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Windows Store - Do not rely on the GPO to block access
robyholmes replied to Tefters's topic in Windows 10
Can AppLocker not help here? Can you block the Store App itself? Or whitelist all the apps you want so it blocks the rest. -
Another reason for me to look at SCCM. I'll have to see what happens with our proxy.
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Hi Fiza, 123D Design is another one I'm looking to deploy. We already use it but its manually installed. Use Autodesk Fusion myself and its very good, just a shame its so hard to deploy!
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Sorry to bring back on old thread, but I'm trying to deploy Fusion 360 and I'm finding the admin installer won't run when using the quite command. When I set it, the exe loads and displays the extraction loading bar, once 100% the program closes and nothing is installed. Running the EXE as normal installs fine. No errors are reported in event viewer so not sure where to start.
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We've purchased many GroupGear headsets via Insight UK at a very good price. Seem to be last very well. Product Details
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Office 365 - Stop students creating all staff/student events
robyholmes replied to steven_layton_sl's topic in Cloud Services
This should work fine for the calendar as exchange sends an email containing the calendar item which is what gets put in your calendar. If the email can't be sent or is stopped by yourself it can't update users calendars. -
VeryPC STOCKtober 2016 - A month of prizes and fun from VeryPC
robyholmes replied to VeryPC's topic in Our Advertisers
Now that's put a smile on my face! Thanks Colin! -
I've seen this as well. Try these guys:Toshiba Laptop Repairs - UK authorised service and repair provider They're a Toshiba approved repairer and can do things under warranty. You might want to ring them before sending it and state whats happened. As far as I know Toshiba are aware of the issue so make a point you want it under warranty.
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ActivBoard 2nd gen unrecognised usb
robyholmes replied to robyholmes's topic in Promethean Direct Support
I didn't no but other USB devices worked fine in the PC and I did move ports around etc. I'll try another machine just to be sure I think. I'll try the firmware upgrade as well but I suspect it will just fail to see the board. -
Hi Promethean, One of our older Gen 2 boards stopped working the other day. We found it wasn't powering up so swapped the AC adapter on the back of the board which meant it then powered up. The board beeps on start up (As normal) and the light colour changes when the pen is close. However when we attach the USB to the laptop windows shows the 'unrecognised usb' message and no hardware is detected. We've swapped out the USB cable with a known working one and tried connecting directly to the back of the board rather than the wall plate. The laptop picks up other USB devices fine in all ports, we tried different ports with the board as well. Has the controller on the board failed? Thank You, Rob
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Asset Management: SharePoint list with barcode labels Printing: Papercut MF (Reduced our printing by over 50%) Removed most desktop printers so staff & pupils use MFDs. Remaining printers are double the cost to use. VLE: Moving from rarely used Moodle to Office365 (Trailing Classroom)
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Do you use Spiceworks? https://community.spiceworks.com/help/Network_Configuration_Management Saves you a job.
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If you stop the print spooler service does the page load fine? Would show if the problem with with devices or printers.
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It depends where the data is as you also get charged per instance (IE backup source or type). So for us we backup a file server, MIS server and the DPM instance itself so we have 3 instances. It also depends how you want your data protected as you can pick from multiple datacenters, locations etc. Azure have a pricing calculator which can give you an idea but really the months trail will give you a better idea. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/calculator/ Also depends on your rention periods etc. We backup around 600 GB and hold it for up to two years. Plus the SIMS backup and were paying out around £70 a month. We're only about 6 months in so costs will grow a little as we reach 2 years but compression means it shouldn't increase much. You pay as you go so if you can clean up your file storage (We've just done this) you can save money, rather than paying for 1 TB backup for 3 years and only using 500 GB of it.
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Take a look here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/backup/ I beleive they still offer you a trail account with £125 credit for Azure (30 days limit). We did this and meant we had a free month to get it setup. You can choosen between running a Azure Backup Agent or Azure Backup Server. We went for server which is a cut down version of DPM. It meant we can backup multiple servers from one console and backup locally to existing NAS boxes for a 30 day cache. Makes restoring easier and you can backup apps etc for up to 30 days without evening using Azure credit.
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Second that, using it here and works well once you've got it settled down. Took a bit to get right at first. To those who use Google Drive, have you read the Terms and Conditions? Does it state backups are allowed? I'm sure most will state you can only store live documents, not backup files. If your using it as a second sync location rather than historical backups I'm sure your fine. There's a reason why they charge for backups and not cloud storage on Google Drive or OneDrive and its down to terms and conditions!
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We opted to allow our students, stops them asking us to do it for them. Papercut tracks the cost and the device is just outside our AV office so high volume of staff walking past. We boxed the machine in so students can't remove paper or play with doors etc.
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We give 50p each half term. If students go over they pay. We're only starting our second term but only 1 paid for more last term and most didn't run out. SEN students we put another 50p on if they run out as they type more up so print more.
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Papercut MF here and really like it. You really need MF if you going to be using copiers as release stations. Look at other options but none held up to Papercut.
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Moodle - Upgrade settings not saving
robyholmes replied to robyholmes's topic in Virtual Learning Platforms
The solution has been found. See moodle post for full details but in summary: You need to make sure the cache is cleared, I had files which couldn't be deleted so I did it manually from within Windows. -
Moodle - Upgrade settings not saving
robyholmes replied to robyholmes's topic in Virtual Learning Platforms
Only plugin / extra I know about is a course format I ran Edge F12 developer tools (As I've used that before rather than Chromes) and in the console and this is what it shows (Clear on navigation switched off) Navigation Event Separator DOM7011: The code on this page disabled back and forward caching. For more information, see: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=291337 settings.php HTML1300: Navigation occurred. settings.php DOM7011: The code on this page disabled back and forward caching. For more information, see: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=291337 settings.php This on the Recycle Bin settings page rather than upgrade one. -
Moodle - Upgrade settings not saving
robyholmes replied to robyholmes's topic in Virtual Learning Platforms
I'm pretty sure I've got debugging on. I've enabled it via the admin area (Which I can get to it seems, just not the the home admin area that redirects. If I use the navigation menu on the site I can access pages within admin. I've also enabled debugging by the config.php file and your method above but no message are displayed the page just refreshes. The same applies if I find the recycle bin settings in the admin area rather than the upgrade page. -
Moodle - Upgrade settings not saving
robyholmes replied to robyholmes's topic in Virtual Learning Platforms
Thanks for the suggestion but had no look in changing the theme. I'll look in to debugging not sure what level I used, was hard enough getting it enabled. I've also had some advice on the Moodle forum: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=336701 Thank You Lucy. -
Normally any device without a ethernet connection will have a optional extra 'USB to Ethernet Adapter'. However make sure it supports PXE boot not all of them do. Otherwise you'll need to use a offline image from a HDD, I know MDT/WDS suports this method but not sure about FOG.
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Morning All, For the last two versions of Moodle I've got stuck on the upgradesettings.php page. Its wanting to enable the recycle bin settings introduced recently but the page just refreshes when clicking save. I've enabled debugging but no error message is displayed. Had a lot in the web server log but I can only make out the page requests and no errors. The site is working currently for users but I can't get the admin areas as it loads this upgrade page every time. Any Advice? My knowledge of Moodle is very limited I just update it when it needs it. Thank You, Rob
