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Probably, but I think Mike's point still holds. I believe electricity is about 4 times the price of gas power unit of energy, but electric hobs generally get more of the heat into the pan. I also don't know what kind of potato Mike was using that took half an hour to boil! So that suggests something like 4p...

Fixed that for you.

If it's already broken, how much worse can it get [emoji57] Please note: that was sarcasm, do not take it as professional advice!

Pretty sure if I owned an iPad and someone wanted to install an MDM on it I'd tell them where to go. I also think that in lessons they shouldn't be connecting them to personal hotspots - but that's classroom management.

Northern line through Bank is closed until May. https://tfl.gov.uk/tube/stop/940GZZLUBNK/bank-underground-station/

There is a "chat" in each Team. Set up a Team called Helpdesk and send messages to your heart's content. No one need know that you are the Helpdesk Team [emoji6]

I believed the first link I clicked on Bing. [emoji2357] How embarrassing Edit: also embarrassed to be using Bing, but I'm only temporarily using this computer until the Dell technician comes to fix mine so I have left everything on default settings.

Just been to am office where there's one of these screwed to a shelf (so that it's suspended above it) and the office occupants are complaining it's noisy. It didn't seem awful (for a fan cooled switch) but I wouldn't like it above my desk either. I don't think the PoE function is in use and it is only to supply the desks in that room - currently only 6 ports are connected. I think it does need to be layer 3. What would people recommend as a fanless replacement? We mostly seem to be using Aruba switches, although I've seen a bunch of Netgear business grade switches and I know for a major new project the tender includes Cisco, so I don't think we're tied to a particular manufacturer. TIA

I can't conceive of a way they'll be able to compete on costs. If you're digging in thousands of miles of ducts and running dark fibre you'll get economies of scale from the groundworks contractors and equipment suppliers. If you're a big Telco you'll get better deals on the equipment on the premises. And 24x7 support with a team to fix stuff in holes in the road and hold spare parts? How is an LA going to achieve that? I appreciate that all of the private businesses will add a margin, but I really can't see it working. Run away.

I'm putting together some advice for users who will be using a M365 for a charity I'm supporting and all of them have at least one other if not more tenancies they already use for work. Does anyone have any user guides on the best way to manage this? I actively use three tenancies and manage it by using a different browser for each. Not sure how that'd go down with this group of users.

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I keep looking at this. From what I can see the wholesale price of the electricity generated by your share of the co-op less running costs which they quote at around 2p/unit is credited to your account. In their illustration, they have the wholesale price at 6p/unit, so you'd get 4p/unit credit. Currently the wholesale price is around 25p/unit so you'd get a significant amount back. It would protect you against rising prices - but not for around 18 months so there'll be a over a year of pain before it gets better. The other risk is that it doesn't generate as much as expected - same as buying your own solar panels. If the sun don't shine, you won't make as much as you planned. In this case you'll be praying for wind.... I'm also looking at the Tesla plan with Octopus. You need a power wall and approved solar panels (no specific size). Current offer is 12p/unit both ways. I'd everything you but it's at 12p even if you don't generate any solar. You don't need a Tesla car, but the power wall is quite a hefty upfront cost.

That was one of the reasons that I virtualized my single physical server at a previous school. I also split it the roles and ran two DCs. This gave me options to update one at a time and do it in working hours as people didn't lose access to stuff. It also meant I could do a proper DR test; I took one of the backups and ran it in Hyper-V on my laptop. Pretty slow, but it did run.

If you use Drive for Desktop it appears in File Explorer (as G: drive unless that's taken) and in context menus in all programs. You can deploy the app by Group Policy.

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Thanks. I think I'll dust off the notes I made last time and do something basic in MDT. I'm convinced we need to move to Intune as loads (most?) devices are non-domain, so loads of advantages for device management as well as deployment. That's above my pay grade though.

I've just started in a new organisation and I want to implement a deployment platform - everything's being built manually at the minute. I've previously set up MDT/WDS, so I'd be reasonably happy doing that again, but I noticed that features are starting to be deprecated for Windows 11. Is MDT/WDS still the way to go or is it time to learn Intune or autopilot?

Short answer: No - none Useful link: https://www.heatgeek.com/find-a-heat-geek/ Longer answer: We live in a Victorian solid walled house. We have modern standard loft insulation and mostly double-glazed windows (not up to modern standards). The walls remain uninsulated. Even Longer Answer: You need to find an installer who does a proper heat demand assessment - we found one who'd done a lot of Victorian houses. They measured every wall, door, window and created a model based on that including specification and what direction they face. Our technical solution is based on good flow rate and #very# big radiators (some are triple 2m long radiators). We had illustrations with options for different flow temperatures, what would need to be installed and how much it would cost to install vs estimated running costs. Information that'll only mean much if you're already looking at ASHPs: our system is designed for a flow temperature of 45°C for 21°C internal temperature at -3°C outside. This year the highest flow temperature was about 41°C and the heat pump (while not efficient) will achieve 65°C, so I'm confident we won't be cold. CoP for us so far is 4.15 (pretty good, never mind for a Victorian uninsulated house). I'm not saying you shouldn't get your house insulated first, but it's not critical - a full system design is critical. Our house would be somewhere between very difficult and expensive to inadvisable to insulate. There's quite a strong school of thought that insulating solid walled buildings that were designed to "breathe" is a bad idea. In any case it would have been far more expensive and disruptive than what we did. If you'd like more information, PM - that's probably enough of a thread derailment [emoji57]

