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I am the network manager for a medium sized secondary, leading a small team. I'll try to be helpful in my posts, but I'll also reply with a stupid joke if I can. I specialise in being a Jack of all trades, and certainly a master of none, but I'm a persistent, grumpy, belligerent sort and usually figure things out.
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Super unlikely. Chipset drivers might though.
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I've had similar, where it worked fine when not loading drivers. Turned out to be the trackpad drivers. Can you remove them?
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Yeah, tower. Only takes one fall from that height to wish you'd been using a tower instead (while rapidly descending). If you can't keep three points of contact it's just not safe - and I've done some sketchy ladder climbs (away from work).
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Welsh schools - Hwb Intune for Windows devices instead of local domain
3s-gtech replied to Olliekai's topic in General Chat
That'd be a big help - we've seen nothing.- 25 replies
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Smoothwall browser on iPads
3s-gtech replied to synaesthesia's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
Yeah, went through that last year when I finally moved to proper Apple IDs synced to our accounts. I just waited for the timeout as there was other stuff I could do (no point getting stressed over that). It worked fine afterwards. -
It absolutely could be used for that - that looks like a vehicle cloning checklist, with an organisation where any tickets and penalties could be lost in the system for months (where the police have to confirm who was driving etc). Don't give them the plates.
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We use Shared iPads, so we have them tied to Apple School and JAMF. We have to buy a license for each user (that will use the app) and assign it.
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Welsh schools - Hwb Intune for Windows devices instead of local domain
3s-gtech replied to Olliekai's topic in General Chat
Printing, for the same reason, is one of ours. Next is decent filtering (can we use our own Smoothwall? No one knows).- 25 replies
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Vmware is over soon for schools
3s-gtech replied to browolf's topic in Thin Client and Virtual Machines
The warning signs have been there for a few years now - most have got out. Shame that they took a great product and nerfed it, but isn't that the trend? You also have Proxmox as an option, but I haven't used it as we started using Hyper-V back in 2012 or so and it does the job (at reasonable cost). -
We have a lot of AMD kit (laptops and desktops, 5 to 2 years old), only tiny thing we've encountered is some driver issues when using a large central dump of drivers in our MDT. Imaged with no additional drivers, fine. Intune, fine. Performance and reliability wise, grand. My office PC is a 5th gen Ryzen Pro and I like it a lot.
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I think it’s just me left with it (2024 pushed it via GPO and targeted at 2021 machines). I’ll keep it until the deadline because I still get users angry that it’s going (another today!) Not my fault it’s being retired, nor my problem!
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I was at an event when phones starting blaring, and we got four alerts - Welsh and English for flood then fire risk. Possible someone got a bit keen with the first one. Thoroughly irritating, and I left my phone in the car after that.
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Yeah mine would complete, even join AD or Intune, but would then break after updating drivers from Windows Update. Without drivers from MDT they would work fine even after Windows Updates.
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Can you disable the MDT driver stores before imaging? I have some laptops (Lenovo E595 G1) that thoroughly soil themselves when imaged with MDT and anything other than the bare OS for drivers. Installing from a USB stick works, via MDT with the stores enabled and they crash repeatedly.
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Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
3s-gtech replied to 6Foot2's topic in Windows 11
I think I already added it to the Intune kill list. Junk running in the background annoys the hell out of me.
