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We use the iVMS software from Hikvision to aggregate our CCTV boxes so you don't get the 'only runs in Internet Explorer with an active x plugin'. This gives us a single piece of software to view the CCTV footage from 9 different Hikvision / HiLook boxes over 2 sites.

When we had an incident with 20+ students and they needed it to be face blurred, we found this site: https://www.secureredact.co.uk/ They now seem to have a free tier of 20mins of video per month (it was a paid service when we used it) I used to be a video tape editor for the BBC and it did in 5 minutes what would have taken me several days using 'standard video editing packages'. Just upload your clip and let it do its stuff... It does miss the odd frame, but you can edit the markers for each frame to ensure you've got all the faces covered. I would suggest you edit the clip down to make sure you only upload the necessary bits. PS not associated with it in any way, but was impressed what it achieved with some 'sub par' CCTV footage.

I come in today for our single student doing a PAT paper... to find out the Student had been emailed yesterday evening to say it was going to be a physical paper...! The Exams officer only found out this morning..! His answer paper will still need to be uploaded later today... Yesterday's papers could only be uploaded this morning as people were still doing the test in the afternoon... So the 'we can assure you that it wont be repeated again' is true for us in that they've reverted to physical paper exams...

Our exams officer has recieved this reply to a query about the 'difficulties' she had today.. Hi, Our technical team has looked into the root cause of the issue and we can assure you that it wont be repeated again. Regards, TCS Test Centre Support Team The cynic in me is not convinced...

same here... 3 students, rest of school on Inset... v slow to respond... phones lines don't connect or fall over after two rings... on line chat says 'currently not working... we're on a 1gb line as well... 1 student took 50 mins to get on and started... ...and they want to make all exams digital...

We've had a couple of Teachers this morning saying the webpage was just spinning... but my admin account seems fine as does my Teacher level account. Nothing mentioned on their status page... yet!

I thought that you could 'throw' a lot of files at Handbrake and it would batch convert them... For a one off set of conversions, i'd use WinFF You can set up your options for what 'flavour' of MP4 you want, add a load of files, specifiy an output directory (or the same directory) and then delete the source files afterwards. WinFF is a GUI for FFMPEG, which is what Handbrake uses under its skin. For ongoing conversion needs, I use drop folders and a bat file to convert files using FFMPEG. A folder on a 'share' is monitored (by Directory Monitor) and when it detects a new file, it calls the script and uses FFMPEG to convert it and put it in a new folder. I set up a folder called 'convert_to_MP4' and another called 'convert_to_MP3'. the 'output' folder is called 'Converted_Files_are_Here'. The script could be modified in order to delete the source file after the conversion. my 2p

As you've mentioned 're-imaging' of windows, I presume the projected image was fine before this took place? A 'wobble' sounds like a physical / mechanical problem... we've had ceiling mounted projectors that 'wobbled' when the kids in the upstairs classroom moved around. When the image 'wobbles'.. does the projected frame stay still and the windows image within it move? does the image move left/right or up/down? left/right could be phase shift within the projector. up/down could be sync issues in the signal or projector. You say you've updated drivers... i'd be looking at trying some older drivers just in case 'something' has been improved but is actually makes things worse... my 2p PS you could also try the re-start of the graphics buffer by pressing the Shift+Ctrl+Win+B

looks like its back... nothing updated on their status pages of course... Status page

looks like its down again for users with SSO... seems ok for admins at the moment...

NO..! we have 2 secondaries and 7 primaries.... and the penchant for Staff not following naming guidelines leads to chaos. Here only IT create Teams, then we can control the type and naming of the Team as all our schools are under the same MS tenant.

From the screen shot it looks like the OS is seeing only 'one' virtual drive, provided by your host and contains both your C and E Drives. I don't think you will be able to extend your C drive until the E drive gets moved, to give the C drive space to expand. Two options i can see... Copy the files from the E drive and then delete it, then expand the C drive, recreate the E drive and copy the files back. Might not be so easy if the WDS has 'marked' some special folders. The other option is to create another HD for the virtual machine and use it for the E drive, then remove it from the 1st 'hard drive' and expand the C drive. my 2p edit: PotNoodleTech beat me to it...

