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The only thing I would check is to make sure the account you used to access the VLSC Online Activations is an administrator account for O365, which isn't necessarily the same account you use to manage VLSC. It should ask you to login with an Office 365 account before you reach that page.

Any particular reason you've put an SSD in for Neverware laptop? We've found that Neverware runs on some pretty old hardware just fine. We are just testing the waters with Chromebooks and G-Suite, so a setup of 30 Neverware licences and 30 Chromebook licences for around £1000 breathed new life into 30 older laptops, and allowed us to test it all at minimum expense. So far, students and staff seem to like them well enough! Battery life will definitely become an issue later down the road though... Just as an aside, if you happen to have Papercut, the new Cloud print is fantastic btw, makes printing from Chromebooks/Neverware very easy

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Hi Kenny, I can have a stab at some of these... If I'm talking rubbish, someone please correct me! 1, Assuming you have an EES/licencing agreement with Microsoft, you can get upgraded Office 365 accounts for your students for free. As part of this licence, students can download and install the full suite of Office 2016 onto 5 devices. Once they leave the school, you delete their account, and the access goes away. You may need to talk to your licence distributor to get these licence codes, and I was charged 1p per licence to set them up. There used to be a discount available for staff to buy Office, but since we have the upgraded Office 365 licences for staff and students, due to our EES agreement, I've not rolled that out in years... 2, If you can get your students onto Office 365, then yes, they can use the online versions of Office. I believe this can be done with the basic, free licence of Office 365. There are a few ways of doing this, from .csv files, to federating the domain, or using a third party product like RM Unify. 3, I wouldn't worry about this email, it'll be created for all users, but they won't really be able to see it. I believe, and I might be wrong, it's used should you choose to change your top level domain name so that you don't lose all your accounts? It may have other uses, but it's not something you need to promote to students. I think it's more of a backstop/backup thing.

Just in case it's needed by someone else, our problem solved by @Ksavage413 turns out we needed to add the app lower down the user hierarchy then it was picked up by student accounts.

A bit of necro thread raising; I'm trying to setup Mobility Print, but I can't get the App to force install through the Admin Console, let alone print anything! Managing Chromebooks is a bit new as we've only had them for a month or so, but I've been able to get other apps installed, but Mobility Print is having none of it.

I assumed I was just being useless when I couldn't find a map beforehand... Yes, not being able to plan out your route is problematic, especially when I realised I had two things booked one after the other at opposite ends of the arena!

I think he has a point. There have been lots of fads that go through BETT. I remember when 3D printing was the absolute must have, and the time before that, 3D projectors were the way forward. Neither of these were a fit for my school. This year's theme seemed to be STEM, and I think the right tech would prove a big stimulus of interest in the subject, so we're going to be looking into the possibilities over the next few months. But I would also argue that it is the job of educators to look at the tech available, and they make the decision about whether they fit in with the Teaching and Learning at their school or MAT. BETT showcases a lot of tools, not all of them are going to be useful, but some of them might be. The idea that BETT should only showcase the tools they feel are of benefit strikes me as wrong. I would agree that it would be better if BETT wasn't quite so sales focused, and that pedagogy should be higher up the priority list for a lot of vendors, it would help me as a non-teacher to see the benefits of certain tech in the classroom.

Pressing Windows key and Pause opens up System. Very helpful since Microsoft removed it from the Win-X menu in the latest version.

A few years back HP released a small notebook that was designed with the cloud in mind, the HP Stream 11. It's lightweight, good battery and looks pretty stylish. However, 'designed for the cloud' was a justification to put in a tiny 32GB hard drive. As Windows is generally quite a hungry beast for HDD space, the HP Stream rapidly filled up, becoming little more than a paperweight. However, it's a perfect candidate for Chromebooks, so a quick install of Neverware and its good to go. That is, until the damned thing won't boot... Powers on, screen flashes, reboots. Since I had a spare HP Stream, my first thought was to swap the hard drives. So opened up the laptop, and, erm, no hard drive. Or rather, the hdd is embedded into the motherboard, so swapping them over wasn't really an option. Tried a HP hardware reset (unhook battery, hold power button for 30 seconds, turn back on). No dice. Ran the start up check on the RAM, no issues. Couldn't run the HDD check as it needed HP UEFI Support Environment installed. Trying to boot from the Hard Drive from the Boot Options menu gave the error message "Selected boot image did not authenticate", which pointed to Secure Boot. At this point, I had forgotten this laptop was no longer running windows, but figured that turning off Secure Boot was probably a good idea. Found a website with a handy guide, but following Method 1, Secure boot would not stay turned off. I would save the setting in BIOS, it would reboot, and Secure Boot would turn itself back on. Out of frustration, I turned off Secure Boot, turned on Legacy Support, and also turned on POST Hotkey Delay to 5 seconds. Then on a reboot, a message appears asking for a code to be entered to turn off Secure Boot. Entered the code, and ChromeOS is back! Long story short, if your HP Stream 11 isn't booting, it's worth: 1, Pressing esc on boot to bring up a start menu 2, Enter BIOS - System Configuration - Boot Options 3, Turn off Secure Boot 4, Turn on Legacy Support 5, Change the POST Hotkey Delay (sec) to 5 (or higher) 6, F10 Save and Exit 7, Enter the code to disable Secure Boot.

