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I ditched sky last year, after 17 years of being a subscriber. Ended up getting an AppleTV box and a nowtv subscription. It's been great. Only channel that is utter crap on streaming is ITV because their platform is a pile of junk, everything else has worked really well though. If you want a decent TV guide then EE have an option for that using the apple tv box.

Zabbix, screenshot of my dashboard attached as an example of what I'm monitoring. Screenshot taken out of hours so all the figures are low, surprised there's still 80 live users on sophos at nearly 6pm though lol The honeycomb highlights red if uptime goes over 1 month (suggesting windows update automation hasn't gone ahead or delayed). Orange for uptime under 12 hours so that anything that's rebooted recently is highlighted. Zabbix agent is installed on all VMs and hosts, flags up any services that are set to Automatic startup if they're stopped etc. I stick to the LTS version, 8.0 should be out soon hopefully, looking forward to new features.

https://www.eteach.com/job/ict-technician-1552994 ICT Technician (32.5 hours per week) Grade 4 Points 7 - 10 £26,403 - £27,694 per annum, pro rata Actual annual salary £23,191 - £24,325 32.5 hours a week, all year round Closing date: Thursday 4 June 2026 Start date: Monday 3 August 2026

We've got a bunch of Epson WorkForce Pro wf-c529r printers. They're great. Make sure you get an agreement with your print provider that they'll supply the XL ink bags and you'll find toner (ink) replacements a rare old thing, they last aggggees. Jamming is incredibly rare too. If you only buy the ultra cheap super recycled paper that's 65-75gsm though them print quality can be crap. They really benefit from better paper 80gsm+.

As a past senso user (not V2, can't comment on that, but I know another user who is desperate to get away...) classroom cloud is significantly better. They've got a handy technician tool coming soon too, had a brief demo of it at Bett.

Did mine last year, similar size and scale. Tried StarWind V2V converter but Veeam seemed to be the easier and better method. Once the server(s) are setup and happy, process was as simple as: Shutdown, backup, restore one by one. Uninstall VMware tools (There's a handy removal script here: Force removal of VMware Tools, Program Files, and Windows Services · GitHub ), cleanup any old devices from device manager (show hidden devices), reboot, job done.

Haha my colleague did exactly the same thing. In his hands for no more than 5 seconds before spraying it in his face. Fortunately he wears glasses so it helped give them a clean. Two days on, already worn both my pairs of verypc socks 😁

Switchshop. I was impressed, the switchshop chap spotted my name on my badge and remembered what I had ordered....a year ago! I think I've only ordered from them once too.

The small rectangular thing? Its a screen cleaner. Microfiber on one side, press top and cleaner sprays out 😁

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I'm still using STAS with workstation polling method set to WMI and it's working ok right now, i've just tested a Windows 11 25H2 machine (fresh image from MECM). The wmic.exe tool has been removed but the WMI service still works so it should be fine?

Yeastar may be owned by a Chinese company but so are Yealink and we're using their handsets everywhere (Many of us are) without concern. The PBX would be on prem or in a UK datacenter depending on which route you take, so it's not like I'm asking the Chinese government to host it in their datacenter

Seen a LOT of negativity over 3CX on reddit in the past few weeks. 3CX have also changed their pricing structure: 3CX Pricelist for PRO and Enterprise Editions with new maximum extension limits. Been looking at getting EdTechPro as our staff had a look and really liked it, was leaning towards 3CX but now i'm looking much more deeply at Yeastar.

Works well here, can't say i've seen that issue, but as psydii says, make sure you're not using SSSO. That's only required for legacy OS's. For reference, my edge Computer and User policies attached incase it's of any help. (Haven't actually looked at my user settings in quite a while, probably need a tweak....but what isn't broken etc etc) EDIT: Oh i cut off the "User Configuration bar, the bottom image is user)

Our careers lady is also our social media lady, she deals with the school twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, advertisements in local papers or banners advertising school events.

3CX are the go-to for most. Affordable, easy to manage etc. I keep meaning to look at moving to it, but it's not high on my list as my current system works perfectly fine and costs me nothing... Running FreePBX currently.. You can spin up FreePBX within minutes, connect your SIP trunk and register phones and be off and running in no time for £0.

