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I can see that the tone of reply could grate, but the point is valid. If you're implementing MFA to improve security, allowing a bypass for anyone in the UK (or pretending by using a VPN) massively reduces the benefit.

So I tried Papercut Pocket today and I can print from Windows, so I've obviously got the basic set up correct. I was also able to install the Chrome extension on an Ubuntu 22.04 machine. When attempting to print, the job appears in the app on my phone and I can release it to my choice of printer using the QR code, but it fails to print with a "printer or of memory" error. Any ideas? Or have I just proved that it doesn't work? Edit: I tried a different printer and it worked perfectly [emoji846]

Thanks @PaperCutterAl (or @PaperCutterAI ) Have you or anyone else tried using the Chrome extension on a Linux client?

Had anyone tried Microsoft Teams Emergency Operations Center? https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/app-templates/emergency-operations-center/

I have a user who can't arrange their desktop icons in any sensible way - and I haven't been able to come up with a satisfactory fix. Symptom reported: only some icons displaying on laptop, but they reappear when additional monitors are connected. Diagnosis: spacing was hard set in registry to 5500 pixels leaving a very widely spaced grid with space for only about 8 icons on the desktop. Fix: Registry change to 1000 pixels, but still had to turn off auto-arrange and align icons to grid and then manually arrange. Customer was satisfied.... Until a Windows update installed and all of the icons ended up on top of each other in the top left corner. It's a recent Lenovo Yoga, re-imaged with our normal Windows 11 23H2 image. AFAIK all Lenovo stuff has been cleared. We're a Dell shop, but have around 10 Lenovos of same model and image and only one report of this issue. Any suggestions for a permanent fix?

For remote power cycling, we've just bought a couple of PoE USB C splitters to try: https://www.unmannedtechshop.co.uk/product/sensecap-poe-splitter-5v-usb-c-12v-dc/ We use Raspberry Pis around quite a big site for a variety of purposes. Plan would be to disable and re-enable ports on the switch. Working well so far [emoji1696]

You'd need it to be reflected in your privacy policy. You'd also need to check why it was turned off in the first place. Most schools do turn it off in my experience. I do out of habit - if it's off, you can't get caught out if your privacy policy doesn't cover it or by sharing information that someone has taken the decision not to allow. If you're sharing information in the Microsoft cloud and your privacy policies cover that, there's probably no issue, but you'd need to check the reason for sharing is covered. If you don't share it, I'm pretty sure you can't use the translate function. The translation is done on their servers as far as I know.

There's also sometimes the factor of increased energy demand Vs additional plastic in use: If your distribution is local farm to doorstep and you have a closed loop where the glass bottles are cleaned rather broken, melted and remanufactured it's probably fairly energy efficient. If you have a national distribution system where you transport many tonnes of glass around hundreds of miles with a fairly inefficient space utilisation and then have to recycle the glass rather than reuse, the energy cost is probably a lot higher. NB, I'm not saying it's fine to use plastic bottles, just that resource use and pollution is not necessarily in harmony with energy usage and we need to consider both/many aspects together. Reportedly the person who invented the plastic bag was trying to solve the problem of resource and energy consumption caused by paper bags which could often only be used once.

Were looking at papercut hive - despite all of the comments above! We have been told we can't get a free trial - is that other people's experience too?

Also too late for this time, but something we continually push: Almost nothing should be in users' OneDrives. Anything that anyone other than the creator might need should be in SharePoint (or Teams if that's your bag). I'm this case: how often do people create Forms where the only person interested in the responses is the form creator?

Only this morning I was reading this: https://iasme.co.uk/cyber-blog/the-january-changes-to-the-cyber-essentials-scheme-reflect-the-changing-cyber-threats-in-todays-digital-environment/

Multi Tenancy Organisation has come a long way. I'd definitely take a look before you give up all the free storage you have with the separate tenancies. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/plan-multi-tenant-org-overview?view=o365-worldwide

Not yet parents or pupils, but presumably who have officially accepted an offer of a place so do have a formal relationship with the organisation. On the face of it, to me it seems like a reasonable and useful thing to do in the normal operation of the school. I'd be seeking advice, but would be looking to use a permission that doesn't rely on consent and doesn't give an opt out.

