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Monthly payment * 36= purchase price Although obviously at the end of the lease you don't own the devices. Some contracts allow purchase for a nominal fee - some don't. Something else for the finance team to worry about rather than the IT Support team. We could argue over the possible permutations of this (there's often very little margin on hardware so hardware suppliers will take a fee from the finance company to supplement it), but my intention was just to illustrate that there are different ways for suppliers to make money even when the apparent cost to the purchaser is the same. I'll add "for example" next time. Agreed, which is why I mentioned it. Personally I feel that you're likely to pay a bit more overall, but you reduce your risk and you've had all of the benefit of the devices before you've paid all of the money. Some leadership or finance teams are very nervous about committing money for future years as they worry about either budget cuts or unavoidable cost increases (both of which I've seen) that make the lease payments unaffordable. It's also difficult to "save up" for big purchases due to files about carry over from one budget year to the next. When I was a governor, we were told that if we didn't spend our full budget, our funding for the following year would be cut, which can make planning for server replacements or roof repairs difficult.

I found that most leasing seemed to break even at between 3 and 5 years. The obvious advantage is that you don't need to have the full cost available up front. Sometimes the cost only breaks even if you include what you would have to pay for a support contract if you'd bought outright. If you plan on keeping them for 3 years but pay a price that would break even after 5 years, you've won. If you plan on keeping them for 5 years and superior in house, you lose. In the first scenario, the business model for the supplier is that they take back the 3 year old devices and sell them, sign you up to a new lease and make a profit on your lease payments plus the second hand value. Lots of businesses do this as it means they always have up to date hardware and predictable costs and it can work for schools too. Your finance team need to carefully look at the figures as some deals are good value and others are not. They'll also need to look into arranging the budget so that the cost fingers from operational rather than capital budget and make sure that it's an operating lease rather than credit terms as (state) schools aren't allowed to take loans. Your question was about iPad leasing, so I'll mostly stick to that. However I will mention that I'm a big fan of Chromebooks and they're much more than glorified with browsers nowadays (my personal one run has a core i3 processor and 4GB RAM and comfortable runs plenty of useful Linux apps). With Android apps available and the amount of really good web based applications (audio, graphics and video processing, education apps to support most curriculum areas) they're really useful and work well in an O365 environment. They're reliable and straightforward to manage. The key to success is the point you made about knowing what the teaching and learning purpose is before you buy.

OH has been using them since before Christmas (healthcare worker). Not sure how enforceable it is, but they have been told they are expected to use them, no opt out and tracking to see that they submit the results of two tests per week. It'll be interesting to see how long they keep doing it given that they've all been offered* the vaccine. Processing it isn't complicated (each step is simple), but it needs care, patience and accuracy. I can't imagine that being applied consistently by pupils. *I don't have words for what I think of the people who've watched colleagues and patients die from Covid, but choose not to have the vaccine. I struggle to see how personal freedom to choose can trump duty of care in healthcare jobs.

It hadn't occurred to me that the limit was set by the government - I guess it's so that they can enforce the requirement to refund fraudulent spending. I've found Google Pay using MBNA credit card frustrating. They don't specify a limit, just say that they might sometimes restrict it. I got caught out trying to use it for my weekly shop at the supermarket - don't see how it can be unusual spending pattern as I use the same card at the same branch for a similar amount on the same day every week. Fortunately I'd also added my debit card as I'd forgotten my wallet. Limits its usefulness if you can't rely on it.

Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) Tweeted: Dolly gets a dose of her own medicine. @VUMChealth https://t.co/38kJrDzLqC Worth it to hear her sing... Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vacciiiiiinnnne I'm begging of you please don't hesitate Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vacciiiiiinnnne Cos when you're dead.... It's too late!

File on Demand releases space by overwriting the least recently used file when it runs out of space. Users can mark files that they never want to be deleted, although little need for that. I haven't tested to see what happens when the least recently used file is in a different user profile - I'd be interested if anyone else knows what the expected behaviour is. For OP, it'd be worth looking at Storage Sense as that gives some more options for admin control over how file storage is managed on the client machines.

One off - not transferable to a new device unless it's a replacement for a broken or failed one. Makes it more important to look at the support cycle for the new devices you're buying. Many now have up to 6 years of support guaranteed, so the £30 can be spread across that time frame. It's irritating, but still seems pretty affordable - which I guess is the calculation they've made as the cost hasn't gone up so Google are just judging how much more cash they can raise...

Chromebook management licences are going up from 9th March. There are a few threads on here - this is the first one I found: /showthread.php?t=218740

Office 365 is no problem with Chromebooks - providing you've got a G Suite for education (Google Workspace) tenancy set up. You'll have to manage the Chromebooks through the G Suite admin centre, but user accounts and logins can stay in O365 (using Azure AD Connect). I'm a big fan of Chromebooks, but if you don't have a tenancy set up, I'd suggest you need to get them swapped out. You won't be able to set up single sign on until Google have authorised your domain. You could spend the time while you wait learning the admin console, but you should talk to your leadership team about the delay there'll be before you can issue the devices to pupils. Edit: beaten to it by @TwistedHelixis

Do you have any other O365 services? If you have Teams, if you look at the Files you will find the option to "Open in SharePoint". There's no licensing option for O365 that doesn't include SharePoint. With Sway, I guess it's something that could have been turned off, but it's included on the very cheapest offerings, so I'd be amazed if it's somehow not licensed for you. Have you tried going to the website sway.com?

