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Spent my teenage years breaking windows 3.11 and 98, went to Uni, failed to get a degree in computer systems engineering, essentially because i'm rubbish at java, came back got a job doing back end web stuff for an outdoor retailer, jumped ship from that for more money to a general techie job for a company that made wrapping machinery. Got made redundant from that after 12 months. Got a job doing AV engineering for schools, churches and night clubs, eventually got sick of the 24hour on call, the 60+ hour normal weeks and the nervous exhaustion and came to chill out in educational IT for a local federation. ended up as senior tech'. I've now moved again to another federation. This time I'm an actual ICT manager by name rather than deed.
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We use applocker to prevent them from running anything. It looks like there may be something that can be done with the Defender version we're getting from September but that's being looked into by my MAT so I don't have any details.
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Not really, it was taken on board and I was told at the time it was roadmapped but I haven't seen anything further on it.
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W11 (Also W10 Now) Start Menu Search - Just Scrolling, No Apps
Oaktech replied to JRA's topic in Windows 11
You haven't got a policy somewhere that does "Remove common program groups from Start Menu (User)" Someone set that and it broke the start menu for students. -
Yes, using Delprof to remove all trace of the user profile and then signing in, the problem went away in my case. Your experience may vary.
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I've seen something like it before - nuking the profile on the machine solved it.
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Latitude 3420 - Running slow, Specs seem OK, what do you think?
Oaktech replied to TwistedHelixis's topic in Hardware
Make sure you have the Dell drivers off the website. I've had a similar issue with a specific HP device that has been made a lot better by installing the manufacturer drivers rather than the generic W11 ones, even the optional ones from update didn't work well. It might be worth seeing if it comes to life more with 16gb ram as well. -
And another one today - all from 07798 296630 Blocked the number now.
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Unifi wireless issues after update overnight on Sunday
Oaktech replied to Oaktech's topic in Wireless Networks
Uggghhh, right, apologies everyone who replied to this topic & to Unifi, not your fault, not this time! Turns out the DHCP server was exhausted. What 'appened woz... in the Easter holidays and under instruction from our Trust I dialled down the DHCP scope on the Smoothwall from an admittedly excessive /16 to a /24 with an 8hr lease time and 250 adresses available via DHCP. This particular site has around 150 normally connected devices on this with an ocasional usage of about 40 additional devices. At the weekend the lease time changed back to 2 days. I'm still not clear if this was a deliberate change, an update, or an automatic settings overwrite from the parent node. A combination of factors, including a large Trust meeting where around 30 people used the Trust's network which sits on our scope and the use of a suite of Chromebooks that don't get used often, caused a higher than normal number of clients to connect Monday into Tuesday and hang onto IPs, thus by Wednesday lunch time the scope was operating one-out-one-in. 🙄 Late Wednesday night (literally at about 8pm) the Trust finally got back to me and we agreed that 2 days was excessive, dialled the lease time back to 8 hours and everything is fine this morning, around 50 free leases. We've also agreed that the Trust will put their network on it's own scope & VLAN. -
I've had a similar issue twice fairly recently. One was with a manufacturer specific Intel driver for Lenovo Thinkcentre mini PCs installed via Lenovo Service Bridge and affected monitors connected by HDMI but not by DP. That was fixed with the a new driver from Intel without the manufacturer customizations. The other issue is ongoing with 23/24" HP E and Z displays and it is basically the beginning of the end for them, it gets progressively worse and eventually they just stop working!
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2 more HMRC scams robo calls this week.
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6th form have a a few stations - each station has 4 usb and 2 wireless pads in common/dining room areas, but the rest of the secondary school is an absolute no. We don't even like to charge staff phones! Primary schools - one of them has a 10 bay wireless charging locker in the office that was paid for by the PTFA and the staff ask the child if they need a charge when they hand the phone it before they come in the door. The other primary is an absolute no - phones are handed in to a designated member of staff in a security bag, brought to the office and locked away.
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Unifi wireless issues after update overnight on Sunday
Oaktech replied to Oaktech's topic in Wireless Networks
Mainly Nano HD but a couple of U6 Mesh Pro. 6.7.17 on the Nano and 6.6.77 on the U6 Mesh. Both apparently up to date. -
Unifi wireless issues after update overnight on Sunday
Oaktech replied to Oaktech's topic in Wireless Networks
Not got as far as Wireshark yet... I've tried a ipconfig /release and /renew on a device that is working and it just picked up another IP in seconds. Another non-working device, literally sat next to it connected to the same AP complains that that the DHCP has timed out. If I pick the device up and walk to the other school across the road, which is the same wireless network, it picks up an IP like there is no problem. -
Unifi wireless issues after update overnight on Sunday
Oaktech replied to Oaktech's topic in Wireless Networks
Not directly - we don't use vlan 1, we are using vlan 2 for everything computing on this site and all switch ports are set native to vlan 2 unless they serve a printer or a door controller. -
Unifi wireless issues after update overnight on Sunday
Oaktech replied to Oaktech's topic in Wireless Networks
Updates were: UniFi Network Application 9.1.120 UniFi OS - Cloud Keys 4.2.9 DHCP is handled by our Smoothwall.