We realised a while ago, but we're still heading towards a crunch. We've set OneDrive quota at 100GB. We've had to help out with reorganising into SharePoint and that has helped because lots of people have saved copies of the same files in their OneDrive. We've also had to empty a lot of Preservation Hold Libraries. Just be careful not to permanently delete stuff you're required to hold and make sure that the changes don't result in people copying data to USB drives. And maybe consider that you'll need to buy additional quota from Microsoft....

Bit cheeky to edit your post in a way that completely changes the emphasis after someone has replied. Your original post didn't mention good and bad things, only threats. It's not really fair to @thimon

The hole in the garden we dug in lockdown is now home to at least 12 frogs! I know there's more weed than you'd ideally like, but every time I try to remove some, a frog jumps out, so I decided I'd better let nature sort itself out

Have you asked your existing insurer about adding her to your existing policy? I'm on my parents' policy and for a long time my dad was on mine. My dad was mildly upset when having me on his policy made it cheaper because I was a lower risk than him! The first time he added me, it essentially cost the admin fee for changing the policy.

Sounds like a bargain to me. I'd advise trying to be on site while they're working and trying to persuade them to talk to you before cutting anything big. We had a landscaping company do some clearance work having seen some of the landscaping they'd done. Unfortunately for garden clearance they sent Muppets with chainsaws. We lost a lot more than intended. It sounds like it's not going to be your haven, but even if it's just going on sale, bare tree trunks and big holes where previously there were perfectly acceptable large plants won't help you.

For SLT, you could either train them on how to organise access to data they need in a way that suits them (I'm on holiday - I'm trying to be optimistic!) A compromise could be an SLT site with direct links to the folders they need access to. It should be one of the strengths of using SharePoint - it gives plenty of options for organising data for different purposes without the need to store it in multiple places.

The most recent one of these you can afford. As per other posts, the 5420 with 11th Gen is fine (it's what I have), but having hands-on with those, and the more recent ones, battery life is noticeably better with the 12th gen and later Intel chips. I bought a 5430 for my OH with 8GB RAM and a 256GB SSD as that was much cheaper than the spec I actually wanted, but no point in paying Dell prices for upgrades. I did spend a bit more, but I reckoned the extra £100 on a 5 year on-site warranty was worth it. Dell business outlet store is my go to for personal purchases.

It doesn't. It just records all of the words as spoken by the identify signed in. I find it makes writing up minutes quicker and I can identify the speaker by matching with the video, but I haven't seen anything built in that does it. It also seems to struggle with Yorkshire accents... We get worse accuracy with Yorkshire than with English as a second language speakers.

I've definitely mentioned it before on this forum, but at the risk of being boring.... If someone wants to rob your valuables from your house, they'll come when you're out. Making stuff difficult to find/internal security is useful. If someone wants to steal your car, they'll come when you're in. Leave your keys by the door so that you don't need to meet them - they're not usually very nice people. If you have keyless entry, keep them shielded. I wouldn't advocate making it so easy that they just walk up to the car and drive away, but by the door and identifiable is what I'd do.

We're looking at a laptop lifecycle policy from scratch, i.e. What's actually best value, rather than what's the absolute cheapest way to do it. This will take into account working time lost through device failure and help desk time spent on unreliable devices and potentially resale value. The organisation generally prefers op ex to cap ex, so it's probably a purchasing based approach. The starting point is that we have a lead supplier we're happy with, so it's likely to be based on Dell Latitude 5000 series with i5, 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD. We're currently buying with a five year warranty, so the main options I'm considering are: Run for three years and then sell Run for five years and then sell Is anyone else doing similar? Can anyone give an idea of what value we might recover by selling that type of device at that kind of age? DMs welcome if you can't share this information publicly. Many thanks

Personally, I wouldn't run Windows 11 on unsupported hardware in a managed network (corporate, business, education etc). Pretty sure it wouldn't be compliant with Cyber Essentials or any kind of insurance you might have. In education the extended support* is stupidly cheap - $7 for three years. I'm trying to minimise that, but replacing machines at least every 10 years in a professional environment (release of 8th gen to end of 2028) doesn't seem like an unreasonable expectation. *Edit: extended support for Windows 10

That'll be at least partly down to their terms and conditions. The only way to be certain is contact them (and hope you come across someone who understands what you're asking).