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HI For our Inventry systems we use Logonexpert to login, you can add icons/shortcuts to public desktop?

Yeah Windows Explorer crashes, I have had 3 machines exactly the same model, build in the same office 1 will have this issue, 2 will be unaffected - have had motherboards, ram and hard drives replaced, ended up just moving machines around. Increasing Ram does seem to help. Our older W10 Machines (4/6th Gen) on fresh builds with w10 8Gb ram/ssd seem to be as quick as anything 10/11th gen Windows 11 Machine but never mind Copilot may have all the answers....

Yes exactly we have done this route but now Redstor puts it back where its needed. Its just a stop gap till we can turn around have all sites ready for one solution (Probably sign in app) and then can say we have 7 sites what price can you do. Then its a percentage discount for all the install parts (Gets pricey with mounts/printers) and then if they can do anything with the subscription. Its worth a ask on this forum as if a machine fails and Inventry can supply the machine/setup quicker it will be another contract....

Hi Happy to take/collect you can remove the harddrive if the is a gdpr concern - They are normally just on the side. Yes its more that how they install for our sites its going through trunking via plasterboard walls etc and if we went generic we would have to re run power etc. (They are in reception so I would rather just swap in situ when a machine goes down)

Hi - so we are trying to get a trust wide solution but Entrysign are on rolling contracts as the other schools in the trust are stuck to 2027 - (With Inventry) Would like a backup console to avoid the 3 year contract - We can then negiotate with 7 schools to a new solution - as we can just put backup image on if one fails. I have found some similar Asus machines but rather than risk ebay wanted to see if anyone could help me out Thanks

Hi We have a few sites stuck on long term contracts - would anyone be selling a unit that can DM me (Or in best case donation) it will need to be a school - school sale Thanks

HI - Has anyone got a model/brand that is having this, we have had this come back with some Stone desktops, laptops seem unaffected Thanks

Just a quick word of caution, one central net2 server is great but I would advise getting all acus on site to be ethernet net2 plus. Or at least taking your time to move them over. Data wire takes forever to push updates and can fail (However some fire alarms require this) I had to restore from backups to rectify and replace a controller when it went wrong, and it seemed to be the data lined units with the issues (Sites that were net2 + with ethernet were fine) It meant I didn't have time to fully check everything as it was a rush to put everything back working I think we might be going back to NUCs as the landlord tennat/Door groups takes a lot of managing. Every site seems to need 30 time zones per door - Has anyone got any screen shots (With redacted stuff) how they have groups / permissions /time zones work and can the caretakers edit time zones for everyone or is it locked to a door group. We have Pro software unfortunately on the site I encountered issues at

I have only had experience seeing MFDs, you get less issues with any of the brands if you pay extra for a better mfds. RISO - Had nothing but problems with them, they print quick but jam quicker. Ricoh - Seem very reliable, does have occasional engineer visits. Cannon Works well, Engineer sorts any issues relatively quickly, there printing partner Uniflow seems to work well as a cloud printing solution (No print servers) Downsides if something is wrong with Uniflow its very hard to get hold of anyone (No major problems as of yet)

I personally can only see the value in refurb if staff look after things, the wear and tear on a teaching laptop from bieng unplugged to connected to docks is suprising, if the budget is there you need to swap them round as soon as they hit end of warranty - A lease could be better value based on this. We always find stone i5 16gb ram pro book to be reliable and next business day can cover a lot. 3 Year warranty which covers pretty much everything other than accidental damage they are also very good with warranty. This is included with the purchase and they are quite flexible Stone are also a bit behind so they stock 12th gen instead of 14th but every thing works as expected, and if the is a issue google has the answers other than attempting to fix. You also have a purchasing power based on a 100 units so things will work out quite a bit cheaper than 1 unit. I think you would be looking at just above your budget but you will save more in less hassle. A brand I cant mention as soon as accidental damage happens even if you get repaired at your own cost at there centres voided rest of the purchased warranty - Bags - We found staff just leave them in the classroom, dock Ugreen/Ankeer new off amazon when they are on sale (Best to have ethernet, 2/3usb, pd and HDMI)

Not sure how they are in business feels like they have gone the way of Sims. No development and everything else is moving on. We have Inventry and Entrysign, and are looking to go Sign On app but as others have said are stuck in contracts. Entrysign support is lightyears in front of Inventry, you can ring a UK person (Means support now instead of when you are alseep) and normally get issues resolved and they seem really knowledgable nice group of people For Inventry our Consoles runs slow, we assumed it was our setup but then realised that the new consoles are somehow a lot lower spec than our older Inventry machines. For us they use Free Teamviewer instead of dedicated RMM for us so everytime they need to connect, we need to use our remote agent to pass the updated Teamviewer to them. (I mean if a Trust can afford it why can't a large multinational) Inventry Ipad App Fire Evac didn't have personal logged - Rang in and they said we need to log out, reinitilise the database and reinstall it , ok great but building could be on fire. Printing seems to crash or be very delayed. Then you have a console on site that has shared credentials, you either need to keep it in a default VLAN or a office VLAN so office staff can access the console. Office staff seem to love it and when you can set the shortcut on the default desktop it takes the pain away from trying to map the drive.

So its managed by MS graph this annoyed me as it wasn't a obvious change(Well a google found it) We had no issues and then randomly users started changing profile pictures. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/profilephoto-configure-settings For me it was eaisest to log into graph API online then set a admin role only to be able to change photos. Then only using the admin centre can they be amended So first log into the web Graph explorer and then use the person Icon to login So first you need to log in with a admin account, then you need to set in settings read write all. (Modify permissions) Then follow that and get your current settings GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/admin/people/photoupdatesettings (So GET request and the HTTP in the box) Set either Cloud or Local using Patch Use patch with the URL and amend the json to what you want. (I just used the provided) - PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/admin/people/photoupdatesettingsContent-Type: application/json{ "source": "cloud", "allowedRoles": []} Then add a admin role which replaces the blank allowed roles (This is default and allows anyone to amend there photo) I just used the provided user administrator as we intended to manage it via the admin centre. PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/admin/people/photoupdatesettingsContent-Type: application/json{ "source": "cloud", "allowedRoles": ["fe930be7-5e62-47db-91af-98c3a49a38b1"]} It will take 24 hours to take affect. Probably in about 6 months time MS will change this again, but this will block all 365 areas

Hi I have been asked to sell some ruckus unleashed. Hopefully as a school to school sale - very good kit We have r510s x7 R610s x2 R600s X2 We can firmware change them to your onsite firmware and they should adopt automatically Just let me know via direct message if interested.

Hi - Sent direct message thanks

Windows Education is full blown set similar to Enterprise. Pro Education is the same as Professional But both have upgrade paths for a3/a5 license , Pro will go to enterprise and Pro Education will go to Education if a A3/5 user logs in (Will say digitally licensed subscription active)