We do the entirety of the CCTV (70 cameras, will max out at about 85 by the time we're finished) and we manage the doors and door access (Paxton Net2). We have a badge printer, take staff and student photos (excluding Y7/Y10 professional ones) and manage the sign in system (Signinapp) Site budget just pays for new doors to be added or costs of repairs. IT pays for install of network points to them.

Heard nothing but complaints about Senso V2 so far. Meanwhile, we're quite a happy customer personally with netsupports Classroom.cloud if you're after another cloud based alternative ... used to be with Senso. Not perfect, but better, and improving over time.

Sign in app have an option to read "net2" as a format these days. On the setup they can read 10 digit dec, 8 digit dec, hex or net2. I got sign in app tap this summer and i'm using the number read by Net2, plonking that in to an AD field and papercut and sign in app are using that same number. Only downside is the need to manually put the card numbers into AD after scanning them to net2, but at least the number is the same everywhere, no need to convert anything.

Anyone managed to successfully get new outlook (the UWA app version) as a pinned icon on the taskbar? I've got the following line for it in my xml: <taskbar:UWA AppUserModelID="Microsoft.OutlookForWindows_8wekyb3d8bbwe!Microsoft.OutlookforWindows" /> However sometimes it pins with a blank icon and works, and on some PCs it pins as a blank icon and doesn't even work. My entire xml for the taskbar pins for staff: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LayoutModificationTemplate xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/LayoutModification" xmlns:defaultlayout="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout" xmlns:start="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/StartLayout" xmlns:taskbar="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/TaskbarLayout" Version="1"> <CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection> <defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout> <taskbar:TaskbarPinList> <taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationID="Microsoft.Windows.Explorer"/> <taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationID="MSEdge"/> <taskbar:UWA AppUserModelID="Microsoft.OutlookForWindows_8wekyb3d8bbwe!Microsoft.OutlookforWindows" /> <taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationLinkPath="%programdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Word.lnk" /> <taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationLinkPath="%programdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Excel.lnk" /> <taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationLinkPath="%programdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\PowerPoint.lnk" /> <taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationLinkPath="%programdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\SIMS Applications\SIMS .net.LNK" /> </taskbar:TaskbarPinList> </defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout> </CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection> </LayoutModificationTemplate>

Had local SIMS support connect in, he change the SQL compatibility mode to 2022. Against everything i've ever read. Problem instantly resolved.... so i guess the old "set it to 2012" recommendation is no longer true if you're on SQL 2022!

Same slowness on the server, Windows Server 2019, AV completely uninstalled to test (Defender already disabled as we use Sophos) All in all, not sure what else to try!

Got a ticket open with our local sims support office but in lieu of waiting for that, thought i'd see if anyones seen similar issues. Currently using the option Focus > Budget Management > Cost Center Allocations as our test. Running it before the summer used to take 2-3 seconds for the window to pop up, now it takes up to 30 seconds for the window to appear. A significant slow down. However if i run the actual query that runs when you click that button, on the SQL server, it takes <2 seconds to give me the results. I've been running FMS directly on the server to negate any silly business with client software, AV etc. Server has 4vCPU and 48GB ram (with 38GB set as max limit in SQL) and CPU usage hasn't been at 100% throughout the process, on Server 2019. Unfortunately there have been a host of changes that could be the cause, none of which are easy to undo and go back to test lol: Upgraded SQL 2016 to 2022 (Patched to CU20, and sims/fms both set to compatibility mode 2012) Migrated server from VMware to Hyper-V (VMware tools fully removed, and hidden devices removed from device manager) SIMS+FMS Summer build deployed Lastly I've ran the re-index patch for FMS but that made no difference. I've tried everything i can think of at this stage. I've sat and watched resource monitor for a while and i can't see anything struggling anywhere either.....

"you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink" ... That quote sums up my situation. NEARLY had senior management on board to switch this year, and then the head decided to leave, and we're due ofsted next year, so they wanted to avoid too much upheaval....fingers crossed next year we can count ourselves in the Arbor or Bromcom numbers.

Huh...... i actually had no idea that microsoft had their own translator. Just tinkering with that on my phone, looks like it maaaay be an option. Will test that avenue out and see how we get on.