Sorry for the necro thread raising, but I can't find a way to redirect to a URL on Aerohive other than using the Captive Web Portal, which forces users to login every day, which is a bit of a pita...

The company that helped us migrate was Softegg, though I'm not sure they cover Birmingham...

Having gone through vLanning with you a few summers ago, I would be very surprised if you couldn't handle a vanilla network I went from CC3 to Vanilla a fair few years ago, and the transition wasn't too bad, and we moved to Windows 7 at the same time. Other than completely messing up the student profiles (no students could login!) it went as fine as could be expected. If there's anyway you could get the new domain up and running at the same time as your current CC4 network, I would highly recommend it. It gives you the capacity to test DHCP, DNS, AD, GPOs, profiles and your build images. I haven't used InTune or SCCM, we moved to WDS and then MDT later on, which are a bit less daunting to setup. Also, I highly recommend getting a book if you're looking for best practice. I picked up Mastering Windows Server 2012 R2 and it's been really useful in giving an overall approach to setting up a network. Also picked up Windows Server 2016 Unleashed, but have been less impressed with it's writing style... To be a bit more specific: Software installs - .msi and Group Policy wherever possible, otherwise we try to incorporate the software into the build. Bulk User Management - Bulk AD Users from wisesoft and Active User Manager, though that one may be a bit hard to find now... And personally, I would stick with Windows 7 until you and your team are happy with the new server setup. Mind you, that might just be because I'm slightly bitter at Windows 10 after it's recent update decided to uninstall Office.

Office 2013 is just a broken mess, so we're having to 'uninstall' it to reinstall it, if that makes sense?

The OP is sat 2m away from me The update completely uninstalls Office 2013, aside from the shorcuts, which point to a none existent X Drive. All the other installed program shortcuts are duplicated (so have (1) added), but at least remain installed. So far this has happened on 4 machines: 3 laptops, 1 desktop, without any rhyme or reason as to why these machines have had the issue, and others not. I guess the best plan is to go through my GPOs and try to ensure that Windows 10 doesn't update itself with the larger creator updates. I had thought this was in place, but obviously not...

Not deploying shortcuts, as these are staff computers, the shortcuts are created when programs are installed. Seems we're not alone with this issue. Seriously unimpressed with Microsoft for letting this one slip by.

1, Divine Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Everything the first game was and more. 2, Horizon Zero Dawn - Jaw dropping, and a decent storyline for a change. 3, Persona 5 - Didn't connect with the characters the same way as I did with P4, but an excellent game nevertheless.

The Smoothwall is our firewall, yes. The external access required is access from two IP ranges on port 9091 to the server. Thanks for the replies!

I need to setup external access to one of our servers for our new Remote Backup Service, but I must confess I've never had to setup external access before, so I'm a little stumped! I know our public IP range, is just a case of setting one of those IP addresses as an additional IP one of the NICs, and then setting up the NAT and Firewall rules on the Smoothwall? Or am I best to plug a NIC from the server directly into a spare NIC interface on the physical Smoothwall and try and set it up from there? Any help gratefully received

Kodu fit the bill?

Sadly not, as we use a separate email system for parents (Parentmail) we don't tend to send too many emails to BTinternet addresses. We only found out it was an issue because one of our Governors uses BTinternet and we got the bounceback emails

Or maybe my idea isn't such a good one then!

Seems to me that a good bet is to get a LTSB image sorted, and use that to test your hardware and software compatibility, Group Policy, Profiles, and any other bits. Once that's in place, and you're happy, you can then take the knowledge learned from the LTSB testing to build an image using the latest version of Windows 10...

Sadly yes, take a peek at this thread

Device Manager - Update Driver and for once it actually found the required driver and installed it. Seems to have solved the issue. Still, not sure why Outlook and moving emails has any impact on the display driver... Another unexplained mystery.