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We've been getting students to intune enrol them against thir 365 accounts at setup (devices have Windows edu, office and sophos installed and are sysprepped before being handed out, then the students are taken through linking to Office 365 intune during setup. We've got an agreement with the parents that the laptops will be returned at some point in the future (although we've not defined it specifically), and if we wanted to force the issue we could lock the device and stop them using it without reinstalling windows. For now the school seems content to keep chasing for the ones we want back via phone and email.

And with a whole 4 days until the supposed "start of term" the government have changed things around again. (yeah we all expected something like this). https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-statement-on-coronavirus-covid-19-30-december-2020 TLDR: Primary schools in some areas will go back on the 4th while some do distance learning until the 18th. Secondary schools will have key-worker/at-risk kids in from the 4th with year 11 following on the 11th and everyone else on the 18th (with everyone not in school undergoing distance learning obviously. All of this is (of course) so we can get mass testing in place for the staff and students.

I'm sure you're already doing this, but... Are you using the right domain? If you're using an account on the sharing PC for permissions then the username needs to be formatted computername/username otherwise it will default to using the other PC as the user domain.

It depends what kind of budget you're working toward. Personally I'd replace you're SSD with an NVME drive (as gtech suggests) lighting fast boot and load times and a 1tb drives are pretty reasonably priced these days. No reason your PSU wouldn't be able to cope with modern systems (it will really come down to the GPU), although it is worth remembering PSUs degrade over time and going for something with a bit more overhead might give you more life-span. This is what I'd do for a modest modern system. Keeping your current PSU (which should do fine) and GPU would shave off a descent chunk of cash, and for the kind of games you're talking about your GPU should do fine, although the 3060 would give you modern features like DLSS and Raytracing at a reasonable price point (if you can get one). https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/WbL88J

Yeah, I didn't see that coming. I'd kind of forgotten is was even possible.

Wait, Sussex is T3? I didn't see it on the list.

Wait, dose that sign mean you only have to wear a mask between 8:00 and 22:00?

We've had good experiences with Griffin cases. And I'd say avoid the Maroo ExoRail - they were kind of cheep feeling and one broke during installation.

To all the CP2077 players, has anyone else had this? If I bring up the quick-hack interface (tab on PC) during combat and there's nothing I can do then I get stuck and cant find a way to back out. Is this a bug or if I'm just missing something super obvious? So far I'm really enjoying the game and personally find the checkpointing pretty generous. Although V not appearing in RT reflections really throws me.

Google's working again for us.

It's probably not news for the rest of you, but... We've just heard in our staff briefing that schools will be expected to manage track and trace for staff and students up until Christmas eve. (which sounds pretty ridiculous as most of the support staff are TTO)

If you've got Office 365 then check out MS Streams. *Edit* Sorry missed you said you wanted something on-site. I've had great success with Twonky Media server at home (https://twonky.com/). It used to come bundled with QNAP NAS boxes.

Our canteen staff had to isolate back in October. As far as I remember, we bought in pre-packaged stuff for the FSM kids and weren't offering school lunches otherwise.

Writing? Could be blogging, short stories, poetry. Drawing or some sort of art? Knitting/crotchet?

ManageEngine do (by the sounds of it) exactly what you want wit their ESM portal. It allows you to run multiple "helpdesk instances" on the same server with the same corporate ID, all accessible through a single portal.

Got to buy them Christmas cards some time. And with more people not physically meeting up maybe we'll see a rise in the number of cards sent.

Last couple of years I helped out with an after school gaming club (all started when we joined the Digital Schoolhouse Overwatch tournament and expanded from there). Although it was mostly getting things installed and troubleshooting, it was still something a bit different and interesting. Unfortunately the teacher in charge lost interest and DHS moved to Smash Bros, which for some reason was run as a different after school activity by another teacher (and didn't need any help from us). We still have all the infrastructure, including a steam cache server and a set of gaming PC's that Creative Assembly donated.

Same here, during the second (not really a lockdown) I didn't see a noticeable drop in traffic or people out shopping, and so far going into T2 hasn't changed anything (not that I really expected it to).

So Sheet2 has your item# (col1) and two values for that item (cols 2 and 3) And in Sheet1 you want to be able to put in an item# and either value 1 or 2 and have it return one of the values associated with that item. Seb1780's vlookup idea should do what you want. I think the only problem is that your Sheet1 uses the string "Value 1" rather than just 1 and the vlookup col_index is is looking for just a number. To fix it you just need to replace B2+1 with Right(B2,1)+1 which will just take the end character (in this case the number) of the string.

If I understand you right: You want to look up the numerical value in Sheet2 Col2 based on the item# in Col1 and present this in Sheet1 col2 based on which item# is selected in col1 (but with the word "value" in front so 1 in Sheet2 col2 becomes "value 1" in sheet 1 col2)? In which case the following formula should do what you want (there may be better ways to do this). =IFS(A2=Sheet2!$A$2,"Value "&Sheet2!$B$2,A2=Sheet2!$A$3,"Value "&Sheet2!$B$3,A2=Sheet2!$A$4,"Value "&Sheet2!$B$4,A2=Sheet2!$A$5,"Value "&Sheet2!$B$5,A2=Sheet2!$A$6,"Value "&Sheet2!$B$6) All this does is an IF statement for each possible value of A2. A2=Sheet2!$A$2 checks if cell Sheet1 Cell A2 matches Sheet 2 Cell A2 if it does then "Value "&Sheet2!$B$2 writes the string "Value " and the contents of Sheet2 Cell B2 in to the cell (so if Sheet 2 Cell B2 is 3 then it would say "Value 3"). If the check is false then it moves on to the next one which checks Sheet2 cell A3 and so on. I hope this helps.

If it's been shared, then you should be able to see it by going to \\servername in file explorer or a run command. From there you can install it by double clicking on the follow me queue. From an sharing/installation point of view the FollowMe Queue should behave like any other networked printer.

I think that was the point the generic politician guy was trying to make on the BBC this morning, that breaking the country into even smaller areas both creates additional work and makes the statistics pretty meaningless. That and "you've got to draw the line somewhere" and the LG level makes a lot of sense logistically.

Wow, T2. I was half expecting Sussex to hit T3 based on some of the number I've seen reported.

I'm finding the Watch Dogs gameplay pretty engaging TBH. Although I will agree Valhalla is good fun.

To be fair, if half the stuff being talked about in the OC forums is accurate they have kind of brought it on themselves. I've been haunting OC's 3080 thread since launch as it was the best way to get stock updates, and I would agree their customer communications have been rather sparse and lacklustre compared to their competitors. Also keeping their preorders open may not be helping, as people who get dropped into the back of a queue that's 1000s long and is hardly moving, (rightly or not) might be miffed. On a more upbeat note, Watchdogs Legion looks awesome on my shiny new 3090 .