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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)

We just use setup school pcs for dell 3190s and hp dfe devices. Dells are usuable HP seem horrific now.

I think MS has done some work on this in the background but we have a temp work around - We find a similar newer camera driver and push that, and then if the issue occurs we reinstall over the top with the MS one from atera. Its a bit of effort though - Strange thing is it seems very random and a few people I have spoken to who have access to tier 3 MS support have said MS is aware of it and trying to fix. Thanks for help

Wasn't a problem till december so I believe this was the Original driver pack (60.19041.2.2768) - (2 had in place upgrades to W11 so assume on original driver pack) As part of the MS "fix" we installed SurfacePro7+_Win11_22000_24.032.20397.0.msi and I need to try SurfacePro7+_Win11_22621_24.043.35979.0.msi but getting users to drop in machine after so many disruptions is a big ask. (They also have to complete work) As a temp fix we have provided some usb cameras for those with docking stations.

Hi all Hope everyone is well - Kind of at my wits end with some Surface products (Seems to only affect 7+ onwards Intel XE onwards) Intune Environment Windows 11 - Updates installed soon as released. Had every known camera error it seems - Essentially when in a teams meeting after a length of time Camera crashes and then will need drivers manually removing and a reboot - Most common one 0xA00F4244 Latest Windows Camera Frame Service Crashed (Have already deployed a reg fix for this) Intel® AVStream Camera We have rebuilt, deployed driver packs, checked security/privacy - the only long term fix is to deploy windows 10 with the original image Have reported to Microsoft but they want fresh installs with driver packs and then diagnostic logs (Feels like they just want to avoid the issue till we get feed up and leave them alone) We have done this and then they want it tested as a standard device (No Management) and then as soon as another device has a issue they offer to swap it if its under warranty. (Not sure its a physical issue as it would either work or not) Started happening December/January we have installed latest drivers patches - Updated graphics driver Disabled HDR/Panel Refresh. Has anyone come across this and found a working fix? Our Surface 7s seem fine (Run much better despite lower hardware, rest of our hardware also seems unaffected.) We seem to have issues with 7+ 8s and 9s Thanks

Hi Rob That would be very helpful - Bulk of ours are wall mounted via the mounting screws on the back but if you could also share a pic of how you have ceiling mounted would be good. Thanks

Hi is it the XV2 AP you are using is it wall mounted or ceiling mounted? Thanks

Hi Wondered if anyone has had any issues with Cambium on site - we have Cloud managed (cnMaestro) switches/AP Points across our schools (Primary) Cloud management part works really well easy to set everything - Wireless - We have XV2-2 across multiple sites for IT it works fine (Surprise) but we have teachers reporting issues about connectivity - We have followed instructions and set all Bands/Radios to Auto - however we have come across following issues Random Areas where no broadcasting - Normally fixes via firmware change and factory reset Lack of range: As a primary we try and put 1 AP per 2 classrooms (For cost and 2 many access points cause issues) but we have some schools where we need to increase to 1 per classroom Random rooms that have poor signal even with Access point in room Modifying band usually fixes this We are looking to go with more Xv2-21xs however is the anyone that can share setup info Thanks

We went intune route so all of our schools just have legacy servers that handle dhcp/dns, kms,Paxton server and backups for sign in systems. All our Apps are just employed via endpoint manager (Just get msi and convert to intunewinapp or MSI and then add groups as needed. I cant see the need for a azure server. We are looking to move dhcp to the router (Which is managed by isp) and move some schools (Smaller ones) to a onsite 1u desktop just for paxton then use mak and redstor on sign in consoles to cover the rest - but obvs a work in progress and servers are paid for and underworked. I think Primary wise its fine the only issue we have is with students saving work on onedrives and then logging before it gets synced you can work round this with either 1-1 devices or a mapper. Governors who know a little/lot can cause quite a few headaches

Cloud isnt really importantc unless you are multi site. If its one site instant or Unleashed means you can still be serverless and not need a controller in a rack or installed on a server, obvs cloud just means it can be managed offsite easier - you can normally connect to unleashed via web portal off site if you enable it. I dont think you can go wrong with either and both could be changed to cloud or controller as needs change.