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The US seems to do a lot of online testing, but then most of their schools seem to be heading towards 1:1 Chromebooks so it's probably a bit more straightforward for them.

Can't happen soon enough tbh - it's not a great look this site still being HTTP only.

Ok so the usual scaremongering applies as this isn't yet the case: A Ubiquiti representative confirmed in a forum post that the new changes will come into effect in firmware version 4.1 and onward, which isn't officially out yet, and that users can stop "other data" being automatically collected by manually editing a config file. So, in short, you'll be able to choose whether you want to send personal info, but you'll have to edit a configuration file to prevent other data being sent.

Ok so what data is currently sent?

I might be wrong but I think the most recent controller versions have had an option to turn it off?

For 1:1 I cannot even begin to imagine the world of pain issuing Windows laptops will be. I'd rather stick pins in my eyes.

Have you ever used one? It's now 6.5 years from date of release and don't judge them on their specs since Chrome OS is so lightweight you don't need blistering fast processors. They're not far off instant on, last all day off a single charge and rarely if ever go wrong. They most certainly are not poor value, in fact they're the highest value machines we have in terms of value for money. Oh and they're actually cheaper than £200 - even including the lifetime Google MDM licence fee that you'd want. I definitely wouldn't want to use a dual core 4Gb RAM Windows laptop at all never mind in 6+ years time.

Our experience with Unifi has been that even with high density they're fine.

There's a new version just out of 2D Design - it's now called TS Design v3.

2 choices then, pay to use that or use the school's chosen cloud storage provider.

Can confirm that works fine.

Your problem will be any new PC or any PC you need to reimage will not activate, so you'll end up with 19 on those anyways and having different versions on different PCs is going to be a pain.

Yes because O365 is so bad and everyone is moving away from it... You live in cloud cuckoo land if you think staying on prem is the right decision in 2020.

Don’t look now but the Exchange expert you’re relying on for free just agreed with me more than once...

OMG this is now beyond ridiculous. Enjoy your overly complicated and insecure solution that you yourself don’t properly understand. I genuinely hope it doesn’t go bang in your face.

Yes I am as it happens. Yes some occasional downtime is to be expected from time to time - nothing is perfect. How many of your users do you think have re-used their passwords which have now been compromised across multiple website data breaches? How do you know you’ve never been hacked or had some phished? MFA isn’t a nice to have, in 2020 it’s an essential.

Haha Exchange is robust - ok then. No MFA - sounds secure... What does your DPO think about retaining emails back to 2006?

And in all that time you’ve never had even a minute of downtime with a dodgy update etc? I simply do not believe that. I will ask again - are you using MFA?

So you never update your hosts? You’ve never taken things offline even briefly to migrate from one version to another! I’m calling BS on 16 years 100% uptime!

There are plenty of other solutions! By now the majority of schools will be cloud-based for email. Of course you’d have been hacked in five minutes on O365... Are you using MFA?

1. How far back do you want to go - presumably you're limiting your users' mailboxes on prem in terms of storage. 2. Yes it does, but how productive do you think your staff are going to be in 2020 without Internet, also your on prem solution requires backup infrastructure that is way more complicated. In addition you've now got site to site connections with infrastructure in both locations, how comfortably will that deal with split brain and then reconciling once everything reappars if you have a connection outage. With more and more people moving to the cloud how easily will you find support if something goes wrong or you leave - again without being rude you're asking a lot of questions on here in order to implement this solution so it's not like it's something you've done before/are confident with. 3. You don't - why would you need to? 4. Yes 5. No it isn't 6. Yes 7. Nope, nope, nope Are you implementing MFA on your new Exchange solution? What's your disaster recovery plan if the disaster is you're taken seriously unwell or worse? With an O365 setup I can easily find someone to support it for me, with this complicated and obsolete/anachronistic system it's going to be far harder and take far longer to recover if anything does go wrong. What will you do when MS inevitably ditches on prem Exchange - if you look at the resources needed to run Exchange 2019 it's clear they're seriously trying to discourage use!

Without being rude it does seem like you're hell bent on implementing something which is ludicrously complicated (and incredibly resource intensive) when O365 is free and it's not even like you're implementing it all as a result of existing experience, you're having to ask a lot of question on here which is fine but when something goes wrong with this complicated setup then where do you turn? There's a reason most organisations have moved their email to the cloud.

Yes that's right.

They can use their O365 or G Suite account to sign in - then there's no need for you to create an account specifically for Smart.

Smart Notebook 19 Basic is free.