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I use LibreNMS for most things for general overview etc. storage Sense to take care of running disc maintenance As we use UniFi for AP and switches, I get the controller to email when AP or switch goes offline.

Slowly moving Home Drives and Shared Resources to SharePoint and I'm currently reviewing GPO settings for Office. These haven't changed in the last 8 years, so I thought I better check to see if I am disabling anything or if I need to enable anything to help users online way of working etc. Would anyone mind sharing their GPO settings for Office who are using OneDrive/SharePoint please. Manyt thanks

Staff (Head of department) were constantly asking for details - only for me to repeatedly say no - to the point I went to SLT and said they needed to do a risk assessment on early access and included our GDPR person. It was agreed, as long as they signed the AUP which covers things such as GDPR and data access etc, they can have early access. Now - we only give teaching staff early access once they have done their induction day, where I spend an hour with then going over the paperwork, showing them the system and making sure they have set up MFA correctly. The only groups they are initially added to are the departmental ones for email/sharepoint access The only thing they do not get access to is the MIS system until September when they are also but into the teaching staff email group.

I suppose I can keep it in for now and review when moving to Windows 11.

Going through our current SCCM TS and wondered if .net 3.5 framework is still needed. Does anyone still deploy it? Cheers

How odd.... at least I know I'm not going mad

Just downloaded the latest Win10 iso from MS (22H2 update 23 June 2023), imported into SCCM (2211) and it showing a build number of 10.0.19041.3086 Can someone who has SSCM confirm that build number for me please if possible I was expecting a build number of at least 10.0.19045.3086 Cheers

We just moved to version 9 - (May half term) and had no issues. It uses the same back end as version 7 (apart from a slight update) - Does have a web based backed as well but I've not used it that much, apart from setting up Pre-Order stuff for Civica Eats. - No more having to install the ETrust for other users to get to reports etc! Had the option for Tills or Tablets - we decided for Surface Go3 tablets (running Win11) - they quoted me over £700 for Surface Go 2 (pentium model), but I opted to supply my own and went for Surface Go3 (i3 model for a lot less) - I just purchased new Bio Readers and Till Licence. Migration was painless (almost.... ) - also went for Civica Eats for Pre-Order as our old Kiosk machines wouldnt work with new system. - This was the only teething issue, as they release a new version Version 9 which has issues talking to Civica Eats - once they realised this, it was quickly solved. Why did we go for Version 9...... We have Vending Machines which tied in with E-Truste Training, was painless as till layouts the same. Civia Eats - Pre-order, now an app, so no more queueing to pre-order lunch. Tablets, to give flexibility to move tills around. Just a few downsides..... Tablet screens smaller, which canteen initially complained about but soon got use it them. Needed USB C adapters for Bio Readers Needed stand for tablets All in all, one the few downsides were sorted - I hate to say this - but the new version 9 is a lot more responsive at the till end - which the canteen stuff instantly noticed and like. Reserving judgement on the Civica eats as not rolled out yet, but app seems easy to use. Send me a PM if you want more info such as pricings etc....

I'm not firing on all cylinders at the moment and with the nice bonus of a massive headache, I thought why not take a bit of time and read through a check list from Safeguarding news and support from Andrew Hall https://www.safeguardinginschools.co.uk/blog/filteringandmonitoring Reading the checklist I came across this and though.... Eh - Has a technical monitoring system been applied to devices using mobile or app content? Can someone explain what this please. Am I overthinking this? Is this just a fancy term for someone looking at logs etc and checking that certain mobole apps are being blocked.

I got in 3 different makes/models (ViewSonic, CTouch and IIyama) at the same time, had them in the staffroom and told staff to have a play with them. Arranged demos of 2 of the screens and I gave the dmeo on the 3rd screen. We had them for a week and I told staff to play and try and use them as they would in a lesson - and basically left them to it (so they could decide on which they found the easiest to use) At the end of the week, I sent out a feedback form and basically told staff if I got no feedback them I would choose the screen - which led to a flurry of responses (just under hald the staff - which was impressive for us as staff normally ignore them) Out of 40ish responses, all but 2 opted for the IIyama Screen.

This is the code I use to get it fullscreen. On the Embed, select custom Style Sheet and paste this code. .videoContainer { position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0; display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; align-items: center; } iframe { /* optional */ width: 100%; height: 100%; } Then on the Embed to Html Hope that helps

Solved! @lmgtfy @Techie-v2 @jadzea Here is my Embed code - Had to put the Browser bit above the iframe

Can anyone who uses Xibo please let me know if this is an issue related to just me or the Windows Client player. I'm trying to stream an embed link for Sky News from Youtube - works fine via browser and when I am designing the layout, but when I come to run the layout on a Windows Client I am getting "Error occured on play back" Check registry for the "Fix" and all good there. Do I spend a little more time trying to sort it or do I give up now? Cheers

Also.... just looking at Burconix, Cloud Connect does anyone have any feedback on that compare to using the native windows client? Cheers

All home drives are currently on the network but for the new Year 7 student in September, I am thinking of putting them direcrly on One Drive for their Home drives. Would I be right in thinking if I create a GPO to redirect known folders to OneDrive and Enfore that on the Year 7 OU, that should do the job? Cheers

How do you have you sharepoint drives shortcut?

Added to proxy exceptions on browser and that has sorted it.

Ok - I'm having a moment where my brain is turning to mush! Trying to allow the following site through smoothwall - http://vtesims06.uksouth.cloudapp.azure.com:8080/AccessNow/ Added URL to allow categories and added the port to firewall list Getting 504 gateway error when trying to access the url. - ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT What am I doing wrong? Cheers

Just recently we have see issues where users are suddenly classed as default users and all access blocked. The only way to resolve this is to run SendDataNow.exe from the domain controller and then waiting for a couple of mins before all working again. I have idex 2.2.4.0 agent installed on both DC's Anyone else noticed issues with IDex? Smoothwall support just told me to schedule SendDataNow.exe to run everydata in the morning! Cheers

Thank you thought I was going mad.

Just downloaded the lastest version - does the lastest version no longer run from a network share? Runs fine if installed locally, but does not run when running from network share. Cheers.

Good point, have emailed my Smoothwall Account Manager to check.

Smoothwall is up for renewal (June, yes I know I've left it late) - no issue with smoothwall at all but would be wrong of me not to look at other solutions and pricing etc. Quoted for an S9 appliance and 1500 users....... We have some off prem student devices which will need filtering/monitoring Needs to be easy enough to use Ability to automatically send out safeguarding alerts both instant and as a daily email for nominated email addresses. We use the Firewall for Wifi VLAN segregation. Nice way for users of BYOD to install their own SSL Cert Block VPN!!! Safeguarding Reports Some kind of Support - similar to Smoothwalls (they have been fine when I have contacted them - so no comments ) I saw a quick demo of Fortigate and Analyser and linked how it worked Saw Lightspeed years ago and wasnt impressed - may have changed since..... Not seen anything else as yet....... @Wave9_Lee, what would you recommend and could I get a demo?

Thankfully our Data Manager is on the ball and keeps all record up to date. I’ve left everything in the hands and the person who asked if it is possible and pointed them to the DSL. With being half term I doubt I will hear anything.

That’s the way I have done ours. Created group called MFA_Users, put users in that group who needed to have MfA and then set conditional access so anyone one in that group has to use MfA