SJBlackGeek
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Great find - thank you very much! We'd spent a reasonable amount of time searching and just kept getting URLs which required us to have an account. Much obliged to you.
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Hi all, At school we have an HP DL180 Gen 9 server. It's not under a service contract anymore, but we'd like to upgrade its CPUs and prolong its life. Alas, it's prompting for a BIOS update before it will play nicely with the more modern CPUs. Would anyone here have access to the BIOS update that's hidden behind HP's service contract wall? You'd really be helping us out! 🤞 Many thanks, Stuart
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Yes, but currently trying to find out how to deal with the pre-existing chats that MS says remain unsupervised, of which there will be thousands as the school has been using it for over a year.
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Thanks everyone for all the replies so far. I agree with the sentiment that technology shuoldn't be required in these situations, but the Head has asked and I'm obliged to comply. The school's MIS is Arbor. I will ask if they offer any sort of reminder, but I'm not sure what form this would take which wouldn't require staff to either have the website open or an active Outlook session, neither of which are guaranteed, which is why I have been trying to use Windows popup messages. I assumed there would be something readily used and free for this and similar scenarios, but apparently not!
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Yeah they have their own laptops. I had stored the script on a network share and pushed out a scheduled task to a test teacher account (not to a specific PC) to run it with wscript but it didn't seem to work even after I'd set the trigger to logon and used gpupdate /force and logged off and logged in again. I could manually execute the script so the malfunction was something to do with applying a scheduled task to the user. 😒
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How would the scheduled task differentiate term time from outside of term time? One of my initial ideas was for a scheduled task (pushed out to the teachers' OU by GP) to run a script which checked that the device was on-site by pinging the DC's local IP, and then displaying a msgbox if it received a reply. However, the task scheduler didn't seem to natively support the sort of timing I would require, meaning I'm down to scheduling a separate task for each lesson which just seems really inefficient. This solution also entails me cobbling together a script which interprets the reply from the ping command. Lastly, I've not had much success using GP to actually apply a scheduled task to a user rather than a computer. ☹
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It was per seat. Expecting sales calls but that's okay if the pricing is acceptable.
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Thanks. I've just filled our their enquiry form online to get some pricing. The school is currently repaying a financial deficit, so funds are tight. If this product is cheap then I might be able to get the go-ahead. If not, I will need something open source or a reliable way to leverage native Windows functionality.
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Sorry, just realised this is probably in the wrong area. Hopefully an admin can relocate it.
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The Head has asked me for teachers to receive a popup message reminding them to take the register at 5 minutes past the beginning of each lesson. Our teaching staff have their own OU within AD, so something that can target users (not computers) this way would be ideal. I need to ensure they don't get irrelevant reminders at the weekends or during holidays, but receiving them when they have a free period wouldn't be the end of the world. Does anyone else have a solution for this in place? I've tried with msg.exe (simply unable to target users on a domain without knowing the PC they're logged onto), and also psexec & schedulded tasks to run vbscripts, but I'm struggling to get anything working reliably. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!