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the signup won't accept our .sch.uk email

Well, I'll see, it wasn't expensive and if it is a pain in the a$$ then I've not spent the £50 it should have been

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0055429GO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I just bought me one of these, I don't like cooking

I don't think it would be fair to name the person here, we have been in close contact with our reseller and SchoolsBroadband over the last few working days and managed to get most all the issues sorted. If you've bought through a reseller/partner I would speak to them - otherwise contact your account manager - it will get sorted (even if there have been headaches along the way) We still have a few questions that need answering (mainly procedural) but hopefully, they will be answered in the coming days.

We've not been happy with the entire process... we've been migrated nearly 2.5 weeks and we're still picking apart issues. The biggest one we found yesterday was that under the default policy the 'General' category was allowed out, meaning that a good chunk of the school's internet usage was being allowed out, effectively, anonymously; with no way of auditing who had been to the sites that fell into that category. IMO that alone is a biggy. Our Authportal wasn't set up correctly (I followed the instructions provided but the follow-up settings were missed) meaning that users were getting sporadic failures in authentication with NS, stopping sites from working correctly. And trying to get YouTube working has been a right nightmare! We don't allow our students to Youtube, but our staff are and for some strange reason (one that we have yet to figure why) if we allow the streaming media category it still will not work with only half the page loading. We can get around it by adding i.ytimg.com and s.ytimg.com to the default policy, however, adding it to the staff policy it gets ignored, checking the log files it seems that no matter what those two urls go via the default policy regardless. Also, if you move your users around groups, be prepared to email support and ask them to do an AD Sync as that isn't automatic either... Oh and don't get me started on BYOD... All this, on top of no manuals and training, and from what I can gather a distinct lack of knowledge at the end of TS (although they do try to be as helpful as possible), has left us with a bitter taste in our mouths. We are hoping that over the coming week we will iron out our remaining issues. Thankfully we have a good team that keeps everything else ticking over whilst my NM and I spend what seem to be endless days looking at this. God help those of you that are PT or on your own.

Whoop! *DoesHappyDance*

looking at the console logs in Chrome it seems to be calling this: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/ maybe try blocking that? it may stop the videos from loading... The video i searched for returned this full address: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/3317w0_HuX4?wmode=transparent&iv_load_policy=3&autoplay=1&html5=1&showinfo=0&rel=0&modestbranding=1&playsinline=1&theme=light

At least you've been given access... I'm still waiting for details, none of our staff or students can access anything (they're just hitting the default filter block page), O365 admin isn't working either, neither is AAD sync :/ Oh yeah, I'm supposed to be on annual leave today (and the rest of the week) tbh I'm a little bit unhappy with the whole experience atm...

Do you have fast user switching enabled? Are User A & B logged on to the same machine at the same time? just a thought...

I did ours on my own and it's relatively easy. You'll need your own DNS domain (all schools have one) and a few CNAME entries to repoint your domain to the outlook/o365 smtp servers. Obviously, it's a little more involved than that but I am now running ours with a hybrid setup routing all our mail through Exchange online for incoming and outgoing protection

We use this Web based file access to Windows shares for Active Directory users. Not free but very good, easy to configure and works with AD. Also keeps everything on site so no need for cloud services

Can you do an NSLOOKUP from your mail server to the relay address?

my favourite word this year has been f**knugget... please let that be in there

This! We signed up to SBB just over a year ago and after a few niggles and a complete IP change on our network we have had very few to no issues at all; speed has been consistent and filtering has been ok, we do get the 'network hardware issues' box on the odd webpages but overall service has been great and we here have little to complain about. Like already mentioned by another, I do find it quite disconcerting when people who are not involved with SBB or use their services chime in and openly lambast them for something when the information they have presents only one side of the argument.

Just airing on the positive side, we have had no issues, we're getting our paid for 200Mbps Up/Down (almost) and have had no filtering issues (we're on 17).

We moved away from NS when we moved from our LEA to SBB... we hated NS (Although LEA was using ancient version and from what I could tell we're not the best at managing it)... I know we can stick with Lightspeed for a while so I think our plan is to do that for now and see how well the NS migrations go.

An email not everyone got by the looks of it... I found out through a 3rd Party Supplier...

I don't really want to take this OT but, surely there are issues there with allowing students access to the internet under one single account that cannot be audited or traced? Just saying...

I wrote our own SQL Database with an MSAccess/VBA front end... with it we can tie in Purchasing, life cycling, warranties, repairs, auditing, personal allocations (for laptops/iPads etc) and Disposals. We currently only use it for ICT related stuff but there is talk of expanding school wide so we don't have to pay for any external services (I think we use Parago at the minute) One thing to remember with any Inventory is that it is only as accurate as those that keep the records.

Just jumping in on this one, we were finding that Roaming Profiles and Cached Outlook didn't work. We have pushed a GPO out that disables the outlook cache. Yes this means that there is more load on the server but we have not had any more issues with OST and RUP since doing so.

What sort of price do the cutter group charge? Remote access and subsequently access to SIMS is on our roadplan for the next 12 months, happy to do it in house but if there is a costed option that may fit in the budget I would like to have that option Thanks

This is the snippet of code that re-arranges our tennant UPNs Hopefully it is useful. Once you change the UPN on the tennant that will be the username that they will need to log in with. Probably best to pop the code in to the powershell ISE shows the comments/ variables a bit better HTH <# Module Imports #> Import-Module MSOnlineImport-Module ActiveDirectory <# Username and Password Setup for MSOL connection #> $Username = "" <# Will be something like [email protected] #> $EncryptedPassword = "" | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force $MSOLCred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($Username,$EncryptedPassword) <# Perform MSOL Connection #> Write-Host "Connecting to Microsoft online using:" $Username Connect-MsolService -Credential $MSOLCred <# Update all MSOL users with proper UPN (except ADFS Account) #> Write-Host "Updating Users Office 365 UPN to end @" Get-MsolUser -all | Where { <# This bit gets all the users on your tennant that are not the Global admin on your tennant and dont already end in the new UPN #> -Not $_.UserPrincipalName.ToLower().StartsWith(“@”) -and -not $_.UserPrincipalName.ToLower().EndsWith("") } | ForEach { <# This sets all the accounts found above to the new UPN #> Set-MsolUserPrincipalName -ObjectId $_.ObjectId -NewUserPrincipalName ($_.UserPrincipalName.Split(“@”)[0] + “@”) } Write-Host "Process Complete"

If memory serves you can't just change the UPN of the account and have it replicate to O365. We did this when we first started and had to use Powershell scripts to update the O365 field to match the new UPN When i'm at my desk tomorrow i'll dig my script out see if it is of any use

We're looking at this currently through CBC (And yourselves), however we're PFI and the phones are outsourced and we have been told by them that only Mitel approved suppliers/retailers can provide SIP to our system. Any thoughts? Beta testing should not be an issue (once the powers that be agree) however I need to get this point cleared up first

When we initially signed up @SchoolsBroadband were looking at whether their own wsus server may be useful (we have our own in school and only manually update a few clients) - Do you know whether anything like this is planned in the future Dave? I understand that it may be a config change, especially for primaries, but most that have technical support could do this with a simple script/GPO update. Just a thought...