The status page has come to life now with more info... https://status.schoolcloud.co.uk/ But can't get on here as an admin...

there is the 2006 BBC version available to stream from the ERA website here:

my 'add students' PS script is listed below. You need a csv with headers: of student and GroupID $csv = import-csv d:\teamsps\students-extras-2.csv $csv | foreach-object { $student = $_.student $GroupID = $_.GroupID Add-TeamUser -GroupId "$GroupID" -User "$student" -Role Member } I did similar for teachers, but made the '-role Member' bit to be '-role Owner'. I found it easier to do it students and Teachers separately than work out a script to combine the operations. If you're a script junkie, its probably very easy. I'm a big believer in 'KISS'... 'keep it simple, stupid!' as it helps my colleagues if they find themselves having to do this.

to get the group ID's, i used: Get-Team |Select GroupId, DisplayName which gives all the GroupIDs in the powershell window. I cut and pasted it into a spreadsheet and mangled it to get the ID's i needed for the actions i needed. I'm no powershell expert but you could probably pipe the output of that command into a file. To find just one ID, use: Get-Team -DisplayName "TEAM NAME HERE" hope that helps.

You can create a 'class' type team in powershell. I used the following: $csv = import-csv d:\teamsps\7d-Hi1-class.csv $csv | foreach-object { $TeamName = $_.class $Owner = $_.owner $TeamDescription = $TeamName $group = New-Team -template EDU_class -DisplayName "$TeamName" -Description "$TeamDescription" -Owner "$Owner" } which uses a csv with headers of 'class' and 'owner'. its basic, but did the job.

When i did the bulk creation for Teams, i came across this issue. When you create the team, as the instruction is one line, you can only add one person. I got round it by creating the Teams and making myself the owner. Then getting the group ID of the Team. then you can do actions against the group ID like adding people as owners or members from a csv file. Then i run another script to remove myself from the team. I found using the Group Id was the best way of doing this. using the team name meant using azure lookups, which in my scripts, didn't work. happy to share the basic scripts i used...

There are lots of solutions out there, we use Mutiny (https://www.mutiny.com/downloads/) and pay £1 per monitored node under their educational pricing. We monitor 150 nodes and that covers all our switches, links, printers and servers etc. Its an annual cost, but has paid for itself several times over in alerting us to predicted disc failures in servers before they actually fell over. We've just added environmental monitors (expensive) as we're across site from the actual server rooms. We have it displayed on a TV in a browser using multiple tabs so we see the various status pages we've setup. They do a fully functional version with 10 nodes (25 if you sign up to their newsletter) so you can have a good play with it... They also do a physical appliance if you want. We went with the VMWare OVA option and hosted it on our on box. If you go with the ISO version, you need to put it on a DVD, it doesn't work from a USB for some reason. my 2p

have a look at this channel. Seems very informative and easy going. He also did a narrowboating channel called 'cruising the cut' which was very good. https://www.youtube.com/@Vandemonium

we use the TES School Cloud Systems (aka roombookingsystem.co.uk) and it does 2 week timetables. Our system was set to bi-weekly by them... there is a note on our system to say that if you want to change the timetable type, you need to get in touch with them, so its not a setting that my admin user can tweak, TES / School Cloud need to change it for you.

You mention 'Would I be able to back up the data from all 4 disks using a single USB caddy?' If you mean to put each disc into a USB caddy and then read it on a standalone PC to get the data off - Then i think that won't work. At best, windows will see a disc of gobbledgook, at worse,it will see the drive as uninitialised and offer to format it for you! This is because the hardware raid of the NAS will have put the data across multiple discs in its own format, along with a parity check on a fourth. The only way i've seen discs recovered from faulty raid setups (that weren't disc failures) is to have an identical setup (raid version, same hardware, firmware etc) and hope the controller can read the raid config from one of the drives. Server HBA cards sometimes put the raid config on one of the drives. NAS boxes may only have the raid config in its own ROM. my 2p

Here's my first car, a 1978 Chrysler Sunbeam 1.0LS. Only made for about 3 years, but a Lotus version was used in rallying... The obscure bit is that my car, with my reg number was made as a Diecast model. I hadn't realised when i bought it that it used to be a Met Police panda car. a link to the diecast version is here... I didn't want to 'steal' the photo and post it directly.

Tea, earl grey, hot, number 5...

We, by default, have it on and it works fine for most users with 'sensible' email habits. We had issues with a user with a lot of delegated accounts with the delegated accounts not updating. So it was turned off for them. Also we had a few users that were delegated on a mailbox that reached 99% of capacity and the size of the resultant OST file made the laptops complain about space issues with the maximum size of OST file reached. Turning off 'cached exchange mode' sorted the issue for them. When they clear the mailbox down, it will improve things even more for them... On a fast wired connection, it should be fine. Outlook takes a bit longer to fire up and display the first page, but we're talking couple of seconds etc.