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Watch out - I think sometimes those SIDs relate to accounts inside an IIS install on a DC.... (its been ages since I looked at this, but not all unnamed SIDs were deleted accounts). https://www.bing.com/search?q=SID+group+policy+IIS+domain+controller

If you have office365 you could have them set up a sharepoint site for some student activity (say student voice, or ‘common room’) and monitor and report on that.

How so? While I don't feel amazon will be hurt if they loose this, we all win if they do... Who here knew about the change in Visa's rates? With such a high profile fight, over a thing that materially harms uk consumers, our dear leader will likely push to be seen to make it a success story for brexit (followed by some swift legislation to demonstrate 'taking back control') So that last bit is perhaps wishful thinking, but I am genuinely intrigued as to how we (the uk consumer) loose if amazon get Visa to back down (or cut them a special deal).

If they've also never seen the database before, it is quite a lot of work to discover how the data is really structured - they have to play with the UI and watch what code rung against the database, and compare that to what is displayed (where is the business logic? in the app/ui layer, or in the stored queries inside the database, so a nasty mix of both?), before then qrite custom queries to pull and restructure the data for import into their product. If they have seen it before they will have notes and may just be evaluating what will have the best outcome from both of your perspectives before confirming the plan. I'd imaging the absolute worst case is that your new vendor would provide some excel templates from which they can import, and you then have to export the data, clean it and pop it in for them to validate before everybody signs off on it getting imported. With a bit of luck you'd get a couple of passes at this whole process in case, despite everyone's best efforts, things arrive in the new MIS broken. Quite how much bespoke work they will do for you will be a function of the number many migrations they are running right now, and perhaps how much you are prepared to pay.

Yes, use hdmi out from the laptop. Trust me I burned a lot of goodwill trying to solve this. I suspect that Lenovo did some bespoke things with USB-C / Thunderbolt in 2016-2019 timeframe, and it didn't work out. Something most people don't notice is that you don't get usb3.x connectivity either - the laptop only sees the docks as usb 2 devices, even when you do manage to get DP 1080p passing through it.

Restore BIOS/EUFI defaults for Windows 10. Re-image the machine. Re-image the machine from a windows 10 vanilla image, then add the lenovo tools and let them choose what updates/drivers to install. Try these forums: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Enterprise-Client-Management/Thinkpad-T14s-Gen-2-Type-20WN-major-shutdown-issues/m-p/5110345 (I link to a current thread with a very similar sounding issue to yours)

...and if you do have something you cannot live without on the broken DC, you still abandon the broken DC and build new.... because you can use the VEEAM virtual lab feature to bring up an backup of the broken dc in a private sandboxed environment, back up the service/data you need from there, kill the virtual lab, build your new dc and restore the service/data you just backed up.

Just want to check: that range wasn't given to you by your broadband provider was it? (specifically are you on LGfL?)

You could also have a script that runs and checks the files comparing them to a list of files from the previous day. If any are missing it raises an alert so you can restore them from the shadow volume before anybody notices. Then you can go spelunking in the audit trail to find out who deleted them. In my experience actual deletion of documents is very rare. more often than not an errant drag/drop has occurred and the files and folders are safe and well, just somewhere else. (This used to happen to us probably six-ten times a year. Moving to SharePoint and files on demand makes it more obvious to the user they have made an error that they can cancel out of)

Here is something I knocked together for student folders in a SharePoint site, before a MS engineer pointed out that Teams assignments does all this already. You can modify it to suite this task. # Create per user folder in SharePoint Site $SiteName = "SITENAME" $Group = "AZUREADGROUPNAME" $SiteAbsoluteURL = "https://TENANTNAME.sharepoint.com/sites/" + $SiteName $SiteRelativeURL = "/sites/" + $SiteName $listname = "DOCUMENTLIBRARY" $listnameAsRelativeURL = "/" + $listname $FolderServerRelativeURL = $SiteRelativeURL + $listnameAsRelativeURL connect-azuread Connect-SPOService https://TENANTNAME-admin.sharepoint.com Connect-PnPOnline -Url $SiteAbsoluteURL -UseWebLogin new-pnplist -Title $listname -Template DocumentLibrary -OnQuickLaunch $UserList = (Get-AzureADGroup -SearchString $group|Get-AzureADGroupMember) foreach ($user in $UserList) { #write-host $user.givenname $user.surname $studentFolderName = $user.givenname + " " + $user.surname $targetFolder = $FolderServerRelativeURL + "/" + $studentFolderName Write-Host $studentFolderName Write-Host $user.UserPrincipalName Add-PnPFolder -name $studentFolderName -Folder $listnameAsRelativeURL #write-host "Set-PnPFolderPermission -List"+ $listname +"-Identity " + $targetFolder +"-AddRole edit -User " + $user.UserPrincipalName "-ClearExisting" Set-PnPFolderPermission -List $listname -Identity $targetFolder -AddRole edit -User $user.UserPrincipalName -ClearExisting }

