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I didn't claim they weren't better paid than IT, just that it wasn't enough to put themselves in danger. Maybe you have security staff at your school; at the schools I've had experience of, site staff were responsible for making sure the site was secure - doors and windows locked, monitoring alarms and/or CCTV. I've never seen them officially having responsibility for tackling intruders - that's different to going to turn the alarm off. Obviously if the alarm has been triggered, there's a risk there's someone around. Being able to check CCTV before going to sure alone in the middle of the night reduces the risk of them being attacked. You are free to disagree; if I was asked to help, I'd try and find a solution that meets the safeguarding and data protection requirements #and# help out the site team if I could.

Why should site team take an unnecessary risk. Seems like a good use of technology to me. Pretty sure their salary isn't at the level that includes danger money. It might be that having it available on a mobile device is considered too risky in terms of safeguarding and audit, but there must be a compromise that allows you to provide a bit of protection to staff.

Still stuck on this if anyone has any other ideas? Current plan is to prepare stuff in MDT, but I had hoped to avoid that as all I want is a bare Windows install, no customisations with OOBE disabled. I'd expected to be able to do that using WDS only.

We're looking to do something along the lines of what Roberto suggests. The imperfect analogy used when we're discussing it with non-IT people is internet banking. The bank doesn't care much what state your device is in, you can access the data that you're authorised to see, any processing happens on their infrastructure. We'll have some devices - admin and teaching networks - that are standardised, but expect that mostly people will choose their own devices and manage them. We'll focus on securing or networks and systems. All proposals at the minute, but definitely looks like where we're heading.

Have to admit I thought I'd chosen the Windows 11 version as it said it was backwards compatible, but I uninstalled that and have now reinstalled from the ADK for Windows 10 page and the version that's installed is called "Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit - Windows 10" It's version 10.1.19041.1 - not the first version I installed but I have already tried this one ... Throwing error message as before with log showing "This application requires version 10.0.19041.1 of the Windows ADK

I'm trying to create an answer file for WDS deployment using ADK and it fails at the point of building a catalog file with the error: This application requires version 10.0.22000.1 The version of ADK I have is 10.1.22000.1 I tried an earlier version from the MS download page and it was 10.1.19041.1 and have the error This application requires version 10.0.19041.1 I have the install.wim file imported from an iso for Windows 10 Pro build 19044 (i.e. 21H2 edition). Any ideas? I can't find the version it suggests other than on some random websites which doesn't sun like the ideal starting point for a new windows deployment.

At my last school we used Chromebooks successfully in a Windows domain environment. I used Azure AD Connect to provision Goggle accounts and then in the Google admin console set the default login domain. That meant that the username and password were the same for both Windows clients and Chromebooks. I also set up SSO to the O365 accounts so that they could access OneDrive and SharePoint. I'm a big fan of Chromebooks, but they don't do everything a Windows laptop will. You need to work out the requirements in detail With laptop trolleys, you really need someone who takes ownership. We put them in form rooms for primary schools - most lessons were in the form room and teachers and pupils seemed to be motivated to make sure they were out away and charged. I could then reliably set the laptops to update overnight as I was confident they'd be plugged in.

Dead/fallen trees are part of the cycle of life. Ecosystem will become impoverished if it's all removed. No criticism of individuals who are struggling to pay bills finding a way to stay warm, and it's probably more sustainable than burning gas or oil created over thousands of years, but it's not a long term solution.

Have you tried here: https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/RM6174

I still need to remember to add /Sarcasm to the end of some of my posts.... It's very impressive, is what I really think.

Make sure you give them plenty of notice - very long from memory. And it's a three year contract they handcuff you to nowadays.

You need to set a Group Policy to hibernate it after 30 minutes inactivity [emoji57]

I think your electricity meter has got it's decimal point stuck in the wrong place [emoji23] Either that or it's a monthly figure! Can't comment on gas as I don't have that.

The only reason I wanted a smart meter was to get access to the cheaper EV charging tariffs, but it has made me have a look at usage patterns. I was surprised at how much of it is background use when we're either not here or asleep. I'm also going to move some more load to the cheap time; previously it was 22p/kWh peak and 17p/kWh off peak. Now it's 35p peak and 7.5p of peak Our general household use is not far off average for the size of house/number of people living here, despite the fish tanks (which I'd happily ditch, but definitely isn't up for negotiation), so I think I'm not doing badly. I've looked at fridges and I think I'll wait a couple of years; almost everything on sale is currently ranked as F for efficiency, but they changed the criteria last year, so that includes stuff that was previously AA. Presumably they'll improve... Other things on my list: Thermal blankets for the fish tanks at night and possibly turn them down by 1°C. Lighting is already optimised. Get rid of my bedside radio alarm with backlit LED display Turn microwave off at wall when not in use Put AV kit on a single PDU and only turn it on when in use. Run hot water tank at a higher temperature for fewer hours (currently runs all the time as that's most efficient use of heat pump, but might be cheaper to run less efficiently in the cheap period). The actual bill is terrifying, because we run an electric car (soon to be 2) and an ASHP for heating, but at the minute I'm still comparing those to what we used to spend on petrol and central heating oil.

