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This is pretty big news. Google Classroom has often been requested by both business and NFP users. Today it's been announced that it's available for all. More here. https://www.haptic-networks.com/google-classroom-now-available-g-suite-customers/

Derail away! This has been the brainchild of one of our hardware recycling partners and Google themselves. It works thus: You tell us which Ipads you have on site, and what grade they are in (we help with the clarification of these terms) then we tell you how much they're worth. You say "Wow, that's a lot for me ole fondleslabs me ole china plate!" (cockney accent isn't mandatory) then we offer you that as a credit to spend on shiny new chromebooks. It's about as simple as that really, it's a beauty of an initiative and I wish we'd come up with the idea. Any questions, drop us a PM Joe

Hi All As you'll all know (and perhaps even be bored of hearing by now) we've been G Suite Partners for quite some time now. Instead of keeping a focus on the tech/chromebook side of things we've always been more honed on the services side. From our ongoing Ipad buyback, to our parental contribution scheme all the way through to our raft of G Suite project and support offerings. We've recently refreshed them, cutting them from 6 down to 3. We felt the need to simplify and bring more of them together, here's how we did it

I feel the answer to this may be that as Neverware is installed, it requires a new license. I may be incorrect, it's not something we've encountered.

Really looking forward to this session today, we've been really impressed with Neverware.

The main issues around Chromecast connection is in relation to WPA2 Enterprise setups which are not supported.

Hi All We thought this might be of interest to some of you: Google’s Be Internet Legends curriculum is a free internet safety educational resource for pupils aged 7-11. Created by Google and Parent Zone, it includes PSHE accredited lesson plans and activities delivering internet safety messages. With an interactive game to reinforce learning, the Be Internet Legends programme provides a complete internet safety resource for your school. Google teamed up with the educators and online safety experts at Parent Zone to create the Be Internet Legends programme which includes PSHE association accredited lesson plans, teaching resources, an online adventure game – Interland and a touring assembly roadshow. Be Internet Legends focuses on five key online safety pillars: – Be Internet Sharp – Think Before You Share – Be Internet Alert – Check it’s For Real – Be Internet Secure – Protect Your Stuff – Be Internet Kind – Respect Each Other – Be Internet Brave – When in Doubt, Discuss more on how to apply here

Hi All (mods please feel free to move this if it's situated incorrectly) We're hosting a Tech roadshow on Friday 6th October at the Imperial War Museum, London. Pulling together presentations from iXSystems, Veeam, Smoothwall and Avocor as well as 'hands on' displays of Chromebooks, VR, Storage solutions amongst others. We currently have 20 seats left, it would be great to have some of the Edugeek community join us. Fear ye not, we're not pinning name badges on anyone.....it's not that type of affair. More of a smaller informal and interactive session to showcase some of the solutions we're working with. The event is entirely free, with lunch included. We're also giving away one of the brand new Lego UCS Millenium Falcon sets to a lucky attendee. Further details and instructions to register are on the link below, it would be good to see you there. Join us for our Tech Roadshow, Imperial War Museum Ta! Joe

Hi Danp et al We sure can, if it's Chrome, Chromebook or G Suite related - we're here to help. G Suite Services - Haptic Networks PM and we can have a chinwag. Joe

WiFi deployments, we've been delivering them for almost 10 years now. In order to ease the CAPEX hit, we've built a service model to include all the aspects a school requires to begin using the latest 802.11ac solution without the initial layout of cost. Our model enables the finance dept to have a complete schedule of payments across the term, fixed cost, monthly. Here's some more about the service: Haptic WaaS - WiFi Subscription service - Includes: Full installation & Configuration 802.11ac Wave 2 Solution Full support, tel/email & Remote Network Monitoring and Reporting Ability to upgrade to new equipment at any point in the future Increase/Decrease AP count in line with your requirements 30 day trial period, absolutely free. Fixed price, per AP, per month - for the entire duration of the agreement. I can explain the benefits and pricing in more detail, feel free to PM me. Thanks for reading Joe

Hi All The draw was held on Friday, the winners have been posted to the site. Star Wars Lego Giveaway 2017 - Winners update! - Haptic Networks Thanks to everyone that participated, we're hoping to do another a little later this year Joe

Hello to you all Quick bump on this one, prompted in no small part by watching Phillip Schofield as 'Yoda' and David Dickinson as 'Emperor Palpatine' this week....the mind boggles. The Lego - Star Wars Prize Draw is taking place on Friday - Link at the top of the thread. The Cloud Services Team and I are looking forward to meeting you all at EDIT next week also Nathan

'It Follows' was one we enjoyed in the office 'The Fog' (original) was a classic 'Silver Bullet' nice chopper ridin' retro classic Demons and Demons 2 for pure gib/gore The Blob (I prefer the 80's remake) Phantoms - this film is EXCELLENT - The Crazies was decent Dreamcatcher - Damien Lewis/Morgan Freeman/ Jason Lee and Tim Olyphant - Big fan of the genre, happy viewing my friends. Joe

Goodies for the Giveaway have arrived......

