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Thats a good idea, they would make semi decent staff laptops especially for home use, cheers

I'm sticking with HPE Aruba wherever possible due to their lifetime warranty, I'm not sure what the Ubiquiti warranty is like but I'm sure its not lifetime. The newer 1930 POE switches 48 ports are not badly priced at around £500 https://www.ebuyer.com/983065-hpe-aruba-instant-on-1930-48g-class4-poe-4sfp-sfp-370w-switch-jl686a

Good Morning everyone, As soon as the children arrived back this week I was asked the question what are we doing with all the laptops that were handed out from the DFE shall we get them back in. I said no leave them with the students there maybe a bubble lockdown or students that need to isolate etc. Alas students have still been bringing in laptops that they no longer want so was wondering what others schools have said or advised? Really a lot of the early Geobook or Dynotech laptops are of such low spec there really isn't much we can do with them in school as a shared device so I'm in the mind set that they might as well keep them. The only laptops that are OK ish are the very last batch of Dell or HP ones but still they are low spec Celerons, 4GB or RAM etc. Any thoughts? Cheers

No problem it was worth a go :-)

Good Morning, we have applied the Advanced Communications for faculty to a number of staff but even after a week live events is not back. If I change the user to a A3 trial though it returns. Is there any documentation found that applying the Advanced Communications for faculty should return live events? Cheers

Are you sure it won't prevent external users joining meetings even if they are added as an attendee within the meeting invitation? From all the reading I've done it only allows users to join who can login with a Microsoft account or potentially a federated Google account. The only Microsoft post I can find regarding it is https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-disabling-anonymous-users-from-joining-teams-meetings/td-p/360843 Cheers

Great read by the way, it must have taken a very long time to write this up and I do really appreciate it [emoji106]

Thanks very much I'll have a good read now [emoji106]

Yes it's the same on all mobile apps so probably Chromebooks too

I like this as a solution but I guess the only thing it doesn't cover is the wrong students from a different class connecting after being shared the link. I guess you can't have it all its either this way, checking the lobby like a hawk or disabling anonymous access as it stands.

Yes I've managed to replicate this. If you install the app on a mobile device and don't sign in and then open a meeting link it allows you to connect and enter your own name and you will enter the meeting without (guest) in your name. Brilliant job Microsoft!

We do that but are finding impostors will create names identical to the students display names. It must be shared by the students but it's making it extremely difficult to identify the real student in the meeting lobby for the teacher if not impossible [emoji21]

Thanks if you can I would appreciate it :-)

Thanks for the above, but can you expand where these settings are from?

Can I ask what Power Apps licences you bought specifically and how many you bought for it to work?

Thanks @Steve21 thats useful to know :-) As we also use Salamander to create email groups for teachers of etc this list is massive but its better than nothing - - - Updated - - - I guess we can search by "section" so it is useful after all thanks

Good Morning Everyone Happy Friday :-) Does anyone know if its possible to find a Team in the admin centre based on an owner rather than a Team name? We use SDS to setup Teams but teachers have changed the names of Teams so its now very hard to find them from what I can see. The only way so far I have found is via powershell. Cheers

Yea lots of recordings failing to upload to OneDrive today. A few PowerPoint sharing issues. Has anyone had it that they cannot use the button "Don't allow attendees to unmute" just appears to be missing in some meetings.

Lots of moans here of PowerPoint sharing not working and general lag. Microsoft hardly ever seem to update the service health everything is always either fine or an incident about a different problem your not even having! Of course its ICT's fault though must be our system and or capacity!

I would find it really useful but know how busy everyone is now with remote learning etc nowadays. I know so many schools invest in expressive SANs when perhaps it's not really necessary anymore. Also interested in disk speeds results, don't want a lot do I [emoji16] [emoji1787]

Loving your blog Katy, will you be doing a peice on S2D setup I'd would find that very useful if you did get a chance to discuss your setup etc. Cheers

Good point I'll do some research it might be we populate either attribute. Cheers

Thanks ever so much one day I really must learn PowerShell properly. I can just about adapt code but anything else and I struggle. The reason for the 10 is we have some other token types that have longer outputs that won't work with Net2 so no point transferring them over to ad.

Is anyone able to help me with my code @caffrey I have based it on yours which is working great but I'd love to add a if statement which only writes the value back if the Primary Card Number is 10 digits long. So the CSV that Papercut outputs has these headers: Username,Balance,Restricted,Full Name,Email,Department,Office,Primary Card Number,Notes,Secondary Card Number,Total Printed Pages,Jobs,Last activity,Created Date,Internal User,Other emails,Username alias The only headers I'm interested in is Username and Primary Card Number so the Powershell code I have is $names = Import-Csv D:\Documents\Papercut.csv ForEach ($Name in $Names) { $FirstFilter = $Name.Username $pager=$name.'Primary Card Number' $found= Get-ADUser -Filter "cn -eq '$FirstFilter'" if($found){ $found|Set-ADUser -Replace @{pager = $pager} -Verbose } else { New-Object PSObject -Property @{ Username = $FirstFilter Status = 'MISSING ACCOUNT' } } } Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers

Thanks this is looking like a really good solution. I believe I can get Papercut to schedule a report so if I can get the PowerShell script working with this report I should be able in theory to fully automate this. As you say Salamander can do the rest and convert it to a Paxton format Hex2Dec and whack it into Net2. I will let you know how I get on and share any modifications. Cheers