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Due to internal promotion, we are seeking to appoint a proactive and customer-focused IT Technician to join our team at The Crossley Heath School. Working under the direction of the Network Manager, you will provide responsive first-line technical support to staff and students, ensuring the smooth day-to-day operation of classroom and administrative IT systems. The role involves resolving hardware and software issues, supporting classroom technology, deploying devices, and maintaining high standards of service across the school. Any questions, let me know! https://www.crossleyheath.org.uk/school-information/vacancies Candidate Pack IT Technician March 2026 V3.pdf

We are using Adobe Sign at the moment, it's included within our Adobe CC license

IT will give students £2.50 per year, if they want more credit adding then they pay for an item on ParentPay and the finance team apply the credit manually. But TBH, it's only really our GCSE/A-Level Art students that buy more credit.

Secondary 1200 Students 200 Staff About 700 devices (200 Desktops, 500 Laptops/Chromebooks) Mainly Windows with a handful of Macs and 250 Chromebooks. One Head of IT responsible for Health and Safety, Strategic IT and Cover Manager. One Senior Tech responsible for day to day IT, plus Lettings (as a TLR) One IT Tech. We've also been dumped with room changes, social media and website content etc.

Morning all, Our Science department have bought some Genee Vision 50 visualisers and the install instructions say to insert the disk that comes in the box, but the box contains no disk (useful I know). Has anyone bought these and managed to get them working at all?

We use Adobe Reader's Read Out Loud feature which works really well for PDFs, just not those that have been scanned.

Hi all, our science department are looking into using some wireless visualisers so they can present from away their desks. Has anyone got any experiences with either the Genee Vision GV50UHD or the Easi-View Wireless Visualiser?

Hi all, Wondering if anyone else has come across the same issue that we're having. We've recently enabled 2FA for all students in Office 365 for outside school, but it's come to light that a member of SLT/HOY has told some parents that they should make their kids share their Office 365 password with them so they can check on their Teams account for homework etc. So now we have parents logging into 365 before the kids and setting up 2FA to their phones, and now kids are complaining they cannot login. Does anyone know if it's possible to add parents to Teams? Or is it a case of telling parents they shouldn't using their kids accounts and sharing password. Thank you.

We've limited this to just our techs because of how intermittent it is. We've found that if an iPhone restarts after an update or dying, the app needs to be reopened for the automatic sign in to work. We also setup the scheduled reminders bit which makes you check whether you got the notification to say you've been signed in.

If it's Office 365, you can use the Compliance search: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/ediscovery-search-for-and-delete-email-messages?view=o365-worldwide

We had this problem last month when we noticed that Twitter had changed their API. I played about with a few plugins and managed to get this one working: https://www.wordpress.org/plugins/twitter-tweets

I can't eat burgers like a "normal" person... Saying that, it's rubbed off on the other half and she does it now! I've got to eat the bun, burger, salad bun. The whole picking it up and eating it is too OTT for me!

It could be unrelated, we had this a few days ago with our Sophos XG330. We spoke with our support company (Wave 9) and they apparently had to renew a couple of certificates on their side

Hi Stuart, this is what I've been using, the CSV just needs two columns with the headings GroupID and Member #Get Credentials to connect$Credential = Get-Credential #Connect to Exchange OnlineConnect-ExchangeOnline -Credential $Credential -ShowBanner:$False #PowerShell to Import Members to office 365 group from CSVImport-CSV "C:\Temp\XXX.csv" | ForEach-Object { Add-UnifiedGroupLinks -Identity $_.GroupID -LinkType Members -Links $_.Member Write-host -f Green "Added Member '$($_.Member)' to Office 365 Group '$($_.GroupID)'"} #Disconnect Exchange OnlineDisconnect-ExchangeOnline -Confirm:$False

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If you go into SCCM > Monitoring > Deployments and then right click the menu bar, you can enable the Deployment ID column. Are you able to go through the list and find the deployment ID in there?

It has to be chocolate!

We're currently using Cloud Drive Mapper (https://www.iamcloud.com/cloud-drive-mapper/). I've only been here 6 months but I don't think we've ever had a problem with it. It currently maps to OneDrive to a shared drive but it works with SSO and is brilliant.

Second the comment about the new Ryan Reynolds , it's not the worst film in the world. Worth a watch if you're bored.

For those who love a good action show, the Amazon Reacher series is great: Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator, has recently entered civilian life when he is falsely accused of murder.

What do you call a magician with no magic? Ian...

Ghostrunner is currently free on PS Plus, it's a great FPP.

How has nobody mentioned Minecraft yet...