I would grant access a slightly different way. The reason I don't recommend the send link option is that it can sometime be a confusing experience and it isn't always clear in the UI who has been granted access to what. That said the process below does send a link by default at the end too. In the individual's folder: Manage Access->Advanced->Inheritance/Break Inheritance Now Grant the staff member and their line manager and the SLT Member the access required. They will be sent a link by default.

Timmy (he's got a tik-tok account!)

I'm outside my experience here, so take with a pinch of salt, but I read it in context to mean hybrid exchange. To be honest if removing all traces of the current domain name was the desired outcome, given the apparent lack of blogs written by MVPs or articles on docs.microsoft.com on the topic, I might consider paying for a day's consultancy to develop feasibility study for the project.

The award for understatement of the year goes to localzuk for 'a bit of a faff' So this piqued my interest, so I had a look around (as you probably have already) and came to this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/77503/internal-domain-rename.html which summarises all the other links that I came across about the matter. A quick look around suggest Exchange and Hybrid are both blockers for the renaming of the internal domain. Have you seen documentation suggesting otherwise? A migration might be a better option? or perhaps changing the upn suffix and updating the domain in Azure AD/365 if you are allowed to keep the old domain in the background?

I sit next to an 802.11ac wave 1 AP. I get 600-900 Mbit/sec when nobody else is in the building. Once we get to about 10 clients 300 Mbit/sec is the theoretical best throughput. Once we get to 30-40 you are looking at sub 10Mbit/sec. If they are 'busy' we are down to 1.6Mb/sec. https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S2405959520300825-gr2_lrg.jpg This graph linked above shows throughput for ax wifi as the dotted lines. (it comes from a 2020 research paper in to increasing throughput using some novel techniques, which is what the solid lines are showing). It all depends on the usage of your wifi. We have a professionally designed WLAN, and we have zero problems with a class-full throwing around Photoshop files and Premier projects. But we also make sure teachers know to spread the load - and they are encouraged to stagger any big uploads/downloads. They structure their lessons accordingly. It works extremely well, and it works (less well) when they forget. Would 1Gb/sec wired desktops be better? Yes, but then the room would not be multipurpose and so these courses could not run at all.

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Yeah kids enjoyed it. Lots of setting up and introducing of the pieces that will be developed in the next few episodes. Felt a lot more RTD than the last few years. But also as a *long* time fan, I'm feeling ongoing echoes of the "Cartmel Masterplan" that started of last season. Jon Bishop's character lands better than I expected, and Mandeep's has more room now she doesn't have to share story time with the ryan/graham relationship. Though Mandeep's character has developed a level of space-time traveller competence that unfortunately often ends badly for the Doctor's human companions. For what it is worth, "more like RTD" is not necessarily the unqualified complement that some might take it as. I'm happy enough with it, feel that it struck a good balance of horror and family-friendly viewing. Looking forward to how it pulls on the threads episode one has exposed.

Google isn't a single thing. Nor are public statements always the whole picture. There is conflict between the divisions of alphabet and also within the divisions. This is normal for any organisation of this scale. Sometimes things don't come out the way the consumer of the product wants. Perhaps things will swing back as per the public statement. But the open and free web is closing, and YouTube and Google Workplace have divergent goals. The Chromebook thing is a retrograde step, but it is an inevitable result from ceding to the pressure to fill that gap between cloud first and legacy-like capabilities. I'm sure they will make it better, but unless they roll back to "cloud-only" we'll be bumping into this until all our devices are 128gb+ just like Windows and iOS. TBH our Windows autopilot devices with 64Gb of SSD have just started to run out of space after a year in service with no maintenance. We're trying out Autopilot reset just now, hopefully it will keep them fresh. Was hoping that after five years of Windows 10, we'd be able to get a chromebook-like experience, but no, annual re-imaging remains a thing I can totally understand the frustration of Chrome OS IT staff to have this come crashing back round into their lives.