Enjoy your evening!

We can vouch for how well these events are received by attendees. If any of our Schools fancy coming along make sure you get involved, drop us a PM and we'll tag along too. Joe

Yes that's intentional - we thought we'd make it easier for those that had no knowledge whatsoever of Star Wars/Lego (those poor souls) It's an easy question, although slightly more difficult than the recent (nasal cockney Joe Swash voice) "What colour is the Whitehouse?" type questions. Good luck y'all Joe

Hi All It's that time of the year again where we get to give away some superb Lego - Star Wars sets (and perhaps keep hold of a couple....for....erm..R+D purposes) No purchase necessary, simply follow the link below to get involved. Star Prize is the newly released Death Star, flanked by prizes including the TIE Fighter, Slave I and the Millenium Falcon. Star Wars Lego Giveaway 2017 - Haptic Networks

Howdy @jimlag - as Google For Education Partners, we work with all major Chromebook manufacturers - happy to discuss some demo units or provide some more info on Chromebooks. Feel free to PM Joe

Update - iXsystems officially passed the Veeam Backup and Replication v9.5 for VMware certification tests As partners of both iXsystems and Veeam this is excellent news, more info below: iXsystems TrueNAS is certified with Veeam Backup - Haptic Networks Joe

Hi all. We're incredibly excited to announce our partnership with iXsystems, and as I'm sure the tone already sounds like a generic partner announcement - let me add emphasis incredibly excited Excited mainly for two reasons: Firstly - the TrueNAS and FreeNAS lines are really interesting storage solutions. Open Source driven and harnessing ZFS, a self-healing file system that prevents, detects and corrects data decay, bit rot and corruption. Secondly - the iXsystems team are an absolute joy to work with. We've never worked with a storage vendor so willing to set up POC, solution walkthroughs and pre-deployment testing (typically they hot test drives for over a month in-house to ensure 0% fail rate on deployment. More on ZFS: True Protection TrueNAS provides unrivalled data integrity protection by using the OpenZFS enterprise file system. OpenZFS is a next-generation file system in every regard from its self-healing bit rot mitigation to its flexible snapshotting and replication. True Scalability OpenZFS is a future-proof 128-bit “scale up” file system that is designed for decades of continuous use. TrueNAS grows from hundreds of GBs to 4PB per system and is designed to make the increase in capacity painless. True Flexibility TrueNAS offers you the flexibility of choice, providing CIFS/SMB, AFP, and NFS for file storage and iSCSI and Fibre Channel for block storage. Every common operating system, hypervisor, and application is supported. TrueNAS uses OpenZFS to provide unlimited point-in-time snapshots, allowing you to roll back and access data as it was. TrueNAS is a proven way to mitigate virtual machine corruption, user error, and ransomware attacks like CryptoLocker.# True Performance TrueNAS delivers a perfect balance of price and performance that puts many all-flash arrays to shame. It uses TrueCache™ to leverage RAM, flash storage and spinning disks for flash-like performance with spinning disk capacities and economics.# True Freedom Originally developed at Sun Microsystems, but now Open Source, OpenZFS is an enterprise-grade file system that iXsystems has delivered to more users than anyone. We pride ourselves on working closely with the OpenZFS community to help make OpenZFS the greatest file system ever written. Thus far we've deployed iXsystems into Education, Aviation and Security organisations. If you'd like to know more about what they can offer, click the link below Partner Announcement - iXsystems - Haptic Networks Thanks for reading Joe

Hi Pete, If you are free, get yourself on one of these Webinars. Ben will be able to answer all of your questions and it gives you a chance to see the service in action. Chris

Hi Pete, Smoothwall worked along side E-Safe for a good while and they were separate entities. Smoothwall HQ then developed their own product which is Visigo. So in short, an actual Smoothwall product. However, you do not need to have Smoothwall in place to run this. If you have Smoothwall in place already then the cost benefit is that there is no extra charge for Visigo Support. You already pay this with the Smoothwall product and so it can be is zero costed. Hope it helps. Chris

Good afternoon, Smoothwall are the UK's #1 Web Filter Provider in Education. In January 2017, Smoothwall launched their brand new monitoring solution, Visigo, in line with the Appropriate Filtering and Monitoring guidelines as set out by the UK Safer Internet Centre. Join Smoothwall's Ben Jones to find out more about Visigo and how it can help you to protect against safeguarding concerns both online and offline. https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/9114564747637560578?source=haptic The dates and times of the group webinars are below: Mar 28, 2017 3:00 PM Apr 04, 2017 9:30 AM Apr 10, 2017 3:00 PM Apr 19, 2017 3:00 PM Apr 20, 2017 3:00 PM May 03, 2017 10:00 AM Once you click through on the link above, you will be asked which webinar you would like to attend, for your name and for your email address. Visigo Datasheet - Haptic Networks.pdf This is a great chance to find out more information on the Visigo product, so take full advantage! Chris

We partner with EXA, great bunch - far better experience working with them than some other ISP/Providers. Chris