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Question for those who have PSFinancials, we currently host centrally for the schools in our MAT. Performance ranges from OK to poor for anyone other than the central site, remote VPN users get the worst of it. For those with a similar setup how is your performance? Any recommendations to improve performance over the VPN would be greatly appreciated.

Getting the same as you, random .onmicrosoft.com address on the end of the url. Looks like the link from the secure score page is where this is coming from.

They got back to me the same day, we were able to book for the end of November in October. There's some more info here with a generic email address for booking.

I've been a couple of times, once with a group of schools and then again for a session with just staff from our trust. It was an excellent day, we were able to plan the content with the presenter to do a deeper dive on the specific things we were looking to use. Looks like they have added additional session types now. Would definitely recommend.

Surely they wouldn't be in your FTE count as they aren't employed by the school?

Those who get the info from HR, do you have internal HR management or outsourced? In my case its all managed per school by the SBMs which is why there's such a disconnect sometimes. I've had a quick look at salamander and that looks like a good solution for automating this process. Some combination of that with email flow sounds like the best way to go.

How do people manage On-boarding and Off-boarding staff? Especially interested in how those working at a MAT level handle this? My current process is a mess. Word of mouth most of the time, if i'm lucky an email/ticket informing me of a new staff member. Working at the centre I often don't hear that someone is leaving until after the fact. I'd like to implement a robust procedure and would appreciate any advice from those who have already achieved this!

I didn't know that, do I have to go to the OVS-ES reseller or direct to Microsoft to get that done? That's going to be far cheaper to licence by FTE count rather than per O365 user, do they limit how many ProPlus licences you can have?

I could be wrong but I think for a boot drive it needs both the TPM and key to unlock it.

How do you deal with licencing on CTR, do you have to continuously purchase new licences as you get more pupils/staff?

I'm looking to standardise the version of Office we use across all school in my MAT. Just curious now that 2019 is out are people planning to follow that upgrade path or are you now looking at moving to ProPlus?

Thanks for the reply, i like the trust concept. Using other factors to show a secure login would definitely cut down on the amount of user support required from putting MFA in-place. Can i ask, for your users what was the uptake on the authenticator APP compared to other authentication methods like mobile number & secondary email?

Hi, I work for a medium size MAT, I've just completed a migration of all of our schools individual O365 tenants to a single MAT tenant. This has made management much easier for me working at the centre however it has highlighted some bad practice around password security for a small number of staff. Currently I only have the default MFA enforced for administrators policy enabled, but i'm now looking to possibly roll this out to all users. I'm leaning more towards azure conditional access rather than just the default MFA enabled/disabled in O365, however there's an additional licencing cost to consider with this option. Has anyone gone through this process before? How did it go for you and what policy did you implement on MFA? For those who have enabled MFA by default for all users, were there any unexpected issues you've had to overcome?