pete

Yes. Assuming Windows Radius, go into NPS > Policies > Network Policies and make a new policy ("AD Computers" or whatever) and on the Conditions tab add "Windows Group" (or machine group) and pick a group the laptops are a member of.

On top of the Musk problem..... The bipartisan oversight committee that's part of the requirements for the EU-US data sharing (and the UK-US data bridge agreement, as it builds off the EU-US one) is no longer bipartisan as of 23rd Jan. There's ~30 days or so until that becomes a "OK, you all need to setup model contracts with Microsoft, Google, etc" problem that the EU has to take notice of. To invoke a Lion King trope, it depends whether Scar is aware of the risk of being eaten alive by the tech hyenas (MS, Google, Meta, Amazon) should he let that happen.

We get rabbits, pheasants, badgers, foxes, crested newts, buzzards, muntjac and fallow deer. In the school holidays a peahen makes the back half of the school her territory and stalks around like a cowardly velociraptor. My favourite are still the seagulls who've learned when it's fish & chips day and that the Y7 and Y8 will abandon or spill their chips when divebombed. The population sizes were more to avoid indecision than any strict metric. Pick what fits best.

For a contractor who only visits a couple of times a year I'm going to double-check they've considered the obvious and less-obvious risks. There's no phone signal until you walk down the road and face the cabbage field to get 1-2 bars of 2G. There's no footpath, no streetlighting, big drainage ditch full of water with very slippery banks just outside the school. Has my approach been coloured by finding an avoidable corpse in another job aged 22? Very likely. I'd rather mildly annoy contractors by double-checking than risk the alternative. We are a MAT. Most of the terrible things we discover in schools that're looking to join us were done (or neglected) by those LA-provided managed services.

Prompted by having to warn a contractor that he must have N+1 people onsite, ideally using different phone networks, if he wants to work out-of-hours above shoulder height at one of our sites.... How rural are your schools, generally?

My question of SLT would be: "What has happened or been discussed recently that makes you think this is a good idea and won't just annoy people who think they've got an actionable response from the people educating their child when it's just a "thanks for your email"?

Manufacturer guidelines and make sure you've got automated testing configured and it emails you the results.

What about redaction tools for footage to be exported? "Redact all the faces but that *draws circle round particular face* one" https://www.secureredact.ai/ for example. Now admittedly sometimes that's just a matter of tracking a vague face blob as it moves across frames until it becomes something a police officer/pastoral lead can work with, but it's still using AI.

We typically do a building at a time (Art Block, English Block) if we're doing a phased/test rollout. If we can't do that we'll try to do all the science labs at the same time so people mostly don't have to jump across platforms. But get a survey done - most decent data cabling companies have got the equipment to do it.

We like the uLog kit from LogITWorld. It's cross-platform, sends the data as keystrokes and the software is great. https://www.logitworld.com/secondary_datalogging https://www.logitworld.com/logit-ulog Compared to the awful blue dataloggers from Sciencescope, they're brilliant.

Not unless you have a login to a Greenhouse CMS, no - (If you do, it's under the Help menu > Accessibility Requirements)

Greenhouse just sent out a "some people are scaremongering around accessibility, we've added a template you can use if you want" note to customers.

File Locator Pro (free trial for 30 days). https://www.mythicsoft.com/filelocatorpro/ We used it a bit ago after some of our bigger darlings decided to seed a staff share with lesson resource PDFs that caused Windows.Data.Pdf.dll to crash Windows' content classifier and lose all results during a SAR.

"tall person in a red jumper" can be personally identifiable data in a narrow enough context. The example I use is that: "Mr Smith, 123 Fake Street, Little Worthington, UK." and "The tall chap who walks the sausage dog at lunchtime" both equally identify the same person in a local enough context. See also: "Er, I don't know the new teacher's name Sir, but they've got massive ears".

^ We did get confirmation back (via email) for our schools but we used special delivery so we knew it had at least reached the building.

If you're hoping to give notice before paying the bill circa Easter time, you've likely missed the deadline (early December).

Judge: "Yes, it's still illegal to club a zebra to death with a cornish pasty in Macclesfield on a Tuesday". Judge: "Next case......*winces*....Cream scone or Wednesday?" Clerk: "Wednesday Zebras, your honour. We've got quite a way to go before scones."

Very much a "OK, pastoral team - if he walked around with a badge on saying that, how would you handle it? Right, do that." issue. If you use some middleware such as Salamander to sync between MIS > AD > Azure, you may be able to create a group called UpdateUserBio, drop the person in the group and then ask Salamander to overwrite the About Me text from MIS or AD fields when it syncs overnight.

As @john says, consult your retention schedule / badger your DPO for the retention schedule. If this is the first time you've run it in SIMS it will take a while and impact people using SIMS. Run it overnight. Make sure you also clean up unlinked contacts / persons too - you'll create a lot of orphaned contacts when you delete student records. @SpreadsheetJockey - I'd argue against putting unnecessary data into the new MIS. There'll be enough weird legacy stuff coming over as it is.

^ It's less the physical damage (we get that to some extent at all our schools, some more than others depending on particular children), it's more the unusual things you wouldn't expect. An example from one our other other schools: A Logitech subwoofer has an open port. If you put an M&M in that port, get the placement right and the speaker is on for long enough, the M&M melts enough to short out something inside the subwoofer, resulting in an angry squealing noises (think personal attack alarm being set off) if it's powered on. If you're on a ladder troubleshooting said subwoofer, this may have consequences if the report of the problem doesn't mention how it's not working. So we don't buy anything student-accessible with open ports now.

We may (LA/DfE agreeing) be creating an Alternative Provision facility (secondary age pupils) within our trust in the near-ish to medium future. If you / your team provide IT support to a similar facility, what things do I need to consider that are on your "Oh, I didn't think we'd have to develop a solution for that....." list? Tell me the things that you only learn about after you've been involved with one for a while. cheers Pete

"Explain this document using football and other sporting analogies from the UK" Then again, I used Pingu as an example for someone this morning.

No. Use fresh drives, formerly bitlockered drives that have been formatted or Boot & Nuke. The kind of children you're likely to attract are very much the kind of children who'd know enough to nick a drive and run testdisk/photorec. Plus it only takes another user of said village hall to not lock up properly / not supervise other users of the hall to win yourself a data breach. Don't put yourself/your employer in the position of explaining to ICO that the drives hadn't been properly sanitised.

^ yeah, all of that. I've used it before if I'm converting a document from an adult audience to a "5 year old needs to understand this". Do I still put in front of a couple of test 5 year olds and a teacher of 5 year olds to double-check before it goes live? Of course. Does it (with a reasonable document to work with and a decent prompt) do a fair job of it most of the time? Also yes.

Do you make it clear you mean inventing untrue things, rather than use from an accessibility standpoint? We're fine with people using it to draft a more coherent/better-written CV, but if they're using it to lie (on the CV or during the interviews), then it's GTFO.