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This is a shame, again after spending a lot of time setting up DataSync for Classroom to be used it'll be a shame if nothing is made of it. A couple of our staff are starting to use it here and we had hopped to use it a lot more next year. I hope they migrate it in to Teams keeping a lot of the functions.

Hi All, Does any of your schools give ID cards to students? We're looking at doing this so they can use our door access system meaning we can lock the school down more and not have to leave doors open for student access. If you do I'd be interested to hear how your find them? Do student steal, lose or just misuse them? Thanks

Your quite right, the 48 port version goes to 10Gbps but the 24port doesn't. I don't think I really need it so to keep the budget down I just create a trunk between them. The problem with the XG is we don't have any fibre modules in the server and replacing our current fibre modules would bump the price up. So I'll keep the existing HP modules and try them in the EdgeSwitch. If they don't work I'll leave them in my HP switches and use the connection from each of those to the core switches.

I've had a lot of problems with PXE boot and I'm hoping reducing the amount of broadcast traffic on our LAN will solve this. We also have VOIP system on our main LAN and we're likely to be installing IP CCTV soon so I thought now was the time to separate it up. Have done a load of work over the weekend I've come up with the following: 2x Ubiquiti 24 Port EdgeMax Switch Lite 1x 2 Pack 10Gbps fibre module 1x Fibre cable for above This gives me some redundancy by having two switches. I'll split my servers across the two switches and configure spanning tree to make both roots so it keeps all ports forwarding. I'll also split my VLANs across both switches so the server VLAN (Infrastructure) has Core 1 as the default gateway, but all my other VLANs (Domain clients etc) have Core 2. My thinking is 95% of traffic will be between clients and servers, so this should spread the load across both switches. If one fails I just need to switch the default gateway. The cost of the above should be justifiable for what we get out of it.

I thought I'd got sorted ready for VLANing my main network but while testing I've got stuck and the more I look in to it the more confused I'm getting. So, the overview is this. I currently have my main network on VLAN 1 with some BYOD networks on VLAN 60, 70 and 80. The BYOD networks use our Smoothwall as the gateway with DHCP etc all handled by that. The Smoothwall does some routing to allow access to our portal web server and ruckus for authentication etc. My next step is to VLAN our main network up to reduce broadcast traffic. In time I'd also like to introduce client access lists for but the moment all these new VLANS would be interconnected. Here are the VLANs I'm proposing: Currently our main network is on 172.16.0.0/16. I had hoped to use an existing switch to route between the VLANs, but its a V1920 which although it should support interLAN routing, it doesn't work and a lot of people seem to report the same. So I need to find another core switch, with really no budget and nothing more than a V1920 and a Smoothwall to do it. I think I might end up having to buy a core switch but it needs to be in the lower hundreds range if I do. So what I'm after is suggestions and how you have this setup? Our networks is pretty small as we're a secondary with under 300 pupils (Yep that small) but I have configured my Hyper-V hosts and servers with teamed LAN so I'd like to have more than 1Gbps of routing between the LANS. I could use the Smoothwall but I'd only get 1Gbps on each LAN. Ubiquiti kit seems to be the thing to have at the minute with low cost but good features, however I'm a little lost as to which one I need. Thank you in advanced.

I'd be interested to know if anyone has even managed to get the thing to install silently? Having no luck at all but we don't have the option of using SCCM which has been suggested before (Well not currently anyway, its on the list)

I guess this new file format is proprietary again?

We use a SharePoint list to store the data then created a Assess Database for quick lookups including by barcode scanner and touch input.

Don't suppose you have another one to test it against? Seems very odd to be that high.

Can you put a multimeter across the 24v supply the fan and make sure that's constant?

We've purchased the following ones from Insight UK: Product Details Could recommend enough, we got them for under £4 a pair and the quality is very good. I purchased one set to test if they would survive and they do! I've always opted for thick headband types as they seem to last a lot longer and are harder to loose.

Looks like this will be my first 2012 R2 to 2016 upgrade then.

This was my understanding from reading the website, but Xibo's instructions don't make it sound that easy at all! My first issue is getting Docker to install and run. Docker CE won't run on anything but Windows 10 it seems (From a Windows POV) so installed Docker Toolbox but that uses Hypervisor which isn't supported in my VM (I'm on Server 2012 R2 Hyper V).

Hi All, I'm looking to upgrade to Xibo 1.8 but all this Docker business is confusion me. Currently Xibo is running on a server 2012 R2 VM on a Hyper-V host. I've installed XAMPP to provide the webserver and MySQL database. Xibo now suggest moving to Docker before moving to 1.8. I can't install Docker CE (Windows 10 only) so I downloaded and installed Docker Toolbox. This however fails the Vx check before starting. However I'm lost as to what Docker is providing or doing? The instructions seem to be all over the place. Has anyone moved to 1.8? With or without Docker? Thank you in advanced.

A quick google as I'm interested in this and here you go: EitherMouse - Multiple mice, individual settings... Maybe give it a try and provide some feedback?

