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According to the statement, they did use a Framework, from the statement: "Lift Schools’ award of a contract for schools management information systems to Arbor Education Partners Limited via the G-Cloud 12 Framework Agreement." (now expired) - So even using a CCS framework, which should make sure one is complaint with procurement requirements, wasn't enough. We went with Everything ICT, and to be fair they did put quite an onus on us to show we'd completed our due diligence on the selected supplier.

We're chasing them because one of our sites hasn't migrated over, and it has an active contract in place until the middle of next year. Appreciate it's a big change, but they need to get on top of things before people lose even more confidence...

https://www.kent-teach.com/Recruitment/Vacancy/VacancyDetails.aspx?VacancyId=119602

My first question would be why do the school want to switch to the fibre for two cabs across a corridor, when all that link is doing is facilitating the Internet connection by the looks of it. You say it's a small school, so the copper link should be more than sufficient I'd have thought. If they must go that way, certainly avoid converters as has been said, a new router is your best option. An alternative (albeit still adding another hop), is to buy a cheap 8-port switch with SFP capability, and effectively use that as a glorified converter - it would also give you a bit of flexibility if you did want to run anything else into Room 1 - e.g. a Aruba 1930 Switch (JL680A)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=58494

We are currently looking at the solution here: https://chqgroup.co.uk/ - Might be of interest to you.

Exactly the same here. They swear by it for budget setting, but PSF still for day-to-day. Star for Payroll.

We use this for merging GPOs - Not updated anymore, but not had any issues on W10 / Server 2016: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ashleymcglone/2015/06/11/updated-copy-and-merge-group-policies-gpos-with-powershell/ As for small vs. large GPOs - Best Practice discussed here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-magazine/cc137720(v=msdn.10) Hope that helps.

The other method is to employ backticks around it, e.g. icacls "C:\Test\1" /grant:r [email protected]:`(OI`)`(CI`)M /T

So many will ask for all the SIMS permissions going for their sync tools. We have put our foot down and said they need to detail exactly what data they need to export, we'd check it was appropriate, and would tailor their permissions accordingly. We initially had push-back, but all worked with us in the end to create a custom list once they realised we weren't going to budge, and they wanted our business! Who do CPOMS use for their data link? We're considering it across the Trust at the moment.

Just to be slightly different to consensus on here... We use Xmind (mind maps) for our general tasks and planning. Free version is good, although we have the Pro version as you can add task info to this, and it has an Gantt chart. Great way to see tasks in different formats. Although we do use GanttProject to plan out our summer schedule and bigger projects as this creates a better overview. Teams & Planner are something we are starting to look at for general helpdesk jobs though.

I'm no expert here, but I'm fairly sure there is no requirement to use a Tender Framework. If you school was a member of the CPC, your BM would know about it for a start. The Academies Financial Handbook is the bible here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/714474/Academies_Financial_Handbook_2018.pdf It makes no reference to having to using a Framework, it simply states that: "2.4.1 The academy trust must ensure that: a competitive tendering policy is in place and applied, and Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) procurement thresholds are observed".

CentOS isn't the immediate issue, but RHEL is based on Fedora upstream, and a large part of the financial and staffing support for Fedora comes from RH. It seems IBM is more interested in their cloud portfolio than the OS market. It could well see support for Fedora being cut as a part of a lack of focus on RHEL. It could go either way, if IBM truly leave RH as a division to operate autonomously. That said, IBM don't exactly have a sparkling track record here... Lotus anyone? SUSE recently acquired again... Could we see Canonical being brought out by MS?!

It's the same thing, just a name change. MS switched from using the term "Branch" to "Channel".

We had a similar query, and AQA pointed us here: http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/admin/nea/AQA-ENCRYPT-NEA-MEDIA.DOCX