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Not necessarily the most elegant option, but could you embed other Google docs into the published slide show? You could then make the embedded documents private. If by any chance someone accessed the published slideshow, they'd only see an error message for embedded documents. As a side benefit of that approach, you could give access to each document to different people.

Silly Old Harry Caught A Haddock Trawling Off Algeria (My maths teacher was a former submarine commander - although we were all convinced he was ex MI6.

For me, this is what it comes down to. Even with your individual expertise, given the resources you're likely to have as a school, you just can't get near what MS offers. And personally I know my individual expertise won't get anywhere near the level of what MS have either.... The other consideration for me is that I couldn't envisage a scenario for us where we needed everything back instantly. As long as the data is there, I'd only expect to need one file at a time. That largely takes dependency on a broadband connection out of the equation - a 4g mobile connection per user should be fine for most people. The obvious exception would be video files for editing, but I'm guessing they wouldn't be in O365 anyway.

This isn't supposed to be bah humbug, but does he need anything else? I'm always being asked what I want and I really, honestly, don't want anything, but no one ever believes me. Then they buy me something that even though it's nice, I'd be just as happy without. To be fair, it's much more difficult since Spotify and eBooks. I always used to be able to name some music or a book I wanted.

Don't panic [emoji41] You should be able to achieve it. I've done similar before. The process will be similar to this: https://www.wintips.org/how-to-convert-server-2016-evaluation-to-licensed-version/ It's been covered on here before; I'll dig out the thread.

I'll have a play next week. I'm away this weekend, but I have a Chromebook at home and have extensively used Word, Excel and PowerPoint Android apps without noticing anything terrible. I've been using them so long that I might just have become accustomed to any problems.

I think he covered that:

We used Google forms for stuff like that - much higher success rate than paper forms, but you need agreement from management that a tick on a Google form is a suitable substitute for a signature. Other option would be to create a free school trip in ParentPay, but require permission. We always sent out a link to the Google form via our parent email communication platform (we used SchoolComms, but I'd assume ParentPay can do the same). If you use Google forms, I suggest always using separate fields for first name and surname as we always found that teachers like lists by first name and office prefer lists by surname. Also have a field for form/tutor group, but use a drop down box as parents are more likely to get it right if you do that! Edit: Assuming you use ParentPay to send emails, you could host a copy of the forms online and have a link to them from the letter. I'd still suggest using the built in consent part of ParentPay and include a statement along the lines of "by ticking this box, you agree that you give consent for $third_party to take photographs". You also need a procedure for them to notify you if they don't consent and a way to ensure that option is acted on. Even if ParentPay doesn't have the facility to add links properly, most email clients work out that plain text email addresses should be links and create the hyperlink.

Are you having problem with using ParentPay for consent?

When we did this, we started with a user survey - well, after we'd worked out what capabilities they needed for their job role [emoji57]. Obviously everyone should have a basic level of competence in office, but there will be plenty of admin staff who never need PowerPoint at all, never mind to a level they'd need a course for.

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If you're not going to be in there for very long at a time, you could look at an infrared heater - they only heat "things" rather than the whole space; point it at yourself [emoji846] https://www.electricradiatorsdirect.co.uk/infrared-heaters/

Haven't tried it, but is the iOS OneDrive app poo? It's supposed to be designed for backing up photos...

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House.

Streetlight

Yep. We did that years ago and the case made to me was that you just kept a table of who was allocated each email address on which dates. I argued that you were creating a solution to a problem that you'd created. It finally died when a previous head sent documents to the wrong governor and I was then asked "is there any easy way of identifying which email account belongs to which governor?" We always struggled with governors failing to access accounts and therefore missing out on information (especially after we blocked forwarding to personal accounts). My recommendation is to use the governor's personal email accounts for communication, but NEVER use email to send confidential documents. Put everything on O365 or Google Drive and then you have much more control at the same time as increasing the chances of governors reading emails.

I found it worked fine too - and as you can pre-populate the domain in the G Suite admin console, you can even sign in to Chromebooks with the same username as you have in AD. The only issue I had was with users who had existing accounts in GSuite - the sign in worked, but then they got a server error message (returned from Google) and no access to the GSuite services. MS blamed Google and Google blamed MS. Resolved eventually by deleting the accounts in GSuite and recreating - was a bit of a pain as I had to purge all record from Vault etc before I could recreate a user with the same name. To be clear, the actual SSO was seamless and worked fine.

