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Well - I've tried everything possible for the moment and staff still repoting issues. Going to order DP -> HDMI cable to test - then failing that will be a call to iiyama.

That is very interesting - will email that out to staff and have a look to see if there is a registry entry that can be set via GPO

Had a chat with Iiyama the other day about some issues, and I did raise this issue, but did admit I wasnt sure where the issue lay at the time. - It is beginning to look like an Adapter to HDMI issue. Could do, as the Monitors support display port - just need to find a suitable adapter to do a test with.

Just checked and there is a slight difference in the driver versions - latest from intel is showing 31.0.101.2115 (16/11/2022) I had 31.0.101.2111 (19/07/2022) Teach me to properly check next time - PSWindowsUpdates, normally installs latest drivers which it did for Intel Ports, Realtek Nic, but for some reason not the Graphics drivers. So just installing drivers - (which has a Fresh Install option) From I have been told - possibly yes. Trying to get a proper picture out of staff is proving difficult. I'll send that out to staff to see if anyone replies - but interesting as not come across this before. Will check on the screens in the morning - hopefully there is setting I can try. Do your teachers move around? I've had issues with someone's set up being different to the previous user, and shenanigans as you describe occurring. Some do move, other have been in the same room from AM reg to the problem starts. Only difference between staff who do move is some have it on duplicate and other prefer extend. Hopefully I can get more of a idea if and when staff reply to emails in the morning.

Drivers are upto date.... That isnt a bad shout..... will give that a look - not even considered that.

Just checked and they are DP++ So, the PC is connected to a standard monitor via VGA with the Display Port Adapter going to Iiyama screen. I've been reading so many things now my head is getting confused..... Some articles say if using dual monitors, then use active and the some articles dont mention anything about needing an active adapter. Might order some passive adapter to see if that works.

It happends to the vast majority of the Iiyama screens.

veries - some are 3metre, some are 5metre some are 10metre Not according to the Startech website. https://www.startech.com/en-gb/display-video-adapters/dp2hd4ks

We have recently replaced our old Sharp 55" screen with 75" Iiyama screens and have come across a strange issue and could do with bouncing ideas off people. The Sharp screens, were PC -> Display Port Adapter -> VGA Cable -> Screen and had no issues The Iiyama Screens are PC -> Display Port Adpater -> HDMI Cable -> Screen and I am having reports where the PC will go from Duplicate/Extend to this screen only, stopping the image from being displayed on the IIyama Screen (untill you go back and change to duplicate/extend) The HMDI cables are a mixture of 3,5 and 10 metre cables. The Display Port -> HDMI adapters are unbranded from what I can see and I have even tried Startech 4k Display Port to HDMI adapters. The computers are HP EliteDesk 800 G2 SFF - with VGA and 2 x DP outputs. All computers are on Win 10 22H2 with latest updates applied. I've tried the Display Port adapters in both DP ports and same thing happens. It happens randomly and can go days without issue. Staff dont help when I ask them to report things and what they were using/doing when it happened. So........ Other than buying new Display Port to HMDI Cables to test..... or purchasing a laptop/dock or new PC which has HDMI from source..... Anyone come across anything like this before, or any ideas I can look at. Cheers

Hi All Has anyone experienced issues with build PowerPoint 2308 freezing and beening slow? Staff are reporting issues when using powerpoint with it being slow and freezing at times. It was fine before the summer break and the only things tha have changed are updates. Cheers

Nice to see they have changed the IP addresses used for LDAP! Looks like SSO now working - especially once I changed to the new addresses.

For those people using Office 365 and the Azure Portal, I wondered if someone could do me a favour. I dont pay for any subscription apart from 365 Apps for Faculty/Students and Enterprise Mobilty + Security A3 Can you log into your Azure Portal, and click on the subcription option. I have Access to Azure Active Directory listed but with an unknown role and unathorized listing action cost. Is this right or should I be seeing something else? Cheers

Sovled it! I had the URLS in the client proxy exceptions for nearly 2 years worked fine, so why now they have stopped I have no idea - soon as I removed them from the Proxy Settings, it worked straight away! I'm just happy I have it working and dont have to mess my headup trying to understand wireshark captures

The way I am trying to describe the issue - or the issue itself? I was on the phone with Smoothwall for nearly an hour looking at this and the engineer said he couldn't see the traffic for the desktop IP going to the sage url/ip That was when I thought to try the Wifi connection and hey presto it worked - so we concluded it must has been a LAN based issue. I'll have a play and see what I else I can find out.

