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Cheers. Don't 'spose you're willing/able to share what you've set for DO in GP? Did you bother to create a Group ID or set any min/max values? Assume you've set the Download mode to LAN (1) only?

Thanks @jthompson. Which monitoring are you using for WU checks? Presume you're able to defer 'dodgy' updates etc, as usual? I'm not that fussed about using Azure for monitoring server updates (especially if I can do it on-prem for free), but I do want auto updates in rings on servers (just WUs, not feature updates or drivers etc), with the ability to pause a dodgy one, without having to use WSUS. If I can still achieve that with WUfB without a charge, then great! Out of interest, have you set up a caching server? We've got a couple of sites with over 1000 devices, so would make sense, even with 1GB synchronous bb.

Ugh. I've been looking at alternatives for WSUS patching for servers again this morning, and thought great - I'll use WUfB for clients and servers. But noooo MS now charge for ARC servers. We've a lot of on-prem servers across our Trust, so it's unaffordable to pay £3.71 a month per server. Thanks MS - perhaps the £80K I give you each year, isn't quite enough. Sticking with WSUS for servers seems to be the only option right now.

The Collegiate Trust is looking for an enthusiastic and committed IT Technician to join our IT team. We are a dynamic and supportive IT team, and a great team to be part of. We take pride in the support we offer our schools and enjoy working collaboratively with each other and others in the Trust. This role is 36 hours per week, 52 weeks per year (with 23 days paid annual leave plus bank holidays). What does the role involve? The main aim of this role is to provide high quality first line technical support across our schools. Members of the IT team are either based predominantly in one of the Trust schools, or travel to multiple schools to offer support, dependent on your skills, circumstances, the needs of the Trust and your own preferences. All schools are in the Croydon and Crawley areas and the main IT office is based in the Central Team offices at Riddlesdown Collegiate. You will assist in IT system service delivery, such as routine maintenance, upgrades and planned change. You will support IT systems, primarily in a Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace environment. Who are we looking for? The job description and person specification shown in the application pack will give you a good indication of who we are looking for, including the skills and experience that would make for our ideal candidate. Your customer service skills, ability to multi-task, prioritise and work within a small team in a busy environment are essential. As a Trust, we feel it is important to hire for the right attitude which is why we look for IT Technicians that are enthusiastic, focused and keen to support excellent educational outcomes for all our students. The Collegiate Trust The Collegiate Trust is a family of 8 schools, primary and secondary, located in the Croydon and Crawley areas, educating children and young people from 3-19 years of age with a clear vision to deliver exceptional education for all. The Central Team is mainly based at the founding school of the Trust, Riddlesdown Collegiate: a large, outstanding (OFSTED, March 2023) secondary school in Croydon with a longstanding reputation for high standards and an exceptional education. Benefits of Working with The Collegiate Trust We care about our staff’s health and wellbeing and offer a number of benefits that can be found on our website at Benefits of Working with TCT | The Collegiate Trust (tct-academies.org). We continually strive to improve our employee experience, ensuring staff wellbeing is at the forefront of our decision making. We offer generous holiday and salary opportunities, and are dedicated to ensuring professional development opportunities for all our staff. How to Apply For more information on what you will be doing, who we are looking for, and the Trust, please download our application pack at IT Technician Application Pack Feb 2024 To apply, please use the Application form on the TES website at IT Technician, Croydon and Crawley – Tes Jobs The Collegiate Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks. The Collegiate Trust is committed to equality, inclusion and diversity and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We are committed to providing a mutually supportive working environment where every individual is respected, valued and included.

It looks like OneDrive and SharePoint Tenant-to-Tenant migrations has been split out: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/cross-tenant-onedrive-migration?view=o365-worldwide But... Licensing Cross Tenant User Data Migration is available as an add-on to the following Microsoft 365 subscription plans for Enterprise Agreement customers. User licenses are per migration (onetime fee). Please contact your Microsoft account team for details. Microsoft 365 Business Basic/Business Standard/Business Premium/F1/F3/E3/A3/E5/A5; Office 365 F3/E1/A1/E3/A3/E5/A5; Exchange Online; SharePoint Online; OneDrive for Business. Double-but: Our MS licensing provider says: "We spoke with them about this on Friday, the cross tenant user data migration is only available for Enterprise Agreement customers now."