Really useful Steve - thank you. Various fishkeeping websites suggest probably 150W to 200W for the collection of fish tanks we have. There's an Xbox, a TV and a HiFi on standby. Trying to work out whether it's worth replacing a 20 year old fridge: still works fine, was AA energy rated when we bought it and has a fair amount of embedded energy/greenhouse gases. I'm guessing that the WiFi network (four APs) will chew a fair amount - but ironically the smart meter monitor connects over WiFi, so I can't turn it off to test!

Oops. Such a basic error by me [emoji15]

I think Elsie's posts were enlightening for a lot of people and it was a great service, but I don't think it's a reasonable volume for anyone to take on. I've commented in the thread on devaluing IT Support, so you can read my thoughts there. On topic here(!) I sympathise with the OP and find it very frustrating. Personally I ignore any adverts (here or elsewhere) that don't give a salary range. On balance, I don't think the rules need changing. Once I decided to ignore them, they don't bother me too much. It could be frustrating to think you've missed out on an opportunity that might be interesting, but I decided I wouldn't want to work for the kind of organisation that isn't transparent, so I'm not missing out anyway. If you think a job might be of interest call or email them. I found email alerts from Indeed gave me several job adverts per week I was interested in applying for (relevant experience and distance from home) and significantly more if I was less fussy about who I wanted to work for.

Just trying to get some idea of how much it's realistic to reduce my baseload electricity demand. Still in the early obsessive stage of having a smart meter and last night after the heating went off and before the car started charging with all lights turned off, the meter was showing a 302W demand. Seems high to me it; would add up to over 26kWh/annum. Tonight's project is to unplug the fridge, freezer and tropical fish tanks to find out (which are not optional) what opportunity there is for saving. Proportionally it won't make much difference as ⅓ of annual usage is for the car and ⅓ is for heating, but every penny counts and I don't like waste. Edit: as pointed out by @mavhc 2647kWh/year

Bump. Me too please

With DEP and an MDM I don't think there's any need for Apple configurator and a Mac mini any more. Probably additional cost and complication for somewhere without an IT department. I'd suggest buying through an authorised reseller and then they should arrive already registered in DEP. Moysle seems to be the go to option for small deployments as it's decent and free for up to 30 devices (used to be 100[emoji17]) and I believe it's still about the cheapest. I haven't used it as I've used JAMF before, but that's pretty expensive (especially compared to free!). With only 30 devices I don't think you'd need a caching server for updates.

Can't see anywhere in the motherboard to plug it in, but I was thinking of something like thishttps://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-SDCZ430-032G-G46-Ultra-Flash-Drive/dp/B077VXV323/ in one of the ports on the back.

Thanks @chaplic You're correct. I've had a dig around and the BIOS doesn't support 32 bit for booting from internal drives, only legacy external. I'm going to set up a 32 bit VM and see if I can persuade the hardware to talk to it. Hardware is about 12 years old and apparently quite fussy, but a new one costs about £15k so it justifies a bit of tinkering.

Still trying to achieve the same outcome - PC that will support a device that only had a 32 bit driver, but I've given up on the machine I was originally working on and I'm trying an older Dell desktop. I'm closer, but results are even weirder.... I installed from a bootable USB drive to a new SSD. The machine works, but only if the USB drive is plugged in. Without it I get "Critical Error Message. No bootable devices found." Once it's booted I can remove the USB drive and it runs fine. From the Dell support site they only offer drivers for 64 bit operating systems. There's clearly something missing from the installed OS - I'd be grateful for any hints on what it might be and how I could add it. TIA

I think your two options are either as per @Norphy's suggestion or VDI as you said. VDI gives more security/control, but it's more expensive. Either way I think you'll be looking at a massive culture change (hesitate to say war, but at least that might give you the idea of battles which you can pick from). If you haven't already, it could be worth dropping "cyber essentials" into conversations. When things are working and the network hasn't been lost to a hacker, it's very difficult to change culture. The thing that talks is money; cyber essentials is starting to appear as a pre-requisite for research grants. If academics or departments start getting funding withheld, you'll start to get movement. I'd start with things you can control - set up proper procurement processes for university owned devices. Start restricting access to university assets (data/file stores) from devices you don't control.

Enabled a cross tenant access policy, i.e. given everyone in THE OTHER DOMAIN full access to your tenancy and everyone in your tenancy full access to THE OTHER DOMAIN if the admin in THE OTHER DOMAIN had set up an inbound access policy. Hopefully that was the plan [emoji41][emoji848][emoji44][emoji51][emoji27]