mikeglover

Thank you to whoever left me wings and rockets at my base. Amazing to realise but that is first time flying with rockets and I've been playing for a very long time. Annoyingly only after 10 minutes I've lost them as I face planted into the creeper spawner and died. Tried to get back and pillar up in time but I found everything but the wings and rockets. It was fun while it lasted. :-(

Rob_D. Just been looking around your castle. What an awesome build. Very impressive. Hope to build something big and grand like that one day. That must of taken alot of time.

Been a while since I been on. Been checking out the new 1.20 stuff lately. Looks like I've got some basics but not done much. Will try to check out the builds that everyone has done. I'm the unknown player house at -303:353 (JediPhoenix)

I don't know how I can use WSUS to schedule an install on a server and reboot at a specific time. Does anyone know of guides on how to setup this side of WSUS. As far as I know of WSUS it delivers the update to the server but I have to go on the server, run update and then schedule the reboot manually. I've started look at BatchPatch but apparently only allows 4 servers in the free one so no use to me. I tried to install Tactical RMM which looked good but the installation is a complete nightmare having to setup 3 subdomain public facing just to install the darn thing. Not having a great day and a massive headache.

Interesting, I didn't know I could get WSUS to reboot after installation. It would need to be a window during the night that this happens. I've not had great experiences with WSUS and was planning of getting rid of it. So would be after something else. Workstations now use Windows Update for Business but I am looking for something for my Servers.

Hi all, I'm looking at streamlining the updating of our windows servers as at the moment its a manual process of RDP in update and task schedule a reboot over night. With 25 servers this is time comsuming. Someone has said I need to look into RMM's and Patch Management so I can automate this better. I don't have any experience with these. I've seen companies like Datto offer patch management. I'm wondering if there is any free / opensource alternatives that people are using that they recommend or anything that doesn't cost a lot of money as it's education.

Just to warn people. I tried doing this at the beginning of the year and had a negative experience with this company. Signed up for the tests and did all the revision work ready for it and they never sent me the exam link. Their support team was very bad, after alot of backward and forward they said that my ISP blocked thier email (i use gmail so not an ISP) and no evidence could be offered from the company to prove this claim. Avoid them and go with someone else.

Thank you that is very helpful. It will be SIMS support that we are looking at.

Hi, Does anyone have any experience with Keystone MIS support? Just looking at providers and these have been mentioned. Can't find out much information about them or reviews. https://www.keystonemis.co.uk/

Did the vanilla server get shutdown?

Hi everyone, We have just purchased a Windows Surface SE with 11 SE to trial it and compare it with Google Chromebooks which we have a large amount of already. Impressions so far are that it being white will quickly show the dirt. Designed by someone that has never worked in a school. The screen is of a low quality as well with poor viewing angles but of course this device is built to a budget so not expecting high end. I am pretty new to the Microsoft 365 experiencing as I'm use to Google Suite and Chromebooks. I logged into the device as a student test account (school account option). We have Azure AD connect syncing our accounts already and leverage the A1 plus free licences for students and staff but don't have A3 or A5 at the moment. It took quite some time for the account to be setup and it asks for 2FA on setting up the account. It then forces you to create a PIN for the device and the usual Windows questions about privacy etc. after all of this you are finally logged in. I then logged out and tried another account thinking the process will now be alot faster but it goes through all the setting up messages and 2FA and PIN setup for every user that logs in. What is even worse is that the 1st account that was used to setup the device can no longer log in saying the "Login method is not allowed" and even trying to reset via PIN says the pin is wrong when it is definitely correct. I'm now doing a complete Reset of the device after breaking it in just under an hour of unboxing. So far from my experience this is not comparable with a Chromebook at all. It's new, so I'm hoping that its a case that I don't have Azure or something not setup yet that will make this experience for students seemless, to login with a username and password and your straight to the desktop without any messages asking to set a PIN or 2FA. Can anyone that is a seasoned Microsoft 365 school point me to the best place to start looking or PM. Many thanks, Mike

had enough of this pack! my stuff is stuck in the deep dark around a load of mobs. :-(

Shame about the old ATM7, made some good progress with the create mod today and went to go back on it this evening to find it's shutdown This sounds like fun so will give it a try. EDIT: This mod pack seems to be broken as well local. Tried downloading with Curseforge and failed at 20 something out of 300 mods downloading. Will have to go elsewhere for my Minecraft fix.

