from this, and even then I doubt they'd run an in place upgrade they'd just run Home edition with local accounts. I've seen it done (They have AD accounts and just use mapped drives with that account!)

You can already with SA on EES buy a laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium and deploy Windows 7/8/10 Enterprise on it. It's always been one of the perks of SA. OH! I see. It's not a CLEAN install of Enterprise on a home stickered machine, it's an INPLACE upgrade from Home to Enterprise. That's just assinie. Only small schools with no IT team or external support will benefit from this, and even then I doubt they'd run an in place upgrade they'd just run Home edition with local accounts. I've seen it done (They have AD accounts and just use mapped drives with that account!)

Is there anyway from the O365 console or PowerShell to find out for example: If there is a Rule with a list of disallowed works which reject, or get send to a DSL for approval and email gets caught. To find out what word on the filter caused the block. I've tried everywhere. In the end I typed by block list into a Notepad++ extension and got it to scan a copy of the email in question. In the end it was the ass in class that did it. I forgot after updating the filters that ass and "ass" would do two completely different things!

Hey! I'm not arguing about it - I'm just passing along what Capita have received from Microsoft that EES customers have to use Education unless taking LTSB!

Actually thinking it through the change is actually quite clever. All those Windows XP hold outs like the NHS. Once they transfer to Windows 10, they choose the LTSB knowing that future upgrades will not ruin their code. Microsoft puts the problem on hold for a decade.

@Arthur If you want the LTSB use Enterprise LTSB (as there isn't an Education version), if you want the new release model then use Education instead of Enterprise. That is direct from MS. I just think they want their global stats to show which Enterprise installs are in Enterprise environments and which are in Education so they've fudged the licensing.

So really would it be better to use Enterprise LTSB to control the new features and prepare staff, or just assume each current branch release will not be a major change and just let WSUS kick it out?

More from them this morning - direct from Microsoft: “Windows 10 Education includes everything in Windows 10 Enterprise except for the Long Term Servicing Branch – which they can use Win 10 Ent bits from VLSC if required – therefore they should use Education version unless they specifically need the LTSB piece

From my EES reseller at Capita: You are entitled to the Enterprise version but Microsoft have changed the name of that to Windows 10 Education under volume agreements which hold software assurance (which yours does). The functionality is the same as Enterprise but a lot of the features are specific to education.

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Hah! Looks like I can't do an in situ upgrade from Windows 8 to 10 in VMware due to the graphics adapter not working. Which is odd as all the clean Windows 10 VMs I've built work just fine!

Yes it does work with .sch.uk Luckily we're about to be an effective FE education college. We have a cohort above Year 13 - this will be very useful for them when all the paperwork is sorted out. Thanks for posting it. Man we're getting big. Foundation stage (3yrs old) all the way up to 20 year old now!

Currently playing with EDU on a VM. No idea the difference yet ...?