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OP: Are you trying to limit the running of compiled code written by the students?

SIMS will not let you delete students if any kind of transaction (attendance, assessment, behaviour) has happened with the record until X years after the leaving date. Whoever does the census will hunt you down with a torch and pitchfork.

I'd ignore "downtime" and concentrate on service availability. If authentication keeps working but you had a staggered reboot of all 3 DCs in the last hour, no-one cares. Make your services sufficiently redundant and perform (scheduled, vs cowboy ad-hoc) maintenance during the working day.

SLT, finance and IT do, but they don't tend to take a dock (usually WiFi and USB-C portable screen for finance) as there aren't any "spare" desks with mounted monitors. I take a dock on occasion if I'll be there a while, need a couple of screens and can use a classroom display TV as a second screen. But I don't get the flickering. A laptop experiencing problems can be moved to School A's main site, connected to an identical setup and work for months without any flickering.

In the main part of School A, we use USB-C docks without any problems. In a small part of SchoolA across a shared access road and connected to a different electrical feed, docks are unreliable and screens may drop out without any rhyme or reason. In School B, a test dock is also unreliable and screens may drop out without any rhyme or reason. School B is a primary school long overdue an electrical refit, but the power supply is reasonably reliable. Having done everything but put the monitors + docks on UPS, I think it's the electrical supply at School A and I don't have enough data at School B yet. Any other suggestions? Background: Affects equipment at 2 school sites Affects Anker and Startech docks (firmware updated) Dedicated 65w power supplies for the docks (tested without too) Same laptops and firmware versions at each school Same monitors used at each site. Same USB-C and HDMI cables used at each site. Hardware that didn't work does work if moved to the main part of School A's site. (I'm using one to write this) No sources of electrical/radio interference (that we're aware of) Dock has the following connected: Ethernet 2x 24" Iiyama monitors via HDMI USB mouse wireless receiver

You could also (assuming InTune or GPOs apply to the clients) apply the necessary config via GPO post-install. Install one client manually, pull the relevant config file / entries and include them in a "C-AppConfig" GPO. Also means you won't have to faff with the next version of the installer.

This is a discussion to have with management. I'd also echo @psydii's suggestion that you have longer than 3 months of company data available. Any sensible ransomware actor is going to compromise and then wait a bit.

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I treat BETT as somewhere to visit so I know that X exists and grab a business card with their website on. Maybe catch up with a couple of suppliers we already have relationships with. Extended meetings are not an effective use of my available time (given it's a 6-8 hr round trip).

I'm trialing Action1 (still within the free tier atm) for our primaries. It's got a few annoyances (still waiting on the "only reboot once for patches, not per-patch" feature request) but it's being actively developed and they're responsive to suggestions.

Typically the appropriate headteacher or a member of SLT. From a "provide/source a tool so people can do X more efficiently" or a "OK, if I don't nip this in the bud, there'll be a trainwreck / Bob's about to commit a criminal act" point-of-view? I'd say yes. The former's in-scope as an IT task and the latter avoids reputational damage to the school/trust. From a "should IT be doing data protection work"? Not unless the request involves data for which IT is the data owner or you're explicitly being compensated for having an overview* of data protection. *help, point in right directions, remove guns from feet, review SAR before it goes out, etc. Not "do the work instead of the data owners".

They also broke Live Register balance transfers (from ParentPay to LiveRegister, LiveRegister > ParentPay still worked), which (as of ~13:30) should now be fixed, but just in case you get queries.

My guess is that you're doing incremental backups and Veeam expected to be able to refer to files on the (now removed) USB disk. Veeam (by default, you can choose something else) uses forever-forward incrementals. Say you have a 60 day backup cycle for something. 1st Backup is a full 2nd is incremental 3rd is Incremental ... 60th is incremental. 61st also incremental but merges the second backup into the first (full) backup. And it verifies that everythings there as part of the backup process so you have a working, restorable backup. If it can't find a file in the chain it will tell you. Look into the "create active full backups periodically" setting or have a second job that puts fulls on removable storage.

One river was about to burst it's banks near my house (I'm away up the hill though, so...). Tesco car park was flooded and the other end of town stank of sewage this morning.

End-of-term update. We've begun rollout to our Integris-using schools and this is probably the best Xmas present I could have bought our trust data person. You will need to adjust data permissions (default read permissions are (as you'd hope) quite conservative) if you want usable data about students, but that's a case of sitting down and going "Do we need X and if we do, why do we need X?" and making sure you're pulling only what you need now.

Sent yes, and eDiscovery will show the recall. I just consider the recalling of read messages without some oversight to be rife for abuse. If Sarah sends Bob something, then recalls it, there's no visibility to Bob that it happened. Not even a "Sarah recalled something". If that email is something Bob relies upon to do his job, the lack of transparency (vs "Hey Bob, I sent you the wrong file, here's the right one") is a problem / cause for people to start doubting themselves.

You can set an "if it's been read you can't recall it" organisation-wide. That's what we've done to balance audit requirements vs accidentally including / sending the wrong thing.

Yup, I'd see that and expect a longer safeguarding report from the filter. (I'm assuming that site still exists)

. Our licensing is a bit of a mix (schools have usually just renewed a 3 year EES right before joining the MAT, so consolidation takes time), but as an example: SchoolA has A3 licensing. Anyone who needs access to the PowerBI Reports Dashboard gets an additional PowerBI Pro license (on top of A3) People doing development work (having adventures in data) get a Power BI Premium license instead. Our current goal is to standardise reporting (T&L, but also Estates, Catering, Finance, Governance, etc) across the trust in a portable building-blocks way that makes it more readily accessible to the people who need it. Less faffing, more using data. You can export and publish reports externally (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/collaborate-share/service-publish-to-web) but I need to properly check it out and (since parents can't authenticate to our tenancy) I'd only do that for aggregate and properly anonymous data (attendance across school for a year). You can do the Report > PDF > Email (or other appropriately secured portal) routine though and we're looking into it for school reports.

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I use a bloke called Gavin. On the odd occasion I need to reterminate something or it's a one-off, Keystone jacks (as mentioned above) are well worth the cost. The Klein Tools pass-through crimper (for rj45 plugs) is brilliant.

Our installer has (not unreasonably) asked whether they can have remote access to check / reset the intruder alarm at one of our sites. The solution they're using for remote access elsewhere is Orisec (https://www.orisec.co.uk) and it's all a bit light on detail, which is making my "it's physical security, of course the IT side will be awful" radar ping. Obviously we'll split it off from the rest of the network, but has anyone had this pass over their desk?

Ask the managed print provider to add it@ and reprographics@ to the System Notifications emails under PaperCut MF > Options > Notifications? Each field takes a comma-separated list of email addresses. Alternatively. pull the data via SNMP (I like LibreNMS, other tools are available) and issue alerts from there instead.

Yup, zooming in, it's clearly copper. The exterior sheath is showing the imprint from the twisted pairs. The externally used cable I'm most familiar with has a thicker sheath that wouldn't show that imprinting.

No drip loop, what appears to be a foam sticker (maybe epoxy?) onto brick for the first retention point, blown out brick at the bottom of the brick. Coming off the roof like that implies they've run the cable straight across a flat roof (vs down to closest facia and then around the edge) which means the fibre will be trashed during roof replacement / repair (likely to happen over the working lifespan of the fibre) Amateur hour. As others have said, there's probably more terrible things hiding in drop ceilings. I'd pop a few ceiling tiles along the run(s) and inspect the work more closely.