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ICT Support – Level 3 Required as soon as possible Grade 6 (£24,054 - £27,852) – (Pay award still pending) Full Time 37hrs per week 52 weeks payable Longridge High School is a medium sized secondary school with a growing roll of students, where all staff strive to ensure excellence for every young person in every area of school life. We are looking for an enthusiastic IT Engineer to join our IT Support Team and contribute to the delivery of an effective ICT support service. Responsibilities will include supporting staff and pupils with their use of IT, ensuring continuity of service and working with the Network Manager to maintain, develop and improve the IT systems in school. Our IT systems are rapidly developing, and the successful candidate will have a hand in designing and implementing solutions across the whole IT spectrum, with the support of the Network Manager and external agencies. The successful candidate must be confident, resilient, function well as part of a team, have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a ‘can-do’ attitude and be highly organised with the ability to work under pressure in order to meet deadlines. If you have any questions about the role, please contact school asking for the ICT Network Manager, Adam Laycock. If this is you, the please apply: • On-line at https://www.lhs.lancs.sch.uk/vacancies/ • Email the school at [email protected] Application Deadline: Wednesday 4th October 12 noon Shortlisting: Wednesday 4th October 3pm Interviews: Tuesday 10th October 2023 from 9am Longridge High School is committed to ensuring the safety of all its children and young people. This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. As from 1st October 2023 Longridge High School will be moving over to The Bay Learning Trust. If you require any further information, please contact the school.

Longridge High School is a medium sized secondary school with an increasing number of pupils on roll. All staff strive to ensure excellence for every young person in every area of school life. We are looking for an enthusiastic IT Engineer to join our IT Support Team and contribute to the delivery of an effective ICT support service. Responsibilities will include supporting staff and pupils with their use of IT, ensuring continuity of service and working with the Network Manager to maintain, develop and improve the IT systems in school. Our IT systems are rapidly developing, and the successful candidate will have a hand in designing and implementing solutions across the whole IT spectrum, with the support of the Network Manager and external agencies. The successful candidate must be confident, resilient, function well as part of a team, have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a ‘can-do’ attitude and be highly organized with the ability to work under pressure in order to meet deadlines. Please note that the school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure. If this post excites you, the please apply: • On-line at https://www.lhs.lancs.sch.uk/vacancies/ • Email the school at [email protected] Application Deadline: Wednesday 12th July 2023 at 12 noon Interviews: Friday 14th July 2023

I think the point now is that currently we are moving numbers around in a database when we make payments. The physical currency stays at the bank and there is no way for me to walk into my local branch and say this £10 note in your vault, that's part of my bank balance. With a "digital pound" when I pay for something the money from my account is digitally moved to another. Following the example I'd be able to look at my accounts wallet and say "these pounds are mine", and "that pound was mine". It may have benefits, but not until we are a cashless society.

If only the roads on our estate where gritted... I hadn't heard this advice before, our puppers is only 6 1/2 months so we haven't had a winter with him yet. We hadn't realised just how much stuff out there was harmful too them, and don't get me started on the amount of litter he finds. Puppy Tax:

This is one of the main reasons I moved away from the LEA. Not having control of our router and by extension subnets and access control rules made the connection "unfit for a modern school". We had all our computers, servers, printers, switches, access points, CCTV cameras all running on the curriculum network. The only separate scope was the VOIP which had its own internet connection as the LEA don't support VOIP on their connections. As @SYNACK said you can run a second router and SNAT the packets but when I've done this in the past it's been a case of treating the symptom not the disease. Certainly here in Lancashire the motivation for setting the subnet on each school was so that each school could talk through the county network. 10+ years ago you could just type in the IP of a server in another school and go for it. I know the council still have that power and can remote directly into servers from their office (unless of course you setup Windows Firewall to drop RDP packets from outside your subnet). I shouldn't have to setup defenses against attack from other schools on the councils "internal network".

The problem in the end was the permissions on HKCU:\Control Panel\Quick Actions. I've been able to fix it was a bit of PowerShell $acl = Get-ACL 'HKCU:\Control Panel\Quick Actions' $rule = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.RegistryAccessRule ("ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES","FullControl", "ContainerInherit, ObjectInherit", "None","Allow") $acl.SetAccessRule($rule) $acl | Set-Acl -Path 'HKCU:\Control Panel\Quick Actions'

Nope we are deploying the clean image from the ISO and getting GPOs and Intune to tidy everything up. It's very vanilla just after deploy before all the software comes down.

No, Nothing in the app locker logs. I've just fresh imaged my test machine and logged in straight away as this test user and the same problem. Rules out a bad update for me there.

Looking at the app crash log its saying "The system detected an overrun of a stack-based buffer in this application. This overrun could potentially allow a malicious user to gain control of this application." A lot of the stuff I can find is saying: 1. sfc /scannow, no problems (moot as it works for other users) 2. dism scan, no problems (moot as it works for other users) 3. Re-install windows, moot, fresh install from disk image 4. System restore, nothin to restore to. Really odd. Happens straight away on a fresh profile.

I've now got a user in a blocked inheritance OU that isn't getting anything other than the computer policies when it logs on and its doing the same thing. This user now has less policy applied to it than the Intune enrollment user for example.

