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Hello My contribution to the resources. Unlocking the EU General Data Protection Regulation: A practical handbook on the EU's new data protection law - White & Case Russ

To be fair the article is written by Gerald Haigh who is freelance journalist hired by Microsoft but take your point ... Russell

Interesting I was just reading this on Microsoft Blog and South Lee School. It discusses moving servers to the cloud.. ‘Towards the Serverless School’ – Gerald Haigh looks at Azure in action at South Lee School - Microsoft UK Schools blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs Russ

Disclaimer obviously this based on info when use to work there maybe out of date. Also a workaround. As one PC starts up in the ICT. Send another scheduled job ten mins after the first. As way Impero use to work was if couldn't wake the machine up it would try to find a machine in the the same VLAN running Impero. Then use that to send the WOL command. Russ

The thing is this would happen at BETT as Education is a small space. I can guess MS and Apple use to speak with each other (when Apple use to attend). As it is small world means everyone knows everyone else or people working for X company use to work for Y company. When was down with Impero would speak with almost all the competitors as knew people there etc. (obviously we kept conversation away from trade secrets) in fact there was only one competitor who disliked talking to us and was shall we say "aggressive" towards us.

Shame to hear that Pearson Education is to get rid of 4000 jobs That is very bad timing on the announcement with BETT going on.. Pearson to Eliminate 4,000 Jobs in Bid to Revive Earnings - Bloomberg Business https://t.co/vlrCRNuJT9

Obviously I am out the loop but believe it has been fixed in later release.. Russ

Just listen to this very funny.. the link takes you 3 mins and 58s into programme.. BBC Radio 4 - John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Series 5, Episode 1 Russell

After X amount of years of spending Christmas/January thinking about BETT in one shape or another. Have to say it is very strange not to think about it at all. I won't be down but will be keeping eye on internet to see the latest etc.. Russ

That is an interesting development is true number are pulling out the education market. As I understand it there is still another big name to pull out of education market at somepoint in the future.. Russ

@localzuk Whole company from CEO down works remotely So I am based at home... Russ

Thanks for the kind words guys.. @halbaradkenafin Don't worry @ImperoMatt said he doesn't mind problems infact he sits there bored otherwise (sure that is what he said) Russ

This post is something a little different after nearly five years this is my last week and a half at Impero. As of next month I move on to a new role with Rencore as their QA Manager helping them to build up their QA process. This move is strange one for me as for the first time in my working career I am no longer in the education space. Over the years at Impero I have worked with some great people and great customers. I have seen Impero develop from a small “concepting/commitment” startup to the company it has grown into today. I certainly will be keeping my eye on Impero as Sam and Darren move Impero into its next stage and I think they are right people for the job. While Impero has gone through some up and downs one thing has always been evident. The people that work at Impero want to develop software that users love and help keep children safe. There a few “stories” that stand out from my years at Impero and I always joked I could write a book about it. The stories that stick with you are the ones where the software and E-safety lists help a child at risk. If what I said above is true you would be forgiven for asking the question “why are you moving?”. As previously mentioned Impero is about to begin its next stage in its story and while I could have carried on I felt it was time for someone new to come in and build upon foundations already laid. It was not a decision taken lightly however when Matthias offered the opportunity at Rencore to help them build the QA department up. It was a challenge I could not refuse.. However I am leaving EduGeek in the right hands as I would like to introduce Matt Wilding @ImperoMatt . Matt will be taking over my role on here for Impero being able to answer and support you when it comes to Impero. When we discussed internally who would take over my posting on EduGeek for Impero it became an obvious choice. Matt has been with Impero nearly two years and he was the second person I hired into QA department at Impero. However the reason Matt was an obvious choice is because of his background before Impero. As well as working for what was then SERCO working on their MIS offering and he is also as an ex-school network manager. I am sure Matt will do a great job and I know the EduGeek community will welcome him in. As for me I will still be lurking around and keep my eye on education space but for now can someone pass Matt some welcome Edu Biscuits.. Russell

If using OSX and Safari you will need to install extension into Safari once done thay everything should work correctly.. Russ

I know that support email had an issue when auto filters kicked in on the new feature within Office365 but they have been disabled so hopefully this should be sorted now.. Also i know some site had few issues with 5105 think most of those issues have started to bee fixed in 5106 which is currently going through internal testing.. Russell