I have a very strange issue and I'm after help on where and how to go about troubleshooting it. Sage 200 installer refuses to run and download the "sage bits" when run over the LAN where the core switches are the gateway. Desktop -> LAN -> Core -> Smoothwall = fail to download and install Traffic was not even reaching the Smoothwall box! If I run the wifi, where the Gateway is set as smoothwall, then it run, downloads and installs. Desktop -> Wifi -> Smoothwall = Download and Installs. The url that Sage 200 installer connects to download and install is 'https://pros200appasage.blob.core.windows.net/clickonce/desktopclient/StandardDesktop.application' - which resolves to 20.209.58.11:443 I've just installed wireshark to try and capture what is happening - so this is going to be fun...... Any help would be appreciated. Cheers

This is my VLC installation script for SCCM - I cannot take credit for it as I found it somewhere and cannot remember where. @echo off cls echo ---------------------------------------------------------- echo . . echo . . echo . Installing/Updating VLC Media Player - Please Wait . echo . This window will close once installed . echo . . echo . . echo ---------------------------------------------------------- REM Uninstall existing VLC version if exist "%PROGRAMFILES%\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe" "%PROGRAMFILES%\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe" /S if exist "%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe" "%PROGRAMFILES% (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe" /S :: Wait for 20 seconds ping -n 20 127.0.0.1 > NUL REM Silent install for 64-bit if defined ProgramFiles(x86) "%~dp0vlc-3.0.18-win64.exe" /language=en_GB /S if defined ProgramFiles(x86) exit REM Silent install for 32-bit "%~dp0vlc-3.0.18-win64.exe" /language=en_GB /S REM Removes VLC Desktop Icon - Windows XP if exist "%allusersprofile%\Desktop\VLC media player.lnk" del "%allusersprofile%\Desktop\VLC media player.lnk" /S REM Removes VLC Desktop Icon - Windows 7 if exist "%public%\Desktop\VLC media player.lnk" del "%public%\Desktop\VLC media player.lnk" /S REM Return exit code to SCCM exit /B %EXIT_CODE%

Helped 2 brass bands at the same event today, one playing euphonium and the other B flat bass - (4 x 45 slots with only a 15 min break whilst the bands swapped over after each 45 slot) - enjoyed it but was I tired afterwards. Friends birthday BBQ tomorrow. Monday Need to cut down dead conifer tree and take them to the tip and then possibly cleaning house and cars

Trying to create an tunnel from Smoothwall to a VM. It for a Pen Tester to access a VM to do some Pen Testing. When I try and create the VPN it keeps telling me the client IP is not on an internal subnet - which it is. All internal subnets are on Smoothwall, so I have no idea why it keeps telling me this. Having a break from it since this morning I was going to try again this evening but not had chance to revisit it yet.

I'm having one of these days where no matter how much I try and follow the Smoothwall guides for setting up VPN, it just isnt happening. I've logged a ticket but I can see this being a long wait, so I've come here for help. I need to create a VPN connection to a single VM (sounds simple enough but try telling my brain that!) Anyone done this before that can help? - Looking at IPSEC using a shared Key as VPN will be removed after a week and no longer used. Cheers in advance

I’ve checks using pingcastle, so thought it prudent to have some pen testing done, especially if at some point I’m thinking for going for cyber essentials. I’m having a full battery of tests External Internal Azure/365 config checks Wi-Fi They have sent me over details to create a VM with Kali on it plus some other software. All will be done remotely except for the Wifi which will be done on site. Smoothwall have replied to say IDS only provide alerts and IPS only works on addresses which have port forwarding enabled.

I think this for them to remote in on a VM to test different parts of the internal infrastructure , although they are also doing and external test as well. All good points tho - I’ll go back and double check I’ve not misread their requirements and then contact them.

Before I log a call with smoothwall, does anyone know if you can disable IPS/IDS for certain external IP addresses? We have some Pen Testing booked in and they would like IPS/IDS disabled on their IP Addresses. I cannot seem to find a way to exclude these and I am not keep on turning them off altogether for the duration of the testing window. Cheers.

I’ve just done the very same thing this month (SharePoint only for now) Gave them plenty of notice (6 months) to get their heads around the move and to come for training if required. I created their own teams sites with Hub etc then told staff they are responsible for moving their own data, and to only move current and relevant data only! They do not need to move data from the year 2000. Set permissions with mailed enabled security groups we already had in place which are used for dept distribution emails, paper cut and now SharePoint - so all we need to do is add staff to relevant groups and they have access. They were told, come August the staff shared areas were going, so anything not moved is there loss to give them a sense of urgency (I’m just removing the drive mapping) and will keep it archived for 12 months before removing the data from the server. They have been told we will be moving home drive to one drive during next year to give them time to think ahead and to see if anyone wants to be an early adopter to make sure all works as intended.

I did this recently when I did a DR Test and rebuilt a test Veeam Server from scratch - will dig out my notes when I’m back in school tomorrow.

Didn’t know you could automate restores like that. I’ve always done manual a test restores. I’ve even done a worst case scenario test by rebuilding veeam server from scratch and restoring from immutable backups.