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I'm not quite sure where it has improved. I regularly get send MSOffice documents that I cannot edit in O365 because it is missing some function or another (lack of symbols, superscript issues etc). I normally can edit these Office documents fine in Gsuite - but not in Office! If it has improved it's only becasue started from such a low base. Gsuite still wins for me on functionality.

Not quite sure how that works with regards to data staying inside the EU? We now have to move the datacentres out of the UK ?

Ok I'll be the only person to recommend something else. - only joking! Papercut is what you need !

I'm working on a project to do the same. After some consideration I have settled on Prometheus with a Grafana frontend. https://prometheus.io/

That's it. I'm not syncing any groups, just OU's

No we dont'. I was inviting comment with the /devilsadvocate. I think this is a real problem though, we constantly try and make sure 'our' systems are updated but increasingly the attack vector is elsewhere.

oddly, I've done two syncs today and both have been fine. Wonder if I'm hitting a different datacenter or something? I don't have the 200

I would second this option. It works really well. At the login page, rather than logging into google, you just see the ADFS / (or other SAMLif you don't have ADFS) page. After sign in it automatically logs you into the correct wifi via 802.1x and all the Office365 AND Google apps are already signed in.

... will you be blocking them from accessing their work accounts with these unsupported devices? A compromised account would leave you liable. /devilsadvocate On the other hand, using an unsupported device for a single function - to go to a single website isn't a particularly high risk. I suspect the bigger danger is that the google presentation may stop supporting the browser version is the years to come.

I agree with monolithic applications like Active Directory. To get the massive cost savings that large companies enjoy you do have to do a certain amount of re-design to your infrastructure. Lots of people won't want to do the extra work, but if you can start subdividing your servers into containers and you will start seeing the benefit. I wrote about that here: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/cloud-services/207170-using-azure.html#post1775000

The justifications: Increased number of applications running in cloud - users were often authenticating from cloud providers Resilience against local environmental factors (power cuts, server shutdowns, flooding, nuclear armageddon, school moving etc) Space is at a premium and local server space is tight costs are more predictable, similar to MS schools agreement vs purchasing outright - it is easier to get a fixed cost paid for than arguing for new server equipment Reduced cost of virtualisation software onsite

We did this in my old place. Had one DC in the cloud (Google cloud engine) and two on site linked via VPN. I understand that since I left they now have 2 DC's in Google. It worked really nicely. At the place I am now we are moving two DC's to Azure.

The legal stuff should really be kept out of the email system (or at least the important bits should be copied out ) into a dedicated child protection or SEN database. Ideally the MIS should do this role, but they rarely do a decent job IMO.

A sensible email deletion policy helps here. If you don't keep the data you can't release it - saves everyone a lot of time.

Couldn't they could just ask the Chinese Govt.

TL;DR: look at the readme in the font and email the author if educational use isn't explicit. DAFont say "Are all the fonts free of charge?The fonts presented on this website are their authors' property, and are either freeware, shareware, demo versions or public domain. The licence mentioned above the download button is just an indication. Please look at the readme-files in the archives or check the indicated author's website for details, and contact him/her if in doubt. If no author/licence is indicated that's because we don't have information, that doesn't mean it's free." https://www.dafont.com/faq.php

I think the issue is that Microsoft wouldn't divulge what the data contains: " wealth of telemetry data is transmitted to Microsoft, whose content has not been finally clarified despite repeated inquiries at Microsoft"

Chromebits work well for this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebit

It's got to be incase the phones are compromised I think

The only vaguely logical thing I could think of is if the phones themselves are compromised and it might lead to a data leak if the internal network wasn't very secure ? I don't think they would be assuming the onsite staff are abusers who are consciously uploading childrens data. Turning off 3/4G wouldn't prevent that in any case.

Yeah it's dangerous for Wifi vendors. Interesting the BCS is carrying that.

In all seriousness, does anyone know anything about the carbon footprint of 4/5G ? There's a lot of lamenting the science deniers worries about cancer etc, but I'd be interested to know about the energy consumption of mobile networks - particularly with 5G if it offers such greater bandwidth. If 5G completely replaces internal wifi/networks it might offset the energy consumption. Will it? what are your thoughts?

It doesn't say that - it's asking for a first degree (ie an undergraduate degree or equivalent) in a computer science related area.

It comes down to a sensible design, but Kubernetes IS a native Azure service (AKS) - it does require a certain amount of re-architecture if you want to do it in a scalable and economic way. It might not help your specific circumstances if you are only running four of five servers but a larger MAT or LA would certainly find use for this sort of technology as it will save heaps of money. I now feel like I'm defending the use of a technology?!? This isn't why I came here. I came to help and offer advice of the last 10 years working with cloud services. If it doesn't fit how you have designed your systems then you don't really need to waste your time explaining to me why you can't use it.

Most of the cutting edge enterprise systems are started on Linux, but they soon get developed for windows. You can run a kubernetes windows node since version 1.14. So the only thing that is preventing you from running this way on windows is that most of the support is for linux. It would still work though