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The next step would be to integrate it into a system so that you can offload the script for a user to run, this sort of task shouldn't be for IT to do - once you've got a method to run it.

er. no. Unix had centralised users before Windows NT was even a thing.

This is the correct way to do this; it lends itself better to automation/self service and it is less error prone. All major directory services have an api or cli integration so CSV should be a thing of the past now.

Querying the user directory dynamically would be the best option

The TLDR: We don't do load testing, so had no idea we'd need to scale redis when we increased the cluster size. As we made a fix manually the same thing happened again, but this time we just increased the timeout so it takes longer to process things so we rolled back. Because our updates are manual, we don't have any oversight of the process and barely test them, we really need to get the senior devops post filled, but int he mean time we're going to pay MS and redis to suggest a redesign.

Create a live read replica: A read replica database isn't the database itself, nor is it a backup copy.

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=c03369047&docLocale=en_US&page=GUID-DA6F9D14-ED8B-4846-890D-F9F76FE73A51.html Use this: it's binary compatible with RHEL https://rockylinux.org/

It's been free for linux for the last ten years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kpatch

I'd always leave out the 'what'. It's how you get those crazy white elephants. It's what they pay it managers for.

Sounds a sensible approach, but I worry that it lends itself to staff 'solutionising' the problem. In your example, rather than stating that the curriculum needs (eg that students must be able to record temperature, pressure, mass over a long period of time) are they encouraged to present a solution to buy a specific brand of data loggers?. I expect the form to encourage staff to explain the problem rather than give them an opportunity to present the solution - if they don't have that opportunity you may end up with something that fits the whole school better rather than something that eg fulfils a requirement for science, but not maths, DT, geography (for example)

That's why we NEVER make production changes on a Friday

Has anyone with children affected reported it to ICO given that TES have decided they will not.

why ? https://orders.chefserve.co.uk/ oh

I'd also want to know how they are measuring system statuses, I'm not convinced they are at all given they only seem to know if there is a problem by the number of helpdesk tickets

Bromcom has been around for a long time. It's far easier to build a platform as a service from scratch than to retrofitinto a cloud platform. It's simply a lot harder for bromcom to build a reliable service. Arbor is only around 10yrs old and many of the design principals; test driven deployment, devops , ci/cd, monitoring were built into it from the ground up. Looking at other posts, and their job listings, I get the distinct feeling that bromcom are only starting to realise they need to do this

or not https://killedbymicrosoft.info/

That's not how monitoring works! Relying on users to tell you that something isn't working is a fundamentally broken model. Platform monitoring and regression testing is really basic stuff for a service provider.

It really is an additional cost if you just upgraded the perpetual Windows/Office/server licenses every six years which is what I did. At the time the cost of all the perpetual licenses over 6 years was far, far cheaper than subscriptions every year, let alone adding any Ax licensing. It's also a lot easier to get out of the agreement because the products are still licensed until you stop using them. I guess Microsoft knows this. Anyway, since then the school has moved almost entirely to Chromebooks making the windows licensing even less attractive. And it's not my problem anymore as the company I work for doesn't use MS at all.

The whole 'professional' vs 'home' vs 'server' was entirely a microsoft construct. There was no functional difference between mac server and macos other than some 'server' interface that you didn't need anyway (and they actually sold rackmounts). Same goes for linuxes, my work operating system is identical to the server ones we use but with a gui so I can argue with people using a web browser :-) All can be managed centrally (with or without expensive software)

No, it just means you need to manage it :-)

It turns out that they pay their techs next to nothing so the money magically appears.

Looking at the job spec I think they do have it in mind with docker/k8s as requirement, but having worked on Azure kubernetes before I'd much rather do it in GCP, or AWS.

I take it back: https://careers.bromcom.com/o/senior-azure-devops-engineer Not applying though ! sounds an awful company.

Chances that Bromcom invest their legal gains in more lawyers vs investing in site reliability engineers to re-architect their platform to cope with demand ?

120% Not just for security incidents, all types of IT change benefits from postmortem culture. There's an interesting article here: https://sre.google/sre-book/postmortem-culture/