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Murray

Alley .

It's quite powerful, but you'll get it going in a few minutes.

From the ms document: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/6/4/e64f72bf-55e9-4d85-9efe-39605d7ce272/windowsserver2016-licensing-guide.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwicy6iJ3IzjAhWVr3EKHS9FC0EQFjAAegQIBxAC&usg=AOvVaw18AKSA5OcZFRAO-s-96tMO

If it's SIMS there aren't logs at the level of detail.

Crunchie

If you use hyper v as your hypervisor you get 2 guests and a hypervisor with a single server standard licence (you aren't allowed to use/install any additional roles on the host but you can install a full version of Server with a GUI to run the hypervisor). Probably doesn't make sense if you're a VMware house, but straightforward enough. You could P2V the existing backup server and then just add it as a guest. When I first virtualized our server I used P2V and then ran it from hyper manager on my laptop; slow as a slow thing, but proved I had a working server before I flattened the physical server to convert it to a host. As a halfway house, you could add the hyper v role to your existing backup server and then build a DC as a guest. It'd give slightly better separation of roles and would still have no extra licensing cost. You'd also be able to move it to a different host more easily if the need arose.

As per title. We have a number of these. They're all 3 years old and on the same build but the keyboard (official type-cover) on one no longer responds either to keyboard or track pad input and there are no backlights either. Things I've tried: Cleaning the contacts Swapping keyboards with another device Re-imaging with the base image that all of the others use (running Windows 1803 education) USB keyboard and mouse work. All MS Surface drivers installed. TIA

Teletext

Technically/operationally really straightforward. If your HoDs aren't able/willing to do this, it wouldn't take you long. Worth trying to sell the positives - it's a major change program and although you can more or less replicate what you've already got, there are a few things that won't work the same way, which as we all know will cause complaints. There are plenty of advantages though. You need some early adopters to be advocates. Final thought: try and persuade them not to just copy everything over.

Is that a commercial product which allows bulk sending? I have that on my personal contract, but pretty sure it's not set up for sending to hundreds of people at a time. We use Schoolcomms and learned that if you have an urgent message, you can't rely on the app even for parents who install it. The app itself is reliable, but parents sometimes uninstall or turn off alerts for that app - they use it for payments, but don't expect to receive messages that way. Last time we had a snow day, no one turned up...

I've used Porteus before. Very easy to set up and designed to be easily locked down. http://www.porteus.org

Nose (sorry - working in a reception class at the minute)

Not for data protection reasons, but we've done two similar exercises: the first time, we had a new head and she found lesson resources being used that were two curriculum changes out of date. Staff were warned that they would be removed and given the opportunity to copy essential stuff to a new area. Result = no one sorted anything, but a couple of people took complete copies. In your situation, your data protection position would end up worse than you started as you would have no idea who had copies of what and no control over permissions. The second time, we were migrating file storage to O365. My instructions that time were to remove everything older than a year (i.e prior to our most recent Ofsted) and people could come to me if they *really* needed something. That was much more successful - we're a small school, but I've only been asked for three things in a year - and two of those were things that someone who'd left had failed to handover. Once you get rid of a huge chunk of data, sorting through what's left is much more doable. TL: DR of you give staff prior notice and allow them to take their own backups, it's a worse than useless activity.

Our cheques are on A4 sheets. Our last printers (Kyocera) and current (Ricoh) print cheques from FMS into the stationery provided by Barclays. I have done nothing to make this work - it's almost Apple-like [emoji57]

(y) logic

I reckon that for at least the near future Google's basic offering will be free, but that they'll gradually add in more and more premium features that won't be available in the free offering. Still think they'll "give away" more than M$ as their normal business model is give away the main product for free and find another way to monetise it. M$ had always charged for it's offerings.

(Cairngorm Mc)Womble

We have smaller children and smaller laptops (11") [emoji57] However, from personal use, I find 14" screens a much better compromise between portability and functionality. If they're being carried a lot, you can go down to 13"and they're still usable for work, but 14" is better. Haven't bought any 15" laptops for myself or staff for quite a while now.

Mis-read it. Thought you were looking for desks covered with wires. Was going to post a picture of mine [emoji11]

(of) faith

Converted

Tunnel

^^ This. Edge borks PDFs in particular and printing (all file types) in general. It gets hidden on my installs. Chrome is less bad, but separate PDF reader still seems necessary.

^^ That's what I did - albeit I had to boot from USB as I only had generic adapters which the Surface Pros don't recognise for pxe boot. Once booted, the MDT prices worked across the network. The drivers came down from MDT with the task sequence.