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Lift Schools and Bromcom Computers Plc joint statement
Diello replied to jbrowning_LiftSchools's topic in MIS Systems
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. -
WMware problems since Broadcom took over?
Diello replied to dan00204's topic in Thin Client and Virtual Machines
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... -
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)
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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=58494
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Anyone heard of Access Education (formerly HCSS Education)
Diello replied to kennysarmy's topic in MIS Systems
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.
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The other method is to employ backticks around it, e.g. icacls "C:\Test\1" /grant:r [email protected]:`(OI`)`(CI`)M /T
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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.
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Managing IT jobs list over summer holidays
Diello replied to DrBeaker's topic in How do you do....it?
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".
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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?!
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It's the same thing, just a name change. MS switched from using the term "Branch" to "Channel".
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GDPR and sending media off to exam boards
Diello replied to Gorbyhail's topic in Data Protection & Information Handling
We had a similar query, and AQA pointed us here: http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/admin/nea/AQA-ENCRYPT-NEA-MEDIA.DOCX -
Take a look at this: Customers who are renewing a 1 or 3-year term OVS-ES after 1 July should get price protection (minus desktop discount) until 2018.
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We use MINT Class here - MintClass - Classroom seating planner - Also shows information such as grades/SEN, and helpful for cover teachers as well.
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[news] Free Speech University Rankings
Diello replied to unixman_again's topic in Jokes/Interweb Things
The problem is, we're not really talking about taking action against people who have gone out of their way to offend someone just for the sake of offending someone. We're talking about a self-selected group of people, who have taken it upon themselves to divide people up by identity politics, and decide which group may express an opinion, and influence political discourse. Erika Christakis - Who students told to resign because he said university wasn't about building a comfortable home for students, but about intellectual thought, heck the NUS even attacked Peter Tatchell, you know, that famous bigot of a man... https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2015/feb/14/letters-censorship -
[news] Free Speech University Rankings
Diello replied to unixman_again's topic in Jokes/Interweb Things
It's frightening... Universities by their nature are supposed to be places of intellectual rigour and open-mindedness, the regressive authoritarianism that has taken hold in the US, and increasingly here, makes me fear for the future. A dangerous minority of vocal students who believe that it is more important to not be exposed to opinions they don't like, than it is to have truth and intelligence. This is a world of "safe spaces", "no platforming", and "trigger warnings" - when you start scratching the surface it almost seems unbelievable. -
£4.25 - http://www.comms-express.com/products/lc-lc-connector-multimode-duplex-fibre-patch-leads/?1~Metre?50/125~(OM3) Always worked perfectly well for us.
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SharePoint site here too for our Governors. Meeting calendar on the front page and repositories for documents, minutes, etc.
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We have Surface 3s here - Useful for AD management/password changes, RDP to servers and our desktop stations, e-mail, files, note taking, etc.
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FYI, Steljes have now gone into administration - Updated: Steljes confirms it has gone into adminstration | CRN Related: SMART Technologies goes direct to resellers for AV offering
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They've acknowledged an issue with their latest defs on their Twitter account - Recommend rolling back via http://support.eset.com/kb3008/
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Intel LGA775 Quiet CPU Coolers
