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Hay everyone. I'm wondering if anyone has migrated from FMS Cloud to Arbour Access for their finance package? We have a scenario where a school is moving from ESS FMS Cloud to Arbor Access and it seems to be playing out like so: - Arbor say they cannot import any historical info from FMS and the Access system will start fresh with the key financial numbers keyed in - ESS will offer a copy of the FMS SQL database before it's deleted but no method of accessing it but suggest they have met their obligation of handing the school their "data" HMRC say finance data needs to be retained for 6 years plus the current academic year. Is just a raw (essentially inaccessible) SQL database backup enough here? If a school suddenly get financially audited at any point and are asked for specifics, what happens here? There must be other schools that have been through this?

My Nova-T knowledge is rusty at best and while this rings bells I've hit a wall. There is a small annoying issue with Nova-T after a SIMS server migration where Nova-T now prompts for a license file every time it is ran. The license file can be browsed to and selected and then Nova-T opens and works just fine, however previously Nova-T just opened straight away. It's more of an annoyance for the user than anything else and I can't recall if there is a setting in Nova-T to point it directly to the license file, or if there is an entry that can be added in the SIMS.INI file of the workstation to do the same? Any pointers appreciated!

That's great, thanks @chris_uk!

Has anyone come across this application before? It's clearly plugged into SIMS but can't for the life of me see any detail of who provides it? Naturally a google of 'Keep Kids Safe' turns up a thousand results and even looking for other keywords turns up a blank!

Odd - I've just deployed it using Datto to five test devices in our office. All of the pined shortcuts have been updated with the new icon and load new Edge ?

Knew there must be one somewhere! Thanks fella!

Now that the new Edge has been made available, has anyone found a unattended installer for use in deploying to windows 10 using an RMM solution?

Yep - I don't get it either! I know it does odd things in the Census area if the display is set to more than 100% - seems it affects this too!!!

We've just had a school report this issue also. Did you get anywhere with a fix for it? Edit: Fixed. Wino 10 device: - Set to 150% for display - Region set to US Changed to 100% and UK and the button was suddenly usable!

Thanks @steve_forbes - very comprehensive!

Is there? Another to add to the list then! I've also found out there is a dedicated Windows update proxy: updateproxy.swgfl.org.uk

Is aneone able to clarify the difference between the SWGfL proxy servers? sslfilter.proxy.swgfl.org.uk proxy.swgfl.org.uk staffproxy.swgfl.org.uk My understanding is sslfilter bypasses DPI, proxy does not, and staffproxy integrates to a school's AD? Edit: And sslfilter.userproxy.swgfl.org.uk

Has anyone managed to get the default iPad mail app working from behind a SonicWALL box? E-mail via other devices works just fine (and via the 365 portal), and I would have presumed that the only traffic to/from the app would have been mail related so not blocked in any way. I've white-listed the whole of the Apple IP range (17.0.0.1 - 17.255.255.254) so that filtering/DPI does not get in the way but still no joy....

I've had to set up a basic web server in IIS to host a couple of basic HTML web pages and a security certificate so that non-domain/guest devices can download and install the certificate so they can use the internet at site. All is working well, except for a small issue of when you click on the link to download the Certificate, it opens the certificate as plain text in the web browser instead of actually downloading it? I've added in the *cer extension as a MIME type (application/x-x509-ca-cert). is there a setting in IIS I've missed to make the certificate "download" rather than open as text?

Staff and Students have a Espresso shortcut on their desktops. Their default browser is Chrome however recently, some users find that if they double click the Espresso shortcut, Chrome launches but only opens the default "New Tab" (eg, the Google search page). If the Espresso shortcut is then double clicked again with Chrome still open, the Espresso site does load however in a new tab. I've tried the usual Chrome reset, clear all browsing data, created a new test account etc - all to no avail. It only seems to affect Chrome too as if you change the default browser to IE, Espresso opens immediately. Anyone seen this before?

So we have a number of sites where we have a remote management solution on the DC's that allows us to remotely run a PowerShell script to create new domain accounts on mass. The issue is that we have some sites where we don't (and can't) put our remote management software on the DC's, we only have remote access. We do however have some domain joined devices with our management software installed. My question is, does anyone know if it's possible to create a new domain account in AD using PowerShell by running a script on a domain joined device rather than directly on the DC?

Shame Capita have not fixed the cause of this in the past 5 years!!!

Yes, we had that thought too and typed out the password in plain text to make sure it was actually being typed 100% correctly and it is.

Disclaimer - I have next to zero apple experience so a little blind on this one! So we have a very strange issue. We have a Mac user with a Office 365 account who cannot log into https://portal.office365.com using their O365 details in either Chrome or Safari. Every attempt results in the standard invalid username/password response from Microsoft. We've tried on three different Macs (two in the school, one personal here in our Support office) and every time it's the same error using this account. However using the EXACT same details in Chrome/IE/FireFox on Windows devices, we log straight it - no errors. We have a 365 Admin account which will log us in both on Mac/Windows devices. I've done some 'Google' searches and a couple of different results seem to point to looking in the Keychain store for any stored credentials or certificates. I've trawled through every entry in Keychain and there is nothing referencing it users 365 login details or the Office 365 portal. Any suggestions?

*edit: All network drives mapped to the SIMS server...

Sounds a bit like it's a way to escape 1-on-1 customer interaction around SIMS 8, or the SIMS 7 CTF data breach bug due to the amount of questions/grief they would receive?

I've seen this in the past before and I can't for the life of me recall what the cause was. When the school "Create & Validate" the School Workforce Census, the S: drive is disconnected. It only ever happens when Create & Validate is ran, and outside of that the S: drive is always connected and stable. Any ideas?

Thanks for the suggestions everyone, I was hoping to try avoid downtime where possible as the site has a single server and general DC functionality is working site wide. GPOs, DNS, DHCP, Print Manager etc are all working across the school and no issues on the clients, it just seems to be a few bits of software that seem to have been impacted on the server, however I have now managed to resolve. I downloaded Microsoft's SubInACL tool and ran the following commands: subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=system=f subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=system=f subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=system=f subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=system=f After a reboot, everything seems to be working again. I've uninstalled the affected software successfully reinstalled so will keep an eye on it over the next week or so in case any adverse effects are felt.

We've had a virus infection that we've managed to stop and clean up before doing too much damage, however on the DC I believe it has impacted the Domain Administrator security group permissions. Using a Domain Admin account, whenever trying to install/uninstall/repair software on the DC, I'm informed "You do not have administrator privileges". I've created a new login and added it into the Domain Admins group and have the same issue. Without wiping the server and building from scratch, is there any known way to "repair" this or identify where the issue lies?

Even better, working a treat! Thanks!