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If you are North of the area VeryPC maybe able to help, depending on what the job is. EDIT: Saying that, they were willing to come down to the South Coast so geography doesn't seem to be an issue.

Where in the country are you? A lot of support companies prefer to remain within a certain area, so the company I recommend may not be any help to you if you are the other end of the country.

You're options are: 1) Bank some hours. Pay for some hours up front that you can use them. 2) get a contract with pay as you go, but you will be on lowest level SLA 3) pay something annually and work out some sort of recompense if you don't use them, some consultation or something. Otherwise plan it is a standalone project and go to the company on that basis.

In a simplistic sentence, inertia, fear of change and unwillingness to change ways of working. But it is a big change, and is one of the few things that affects nearly every aspect of the school. It is also only very recently that there has been much choice in the MIS market that offered much difference. So it was often better the devil you know.

Is the Queen's Gambit the spin off series? I think I am abandoning WandaVision until the episodes have stacked up. Finding weekly viewing really hard, I don't know how we did it back in the day! Really interesting though, love the way they have got the feeling of the old shows. I'll give Lupin another go. I started watching it and just didn't get far. It might have been due to watching a lot of dubbed series, so was a bit dubbed out. How to Sell Drugs Online Fast from Netflix is a good one. Dubbed, a bit like Breaking Bad with kids, but not a kids show.

Yep. My example uses two different groups but I would think it should work with the same group.

That's similar to what I have done $user = Read-Host -Prompt 'Input user to disable (exclude the domain)' $userDomain = $user +'@DOMAIN.TLD' This way I have the username for some other code and the email for use with Azure.

You can create a mail flow rule to not allow a group to send to a group. We have done this between two separate groups in our AD structure. You would probably have to test whether it allows blocking to itself but I wouldn't see a reason it wouldn't work. EDIT:

Personally I wouldn't see this as an issue as once you are at scale ticket assignment should be automatic, especially with areas being assigned to certain teams. Also there should always be central analysis as someone needs to be able to show that the allocation of resources (Technicians/Teams) is correct (or more importantly not), and not rely on the team to scream when they are overwhelmed or someone find out they are all sitting around twiddling their thumbs.

My concern with this would be resilience. What if that tech is off or involved with something more pressing? At least with a team supporting, as FN-GM says, then anyone could be slotted in and the load distributed.

What do you specifically need to do? Would SketchUp cover it?

Part of the problem is it can do so much and when you get it, it is just a framework so very daunting. So we started using it for mobile phones, to set security. We then added in policies for personal devices, to make sure they had a PIN and the like. Now we have built some devices to it. So to answer your questions: 1) No use it as standalone. 2) Staff and Student 3) We have a mix of both, personal devices are listed if they have accepted to our security baseline. 4) Most pitfalls are due to the change in mental model. Everything can be set as device or user and it isn't as well laid out, so if you find a device you then can't see easily (that I have found) what groups it is in, so troubleshooting or reverse engineering is trickier. 5) Should mean easier to deploy. So some laptops I have rebuilt today just joined the AAD and everything spooged down with barely any input from me. If I got it completely right I should be able to give a brand new laptop to someone and they get to open it turn it on and it would join our Azure domain and they get to choose things like language and keyboards.

Chromebook will save a lot of budget, but will be a different way of working and may restrict what can be done in the future. If she literally just needs web access then I would say get a £3-400 Chromebook. Also fulfils the minimum fuss aspect. For that money can get one with a touchscreen that will mimic a tablet with the keyboard bent back and a pen. If she is set on a tablet then we got a batch of Samsung Tab A 10.5 tablets that have been great for in the classroom. EDIT: https://www.asus.com/uk/2-in-1-PCs/ASUS-Chromebook-Flip-C214MA/ may not be the prettiest beast but is a great device. Only issue at the moment is it is hard to get.

As far as I am aware yes. It launches the update.exe, which checks and updates if needed and then launches the Teams.exe once done.

My shortcut goes to C:\Users\fbusher\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams\Update.exe --processStart "Teams.exe"

The shortcut should update it as it runs the updater before opening Teams. If you have created your own shortcut direct to the Teams exe, then that could be why it isn't updating.

If you ever want, or may want, to do lockdown then don't go for wireless. You can not unlock or lock doors wireless paxton locks remotely.

Here Y3 up all have teams logins and Teams is setup roughly as you describe. Our Curriculum leaders decided to keep it as Year Group Teams, but this was more to help the staff than the pupils. IT does work but causes a few niggles. Y2 and down, teachers create meetings, copy the meeting links and send them to the parents. Documents that are needed are with sent to us to upload to the website and provide a link back to the teacher or they use Tapestry. Yes, we provide support to parents, mostly as it helps catch what the staff are doing wrong. Last week I sent an email to all parents with top tips and tricks and this was well received, might have to become a regular feature.

Thanks for this, love looking at old maps and comparing them to how the area has developed. It is a shame it doesn't give a better idea of when the OS maps were from (unless I missed it) just some random period from 1937 and 61.

Did you see the posts that Amazon cited? They were pure violence, calling for murder just because they didn't agree with someone. Amazon had warned them multiple times and submitted many posts that needed dealing with and Parler made the least effort they thought they could get away with. As ever free speech does not allow someone to yell FIRE in a crowded room. There is a big difference between posting a picture to show it happened and calling for something to happen. One is documentation, the other is incitement. Funnily enough, the people that seemed to flock to Parler were the exact ones that tried to claim a while back that online services were publishers so had to moderate their content. Maybe a new social media service should work on the moderation problem, that could be there USP.

Sonicwall is an interesting choice if you think Smoothwall is not good.

Wonder if it is a sudden surge of schools ending early and online learning being hastily created?!

Thanks, that seems to be to transfer to IIS8, I'll see if I can find out if it is IIS8+

You could set the profile to be cleared after one day, either by GPO or script. Or set a logoff script to delete the cache from the profile?

Hi all. Our Accounts server with Sage 200 on is one of the last servers to upgrade to 2019. I really don't want to have to call the support company and get them to reinstall Sage (as apparently we aren't trusted to click next) on to a new server as negotiating between them and the Accounts department is a Herculean task I'm not sure I have in me at the moment. So I did an inplace install and the server side worked perfectly, the only thing to break was that the IIS config is almost completely wiped out in the transition to IIS 10. I had a snapshot so no harm, no foul but wondering if anyone knows of a way to export the config? All my Google foo just points at cross server migration, so IIS 8 to IIS 8. I'm starting to think I may have to take a copious number of screenshots and then just go through manually implementing the settings. TIA