NickDay85

Thanks for the responses so far. Wave9 does seem to be a regular name that I see on here. I have put in a request for some more info. We're in a position where our renewal isn't until next summer but it doesn't hurt to get a head start.

Hi all, I'm just looking at options for ISPs way ahead of our renewal with our current provider. What are people generally using these days?

Thanks, Tom. Much appreciated.

Out of interest which DNS resolver do you use?

and we're back.

Trust RM to not do this

Yes. Both of our sites down too.

We tried it again at half 3 yesterday after I had a big moan up and it was working. My account manager confirmed that they applied a fix. Try again this morning.

Yes, I have had a call open with them since last week, all I keep being told is that they are working on a fix. The issue is that we have 900 students with iPads and therefore none of them can use them.

All we've done is create a calendars account within M365. We then create the calendar and share it with edit permissions to the person who is responsible for populating it. Once it's ready, it's then shared to all staff across the trust.

Hi all, We currently use ePraise for our rewards system and the decision has been made to move away and use Bromcom for reward points next academic year. Has anyone gone through this process? If so I have a question which I know will come up. Can current points be exported from ePraise to Bromcom or would we have to start afresh? Thanks Nick

I'm finding that the framework is running well but I've got a few teachers who can't load the teacher dashboard. Tried all the usual cache etc, different browser. No luck.

It's weird you say this, because I thought the same as a non-teacher, but I'm having reports of teachers not being able to load the Dashboard.

Hi all, How is everyone getting on? Do we have any schools moving from SIMS after half term? We will be moving to Bromcom in September!

I think we're at a stage where we can choose one or the other to get going for a September start. (Going live before the summer) I have been wondering something though. Do either Arbor or Bromcom offer a migration map of sorts? As in, could they tell us where the data from SIMS ends up in their systems? For those who have already made the jump is this necessary to know in advance, or is it quite obvious when the data migration is completed?

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That's what I thought! Thanks. I've got a general idea of where to go with it, I was just hoping for a leg-up to save me writing it all from scratch

Sorry to piggyback on this thread, but we're looking at options at the moment and my SLT has asked me to create a feature comparison matrix of SIMS, Arbor and Bromcom. Has anyone else created something similar in the past? I'm struggling to find a definitive list of features online for SIMS mainly, but it's a bit of a minefield.

A migration toolkit sounds like it might make it easier. What does that entail (apart from the obvious). Will it in effect clone my current domain setup onto the new one?

Hello, apologies if this is in the wrong location but I'm after some guidance. We have just had new Servers installed with a new domain in preparation for eventually unifying our MAT. Our current domain and the new domain are both sitting on the same wired network, with the new servers having DHCP disabled currently to avoid any clashes. What would be my best option in regards to migrating users from one domain to another with minimal disruption? We use Macs solely for our client devices so unbinding and rebinding those won't be an issue as their preferences are all controlled by an MDM. Other than that, I'm trying to work out the best route to take. Has anyone else had experience of a setup like this before? Am I better to just bite the bullet and do it with downtime, or does anyone know if I can do it in stages? Other services that would require migrating is RADIUS, BioStore and Papercut/Printers. Thanks Nick

Thanks for that

Scratch that. It appears to be working now!

Where would one find this? I'll screenshot it and send to staff over here.

There appears to have been another update overnight which has knocked ours offline. The login service is stuck on 'transitioning' now! This is something that has worked flawlessly for years and staff are quickly becoming disillusioned with it now.

Ignore this! I waited a bit and now I can ping the other site by FQDN. Simple case of being impatient.