I'm interested in the subject area, since I'm looking at a proposal with my employer to implement MDM on BYOD devices. Currently BYOD devices have no access to our organisations data and everyone is provided with the computing resources they need by the organisation. My view at the minute is that it would be of limited value; there are some people who'd like to use their own machine, but I'd expect quite a lot of pushback from people who wouldn't want us to control their machines. Your post pretty much backs up my instinct - although I'd probably need more evidence. I've had a look around (admittedly not exhaustive) and come up with these: https://www.macobserver.com/news/mdm-hack-13-iphones/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-breach-company-s-mdm-server-to-spread-android-malware/ https://book.hacktricks.xyz/macos/macos-security-and-privilege-escalation/macos-mdm The first one worked by tricking users into signing up to an MDM server the hackers owned, so they did use the MDM to hack devices, but the MDM itself wasn't hacked. The middle one is the only example I could find of an actual hack. There's not a lot of information about how the MDM server was hacked. The last one is about using an MDM platform to illicitly gain access to a corporate network by enrolling devices that shouldn't be permitted. Is say that's not a vulnerability in the system - it's sloppy procedures and easily mitigated against. Any system can be hacked, but given how widely MDM systems are used, that's a remarkably small haul of examples. If the data you're working with really isn't private, it could just be put on a server with public access. From the point of a network manager it's pretty much equally secure as allowing you to download it. I can't speak for everyone, but on this forum you're essentially asking a bunch of gamekeepers who are professionals at protecting data. I'd be amazed if anyone would let a computer they don't have control over connect to corporate resources. It's not personal - IT departments can't assess individual risk as there's not time or resources. They have to build your systems for worst case scenarios and rules and systems have to apply to everyone.

Other than the upfront cost it's win-win. Electricity bill is terrifying - but much lower than oil would have been. Even buying from the grid has given over 70% reduction in (operational) CO2 emissions (combined impact of better efficiency and annual average renewable generation). Plus burning oil to heat is nasty - like poor quality diesel in an old car with no smog kit at all.

If I found out that personally identifiable data was being allowed to be downloaded to a device not managed by the hospital I would report them to the ICO. There's no way they'd be able to maintain control of the data they're legally responsible for. The only exception would be where they're working with a research organisation or supplier and I would want to see a contract specifying that the supplier is taking similar precautions. Theoretically the hospital could put in place contracts with individuals, but for them to be meaningful they'd have to do a full due diligence assessment on each one and have a way of proving that their access to the data ceased and all copies deleted. The only realistic way to overcome that is with some form of MDM. If you don't want your personal computer managed by the hospital, buy one that you only use for your research project. If you don't trust the hospital to have systems in place to safeguard patient data, get the evidence and report them to the ICO; they have a legal duty to both protect it from unauthorised people accessing it and to ensure that it's always available to ensure patients can be treated safely. Also, if you're worried that your backups are at greater risk of being list than your working copy of your data, you haven't got backups. I've re-read my post and it comes across as quite harsh, but to me this is a very black and white issue. There is no room for compromise with protecting patient data.

Having fully committed to electricity (electric car, air source heat pump) my usage has tripled so with the price rises my bill is over five times what it used to be. I made myself feel better by looking at heating oil prices:

If the MDM has the capability of wiping devices remotely (which it will), then there's a risk that if someone malicious gains control your data could be wiped. But your backup won't be! If you're dealing with any personal data which the hospital is data controller for (patient or employee), they have a legal responsibility to ensure it is kept secure - which means they need to be able to prove you don't have access to it for longer than you need it. Therefore you could either access it on their systems so that they can revoke access or let you copy it onto a device that they have control of. Most MDMs have the facility to create a partition on a personal device where work data can be stored and stored without needing to wipe the whole machine.

So there are a few things you need to have in place. Your organisation will (must in this case) remain the data controller. That means it's responsible for taking care that it's looked after. You will be passing it to a data processor, who is only permitted to use it for the purposes you set out, not for their purposes. Before you allow anyone else to process your data, you need to do a risk assessment which will feed into a Data Protection Impact Assessment. If you search around in this forum you'll find lots of helpful information about DPIAs. It can all sound quite daunting and you do have to get it right, but my take is that if you think about how you would want your data to be looked after and follow it through logically you'll be well on the way. It boils down to specifying where the data will be held, what it can be used for, and who can have access it to it and bring able to demonstrate that everyone has controlled all of that adequately.

I've been making pancakes for decades with 100% success using Delia Smith's recipe. OH made batter before I got home using a BBC good food recipe and I found it almost impossible to cook the pancakes. BBC required 10g less flour, 25ml extra milk. I made a second batch for dessert and order was restored [emoji28]