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@ICTDirect_Dave don’t suppose you have 30 of the adapters you mention do you?

Does anyone know if display port HDMI adapters carry audio or is it as the port suggest just video? Have a number of Dell optiplex 780 computers and we will be fitting some new 65” display screens and would like to use a single HMDI cable for both audio/video if possible. Cheers

Yep same logic - opted for powershell as figured it may be more useful for anyone who wanted to use the script

Think I have cracked it! Powershell Code #Get the Current Week $today = Get-Date $delta = $today.DayOfWeek.value__ - 1 #Import CSV $CheckDate = $today.AddDays(-$delta).Date $data = Import-Csv weeks.csv | Where-Object { ($_."WeekDate" -as [DateTime]) -eq $CheckDate } #Rename Wallpaper if ($data.WeekAB -eq "Week A") { Copy-Item "\\server\netlogon\Wallpapers\Staff_WeekA.jpg" "\\server\netlogon\Wallpapers\Staff.jpg" Copy-Item "\\server\netlogon\Wallpapers\Student_WeekA.jpg" "\\server\netlogon\Wallpapers\Student.jpg" Write-Host "Week A" } else { Copy-Item "\\server\netlogon\Wallpapers\Staff_WeekB.jpg" "\\server\netlogon\Wallpapers\Staff.jpg" Copy-Item "\\server\netlogon\Wallpapers\Student_WeekB.jpg" "\\server\netlogon\Wallpapers\Student.jpg" Write-Host "Week B" } Then just need to schedule a task to run once on a Monday at silly O'clock and the BGInfo does the rest!

I have managed to sort the browser home pages so they can display the correct week - using this thread - http://www.edugeek.net/forums/coding/92312-display-week-1-week-2-joomla-intranet-page.html Now..... if I can find a script that looks up the week and can rename files automatically then that would be amazing :-D

I recently purchased 55 Kinston SSDs from Michael at CCS Media for approx. £23 each.

The "powers that be", have in their infinite wisdom decided to switch to a 2 week timetable from September. They have asked if I can display Week A or Week B on the desktop depending which week we are in. Anyone ever done this or know of a "simple" way to do this? Cheers

It is coming to that time of year again when exam results are published and I have just been as if we need consent to publish names and number of exams passed in the local papers. Example 1...… Joe Blogs (4), Jane Doe (5) Example 2....... J Bloggs (4), J Doe (5) Cheers

Well my order finally arrived - had to be shipped from an EU Warehouse! First glance, they are nice little units - just need to set them up now

Some good suggestions...… ultimately I think cost will be against me Was nealry tempted with the QNAP TS-1635 NAS server as I have some 60GB SSD gathering dust

My techie is just finishing off replacing 50 HDD with SSD drives - which mean we have 50 x 250Gb hard drives going spare and rather than let them gather dust, I did wonder about creating a large array of some kind. Any one any suggestions how I can connect 50x250gb drives in to some array.

I suspect staff are no longer reporting missing printers - which could lead to a slippery slop of not reporting other issues.

Yep - have a couple of laptops all installed from the same image, they connect fine but this one laptop refused to connect. Think if I have to spend more than another 30 mins, i'll end up reinstalling from scratch.

I have a Windows 10 device which will not connect to externally to my RDP server. All settings are the same (as far as I can see) when compared to a working Windows 10 device. When they try and connect via Remote Desktop Connect (mstsc) they are continually prompted for username\password. Using the Remote Desktop App from the Windows Store, the error messages simply says there was an issue connecting. Cant see anything other than sucessful login attempt for the user. Any one any idea? Cheers

@elsiegee40 - you get a 404 error when clicking on the link.

It different computers and users - if they log off and on again it then comes up ok Might look to move it from a logon script to the shell:startup to see if that improves things.

I have a GPO set to run a logon script from the Netlogon area which runs BGInfo to set the wallpaper and display various username etc. Randomly, when staff logon, they the logon script doesn't seem to run as they are left with the default Windows wallpaper - cannot see any issues in event viewer, GPResult says the GPO got applied. This happens on 1607 LTSB and 1803 Edu Anyone come across anything like this? Cheers

Order place - so bit of luck should be here tomorrow

Ignore me - was thinking of temp sensors... So, I'm guessing I would need the MFi port and then 2 temp sensors

Thanks for the replies - Ubiquiti mFi kit, how many do you have in your server rooms? and where are they located?

I have one of those but I keep having to visit the server room - last check just below 30 degrees as it seems the aircon unit needs re-gassing??

As the title suggests...… what do people recommend?

This was the view of SLT - well the money part - and since they all classrooms have a desktop and the staffroom has 24 desktops - it was deemed they all had access to a computer. These staff who have had the ok from SLT have complained that they cannot do reports at home as they do not own their own computers!! It might end up with the laptops setup as a "home" laptop which annoys the :censor: out of me! I'll a play and see what SLT want to do.

We until recently has a policy in place where if school laptops used by staff died, then they were not being replaced. (This was introduced by SLT) Now it seems some staff have been going to SLT and getting approval to purchase laptops from departmental capitation As many of the laptop predated my arrival and they were configured for "home" use and staff had full admin access. If the laptop policy is changing, I would like to make sure they bring them into school for use etc...… which bring me to by "How do you do it...." Never configured laptops for offline/online sync etc - anyone any guides/recommendations on the best way to this. I've seen people mention direct access and offline files etc - so any help would be gratefully received. Edit: Laptops will be running Windows 10 Edu 1803 Cheers

Have a look at this thread - http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-10/179827-per-user-bitlocker-usb-encryption.html