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That's great, all working - easy as that! Thank you both!

Hello everyone, I was hoping someone may be able to help me with a Powershell query. I have a script which I can use to send out a message to all of our teacher's computers, this could be used to relay any critical messages that teachers need to see right away. I've pasted the code below, in theory to send a message I'd open it in Notepad, go to edit, press replace and replace % with the message that needs to be sent, before running it as admin, I've tested it on a few machines and it works well: Msg * /server:Computer01 "%" Msg * /server:Computer02 "%" Msg * /server:Computer03 "%" However, here's where the problem is, I've been asked if a daily message can be sent out just before the end of school, to alert teacher's of any students who have after-school detentions. I can just set a scheduled task to run the script once a day at the end of school, but, the list of students names would be different every day, and with the best will in the world, the IT department won't always have the time to update a scheduled script with the student's names in every day, it just wouldn't be viable for us to do it. So, my question is - is there any way within PowerShell I can tweak the basic batch file above so that where the "%" is, I can insert the text a separate .txt document on an NTFS drive, so then I can tell the staff - "Put your message in the .txt file on SharedDrive/Notices/Notice.txt and that is what will be sent out at 15:15"?? Any help would be much appreciated, thank you in advance!!

I'd definitely recommend Exclaimer if you want to standardize all your email signatures, it doesn't break the bank either.

The Intel NUC's are pretty handy, worth checking out. edit - or the Compute Stick, I've used them for display screens last year and they are fantastic for just running PowerPoints.

Interesting, thank you. Do you know if Windows was installed using Bootcamp before the WDS task sequence was applied?

There will be some sort of policy which is doing this I'd expect. Have you tried creating a local administrator account with another name besides Administrator? (e.g. localadmin) Some Cyber Essential certifications require the local Administrator account to be called something different, so there could've been a policy implemented for this, it's a bit of a long shot, but worth checking.

Hello all, Has anyone here had any experience of installing Windows 10 onto intel based iMacs? We have a suite of Macs, but due to limited functionality and Apple Profile Manager being so hit and miss, we were looking at replacing them with Windows machines. However, it's going to be hard to convince the school to buy 16 new computers, which is why we are considering keeping the hardware but changing the OS. The OS install itself looks quite straight forward to do through Boot camp, but we have a long list of software that we need to install too - which is usually done through a WDS task sequence, has anyone had any experience doing this? Thanks in advance.

Hey, thanks for your reply. I did try to mount with AFP but for whatever reason I couldn't get it to work. However, I did find another fix, rather than adding the SMB share to the Device Groups, add it to the Users or User Groups instead. This worked for me first time, now the drive is mapping to their desktop every time! I guess it's a bit like User or Computer config within Windows GPO perhaps?

Hello all, I started in a new school last month and they have a Mac suite, all of the Macs are managed using Apple's Profile Manager, they are primarily used for music software and students can log into them with their AD credentials. The shared drive never seems to map to the Mac, so unless students map the shared drive themselves, they are unable to submit their work to their teacher. However, under profile manager, if I go to the group settings, MacOS, Login Items, I can see the share has been added under Authenticated Network Mounts and Network Mounts as smb://servername.domainname.internal/shared files If I log into any of the Macs and press Mac+K and then write our the FQDN for the share (smb://servername.domainname.internal/shared files) then the network drive maps and I can connect to it, however, when I log out and back in again it will disconnect. I looked at an old forum post on here which suggested using a webloc script, and saving it under Applications, then pinning a shortcut to the dock using profile manager... URL smb://servername.domainname.internal/shared files [/size] Weirdly this sort of works, but doesn't. When I open the .webloc file from the dock, a blank Safari screen and the Applications screen with the .webloc application highlighted - I can then drag that onto Safari and it prompts me to open with finder, when I click okay it loads the drive... Am I missing something here? Is there an easier way to map the drive?