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We have./Device/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/LocalPoliciesSecurityOptions/InteractiveLogon_DoNotDisplayLastSignedIn = Integer Value 1 we also apply ./Device/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/WindowsLogon/HideFastUserSwitching = Integer Value 1 (Mostly for filtering purposes) and ./Device/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/LanmanWorkstation/EnableInsecureGuestLogons = Integer Value 0 I don't know if all three work in concert, but they seem to apply. We've seen the list still apply if the machine hasn't been enrolled with the correct user in the past. Also, one that's caught me out before - is the enrollment user licensed for EDU Plus/Teaching and Learning Add-On?

I'm not getting into which is better for one school or another. That should be done with honest and clear assessments of all of your solutions and needs - not just the whims of the budget or the "taste leaders" in your school. I know which I prefer personally (I'm a Google man) but you will get push back for a multitude of reasons if you take everything they're used to away without fully supporting your various departments in the migration. Teachers are particularly tough customers when it comes to resisting change. (This applies whatever platform you're shifting from and to, btw not just Windows to ChromeOS, any combination!) Particularly those who stand on the idea of "industry standards". Transitioning away from things like 2D Design, Flowol, Photoshop, Smart Notebook, SolidWorks, Crocodile Clips without supporting them and helping them find alternative solutions, or routes to virtualise them will be very difficult. You almost need to try and frame it so they believe it is their idea. You will get people who are wed to what they know and will be VERY hesistant to consider alternative. They'll tell you, despite all evidence to the contrary, that an alternative isn't good enough, or doesn't meet certain curricular requirements, so you'll need to counternance that. You'll also get those who don't want children to have open access to specialist tools, because they're scared the kids will get ahead of them. This is particularly telling in the specialist subjects that aren't necessarily widely taken at GCSE and A-Level. Photography, Design Technology, Music etc. Assess what they have, what is out there as an alternative, and what they're already doing that can already be done multi-platform without too much upheaval. I would say you're being super generous with the split there. 43K devices (roughly). We have around 82% Chrome, 11.6% Windows and 7% Apple equipment. I haven't got exact figures, but I would say that it's not an unreasonable stance that ChromeOS and ChromeOS Flex takes up at most 18.6% of our support time, and Windows and Apple at least 82% The savings you'd make with Google would not only be made up from the support needed to keep them running being massively reduced, but a need for fewer staff to support it in general.... From a technical side at least, you may need staff to support the migration, training on new tools with staffing, particularly in the first instances.

Correct, but this is also the case with inTune without AD in place. It's a Microsoft limitation. Yes, absolutely. you set the OMA-URIs on an OU, and then put this setup user in that OU.

Remember, we're working in a sector where a lot of people think technical solutions are the answer to classroom management problems. Things like treating using a computer as a privilege rather than a requirement, or how some schools will want a stop on student email or document sharing being highly limited/stopped despite never thinking of taking away pen and paper from every single child because there are a couple that like to pass notes. Some people would absolutely welcome the cameras themselves being a deterrent and a way to temper behavioural issues in class before they happen.

Well with totally responsible articles like this around, I think body warm cams might become an inevitable part of the school day https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/02/i-hate-my-school-why-are-more-british-teenagers-plotting-shooting-attacks

Was announced in September, launching officially in March. https://www.rm.com/blog/2024/September/defining-network-management-at-schools-and-trusts-Community-Connect-5

Do you mean Paxton10? https://www.paxton-access.com/systems/paxton10/web-based-software/

I would assume you have some training days at the front of the year, so make sure you get a slot for even 30 minutes to remind people how to login, how to take a register etc. They don't necessarily have to remember everything on day 1, but you should definitely train them before the summer and then give them a "these are the statutory things you need on day 1" refresher on a training day before they start.

The problem with that however, is that everyone will want to move in that six week window, which would be around 100 a day as they've got about 3000 schools on Integris and Scholarpack. Imagine the training chaos that followed that?!

Wondering why I've accepted a job where I'm basically on minimum wage? /forums/educational-jobs/241701-assistant-network-manager-collingwood-college-24-920-27-513-a.html

If you want to break all and any trust the students might have in an anonymous reporting tool, or staff might have when the "totally anonymous" workforce survey comes along - then go right ahead.

ViewSonic had one at BETT in 2024, I assume it was there in 2025. Honestly? Obviously the cost is prohibitive, but the actual picture was superb, and it was very well engineered from a visual standpoint. Everything seemed aligned. Of course, I wouldn't wanna be the PE Teacher who didn't put it away to protect it and ended up with a ball damaging it!

They just added this kind of functionality to Chromebooks as of v132 https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/15824371

To me, this is parallel to staff who insist that you need the most powerful software in the world for students as "it's industry standard" or "it's what they'll use in the real world" as an 11 year old sits and stares at an impossibly complicated UI, actively put off by the learning curve. It's throwing non-swimmers into the deep end and thinking that struggling not to sink will teach them how to swim. It's giving a Lego Technic to a 4 year old instead of Lego Duplo. All very quick ways to form life-long active resistence to something they should love.

OrbitNote for Exams Trelson Though JCQ won't approve any application. It's up to the developer to explain why they're compatible with JCQ requirements. JCQ will only criticise you for getting things wrong, not recommend solutions to get it right. So you're looking for JCQ compliant, not JCQ approved.

They could easily just package it as an app with a wrapper, to help with discoverability!

I'd quite like to know who this consultant is, so we can avoid them in the future! OMG.

We're using DirectPrint, which has been quite successful overall.

Yes, Error 500 on the Admin Console. They've got the error regarding submitting tickets on the Dashboard, but it's seemingly interconnected. User services are fine, just administration ones.

It was overcrowded (especially on the Wednesday) and the stands, particularly from the big boys of Microsoft, Google, Canva et al were all a lot smaller than before and crushed together. Walking between them was difficult once someone decided to stop and then block the entire row. It was prepared for the post-Covid BETTs but had the attendance of the pre-Covid ones.

Guessing they're not allowed to watch.... any sports whatsoever?

Do you all do everything for free because it's education, do your teachers or do we just expect the people who create these videos not to get any form of compensation?

We've been told this by our Cyber Essential assessors. I don't know where it may be in the documentation, but this is what we've been advised.

I believe you're supposed to provide the pay scale to post on here?

Just to add, there is no such thing as safely whitelisting an IP address. It is far, far too easy to spoof an IP address - and if I know the school I'll easily get the IP address by checking which IP has vandalised the school web page the most. Allowing a "safe network" (there is no such thing) will also be a fail of Cyber Essentials from April 2025.