robyholmes

Nice of them to have fully supported modern deployment methods such as Intune.... oh wait. No they only appear to support SCCM and even then don't give any instructions on what detection method to use. And by default, updating Fusion 360 still requires admin rights.

The tablet PC setting is per machine. Don't know where the setting is stored though. Maybe run a capture while setting it to see where it's stored. I suspect it'll be against some 'display id' and 'input id'. So rolling it out on mass would require detecting what each ID is per machine.

I believe many use the 'Pager' field in AD for storing ID Card numbers as well. We did when we first introduced ID cards as you could sync it directly to Papercut. However Office 365 shows this in 'Contact Information', so it had to be removed. While it's not a direct password, once someone works out what the number is, it saves them scanning the physical card to make a copy of it.

I've give it another go then. We push out larger apps by Intune as well, but have a caching server onsite which helps with that. It would only use that for the first Win32 install though for Fusion, as any future updates wouldn't come via Intune but directly from Autodesk. Thanks for advice. I'll put it on the list to be tested and hopefully I can provide an update here with how I managed it in Intune.

How do you find bandwidth this this method? When we first tried this, we had machines dragging our connection down as each machine had to download the whole new version of the software (Normally around 1GB). We found it would drag the connection down, fail part of the download then start again.

Well it's 2026 and I've still not found a solution for moving Fusion 360 into Intune. I've found plenty of guides on how to install it via Intune, but managing it's updates seems to be the problem. So, to bump a over a year old thread, has anyone got a working Intune based method yet?

Has anyone made on progress on this? We're running into a load of problems with printing due to the defaults being changed. We're printing certain that the issue is with this check box being set for staff. But as yet we have still not found any solution to either disabling this by default, or restricting users from changing printing properties (Default ones) to pervert it.

Sounds like we could go Cloud route if we wanted then. We have a 'IOT' network which they could sit on, with staff and students going out to the cloud and back in, it wouldn't need any local cross VLAN access. Thanks for responses. I'll feedback to DT.

Hi All, I'm looking for feedback from schools who currently run BambuLab (WiFi ideally) printers on there school network. They would be use in the DT Department by students. Have you gone with cloud controlled and allowed this via your firewall/web filter? Or have you gone with local only control? Are you using BambuLab slicer or third party (With Bambu connect)? Just looking for any pitfalls and working out an outline plan of how we could get it working before feedback back to DT. Cheers, Rob

I reported to NYES Digital this morning too, who were going to past it onto NyNet. Other schools had already reported it but it was thought it was just another Microsoft issue. But doesn't appear that way to me.

Seeing issues on our NyNet connection (@NorthernNoel relevant to you I suspect as well) but not my home Virgin Media connection. So it seems to me to be ISP related. Downdetector is showing an uptick in issues reported, but not a major one so I suspect this is why. I wonder if a certain backhaul provider is having issues which certain ISPs are using, resulting in traffic having to take the long route round.

You just have to keep in mind that it's both a 'Best Practice' and a 'You need to buy X to be secure'. So yes it's good to review it, but you have to check if some of things needing a licence could be done another way, without needing for fork out for that licence (Be that free software or service, third party paid solution, or just covered by a internal school policy).

Depends if what your doing is part of a fixed installation of course. But yes you do still need to comply with everything electrically wise. But there's nothing wrong with IT working with a certified electrician or low voltage tech to provide a pre-configured control system. Many electricians these days are glad that the 1/0s bit is done for them, so they can do the bit they are good at.

I need to do a bit more digging into Matter. But my understanding is that 'Matter' is a 'Technical Standard' for compatibility. The idea being that if it's Matter certified, it can talk to other Matter devices. What it isn't, is a communication method. So Matter itself sits on top of other communication methods, be that Thread (An IPv6 based mesh network, the replacement for Zigbee), or standard TCP/IP. TCP/IP then of course sits on top of good old cooper ethernet cable or wibbly wobbly radio waves WiFi. Matter was/is the 'New IOT standard' but it's struggled to gain much traction in the number of years is been 'Coming'. Mainly as Zigbee, Z-Wave (US) or Tuya (Chinese IOT Cloud Platform) has been the dominate forces in the smart home devices world and once you pick one of them, you tend to stick to it. Now in terms of use in schools or business. You do have to careful what you opt for. Shelly I would compare to Ubiquiti, above the Aldi Smart Plug, but below your Trend or Schneider Electric BMS. Is it a good fit for a school? Yer I'd say it likely is for simpler tasks such as lighting, ventilation, blinds, school bell etc. When you get into heating, AC etc. Your into more complex protocols that normally sit on either the 'Domestic' or 'Commercial Side' of things. Which for a school means your likely going to hit a wall of licencing & non-open protocols to talk to commercial sized systems. Will this change over time as IOT becomes more mature? Yes I suspect it will. Shelly especially is really showing they can work with larger brands to link up together, allowing shelly devices to say provide sensor inputs to more complex control system.

Don't suppose you have that list of URLs do you? Might come in handy. We're going to do a bit of testing to confirm, but it does look like blocking Safari is causing this MS Apps issue (Although only seen in Teams & OneDrive currently, Outlook sometimes). I suspect we'll change to hiding it instead so we'll need to cut off any other routes it might have to using it which aren't pre-approved like MS365 for example.