Thanks. I'll keep showing them the things Teams can do and hopefully that will persuade them. The system they're using is good - it just seems too expensive for their budget.

Important point. Also why we need to share out the vaccine ASAP, otherwise will never be able to safely opens the borders again.

The plan we're working to is a political compromise. If you feel the plan is wrong, it's definitely worth making some noise (although not on here because that's against the rules of the forum). The compromise will always be between the two extremes ; whichever side you agree with, if you give up because you think the other side has won, then the other side becomes the new centre ground.

Digital cables the signal either gets through or not; build quality so they don't break the first time you use them is worth a bit and presumably shielding can help, but I've done fine with Poundland HDMI cables. I did have problems with an HDMI switch that failed to auto-detect the signal that was fixed by upgrading to a £5 cable, so it is possible to buy better or worse cables. There's a bit more scope for difference with analogue signals but I know someone who used to work designing the electronics inside Quad hi-fi kit. They're in the business of selling kit at a price that definitely tries to extract large amounts of money for diminishing returns, but he told me they'd tested coat hangers for speaker cable and found them excellent. For convenience and cost, he recommended cheap copper electrical flex. They used it in test labs and in testing reckoned it was indistinguishable from top end speaker cable.

Just wondered if anyone had experience, good or bad. I'm doing some work for a non-profit medical organisation (not NHS) and I'm setting up O365 for non-profits. As part of their member services they subscribe to Docmatter which is an online collaboration service for clinicians. The purpose is to allow them to publish documents relating to their specialist clinical area and promote them to their members to ensure members are up to date with best practice and to provide a platform for members to ask for advice from the experts. Docmatter has worked well, but now that the membership has grown behind a certain point, subscription has gone up and it will cost about 20% of their revenue next year. I think Teams would actually facilitate everything they've put in their requirements, but they explicitly want a social network type product. Yammer would be free, but I don't want to recommend something rubbish...

How much have you got to lose? Option 1) Don't try dd-wrt > definitely buy a new router Option 2) Try dd-wrt > maybe but a new router I was nervous the first time, but it was in school not looking after I'd started so it wouldn't have been a good look. I went for it on that basis though - they weren't for for purpose as they were, so I didn't have loads to lose. At home you could use your phone as a hotspot or some random router sitting in a cupboard (most of us have at least one of those, or is it just me?) for the day it takes for a replacement to arrive...

I have a relative who is expected back at uni on the 8th for resumption of practical aspects of their course. They're required to have a Covid test before they travel - but no indication of where to obtain one. They're required to have two more tests three days apart before they're allowed on campus - but are not supposed to be in their accommodation before the 8th. So at least a week at college but not able to do anything they can't do at home and then 10 days before they finish for Easter. Only seems to be half thought through - so about normal then. I wonder who's agenda it suits - not convinced it helps the students much.

They're one of the most innovative energy supply companies, both in technology and product design. Customer Satisfaction is high and prices are low. My dealings have been at least as good as any other supplier I've dealt with. Examples of innovation: "Agile" tariffs - including making the API available so that you can link it with solar and home battery to buy at the cheapest rate and sell back at peak times Car to grid trials, including leasing the cars at beneficial rates and a special tariff A "Tesla" tariff which requires you to have home solar, a Tesla car and a Tesla powerwall to essentially trial creating a distributed virtual power generation company And at the same time, their basic prices are at the very least competitive. I only ended up with them because co-op energy outsourced their contracts, but haven't felt any need to change. Maybe that's what the boss means by enabling creativity in the workforce. All of the people I've spoken to in the last year seem to have been working from home, so maybe a conventional IT department doesn't exist, but they definitely have people working on IT.

O365 custom domain feature has got ridiculously easy to set up now. When I added the custom domain it said "Do you want to use this for emails?" After I clicked yes, it said "We'll take you to your domain provider" which it identified. Within O365 I had to give permission for it to access my domain records and it then made the required edits.

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I couldn't believe it wasn't straightforward and built in the first time I tried - but it isn't. You still need third party software to achieve it and I was never comfortable doing that as it means giving access to your mail system to someone whose security credentials you have limited knowledge of. My workaround is to put the attachment on OneDrive or Google Drive and include the link. I was challenged on how secure that was, but if it's internal, you can require login. If it's external and you set it to "anyone with the link" it's a vanishingly small possibility of someone coming across it if they haven't been sent the link and recipients could forward and attachment as easily as they could forward the link.

Far from convinced about mass (predictive text suggested mad!) opening of schools, but even less keen on point 89 in the plan referring to universities:

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