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I'm happy with mine; it does help that AFTER I'd agreed a new contract with BT, the salesman said BTW, as you signed up in August, you get a free Tab A [emoji2]

I always used to use a watch, but they're banned now as well. Don't know if it's school specific, but our local secondary took the (not unreasonable) decision that they didn't want to have to check everyone's watch to see if it was smart or not. Projected image makes sense to me - most school halls just have a normal clock which isn't ready to read as it's too small.

I agree with Chris about the box on the tank being the thermostat for the hot water tank. Normally you can adjust without taking a cover off, but on mine you still need a screwdriver. People have a tendency to set them too hot, so it's probably just covered to dissuade users from fiddling. He's also right about the dangerous looking bit - it's the remains of an old immersion heater, but from the photos it doesn't look in a dangerous state. It's probably broken and they disconnected it rather than fix. The other white box is essentially a junction box. Power goes into it and depending on the state of the programmer, hot water tank thermostat, room thermostat and boiler thermostat it will supply power to the boiler, the circulation pump (that's the red one in img_0867) and the diverter valve (the green thing with a black plastic box attached). I'd expect there to be some kind of lever or indicator on the black box - don't push our pull it, as it'll likely break, but you should see it move when you switch from off to heating on our got water on or both. That'd give you some idea of whether it's working. The circulation pump is working, otherwise the radiators wouldn't get hot.

All the previous responses make sense to me (I have a similar system apart from the pressurised bit). If the thermostat on the boiler is set to 80°, it will send water round the loop and run until the water coming back is at 80°. The water goes to a diverter valve (usually near the hot water tank) which sends water through the radiators, through a coil inside the hot water tank or both depending on whether you want heating, hot water, or both. As it flows round, it loses heat either via the radiators or to colder water in the hot water tank. Your hot water tank #should# have an additional thermostat which should be set to 60° or less (water at 60° would cause serious injury), although older systems might not have. When I had our tank replaced 11 years ago it was mandatory, but the system when we moved in didn't have one. The hottest pipe connected to your tank will be the "flow" (pipe coming from the boiler) and will be near the bottom of your tank. The pipe nearest the top of the tank will be the hot water outlet. (The hot water rises through convection, so that when there's hot water left, but the boiler isn't running you should still get the hottest water in the tank.) If it never gets hot, either there's a thermostat on the tank that's set too low or it doesn't send a "call signal" to the boiler, or the rate of supply of heat via the "flow" is too low (i.e. hot water from the boiler is reaching the tank, but not enough to heat the volume of cold water in the tank. In that case, I'd start with the diverter valves. There might be a single valve, which is known as a midway diverter valve and they're notoriously unreliable (it's what I've got and I've replaced two in 11 years) or two separate valves. Either system performs the same function. Assuming your outlet pipe is hot, you should then get hot water out of the bath tap - if it's a long way from the hot water tank, you might have to run it for a while, but it should get to a point where is almost as hot as the outlet pipe at the top of the tank. If you're getting hot water, but the flow rate isn't high enough, it's probably the pressurisation system. The expansion tank in your photo should be at a about 1.5 to 2 bar when cold. They do need pressurising periodically but they can also fail. Obviously if it's a rented property, it shouldn't be your problem to fix and you definitely shouldn't try, because you could then be liable/accused of breaking it... Hopefully one of the responses here gives you a bit more information to talk to your landlord or plumber about. Good luck - no hot water is no fun in cold weather...

Could you fit an alternative connector yourself? i.e cut the cable between the transformer and the original connector and insert your own connectors. I wouldn't expect that to interfere with any control electronics. Obviously it'd be better for Raleigh to sort out, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

Yes, you can view users' files. Not in front of a console at the minute, but the info on this link matches my recollection of how I achieved it (obviously on request and with documented permission of SLT): https://sharepointmaven.com/how-to-access-someone-elses-onedrive-account/ Note: you need to be logged in to the O365 admin console as Global Administrator. On your original query, O365 Pro Plus can be installed locally - and I had it saving to Google drive via Filestream. As mentioned in a previous reply, installing O365 doesn't stop you blocking access to OneDrive and SharePoint, but you will need users to sign in to an O365 account. You should be able to use seamless SSO via your Google account though, so it won't be an issue for users.