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Sorted, had a typo in the gpo for the print server name. I lost count the number of times I checked that gpo as well. only took me 2 days to spot the typo!!

Have a bit of a weird one with printer not being installed correctly. During the summer, reinstalled desktop to 25H2, apps, the lot. Staff and Student get the same User GPO for installing printers which has taget level assignments. All users get mono and staff get added colour regardless of where they log on. Worked fine previously Staff still get printers but Students are failing to get the printer assigned. - Students can install printer manually if i give access to a shortcut to the printer share (so ruling out a driver install issue) I have tried creating a new User GPP GPO with no targetting for all authenticated users and placed on student OU, and still same issue. Scratching my head on this one - anyone any idea on what to try next. Cheers

Use some generic letters at the start, their DOB and a special character at the end.

How are you managing to get students/parents to move over to the Authenticator app? I would say the vast majority of students/parents use SMS when accessing emails etc off site (despite info being sent out for MS Authenticator)

Well……. when I try and pin them down to exactly what their issue is, I just get “my profile must be wrong or have an issue”. And in fact when logging on to a different computer she wants to manually add a secondary email account (yes I know I can add this automatically, but wants email notifications on this account and this is the only way it works) and a couple of other things. - this is the main issue. they do this once in a blue moon! she doesn’t like the answers she had been given so is trying to kick up a fuss as her favourite phrase is “I’m working at capacity” and having to redo “her profile” is having a “impact on productivity” I have point out it is the same for all users including myself. i am right in saying trying to redirect her domain profile to a network location and the use of one drive won’t solve this. cheers

We use OneDrive and local profiles and all fine except for one member of staff who constantly complains that when she has to use a different computer it takes her “hours” to sort things and as a result “impacts on productivity” normally they has an intune laptop with a dock in their office but periodically they have to logon to a domain joined desktops. because of we use one drive I can’t redirect any profile settings as it breaks and Microsoft have acknowledged this. as all known folders are redirected to one drive, isn’t still possible to have a profile redirected to a network location just for them? No Matter how hard I’ve tried to explain why we use local profiles and how roaming profiles break with one drive, they insist it is sorted or escalated (not sure who they want to escalate it to) the urge to resist using a baseball bat is becoming increasing harder and harder!!! any advice welcomed.

We have MFA for students and a phone ban in place since Sept last year, where phone are collected in and stored away until end of the school day. anyone who needs help with phone related app issues either come between 8am and 8.30am or after school. We only set MFA for students to use text messages, so we can just set them to re-register MFA 9 times out of 10. So far no real issues.

dipping my toe into OSDCloud, which version.... V1 for V2? What are the pros and cons? Cheers

Apologies for resurrecting a very very old thread....... Short story, our site manager retired and I have picked up some of the "IT tasks" he did - one of which is supporting the heating system. Software is still on Windows 7!!! and running 369 - I never knew this thing existed as not on the network - but I've told SLT it needs replacing. If you can remember, could you pass on the names of the companies who you dealth with when moving from 369 to IQVision. Cheers

Yep had it confirmed the free FortiVPN client won’t do always on, need the full paid version.

Just been ask to provide a laptop for a student who will be off site for a couple of weeks. Laptop itself not an issue as can be sorted using intune. The problem I have is providing offsite filtering. Currently using Fortinet, have VPN in place for staff using a split tunnel,so how would i get this single laptop to connect automatically to the VPN and send all traffic throught the VPN to ensure filtering takes place? Or suggestions welcome. Cheers

probably not very helpful but this is how we register students. We use the tills themselves to register students. on the first day in September, they have a small windows where all year 7 are taken down in form groups and registered on mass using 4 tills. tills are windows go tablets with the civics bio readers on, so very portable! seems to work quite well and doesn’t have any involvement from IT unless there are any issues.

Each form group has a box with foam inserts where students slot their phone into - on the box lid and a layout with student names with the slot location. Morning registration, all phones are collected in and placed into this box and then the boxes are taken to nominated cupboard for the form group by staff and are collected by staff at the PM Registration at the end of the school day. Each cupboard is fitted with a Paxton Reader and Maglocks, etc and only accessible with Staff ID Cards (we also have 6th Form with ID Cards) CCTV Camera on each cupboard in case anyone tries to force to cupboards. Paxton installed by myself, so just the cost per cupboard We been using this since the start of the year and been going well. If staff are told to check student turn phones off in front of them before putting to the box, try and avoid some students trying to pass off old phones being used in order to keep their "proper" phone.

Wondered if I could pick anyone's brain about updating the Firmware on Dell Latitude 5420. Dell Command seems to ignore or doesn't appear to install the firmware when applying updates. Windows Update not applying the firmware Action1 not applying the firmware even though it is available and says update completed. The only way it appears I can apply the firmware update it to manually download and manually update the firmware. I have 100 laptops to update and I do not fancy having the pull them in and do they manually! Any one had similar issues or able to apply the updates remotely? Cheers

we have these on our student toilets for over a year due to vandalism and no issues (touch wood)