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IT Technician at Salford City Academy, Manchester, Greater Manchester | MyNewTerm Exciting opportunity to join the team supporting the Greater Manchester Cluster of United Learning, based at Salford City Academy. If you have any questions, feel free to give me a shout.

IT Technician Location: Salford Salary: £20,500.00 - £22,500.00 + benefits package Closing Date: Tuesday 12th July 2022 Interviews: W/C 18th July A vacancy has arisen for an IT Technician, responsible for supporting the delivery of the IT service primarily to The Albion Academy, but also to 10 other academies within the shared service as required. The successful candidate will work as part of an ICT delivery service team to provide IT support and contribute to the effective operation, maintenance and repair of all computers and computer related resources through the academy. We automatically enrol our IT staff onto a training platform which can be tailored to individual’s training needs. We also offer study time and provide Microsoft exam vouchers to enable our staff to obtain certification. https://www.albionacademy.org/about-us/work-with-us

We are recruiting to our IT cluster as a Site service manager at Salford City Academy. Salary is up to £31,000 dependant on experience and we also offer IT training. Happy to field any further questions. https://unitedlearning.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/2655851?cid=1567&rsid=0&js=0&LinkType=1&FromSearch=False

Irlam and Cadishead Academy. IT Technician Location: Irlam, Manchester Salary: £18,500- £22,000 Closing Date: 4 February 2022 Interviews: TBC https://unitedlearning.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/2524183?cid=1567&rsid=0&js=0&LinkType=1&FromSearch=False

https://unitedlearning.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/2485146?cid=1567&rsid=0&js=0&LinkType=1&FromSearch=False IT Service Site Manager Location: Manchester Salary: £26,000 - £28,500 pa Closing Date: 7th January 2022 The role We are looking to recruit to our current team, an IT Service Site Manager, who would be primarily based at Manchester Academy, but working as part of a regional ICT delivery service to 10 academies. The role of IT Service Site Manager will involve working as part of a team to provide IT support and contribute to the effective operation, maintenance and repair of all computers and computer related resources throughout the school. The school are very forward thinking and are working towards a ‘blended learning’ environment of education within the classroom and remotely using the Microsoft 365 platform, notably Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive so experience in this technology is seen as essential. The position is full time (37.5 hours per week), all year round. Although the role has predominantly fixed working hours, it may involve, where the business requires, both evening and weekend work. The role holder will therefore need to demonstrate a degree of flexibility and willingness to work unsociable hours if called upon. It is expected that the post holder will adapt their working hours around the business needs of the academy and IT service. The post comes with 25 days holiday entitlement in addition to Bank Holidays and the successful candidate will be enrolled automatically into the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) run by Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF).

https://unitedlearning.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/2472946?cid=1567&rsid=0&js=0&LinkType=1&FromSearch=False IT Service Technical Specialist Start date: As soon as possible Hours: Full time, Monday to Friday Contract: Permanent, all year round Salary: £36,000 - £40,000 We are looking to recruit to an exciting new position within an established IT service team as IT Service Technical Specialist. The role will involve working as part of a team of technical support staff across multiple academies in the Greater Manchester region that are part of the United Learning Multi-Academy Trust. You will be highly adaptable, knowledgeable, and technical with the ability to solve complex problems and support in the upkeep and running of back-end infrastructure systems. This is a field-based role which supports schools’ local IT staff with technology projects and problem solving. Some key responsibilities include: · Helping support local IT teams with technically challenging issues or medium-scale projects, including their procurement. · Working with Service Managers to carry out technical audits of key systems and processes, to identify threats to a school’s effective operations and resolving areas of concern. · Providing Level 2 / 3 escalation support to local IT. · Supporting and challenging local IT and school management to implement any necessary changes to address identified problems. · Providing input to IT estate refresh planning, allowing the school to budget to sustain a highly effective technology infrastructure. · Giving advice and training to local IT staff, to develop the school’s capacity. · Offering additional short-term expert capacity in times of crisis. You will need to demonstrate a strong knowledge of server management, network device configuration as well as experience of supporting users within a Microsoft Windows environment. Knowledge, experience and the ability to trouble-shoot and resolve a spectrum of second/third line issues ranging from hardware through to software is required. The post holder will also work to ensure the service resolves issues within the SLAs agreed upon with the school. United Learning is currently the largest academy sponsor in England with over 90 schools. Our ethos is the best in everyone and as a group, we aim to provide a life changing education to all children and young people throughout the country. The Greater Manchester IT service is made up of 11 academies that provides support to over 8,500 users across wide ranging and diverse communities. The position is full time (37.5 hours per week), all year round. Although the role has predominantly fixed working hours, it may involve, where the business requires, both evening and weekend work. The role holder will therefore need to demonstrate a degree of flexibility and willingness to work unsociable hours if called upon. It is expected that the post holder will adapt their working hours around the business needs of the academy and IT service. The post comes with 25 days holiday entitlement in addition to Bank Holidays and the successful candidate will be enrolled automatically into the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) run by Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF). Benefits - Employees of United Learning are offered employee benefits through its reward scheme, United Rewards. United Learning has teamed up with Perkbox to offer employees over 250 exclusive benefits, all through their easy-to-access platform and mobile app. Featuring a huge range of perks, from discounted cinema tickets and holidays, to money off meals out at restaurants and savings on food, technology and clothes shopping. They also offer salary sacrifice schemes such as 25% off gym membership and Cycle to Work - which offer tax and NI savings on new bikes. For more information about the role, please contact Mark Davies ([email protected]), Greater Manchester IT Service Manager and please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification. To apply, please complete the online application form by clicking 'Apply' Closing date: Midnight on Monday 3rd January 2022

We are advertising for someone to run the local network at Irlam and Cadishead College. We are a small trust with the schools being linked via an MPLS over the next few months. Over the summer we will be migrating Irlam away from a CC4 to trust wide Domain. Details can be found here Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

It doesn't have a finance module like FMS. The payment system is so parents can pay for items.

We are currently migrating 4 schools from SIMS to Arbor. two are going live after Christmas and two at the Feb 1/2 term. I will be happy to talk to you in a few weeks about how the first two went. My general impressions pre migration are positive.

Has anyone had any experience with BoardMaker V6. We are helping a school move from a CC4 network and they use BoardMaker heavily. I am having an issue where every user that logs on has to register the software. I am told by the software makers that this is not normal behaviour but they don't seem that willing to offer any sort of viable solution. Any ideas?

No just started afresh - new local domain name, all servers 2012R2, all users had new user accounts so robocopied their home drives and shared areas, etc. No trusts between new and old systems.

No, we built a new infrastructure and transferred the data, we decided just to bin CC4 altogether. The biggest job was re-imaging all the clients.

We built a whole new infrastructure and transferred the data but before we did this RM said it was possible to add a new DC without CC4 and the demote the CC4 DCs. https://www.rm.com/support/technicalarticle.asp?cref=tec1713624

I had the same issue because sysprep had not been run on all the servers. I ran the switch manually in a batch file and it seemed to resolve the issue. It still took about a day for servers to appear in WSUS.

When they were deployed from the template did you run the customization to generate a new SID Resolving the duplicate SUSClientID issue, or “Why don’t all my clients show up in the WSUS console?” - The Official WSUS/Software Update Support Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs