JamesParker

We had an external service managing our IPads, when the service ended we did not renew A3 so we lost endpoint management We knew we would not be able to manage the IPads so asked the external service to remove them all and leave them unlocked sadly several are still trying to pull a setup from our domain then they just fail and i can’t see them to remove them thanks iOS/iPadOS | iOS/iPadOS devices I used to see a list of devices in the above location ipad.bmp

Jaan: i was always lead to believe that Bromcom was ok for primary schools but not for secondary’s, seems that may longer be true

I think they became to contented by the fact they have such a big chunk of the market, when they should have been devolving a replacement years ago though what a massive undertaking !

Lol i bet the original programmers have long since retired and Therein lies the problem ah a quick wiki Claiming over 80% market share across the primary and secondary sectors Initial release1984

Yes by better i mean , better in all areas for exams, reports,management etc. it’s no good us changing sims only to find one area is a massive let down ? Does anyone know what percentage of the secondary school market Sims has?

Hi All I know SIMS is based on an old product and that it has had a lot of updates and it has its problems, however is there any MIS systems that are better for secondary schools ? and what do people think will happen when SIMS goes to the cloud ? James

Hi All just a quick question, do you think we are ready to use cloud servers in a secondary school ? in a primary i think you would get away with it now, but i think in a secondary it would still be to risky and slow for the file servers at least and if you have to have your file servers on site then why bother having any servers in the cloud ! i know we have 365 or google that is great and we could use their storage but is that enough ! what you all think ? any secondary school got their servers in the cloud ? James

LOL 24 views and no Reponses does that mean they are no good providers out there anymore !

Hi All I'm looking at replacing our servers and renewing our broadband/phones does anyone know of any good compaines to get quotes from ? thanks James

Hi All I’m on the beg/Scrounge for some laptop trollies, does anyone have any old ones they are willing to donate preferably within the east midlands area thanks James

HI all thanks for the replies , is there any secondary schools in Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire who wouldn't mind us visiting to see how they (staff and teachers) are getting on with teams ? thanks

Hi All so i asked the question who stores their files in share point , i suppose what i should have done is this 1) we have all our files/drives in the cloud and are happy 2) some drives but not all 3) would happily do it if they would let us 3) unsure 4) wont touch it for another few years to see how others get on with it 5) tried it, gave up and returned to local 6) using it but wouldn't advise it

is that all drives not just local users home drives ? I'm talking about general shares for staff, teaches students etc as well so as we would have no on-site storage we have a media drive that has around 2TB of videos so this may be an issue

HI All Can anyone tell me if they have gone down the route of transferring all their drives in to the cloud with one drive/share point/Teams and if so what issues have you had if any ? i can see this working well in a small primary but not sure if it would work for a large secondary school! the benefits would be no on site storage to worry about or backups but would it work in reality ! thanks James sorry if this is in the wrong forum

Hi All Does anyone have access to a Job Description that has been through evaluation by DCC (single status or other reason) if so please could you let me have a copy or for that matter any county as single status is supposed to have made us or equal ! my JD that was evaluated as a 'Network Manager' grade 11 £32 to £35 and has now had its title changed to "senior tech' and has come back grade 9 £25 to £26 ! thanks

Thanks for the replies, theoretically I can do immediate start as I am term time and break up in two weeks, so more or less as any notice time I have to give would fall during the summer holidays I’ll sort my LinkedIn as soon as I get chance , I have to be careful as I have been trolled by staff at my current school posting on here - this is my third account with a different pseudonym name, been on here for over 8 years !

Hi Everyone Well I have worked in IT for over 20 years as an IT Manager the last 11 at a secondary school, so have seen it all from the beginning going from 60 computers to 600 with a 60k budget and excellent Ofsted and now back down to 300 with no budget and special measures , as budgets are cut and managed services take over, losing my technicians and leaving me on my own in the false belief it would be better and cheaper . So it’s time for me to bail ship, if anyone knows of anything going in the Nottinghamshire / Derbyshire area preferably at a school either secondary or primary it would be much appreciated if you could let me know I can start as soon as is required, though I know these jobs are like gold dust nowadays, may even be time for a career change ! Hoping someone can help thanks

I believe its OVS-ES all our systems have been outsourced , i used to purchase the EES however its no longer in my hands when the IT was taken over all the pc's where reimaged with windows 10 enterprise and office 2016 i just wondering should they be education as most had win7 or XP on them ? and am i correct in believing that office 2016 will be going for 365 cloud based ? thanks

thanks for the reply am i correct in believing that we will no longer be licensed for office 2016 and we will have to use365 in the cloud ? and as i read does that mean we have to use education if the machine has an older basic windows licenses say win 7 or xp ?

Hi everyone can someone please tell me does the EES - open value subscription still still require a valid licenses on a machine before you upgrade it ? and if you are upgrading are you supposed to use 'education' not enterprise ? hoping someone can help thanks

thanks for the support everyone

I totally agree with both statements , couldn't have put it better myself and these are the basis we have worked on for the last 5 years though it now feels like we (myself and my techs) are being classed as perverts for having them on display !

lol actually ours have always been like that the cameras show no bigger than 3cm's square. the number of cctv request i have received this year (2018) is 22 so far , the last one was drugs related the others vary from vandalism to bullying wish I could ditch this part of my job , but its in my Job Description

yes sorry it is appreciated , i just know for a fact in our case it will have a very negative effect once they are off students will see it as a free for all, as we don't have enough staff to police them all hey but its out of my hands i can only give them the advice & in the end its one last job for us to be responsible for every cloud and all that to be honest the job was forced upon us for safeguarding reasons years ago after a local school had decided to visit ours and show the students what they though of us! we are more upset with the fact of how it was put to us than anything else, though no one else apart from this dept is of the same opinion which is strange !

lol , yes true - but its the times we live in i'm afraid - how long before we all start wearing body cams & like the police this may not be by choice!