Seems Microsoft have shut out MATs/schools from using any tenant-to-tenant sharepoint migrations. They've removed the ability to use Mover.io The Cross-tenant SharePoint migration page suggests a licence is now required, but having a chat with our Microsoft licensing provider, they are telling me that Microsoft will only provide this to enterprise, not education. Therefore, I can only assume that the only way I've now got left to do a Sharepoint and OneDrive cross-tenant migration for a secondary school next week, is to purchase a 3rd party product/service. Poor show from MS! Why remove the ability to use a cross-tenant tool before the new one is ready? Mover.io still allows from on-prem and 3rd party, it's just cross-tenant that is no longer possible for free (or even the ability to purchase a licence from MS).

I'm looking for a full-time experienced System Administrator, minimum salary £37K to work in our MAT. Primarily based in Riddlesdown and Woodcote in the Purley area, south of Croydon. Required ASAP. Job info: https://tct-academies.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Information-for-Applicants_IT-Systems-Administrator.pdf Apply: https://tct-academies.org/vacancies/

I am seeking an IT Technician to work in our MAT of 2 secondaries and 5 primaries in the Croydon and Crawley areas. This is a full time position, 52 weeks, 36 hours per week. Salary £29-£31K Information Pack Application Form

I'm looking to appoint an IT Technician to work in our 5 primary schools in Crawley, Selsdon and Kenley as part of an enterprise level IT System. This is a full time, permanent position and direct employment with the MAT. £26-28K (Pay award pending 1/9/22) Immediate start Closing date 12/09/2022 https://tct-academies.org/vacancies/it-technician/

IT Technician required immediately to work in our 5 primary schools in Crawley and Selsdon/Kenley. You will be providing face to face & remote support to staff and students at all levels, acting as the first response technician - responding via IT Helpdesk tickets, phone calls and in-person requests. You will be part of the IT Systems Team, reporting to the Director of IT, providing in-house technical support & systems across a MAT with 5 primaries & 2 secondaries. The Collegiate Trust operates a Microsoft Windows environment with industry standard management tools and frequent use of cloud systems including Office 365 and Google Suite. This is a full time position, 36 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. You will be expected to generally report to 1 or 2 schools a day. This will either be in Crawley or Selsdon/Kenley on a rotating basis. Travel between Crawley/South Croydon regions on the same day is only in exceptional circumstances. It is highly desirable that candidates will have a full UK driving licence and their own vehicle. A mileage allowance can be claimed when travelling between sites on the same day. Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. Candidates may progress to an online technical assessment. Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete an application form on our website: https://tct-academies.org/vacancies/it-technician/ All appointments are subject to references and checks. Further information can be found in the information pack, here: https://tct-academies.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Information-for-Applicants_IT-Technician.pdf

I guess I'm interested in what Arbor etc doesn't do compared to SIMS; Or perhaps doesn't do very well. I'm not too worried about things like student/staff data at this stage because that's so basic and bread and butter... Thinking more like timetable, options, reporting (as in student reports/profiles/assessment), exams, etc. The peripheral parts of SIMS particularly (e.g. Nova-T, exams, Online Options). I've already asked Salamander, Wonde, Groupcall, ParentPay etc what MIS systems they support - looks like pretty much all the 3rd party stuff we use will work with the main MIS competitors.

Hi, apologies if someone's already asked this... Has anyone done a comparison (matrix) of the main features between SIMS/Arbor/Bromcom etc that they'd be willing to share? Saves reinventing the wheel.

I'm seeking a full time IT Technician to join my team to provide on-site and remote technical support for our primary academies in our Multi Academy Trust based in the South Croydon and Crawley areas. This position is available immediately. Closing date 27th July 2021 Applicants should read the full information pack here: https://tct-academies.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Information-for-Applicants_IT-Technician.pdf Application form here: https://tct-academies.org/vacancies/it-technician/

We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated and skilled IT Technician to join the IT Systems team, supporting 6 academies across Croydon and Crawley. Your ability and experience in providing outstanding support to leaders, staff, students and other members of the team is crucial, with a particular emphasis on hardware, software and systems support in Microsoft Windows and Azure environments. Your customer service skills, ability to multi-task, prioritise and work within a small team in a busy environment are essential. You will report to the Director of IT and provide a pro-active, key role in maintaining a wide-range of IT hardware and systems to ensure a high quality & robust service is maintained at all times. This is a full-time position, primarily based in Purley, with travel to other sites as required. See full information and apply on our website: Vacancies | The Collegiate Trust Closing date: 31st May 2021.