I have the following saved on the Sync server desktop as a PowerShell script: Import-Module ADSync Start-ADSyncSyncCycle -PolicyType Delta You can then right click and run if required. I got the above code from another website online so not sure what the different sync's are but Delta seems to do everything I need.

We use GPP but delete printers only when needed. So rather than delete all then apply printers. We use two rules for each printer, so: MFD Follow Me - Just Install Admin Inkjet - Install for Admins Admin Inkjet - Remove for non-admins Headteacher - Install for Head Headteacher - Remove for none-head This means your rarely removing or installing printers speeding up your login times.

Have a look at this: https://thomasvochten.com/archive/2016/01/ppt-topology/ It means you can keep the feature enabled (You can disable it via registry as well) but tells it to return to duplicated after ending the show. Only thing staff then do is put a URL link on the PowerPoint, then when they click it the slide show doesn't end to it stays on extended, thus no video. I just advise staff to embed videos where possible or change it duplicated when in the slide show settings.

This should be what you looking for: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cloud-software-services-and-the-data-protection-act

Hi @Katy, Thanks, after a bit of trail and error I think I've got it working. I need && when the hour is the same on each side, but || when the hour is different. I'll keep an eye on it today and see if it works correctly. date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London'); echo(''); $hour=Date("G"); $minute=Date("i"); if (($hour == "8" && $hour == "8") && ($hour == "8" && $minute <= "50")) { echo("Before School"); } if (($hour == "8" && $minute > "50") && ($hour == "9" && $minute < "5")) { echo("Registration"); } if (($hour == "9" && $minute > "5") || ($hour == "10" && $minute < "5")) { echo("Period 1"); } if (($hour == "10" && $minute > "5") || ($hour == "11" && $minute < "5")) { echo("Period 2"); } if (($hour == "11" && $minute > "5") && ($hour == "11" && $minute < "20")) { echo("Break"); } if (($hour == "11" && $minute > "20") || ($hour == "12" && $minute < "20")) { echo("Period 3"); } if (($hour == "12" && $minute > "20") || ($hour == "13" && $minute < "20")) { echo("Lunch"); } if (($hour == "13" && $minute > "15") || ($hour == "14" && $minute < "15")) { echo("Period 4"); } if (($hour == "14" && $minute > "15") || ($hour == "15" && $minute < "15")) { echo("Period 5"); } if (($hour == "15" && $minute > "15") || ($hour > "16" && $minute < "30")) { echo("After School"); } echo(''); ?> Thank you all!

Another Sharp user here with Papercut MF. Works well together. We put penalties in the contact for call out times and downtime rates. This is something we learned from the last contract.

Hi @unixman_again I've tried to put $time=Date and get a warning about 'Use of undefined constant date' which is guess is what you mean. However including the above results in a PHP error.

Hi All, For a while now I've been running a PHP page as part of my Xibo setup which showed the current period in the day. I get the orginal code from this forum but over time I've had a lot of problems with it. Today I noticed its now working correctly again. Please could keen PHP coders take a look at tell me why 'Break' is appearing with 'Period 3' from 11:20 to 12:00. The break text should not be shown from 11:20 onwards. I outputted the $hour and $minute so I know the server time is as it should be. $hour=Date("G"); $minute=Date("i"); if (($hour < "8" && $hour == "8") || ($hour == "8" && $minute <= "50")) { echo("Before School"); } if (($hour == "8" && $minute > "50") || ($hour == "9" && $minute < "5")) { echo("Registration"); } if (($hour == "9" && $minute > "5") || ($hour == "10" && $minute < "5")) { echo("Period 1"); } if (($hour == "10" && $minute > "5") || ($hour == "11" && $minute < "5")) { echo("Period 2"); } if (($hour == "11" && $minute > "5") || ($hour == "11" && $minute < "20")) { echo("Break"); } if (($hour == "11" && $minute > "20") || ($hour == "12" && $minute < "20")) { echo("Period 3"); } if (($hour == "12" && $minute > "20") || ($hour == "13" && $minute < "20")) { echo("Lunch"); } if (($hour == "13" && $minute > "15") || ($hour == "14" && $minute < "15")) { echo("Period 4"); } if (($hour == "14" && $minute > "15") || ($hour == "15" && $minute < "15")) { echo("Period 5"); } if (($hour == "15" && $minute > "15") || ($hour > "16" && $minute < "30")) { echo("After School"); } I think its ignoring the minute condition, but all the others seem to work fine so not sure what's going on. Thank You, Rob

Got our last ones from Insight UK. It was a 'Go Lamp' if I remember right.

Hi itgeek, Your proxy shouldn't come in to play as the wireless display adapters ae Miracast devices which create a direct connection between the device and the display. Basically half the time your wireless is connected to the WLAN, the other half its connected directly to the adapter. One thing to suggest is make sure your device and adapter are fully up to date. You can install new firmware on the adapter using a windows store app if I remember right. Also, do you have a Bluetooth mouse on this device? Bluetooth is again using your wireless chip so its like trying to connect to 3 things are once. Normally this shows up with the mouse been very slow or jumpy rather than the display being affected.