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Just wanted to add that Canva were brilliant in getting us set up for an education license with sso . We've got a bit of a complex set up with multiple schools on the same Microsoft tenant. We had a zoom call with their education consultant and they sorted everything out for us. Very helpful and knowledgeable, event on what was needed on the Microsoft side. Excellent. Better support than most of the other companies that we actually pay for!

Strange. Ours was doing exactly the same thing this morning. But it started working OK again at about 1pm and has been OK since.

This is what we did to get the Cricut software working on our network. Don't know if this will help you. It is a manual install but we only have one machine so far, so not a problem. Visit https://design.cricut.com and download the software for your machine (in our case a Cricut Maker 4) Run the installer and the software will install to: %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Programs\Cricut Design Space Move the Cricut Design Space folder to C:\Program Files, so it is located at: C:\Program Files\Cricut Design Space Create a program Shortcut to c:\program files\cricut design space\cricut design space.exe and place it wherever it needs to be to allow users to access it. The program needs to access cricut.com and it can't handle authentication so if you have an authenticating proxy you'll need to provide an exception for that. We added it to Authentication Exceptions group on Smoothwall. We also added it to No SSL Inspection policy as well for good measure. It works OK. Bit of a hassle to install but it is working and they're happy with it.

Thanks for all the responses and ideas. We have quite a mix of laptops, the newest are a couple of years old and some quite a bit older than that. They all do have SSD drives but we have found the older ones are very slow to install updates after you restart the machine. Which I why I wanted to wake them up automatically.I have found that we can only wake windows 10 from sleep or hibernate, but never been able to from shut down, (even though this is supposed to hibernate if fast startup is enabled).I'll try some of the ideas suggested here. Thanks again.

How do you handle Windows updates on laptops that are kept in charging trolleys?The laptops are used intermittently throughout each day. But we can't afford to have students waiting for Windows Updates to install when they get switched on. I have figured out how to wake the laptops up overnight to install updates, but I can only do that if the laptop is in sleep or hibernate. So the first problem is how to ensure that the laptop is not actually shut down but it is put to sleep or hibernated.I can config the lid close and physical power button to hibernate the laptop. But users can still select shut down from in Windows. So I remove all the power options from windows. But that doesn't sign the user out. So if the user just closes the lid or presses the power button without actually signing out, they will still be signed in when the next user arrives. And because I have removed the power options, they can't even restart the laptop to sign the previous user out. I would love an option to "sign out and hibernate" rather than shut down, but that option doesn't seem to be possible. Any ideas or am I missing a trick somewhere? Thanks for any help.