This is the collision of ideology (Cloud is the only way) and business/commercial realities. How many Timetable packages are used at any sort of scale in UK Schools? Nova-T, Timetabler, and e-timetable, and TBH I'm not sure whether that last one counts as 'at scale' There is a market of a fixed size, and schools are used to the costs of the existing products. The market is mature. Without a new disruptive entrant, it simply isn't going to change. The UI/X of the existing products is *everything* Timetablers up and down the land are used to it, they are fluent in it. Is the pain of change of moving to a new, initially less functional product worth more that that £1000/5 years? Pragmatically, cloud first institutions will just roll our eyes and buy a dedicated Windows device to run the timetable software. I wouldn't be surprised if a Windows instance running a timetable package with its roots in the 1990s (or 70's apparently) still remains in every schools' estate in 20 years time. Any disruption to this market will need to come from someone with deep pockets. Even if it started in the same way Keith and October ReSolutions did, to scale up (support, developers, marketing) at the sort of speed needed to compete with the incumbents they would be burning hundreds of thousands a year, and getting any return on the investment is by no means certain. Perhaps an Open Source development might gain momentum, but at some point you need to be able to offer professional services (priority support, SLAs, training etc) and that needs a critical mass of paying customers, and can cause a schism in the open source developers who have sunk their own time in. This is not a simple problem to solve.

From what I understand, YouTube is working as intended and content you can't access, you probably aren't licenced to access in school via YouTube anyway. ChromeOS has always had gap in it capability that can only be filled by implementing local storage and local apps like Android/Windows/MacOS/iOS/Linux. This brings all the problems of the legacy OS's to the platform. These changes were clearly resisted by the ChromeOS team for years, but recently they have begun to buckle and now we are where we are. Quite why screenshots specifically are now on local storage I don't know, but perhaps a significant proportion of Google Drive storage was taken up by these screen shots that are never reviewed?

I wonder how much developer time (i.e money) Bromcom, ESS/Nova, Keith have sunk into their current solutions? Now how many customers would you have to attract to cover the cost of redeveloping them from scratch? Now consider how critical the timetable is to schools operations - timetables predate MIS's by what? 150 years at least! Broken timetables = a broken school. How many of the basically static number of customers could you *actually* persuade to move to a relatively untested product? The path to the cloud based MIS is littered with the dying bodies of the previous on-prem vendors. 10 years ago would have said that Bromcom should have been best placed to pivot their timetable product to the cloud since the code/logic was written in a more server-side/cloud friendly language - but the risks were huge and clearly their numbers showed that time was better spent improving the cloud MIS part of their offer.

Untested. A little less pseudo code and abit more gung-ho "just do it" attitude. connect-azuread connect-exchangeonline $internalmessage = get-content internalmessage.txt $externalmessage = get-content externalmessage.txt $AllStaff = Get-AzureADGroupMember -ObjectId (Get-AzureADGroup -SearchString "all staff").objectid foreach ($colleague in $allstaff) { Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration -identity $colleague.userprincipalname -AutoReplyState enabled -ExternalAudience -InternalMessage "$internalmessage" -ExternalMessage "$externalmessage" } You might want to check users who already have autoreply configured with get-mailboxautoreplyconfiguration first.

something like (extremely rough pseudo code follows) $internalmessage = get-content internalmessage.txt $externalmessage = get-content externalmessage.txt for each $user in (get-aadusers -filter by staff) { Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration $user.emailaddress -AutoReplyState enabled -ExternalAudience -InternalMessage "$internalmessage" -ExternalMessage "$externalmessage" }

You must back up your DCs so you have a viable Disaster recovery plan. Sometimes bad things happen. When you rebuild from bare-metal, having a fully operational and populated domain makes the rest of the restore much easier and lessens the disruption to the rest of the organisation.