verysmartbenn

Hi All, Wondering if anyone else has come across this issue. Seems to be that any student on a MAC device cannot download or zip any files on their google drive. They can download the files on other devices (windows,chromeOS) but seems to be blocking them when they're on a MAC. We have tried updating permissions to the folders and also installing a new chrome version on the MAC aswell as clearing cache and cookies. Started with newer MAC's but has now spread to all ages. Has anyone else had this issue? Any help would be amazing. Kind Regards -verysmartbenn

I'll give this a go when I get in

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I used to work in retail so I know your pain! Enjoy this one then!

Enjoy the christmas spirit and go to a christmas market! Enjoy time away from everyone. Don't be a scrooge

This really has made me chuckle we have all ours on discs still, just waiting for multiple staff needing the same film at once, or walking past a class watching a christmas film on YouTube at 360p and blurry

I think everyone loves that day before the christmas holidays! I think it's the only time all staff but site team don't work! What a great day, I truly cannot wait.

Hello all, A genuine question for you all, is it everyone elses favourite time of the year being at IT technician too when it's christmas time? I think listening to christmas songs in the office, and making your office a tad christmassy, steph from HR giving you home made brownies or buns because you turned her computer off and on, or the way that you can wear an IT christmas jumper that the odd IT teacher may understand. All jokes aside, and i'm a very festive person, but I think working in IT especially at christmas time is the best of the best, and because it's getting close to christmas, all the staff won't report much! I hope it snows this year though, love standing at the office window watching it fall waiting for my outlook to ping a notification of an early finish! What's your thoughts? Kind Regards verysmartbenn

That's the one we've decided to start using with our students, and it seems to be working very well so far, seems like the best replacement.

If you have an iPad which is logged into a apple id, then you need the details for the apple id before the iPad even allows you to connect it properly. If not, and they're just setup using Meraki, Jamf etc, then you can just plug and play using the iPad passcode.

I know a permenant fix, get rid of smoothwall. It's horrible and will cause you nothing but issues. iBoss or anything BUT smoothwall. I remember we had it for a couple of months and just had to chuck it, causes so many issues more than good.

I used to use PremierPro, that was the most affordable and best option. But you can also use DaVanci Resolve, but it takes some time to get your head round it.

We used iBoss at my old job, and a lot of the times we didn't have to worry about uninstalling and then re-installing. But you can use control panel and then un-install the iBoss client that way. We used to have some issues where iBoss would stop working for no reason, so we used to have to re-install it with the ideal filtering for the PC. Through GPO, you can just push out the new one and you shouldn't have many issues. We never did when we used to push the latest version out.

Install 'iTunes' app on a pc, connect the computer, and in there you can remove mass amounts of photos etc off the device. I had to do it before and that was the easiest option. It then saves you doing it through meraki or resetting the iPad. Hope this helps.

This is going to sound really daft, but I had this issue (funnily enough with an SLT member) but they had over 10,000 emails in their inbox. So they were recieiving new emails, but they wouldn.t show due to their emails being maxed out completely. Even when we added rules and split down the inbox, the issue still stayed. So i would recommend asking the SLT member of staff to spend some time going through and removing a lot of emails, and cleaning it up. Hope this helps!