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https://www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/network-manager-west-sussex-1346167 After 14 years I'm off to pastures new. Any questions then you can PM me here or email [email protected]

The best way is to add your own domain as an allowed domain in Office 365 (Exchange admin centre ->Spam Filter ->Default policy)

We use iTrent which is a complete HR/Payroll solution and its not cheap :-/

Hi All Within the Student - Teacher view in SIMS, parent email addresses are shown as links which should open the configured email client when clicked. However when staff try to click on these links a yellow circle with an exclamation mark in it appears in the bottom left of the page and says 'Mail Client is not configured' We've been in touch with Capita but they haven''t been able to help and simply point the finger at Microsoft. The mail clients on our computers appear to be correctly configured to be the default option so I'm at a bit of a loss as to where the problem is. Has anyone else had this problem and managed to fix it? Thanks

It sure is! It's an oxymoron when it comes to Capita, but I suppose 'Damage Limitation Manager' is probably a bit too close to home!

I knew nothing about this issue until I got an email from our Data Manager when I was on holiday in Mallorca last week - have heard nothing from Capita at all even though they 'support' us directly. Their response to the issue in terms of liability and communication has confirmed what I have always thought about the organisation. The plus side is that it will hopefully give me some ammunition in my quest to get our SLT to look at some better and cheaper alternatives to SIMS. Finally what the flying fox is a 'Customer Success Manager'?

Hello All I'm sure this has been done to death, and for that I apologise in advance but I'm about to decide on our new ISP and its likely to be either RM or Schools Broadband, and I wondered if any of you had experiences, good or bad, that they could share to help the the decision making process. We have Smoothwall hosted locally so there won't be any filtering done by the ISP, so its just bog standard connectivity that I'm getting Obviously if you know of a super amazing ISP then let me know too! Thanks

Well your mobile phone won't have any policies or the same hardware as the Unify setup - are there any logs on the Wireless controller or AP's you can look at. My issue initially started with one device (a Surface Pro 4) and then just recently started to affect almost everything else that was running Windows 10 - and yet they were all at the same build level, so go figure!

Do you have any device access policies in place on your Wi-Fi? I had an issue where lots of our Windows 10 laptops stopped connecting to our Ruckus 802.1x wlan where we had a device access policy in place. The policy only allowed Windows devices to connect to that WLAN, and at some point it stopped being able to recognise Windows 10 devices, so it blocked them from joining. Just a thought

SIMS is hardly bug free looking at the number of SOLUS 3 patch notifications I get! :-)

I'm thinking about the same - SIMS is bloated and slow and the support that we get is mediocre at best considering the huge amount of money we pay Capita each year. The majority of staff use the MIS for a limited set of functions so re-training them wouldn't be a huge concern, although power users (Options, Timetables etc.) would need more obviously. I do have concerns about the systems that link into SIMS to extract data (mainly via Groupcall Xporter) and whether other systems can do the same.

We have used schoolbooking.com for a number of years and allows for SIMS and AD integration. We use it to book rooms, iPads and so on. Its not free but it isn't expensive for the amount of use it gets here

I managed to get this working but photos don't upload - any ideas why?

Well now pointless celebrities have twice as many characters to enlighten us mere mortals with their words of wisdom!

I know Endsleigh do insurance for students accommodation so I suspect that they may well do it for other shared accommodation. The cover my son has for his room was good and pretty cheap so worth a try I'd say

We buy i3's with SSD's and 8GB RAM and they are more than adequate for the vast majority of purposes - e.g. running SIMS, Office and so on. We have 5 and 6 year old i3s with 4GB ram and that have been updated with SSD's and they work fine. We tend to buy HP Probooks (the model numbers change quite a bit ) and come it around £500. Having said all that we are trying to move away from laptops for staff!

We use it here and its fine and while it does have its foibles its really well supported and takes away the need to tinker directly with AD or GPO's unless absolutely necessary. Its a very stable product these days and almost all our support calls are general Windows issues rather than CC4 specifically. As for costs, we haven't seen ours increase much (if at all actually) and included in the support contract is a host of other stuff (Vanilla Windows servers, VMware, SCCM, O365 and so on) - we don't have money to employ specialist staff or the time to spend hours trying google solutions! We lost one of our DC's to data corruption (VMware/Veeam bug) about 18 months ago and they went to great lengths to help us sort it (including evenings and weekends). I don't think you can put a price on that sort of support. Just my experience though

We've got a number of SP4's here and I have acquired one of them - for testing purposes obviously! The screen is very good and the pen works quite well although I haven't done any precision work with it. We also have the docks which have Ethernet and USB ports on them and 2 x mini display ports for additional displays. Its a bit annoying that they omitted an HDMI port but you can buy adaptors so its not the end of the world. The other staff that have them have on the whole been very positive although we've had a couple returned because the people trialling them preferred the larger screen and keyboard of their laptops. One thing that has cropped up is that you can't seem to log into the Windows App Store with your school O365 credentials.

You don't say what size your network is but seems a lot of DC's - is there any reason why you have so many (are running big network on a WAN perhaps)? We have 2 DC's here and that seems to be the norm in most of the secondary schools been to. Ours are both virtual but some folk like a physical box but it makes little difference. Removing unnecessary DC's is usually deemed a good idea as it removes the amount of AD replication needed and so on. I'm not overly familiar with Hyper-V and without knowing the network topology I wouldn't like to comment about the clusters. Is there any particular reason for all the changes?

We've only had Papercut since June last year and haven't upgraded yet - is the process fairly straightforward? I like the look of the new mobile printing feature so Easter would be a good time to upgrade.

Sorry - forgot to ask, do they have a separate processing charge? Worldpay (schools cash office) and WisePay both charge 10p per transaction. Thanks

When you say you reset the network settings - is this on the iPads? Does the Smoothwall issue IP addresses to the iPads and are you using any form of authentication to connect to the wireless network?

Thanks - I assume that is for credit cards only or is it for both? WisePay have a (or used to) set charge for debit cards

I wasn't even aware there was an app! I quite like the software but I wish they had a better system of upgrades - or at least notifications that there is one available

We've had another demo of WisePay and I think we will be going with them as nothing could be worse than Schools Cash Office right now (I hope I don't regret those words). As an aside can anyone tell me what ParentPay charge in terms of transaction fees for credit and debit cards? Ta...