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Turns out there is a way (e-mailed you directly this solution Pete, but putting it here for everyone else) As long as the meeting is targeted in a Team, if you go to the Manage Users section of the Team you can Mute the students (can be done during a meeting as well) Students who are muted will then get a message saying conversations is disabled, so you can target it to specific students or the whole class. if you want their feedback during the meeting either via text our audio, you have to go into the same section to unmute them. Muting via the normal meeting interface just disables their microphone and does not prevent chat.

In the Meetings Policy, disabling chat will stop the one to one chat feature for users assigned to that policy (we use the Group Policy assignment to give the Secondary_Student policy to our kids.

Well Paxton does do the Lite version, but for anyone near the area it might be a good way to pick up a load what looked like Net2 units and was only £10 starting. If I was closer I might have thought about it since I've got all the PPE kit from working on the construction areas when we did building work recently at work.

Lot 998 is a load of Paxton controllers..

It only stops users doing a one to one chat (which confused one of our teachers as he was accidently set on the student policy!)

Chat within a meeting can not be disabled based on our testing.

Students still have C: hidden, but you can not have prevent access. So far the students have not been able to do anything untoward on stations

You can disable chat in the general channel, and you can enable moderation mode in the additional created channels, so staff can turn on if students can reply or not during the session

Screen sharing of powerpoints is how public live events seem to work when we and others have tested it. No reason why one of the presenters can't control the powerpoint as long as they are sharing their screen with it up.

We also created a separate account just for our school YouTube channel, and staff log in with that account when they want to upload content

Yes it seems better if you have a universal driver available on the virtual queues for the devices you want to print to. I was tempted to do similar while waiting for a copier to get fixed, but as it was a different manufacturer and completely different driver I wasn't going to risk it.

All our invoices have moved services directly across to RM now instead of SWGfL with our recent contract upgrade

We used a company called Brimalk Ltd who are based in Tamworth years ago, but we have since run the fibre outselves. They should do your area.

That depends if your on ESS or OVS-ESS, and as the OP has less than 1000 staff, the OVS-ESS calculation of 200 hours is the one to use as per Johns post

Yep apparently our local Asda is out of toilet paper already. Why!!!!

There goes all our lettings again

In that case it does sound like the LA have got it configured incorrectly in their Exchange Admin panel, as that is not how it is meant to work in OMEv2 within Office 365 tenancies.

Well OME v1 was there first iteration of encryption in Office 365 and was mainly done via mail flow rules and everyone got the "click here to read" messages OME v2 allowed users to set the encryption when composing the e-mail in Outlook, added extra templates so you can prevent forwarding as well as confidential, and the ability to read messages that were secured was moved into the mail client that supported it (For example sending to a gmail account gives you the ability to login with your gmail credentials without needing the OTP like you would if you were using Yahoo or BTMail for example) Full list of comparisons can be seen here -> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/ome-version-comparison?view=o365-worldwide

if your already on FTTC, then your next step will likely be either a pair of FTTC connections or a leased fibre connection. We pay less than £10k for a 300mb on a 1Gb fibre per year (managed service including web filtering) but it depends where your located, what your exchange will handle and the provider.

It's sounding almost like they are still using version 1 of OME and not version 2 that has been out for a while =/

If your both on Office 365, regardless of different tenancies, it will show the e-mail without any additional prompts for a one time password The message will show a little padlock next to the message, and you need to open the message and not just use the preview panel the first time. Subsequent times it will show until the e-mail expires on the LA's server

I assume your not using Office 365 on your site if your having that experience. It should not give authentication errors, but it's something that is controlled by Microsoft and not the LA

Houses often have 2 or 3 pairs of copper run to the premises, so they will have used 1 pair for your current main line, so TT will use another pair for their line since they can use BTo cables to connect to their kit in the exchange. No-one can use BTo's ductwork without authorisation @mavhc Oh and the standard backbox on the NTE5C is 20mm deep, so anything deeper is fine (normal 85mm single gang socket box can be used)

It was our decision, as they are the property of the Trust now, so we can reassign them if the students situation changes (such as them moving to another school, parents purchasing additional home IT etc). We choose the March date as a MAT as it would provide sufficient time for the student to have use of the laptop to catch with any work in the hope there wasn't another lock down, and gave plenty of time to look at how we might want to integrate the devices with the networks and web filtering as we didn't really have that ability back in July when trying to ensure students who needed a device had one.

Well a FTTC connection just comes in to the house over the normal twisted pair, so it's likely that TalkTalk might use one of the existing unused pairs on the cable from your property Junction box back to the street box (its unlikely they quoted a new cable installation). From the property junction box, it's just a case of running the twisted pair to your location of choice. When we had our line replaced by BT a couple of years ago due to a line break, we got the master socket moved to another room, so as long as you have a suitable backbox for a normal single gang face plate you should likely be fine.