matt40k

You on LA broadband?

I think your looking at the wrong screen - the "Microsoft best practices" is based on a clean test lab with no users, the real world has actual users and limited resources. Accept you live in the real world. Find the ignore\hide button haha

It's a warning. Not a problem. Its saying if it can't resolve the address from your ISP DNS server, it can't check with the core DNS servers directly - like @JRowley. To be honest, if you can't query your ISP DNS servers (or Google) then you haven't got a internet connection. Stop messing around!! Its working, if it isn't get some in, should take a day to check the config - much safer then posting all you intermit settings over the internet

@Stuart_C Sorry, I didn't mean to indicate you have, I know you wouldn't, more a question that you can - which means someone else could. We both know the damages of being able to use personally accounts, for starts, one typo and you've just given a total stranger access to your SIMS data!

No, I think the paints still wet. Fair play for them wanting something for BETT and its great it appears to be in demand, but they are letting the sales guys lead the product out the door whilst the devs are still finishing it. Its the sort of thing a certain ex product manager would have put his foot down and stopped from happening...

Yup. Install the UI, point at the SOLUS3 server.

I guess the "not allowed" doesn't mean not physically possible.

ADFS would be the answer, I'm not not aware of many schools \ LA implementing it however. Also there is a "admin" cost in terms of setting up the trust. For the uneducated. ADFS is Microsoft authentication method for the cloud. It basically allows you to build a trust between cloud providers. Once it is setup when you hit your cloud provider, they will then pass you to your own AD for authentication, then you can use your issued token to access the cloud services. ADFS also allows you to define your own grain of security - ie on (your) prem, just user\pass, off (your) prem then user\pass + 2 factor - telephone, text, mobile, one-time token thing, or even a combination of them and\or a school owned device or fully patched device. The bottom line is, if you've set it up correctly, you, the end-user, have no idea if the application\service\whatever is on-prem or off-prem. From an admin point of view, person leaves, go into AD, hit disable. Bang, they are locked out. No messing around disabling 4-5 accounts. From a security point of view, users are more likely to change their password more frequency, its only 1 place that the password is stored and its managed by you, not 50 different cloud providers all with different password requirements. The main problem for schools is you need to use that Azure credit to build a read only replica of your AD in Azure then build the ADFS stuff up their too so you don't get latency issues. This is the bit where I think ADFS would fall over for Capita @vikpaw.

Exactly. @abillybob I'm not saying get rid of the car, I'm saying if you can get a hire car, brill, it it's causing you problems, well suck it up, take public transport avoid the hassle, you might even be able to get them to arrange for a taxi to take you to work everyday!! It won't kill you. It isn't for ever. If you have to get to work early, then do it. It won't kill you to put in a extra few hours \ get for a coffee first thing \ whatever. You're gonna have people around you that can get you out of a jam if something (else) bad happens and you need to get away quick - I doubt we'd let any of colleagues drive to the hospital anyway because they wouldn't be in any fit state to drive if they've just found out their loved ones is in hospital. Your boss is more likely to be sympathetic to you leaving early to pick up the car once its repaired if you've been getting to work early rather then getting in on time and moaning all day about your car. Just remember, it's getting close to that time when the money pot gets refilled and no-one wants the bosses to be tempted to outsource the IT support.

I wouldn't recommend Capita ONE, the B2B process is pretty flaky and is limited to basic student details and everything is an extra - attendance, personnel. How many academy do you have? It'll be worth having a word with Ark - I can PM you the details of their data guy if you want.

If you can get to work on the bus, surely that'll be easier then the hassle with the hire car. Could she travel to you, failing that, doesn't absence make the heart grow fonder? It shouldn't be more the a few days \ a week or so, so what's the problem. Sorry, I don't possess a car nor does my missus, so I'm struggling to understand why you can't survive without a car for a while.

@abillybob Poke....

Ah that's good! Sorry if I missed that post. Topic seems to have spammed right up

@fairm010 If you're after a cheap second hand one, try Here you can buy secondhand, refurbished Apple products in great condition

Well blow me down.

~Watches Microsoft TechNet video~ - Oh look a MacBook, oh and the other guys has a Lenovo, how nice.

Phone your SIMS support team. They'll send you the reindexing patch.

I use mythic-beasts.com for domains, if you then use cloudflare, you can get (free) forwarding.

There is a reason why it comes with cashback @localzuk

Kinda agree with you, except I don't have a landline, so paying £15 for a Nokia 625 with unlimited everything makes more sense then paying £16.50 a month for a landline (+ call charges).

They are moving to a "service" provider model, ie they'll make their money on monthly subscriptions - like Office 365. Look at Power BI, they've released a ipad app before a Windows app, why, cause they want to you fork out for subscription rather re-buying the device as it's more money from selling a service then a device. It makes sense to get in on the Raspberry Pi, after all they are training the next gen of developers etc, this is something Microsoft understands really well. It's why education gets heavily discounted licensing. It's why they bought Minecraft. The other side of the coin is the internet of things, if you come up with the next sensor that's using a raspberry pi, which is using MS as the os, what cloud based service would you use for your backend? Could it be the one bundled in, Azure. It's a very clever move. They've basically taken the micro .net to the next level.

You know where the button is

Seriously? 210 pupils? I'd print everything and type it in for that amount!! Heck, I'd still do it for half that!!

Right, so you plan is to allow parents to pick a detailed meal from a list of options for a specific day which will then be sent to the kitchen directly. Ok. That's a good premium service. You really need to sit down with someone like @GREED @ Groupcall. That'll integrate into their exist system better then trying to take it on.

Sorry, must have miss understood who your customers would be, was thinking you were aiming at catering companies. Not sure how that happened.