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yes but a 1G+ powerpoint, mp4, pdf is not unusual. we need to privide a solution for staff opening these from OneDrive, they can't take many minutes to open...

Hello, we are interested in moving user files to OneDrive, but dont want to use the OneDrive sync tool due to some bad experiences of nearby schools. Cloud Drive Mapper (Maps local drives to OneDrive) has been recommended to give users a familiar and simple experience of accessing their OneDrive folders. However their current release is fine for small files but large (e.g.1GB PDF's) take literally minutes to open. Can anyone suggest an alternative/similar solution which will cope with large files?

last thing with the wildcard in place I need to put a get-item so there's an actual file path to work with later on $FilePath = Get-Item "‘C:\program files*\1.txt" $DesiredVersion = '999.999' then I get the version of the file # Get the version from the computer If(Test-Path $FilePath) { $Version = [system.diagnostics.fileversioninfo]::GetVersionInfo($FilePath).FileVersionRaw } else { # File not found, set version to 0 $Version = '0.0.0.0' } but it it now not setting $Version = '0.0.0.0' if the path is not found, it just errors with "Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Path' because it is null" a minor tweak required, can anyone advise?

Another thought that as the actual paths are a file in either Program files Or Program files (x86) I could just use a Wild card in the test-path command? If (test-path ‘C:\program files*’) Much easier?

Hello, I’m trying to achieve this in powershell, getting stuck with logic. If (test path c:\1.txt) { Do something 1} If (test path c:\2.txt) { Do something 2} Else {do something 3} The trouble is that it’s always running ‘do something 3’ as one of the if statements is always not satisfied. How can I get this to only run the else if neither file exists? Easy surely..

I have run through the Smart Install manager, opening the MSI, turning off a few things etc but with the gallery content/lesson toolkit folder (which I want just on a network share \\server\apps\smart\gallery) is making the install error: 'error 1961 - Gallery content not found' Can someone please help with the network folder for the gallery content/lesson toolkit. There are 2 folders from the download: SMARTGalleryEssentials SMARTLessonActivityToolkit but only 1 path in the smart install manager do I just copy contents of both folders to a single network folder? the guide talks about doing something with an administrative install point... Thanks

do you manage these staff smart logins via some kind of admin interface or just let them get on with it?

Ive install v22 and it looks fine. I seem to be able to create/read notebook files. am i in some sort of trial? there are options to purchase subscription so its obvs the free version. why would anyone want to pay for that if you can create new files with the free version?

Hello, does anyone know the current situation with a free version of Smart. We dont have any boards, we dont want to pay any money, but we need to cater for new staff coming in with Smart content from other school that they would like to use. I can only find a Smart21 download which talks about free trials. We dont want a trial, nor any nagging....Is that even possible? What are the limits of this free version. Thanks

can you elaborate on this please? any links? Thanks

I spoke to our licensing people who said as we still have 1 year left on our OVS licensing. Although Office365 would install fine users would be limited to their 5 device limit. Presumably getting error messages on the 6th device. You need the newer EES licensing to have the device based licensing....

Thanks for all the replies, I am leaning towards Office365. As for the SSO licensing requirement I suppose for the odd non-domain laptop we setup for events, loans etc I will have to have a separate 2021 install?

Doesn’t 365 do KMS and MAK licensing? Why do you think it’ll be a pain?

Hello, deciding what our upgrade from Office 2019 should be - Office365 or 2021. As far as I can see they are almost identical (?), we already have volume licensing paid annually but 365 seems to be a 'perpetual upgrade' version, so no major reinstalls to worry about ever again. That seems like the best option just based on that? Any thoughts? Our move to OneDrive for user and curriculum folder is imminent if that impacts the decision. SIMS STILL doesn't support anything over 2019...why? May have to think about that too...will it affect support calls? Thanks for any ideas.

Hey Danwinchelsea so you have Curriculum (Hub site) Staff (Site connected to hub) Geography (Document Library - Read Only) Volcanoes (Folder - Write) Rivers (Folder - Write) Towns (Folder - Write) I still don't really see how you reproduce the NTFS permission of 'Deny/Delete/This folder only' to stop renaming top level folders, unless you set individual permissions on all the folder e.g. Volcanoes, Rivers, Towns etc. Could you please send a few screenshots? be really helpful..

ah OK, users can't rename the site, hence the cant rename the folder? How do you present all your sub sites to the students in a single interface, like an old school folder (curriculum) with subfolders (the subjects). Maybe that is not the way?

Hello, we want to move our shared curriculum resource folders (French, History, Geography etc) to OneDrive. I am thinking just to have a new site called 'Curriculum Resources' and folders in the Site Contents section. Seems simple enough but how do you stop staff renaming the top level folders, they can do whatever within the folders but we don't want 'French' to be renamed for example. Maybe there's a better solution using Teams where there's a 'French Teachers' Team, and only they have write access to their connected site folders, all other staff have read. would that prevent the folder rename issues. mmm, what to do.

I changed the AD path yes, $ADUsers: returns lots of users. UserPrincipalName is indeed an email address in the form external domain $CSVUsers: First Last Email ----- ---- ----- Jay Brown [email protected] Mark Aman [email protected] Thanks

why does this return nothing for $ADUsersfromCSV? $ADUsers = get-aduser -SearchBase "OU=Students,DC=school,DC=com" -Filter {enabled -eq $true} $CSVUsers = Import-Csv 'D:\User_Export.csv' $ADUsersfromCSV = $ADUsers | where {$_.UserPrincipalName -like $CSVUsers.Email}

thanks, why do you need the $name = $line.name?

Hello, in PowerShell I want to import a csv, e.g.: name, email james, [email protected] mark, [email protected] then from the imported .csv 'email' field I want to get the corresponding AD users can someone please help?

awesome thanks

sorry I dont understand the COLOR use. the csv is e.g. first,last pete,white james,cook I want to end up with first,last,role pete,white,staff james,cook,staff sounds easy. Thanks

I have a simple Q for you. I want to add a column to an existing csv, then in that column add the same data to all cells. Can someone please send me a PowerShell idea. Thanks

Hello, we want to get a hardware solution to print our ID badges directly onto our Mi-Fare cards (which we use for user ID on printers, signin etc). - 1 sided colour printing - User photo/Name/Role - Software to create templates - Mi-Fare compatibility so the card numbers can be automatically written back to a spreadsheet? - SIMS integration (doubt this is possible) Can anyone please recommend anything please?