Thanks HPlum78. Due to circumstances I've ended up solely managing and updating these servers and the program that was was used before was a PC Sleep app tool installed on all the servers that basically did a reboot at a defined time. I think I need to take a step back and look at how others deploy Windows Updates on servers then as I don't think I have maintenance windows setup. Currently I remote into a server set windows updates off manually and then schedule a reboot at say 3:00am the next day (DC's are different) and then I wait for the next 2nd Tuesday, doing this 28 times is time consuming and was looking at ways of better managing it. I like to script things which is why I went down this avenue. I like your idea about it emailing what servers need reboots so I'm going to gave a good look.

Erm, I'm trying to script reboots by a defining a time when I set so I see that as maintenance rather than "just letting servers reboot". Pretty much every cumulative update I've seen on a server always wants a reboot afterwards so I don't see this as strange behaviour to need to reboot a server.

Thanks I'll give that a go. The network manager who has since left would use an app called PC Sleep and I'm not sure how good this tool is. It's extremely slow to start up and I had in mind something fast that I just double click on the desktop to schedule reboot. Task scheduler would take longer setting up on each server, if I understand it correct? I have about 28 VM I have to run windows updates on every month.

Hi, To help be a bit more efficient in doing server windows updates and scheduling reboots of a night I found this script that asks for a date and time and then works out the shutdown -r -t time for and runs the command. I would like to just enter the time and for it to automatically know that I want tomorrows date as I'll set a time after 0:00. I don't know that much about powershell but i think i need to get the current date and +1 and inject it into my $RestartDate Can anyone help with modifying the code below? Thank you [CmdletBinding()] Param( [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,HelpMessage="RestartDate Format: dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm")] [ValidateScript({[DateTime]::ParseExact($_, "dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm", $null)})] $RestartDate, [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string]$Reason ) $now = get-date $PostponeTo = get-date($RestartDate) $secToRestartTimeFromNow = $PostponeTo - $now $sec = [math]::round($secToRestartTimeFromNow.TotalSeconds) $cmd = "shutdown /r /t $sec /d P:0:0 /c '$reason'" Write-Host "Running:" $cmd Invoke-Expression -Command $cmd -Verbose Write-Host Write-Host "Use following command to cancel: " Write-Host "shutdown /a"

Correct. We have students without internet at home and because lessons can be remote due to having isolate, we have to provide internet for those students. The government issued us wifi dongles for during lockdown but that is now coming to an end on 31st July. Don't think we are the only school in this situation. :-)

Hello, I am currently looking at what is required to replace the SIM cards in the government issued Huawei 4G wireless routers. As some will know the government are cancelling them on 31st July 2021 and leaving it to schools to provide the service moving forward. I have been looking at SIM card contracts but the main thing that will be missing that the government ones had was web filtering. And it is a safeguarding issue if they are not filtered. Has anyone looked into web filtering solutions on SIM cards. I don't know much about this area. The government provided a solution so I know that it isn't impossible. If anyone could point me to any products that could do this, much appreciated.

Ah, you run it from within Windows. \\MDT-Sharename\Scripts\LiteTouch.vbs

Just given this a try as before I was using PDQ to do the inplace upgrade. It works well. I'm liking MDT Upgrade Task Sequence better as it gives a visual indication to anyone who tries to use the machine that something is being done to it. If when you are making the Upgrade Task sequence and your OS is not appear in the list, it's most probably that its a WIM. It only works with OS that are imported from the full copy of the iso. As VLSC provide quite regular updates this shouldn't be too much of an issue. In the past because PDQ was doing it silently someone could come along and switch off the machine thinking their saving the planet.

I'm trying to follow these instruction to get our TS-30 updated. The only difference is that our machine has been connected to a Windows XP machine for many years. I'm now tasked with getting this installed on a Windows 10 machine. I've built up a Win7 32bit laptop for this update. But when I try to run the MDX-40A firmware updater I get the error after Step 2. No signal. Cannot find active printer driver. I have installed the Win7-32bit driver for the MDX-40A and its showing the printer online. I don't have the original CD for the TS-30. Do I need to have this disc and install a Vista / 7 version of TS-30 or should the MDX-40A driver work at this stage before firmware updating? Appreciate any help you can give.

Is the server back up and running. It's currently showing offline for me.

Thanks @localzuk. I'll fire it up again and give it another go. Cheers

Hi, been a while since I've been on the MC server. Thought I'd check it out. Allocated the 8GB and can log in but getting massive server lag (5-6 sec to break blocks) I tried a SP world and no lag and playable so don't think it's my setup. Connection shows full bars.