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Hi All, Anybody else struggling with the sheer size of the recent CU's? I understand it's because they now come bulk loaded with AI / Copilot features? We have 60 x Lenovo 100e's with only 64GB storage. They're only used for word processing and web browsing and maybe a bit of python. We didn't budget to refresh them this year because I recommended that they would have gone again for another year, had the updates stayed within a reasonable size... (they had around 7-10Gb free storage). The last few updates seem to be many GB's each which has now put this devices in a constant state of without storage space. We have some 300e's which we use for some TA's and by some stroke of luck, they have an extra unfilled m.2 slot - This was going to be my fixed, only i have just this second found out that the 100e's do not 😭.

Afternoon All, I've been asked to review a draft AI Risk Assessment (which itself has been AI'd), but doesn't seem too bad. I've made a few points about plagerism and age of data consent etc. Does anybody else have a seperate risk assessment document or is it all contained with your AI policy? Cheers!

Agreed! Thankfully I've had an email back already so hopefully we can resolve quickly.

Thanks @andy_b I'll chuck them over an email and see if they are able to help!

Afternoon lovely people! Has anybody had any luck hearing back from Canva regarding their free for education program? - https://www.canva.com/en_gb/education/ I've submitted maybe 3 different applications now, completed an internal DPIA, configured SSO, all in preparation and I've still yet to hear back from them after 2 months or so now.. The idea was so that staff and students can use the premium features and one-click login rather than needing to sign up individually, but I'm struggling to get a response!

This makes me so happy, great job Liam.

I believe you have to be apart of the RISE programme to be eligable as I looked into this as an option for extra funding recently -

Sorry to necro this thread - but we have been having similar issues with these models! Out of about 120, we've had roughly 6 or so at this point end up doing this. The model reports back as GLK-SOC_ and it's impossible to get to the BIOS. Thankfully we have refreshed a trolley of these so we have loads of spares to backfill with now, but I'd love to be able to sort this. I will have a look into the CMOS battery situation you metnioned @Fazza, although I'm sure I am sure we checked this before!

OMG! I just saw a student load EWP in seconds since I opened all the .jsons with the config editor! I'll have to test some more, but that's honestly the quickest I've ever seen it load in the last year!

Hey Rob, It will only upgrade the local version of the file installed on the device. .jsons stored on a network share are separate and ususally only referenced via the launching shortcut. That does raise a very interesting point though, in that I haven't done done this once in many upgrades!

We're running one of the latest builds 25.4.2? We had an exam this morning, frustratingly we don't look after the exams laptops and they're kept locked away in the exams office and the officer was off over the holidays... meaning they hadn't been turned on since the update was deployed out or in the lead up to the exams.. Queue all the devices (thankfully only 6), suddenly pulling down the update mid-exam, breaking saving, PDFs and printing 😂. Some chaos ensued, but we got it sorted... the REALLY interesting this was that prior to the upgrade, the version 24.xxx still froze for a minute or two inititally, but soon loaded. 25.4.2 however literally took about 10 minutes of the exam to sort itself out... Very very interestingly, if you open a saved EWP file, it will load INSTANTLY. I'm now wondering whether I might just create a template save file and save this to all exam folder areas so that the invigilators can load these and leave it on the candidate details page... I'm going to report it over to texthelp-everway-whoever-owns-it-now anyway.

To add to this, I spoke with support also and they advised that it could be due to Printers not being able to be contacted properly OR the networked permissions may be applying differently now because of Windows 11. Which is frustrating to hear because we are having issues with printers not being found (been an on going problem ever since the drivers install cve years ago) and I have seen some funny network drive problems that only occur now due to the upgrade to W11... I assume you guys have confirmed all of these things for your environments however and the issue perists?

Our IT Governor said that the standards aren't statutory after I recently pushed to refresh our server estate due to expiring warranties and that specifically being mentioned in the standards... 👀

That fix doesn't seem to work for me :(... Only just getting round to looking at this issue. I would contact everway / texthelp / whoever owns it in 2026 and see if they can help, but figured I would check trusty ol' edugeek first!

Out of interest, those of you who saw / see the issues - does it perform okay after the reboot?