IT Systems Administrator required ASAP at The Collegiate Trust based in Purley, South London. £34-35k We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated and skilled System Administrator to join the IT Systems team, supporting 6 academies across Croydon and Crawley. Your ability and experience to provide first, second & third line support to leaders, staff, students and other members of the team is crucial, with a particular emphasis on managing Microsoft systems including AD, SCCM & Azure. Your customer service skills, ability to multi-task, prioritise and work within a small team in a busy environment are essential. You will report to the Director of IT and provide a pro-active, key role in maintaining and developing a wide-range of IT systems to ensure a high quality & robust service is maintained at all times. This is a full-time position, primarily based in Purley, with travel to other sites as required. For more information and to apply, please complete the form on our website https://tct-academies.org/vacancies/

As there's a couple of relevant threads about the same issue, please see my post here: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/office-software/215576-office-365-device-based-activation-confirmed-no-longer-activating-2.html#post1845317 (We already have 'unlimited' Office 365 A1 Pro Plus licences which were added a few years ago FOC and have pushed out O365 using Shared Device Activation successfully at no further cost - so if you have these already, you're set.)

In addition to the above... We have successfully deployed Office 365 via SCCM using OCT and changing the configuration.xml file to include: . When a user loads an O365 app and has Office 365 A1 Pro Plus assigned to them, Office 365 apps will automatically activate for them. It does not count towards their device count (as expected with SCL). When a user loads an O365 app who is not licensed, it will ask them to sign in to O365. This does mean we need to ensure all of our test, temporary, exam, assessment, cover staff, etc accounts will all need to be licensed. Technically this isn't an issue as O365 Pro A1 Pro Plus is 'unlimited' (it is limited but something like 300,000 iirc) - so may just be an issue with the terms of the MS licensing itself - I've not checked yet. We were previously deploying 1906 as DBA was stable. We deployed 2005 with SCL and it works fine. So it appears, if you managed to get Microsoft to add the A1 Pro Plus licenses (linked to the self sign up for O365 previously), which was quite a chore and pretty difficult, then you can technically activate O365 apps using Shared Computer Licensing. The other benefit is Edge Chromium is now sync'ing nicely. Next job is to migrate from ADFS to Azure AD SSO auth.

This is an interesting article... https://contosoedu.com/deploying-office-365-proplus-device-based-subscription-for-edu/ Currently following it and got to the end of part 4. I did assign the licence to the group in Azure AD Portal as it appears MS have changed this since the article was written. I assigned the dynamic group for devices to Office 365 A1 Pro Plus Faculty (unlimited) which we already had assigned to our tenant a few years ago. I recently migrated all 6 of our sites in to a single Trust-wide O365 tenant and single AD forest so this helps. We're going to try a new OCT step in our SCCM build TS. I've made changes to Azure AD Sync & ADFS as per https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/devices/hybrid-azuread-join-federated-domains Devices are now starting to show up as Hybrid Azure AD joined.

To clarify... This is with an OVS-ES agreement, with Azure AD joined devices, users with Office 365 A1 Pro (not M365 A3 etc) and Office 365 deployed via SCCM? No "Microsoft 365" SKU or EES?

Does anyone know if you can use the Shared Computer Activation with the "Office 365 A1 Plus for Faculty / Student" SKU? (the ones which say are 'unlimited' in the GUI, that have always been hard to get MS to apply).

I'm putting £2 e/w on Steve Ainsley not being real, or at least not working at Capita (this morning).

https://who.is/whois/capitasoftware.com Domain is owned by Capita and has been for a couple of years. Although... Information Updated: 2020-01-21 13:17:47 Could still be spoofed.

We are looking to appoint an IT Technician to work in our 6 school MAT in Crawley, Purley and Sanderstead. This position is full time and required immediately. Salary is £25,000 to £27,341. The starting salary is negotiable based on experience. For further information, please see the job pack, here: https://tct-academies.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IT-Technician-November-2018.pdf ALL applications must be made on our website, here: https://tct-academies.org/vacancies/it-technician/ If you have any questions please feel free to PM me.

Good point, I've raised that internally and we're looking to change the interview date.

We are looking for a Data/MIS officer to work in our Academy Trust schools in the Sanderstead and Purley area, with some travel to Crawley. Required for September 2018. £28,614-£31,111. Full details can be found on our website: https://www.tct-academies.org/vacancies?title=Data%20%26%20MIS%20Officer Please note that all applications must be made through our website form only.