Deploying a fresh image of Windows 10 Education 21H2 to all our machines along with a complete refresh of Group Policy and I'm getting a weird issue where Action Centre wont open. It only applies to users that get the UX GPOs applied to them. Local admin and the intune enroll user are fine. It's also doing it for our admin level accounts. Event Viewer shows: Faulting application name: ShellExperienceHost.exe, version: 10.0.19041.1620, time stamp: 0x4c043d8f Faulting module name: ucrtbase.dll, version: 10.0.19041.789, time stamp: 0x2bd748bf Exception code: 0xc0000409 Fault offset: 0x000000000007286e Faulting process id: 0x2cf8 Faulting application start time: 0x01d8b236e3e8d48f Faulting application path: C:\Windows\SystemApps\ShellExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\ShellExperienceHost.exe Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\ucrtbase.dll Report Id: 00f0f326-799c-41ed-946e-53377130718f Faulting package full name: Microsoft.Windows.ShellExperienceHost_10.0.19041.1320_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy Faulting package-relative application ID: App I've not got anything setup in the group policies that I haven't used before.

We've sent our coursework off using BitLocker encryption set to the password the exam board told us to use. Not had anyone come back and say it didn't work.

I have used SalamaderSDS to output all the pupils from SIMS, none of which have emails or usernames. My own PowerShell scripts have assigned each pupil a unique username based on cohort and initials etc... as well as creating the groups and OUS for them. It also puts the usernames/emails back in the SDS output so they can be used with SDS. My problem now is that I had to do a couple of manual tweaks to the data to avoid some duplicate names which the scripts account for and of course if I re-run SalamanderSDS it will output without the usernames and I'll have to merge them in. So the best solution here would be to put the emails back into SIMS now that I have them. I know they should be Section 4 of the pupils data but I'm a bit stuck at what the spreadsheet needs as its column headings to make that work. Can SIMS handle partial data? e.g. can I just give the adminssion number and the email?

I wrote a blog post about creating an MSI for Scratch 3 (or any exe in a folder software) which can be viewed here: https://arcath.net/2019/03/using-wix-to-create-an-msi

No, I've tried that in quite a few schools. Capita say all requests must come from Lancashire County Council (BTLS), I had a very long converstation with them at the end of which they said their hands were tied. BTLS are getting alot worse over the SOLUS3 passwords. It was set by who ever happened to install SOLUS3 first for the site and they are now using that fact to try and force schools to retian SIMS Hardware support from them. I do have a school or two that I export the updates from another school for so that we can update them without SOLUS3. BTLS complain that its not logged correctly but they know the solution to that issue, just release the password.

That is a concern, I also have worries that less informed users might get confused as .school is not the .co.uk or .com that they are used to.

I have my eye on .school. Just not the same as a .sch.uk and it really annoys us that its Nominets policies stopping us.

One of my schools is changing name and this of course means they need a new .sch.uk. domain name. I've approached Nominet about getting the new domain registered and they have told me that I can only have both domain for 3 months! After a bit of complaining I've got that upto 6 months but that is still 18 months short of what I'd concider a minimum. The main issue is the emails. There are so many subscriptions and services that use the schools @oldname.lancs.sch.uk in the emails. My original plan was to have both domains in Office365 and swap users over once they were sure, but with the ability to swap back if needed. Too many companies, organisiations and county teams use the old email addresses to contact the school, we can't have it where after 6 months all that contact ceases to function. Me and the head feel like we are slaming our heads against a brick wall with this, 6 months is just not enough and we cant fathom why its such a short time frame, particully with the level of internet(email) use in this day and age. We are at the point of giving up on .sch.uk and just getting another TLD. Has anyone had any success getting longer?

Which file is the key file?

When trying to deploy the SIMS Discover Spring 2019 update the database update is failing with the error: Unable to connect to master or target server 'discover'. You must have a user with the same password in master or target server 'discover'. Discover was working before I updated SIMS to 7.186 as far as I am aware (at least its been a whole half term since anything got changed on the SQL server). Has anyone come across this before? or know of a way to fix it?

Has anyone got a copy of the SQL migration tool I can have?

I used dbattach to attach the FMS database to the new instance which does run a load of routines to prepare the database. The idea I have in the back of my head is to export all the data out of the database and import it over the data in a backup which will hopefully create a version that can be used on lower versions.

Over half term I migrated SMS/FMS to a new server without any issues. I used SQL2017 and everything worked fine on the server and test client. Since half term FMS is throwing up various SQL errors. The annoying thing is that the problem seems to be intermittent. I spent a coupleof hours working on a client on Tuesday, got an email Wednesday saying it was working fine and then today (Thursday) I've been told it hasn't worked at all this morning. Due to the time of year the school desperatley need to get into FMS all the time and they've done too much work in it for us just restore the pre-migration backup. Has anyone got FMS working on SQL2017? Did you need to make any changes to the SQLServer config? Did you need anything installing on the clients? On the other end of the scale, does anyone have a way to attach SQL databases to older versions of SQL? I can't get the whole database to export through SSMS, and the tables/data only export is killing SSMS when I try to import it.

Is the changes reflected in chrome://policy? Just to make sure its actually applying to the machine.

I've updated the script a fair bit since my initial release. It now supports -Desktop to create a desktop shortcut on install and -FileType to associate a file extension with the installed program (will be useful in the future here). I've also fixed a bug when the exe was in a sub folder e.g. with Amazon Kindle. I'm thinking of building a site along side the script that lists confimed compatible programs and the commands used to generate them.