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Primary here. I'm looking at how to secure SIMS logons given to supply teachers. At the moment the office gives the supply a card with a domain logon and SIMS7 will open as it uses trusted auth. Now with the move to SIMS NG I have made a supply logon but if the office gives that out the supply will have the details they could use at home whereas SIMS7 will only work on-site. The obvious solution is the NG password gets changed after each supply teacher but what's the likelihood of the office changing it or telling me there is a supply in. How do other schools handle this?

We have used Eset AV for many years and always found it works well. We use Eset Endpoint Security with an Eset on-prem server although just to confuse matters Eset Endpoint Security is now called Eset Protect Entry. Eset have another AV called Eset Protect Advanced which does all sorts of wonderful stuff but we have never used it https://www.eset.com/int/business/offering-overview/ Our renewal is due soon and our Eset reseller has given us pricing for both Eset Protect Entry and Eset Protect Advanced. Apparently 80% of schools that use Eset AV are using Protect Advanced so wondering if this is true or a sales pitch?

When opening Google admin there is a notice that says Is this something new? Most of the apps we don't use anyway but there are a few apps we do use, namely CS First, Chrome Web Store, Google Play and Google Maps. Being a primary I'm not too sure how to go forward with this. Any advice?

Yes, I used scripting in the end and initial testing shows it works, just need to tweak the code a little bit more.

That’s a shame as used to enjoy watching skiing on a Sunday afternoon

When using Google Forms is there a way to have the contents of the form emailed instead of just the notification when the form is submitted? Thanks.

I was using an iPhone but in the end I tried adding the iPad with a code and that worked.

I’m trying to add an iPad to our Apple School Manager using the Apple Configurator app. I get the iPad to the WiFi screen and scan the spinning dots with the configurator app. It looks like it’s working but the iPad gets stuck on adding iPad screen which it stays on for a few minutes before giving the error. Any ideas?

Seems the KMS server just needed activating again using cscript C:\Windows\System32\slmgr.vbs /act F3D89BBF-C0EC-47CE-A8FA-E5A5F97E447F

Our KMS has stopped activating clients and I'm unsure why. We have a mix of Office 2021 LTSC and Office 2024 LTSC but as the older versions pass my desk they get upgraded to 2024. This morning I upgraded another laptop to 2024 LTSC and it didn't activate so on checking the KMS server both Office 2021 and Office 2024 have the status of unlicenced. Windows server and Office 2019 is still licenced though. What would cause this and what is the best way forward to resolve it? Thanks.

Any update on this and we are in the same boat?

We were all ready to move then the head changed his mind and wanted to stay with SIMS after all.

We only have 1 Inventry screen here but I block it from connecting to TeamViewer at the firewall unless I need Inventry support to remote in as like others have said their support has dropped since they outsourced.

We backup each night to NAS and have 2 USB encrypted drives that get taken offside and alternately 1 gets bought in for a weekly backup

Yes you are correct. The address needed to change passwords is id.sims.co.uk which is nowhere near the address used for registers home.sims.co.uk/registers I’ve added the register address to the teacher start menu but looks like I’m going to need the change password address too. It wouldn’t be so bad if there was I link from the register page but there isn’t. Interesting to hear you can use 365 integrated auth with NG as wasn’t aware of that and a good call. It would have saved a lot of headaches if I had known.