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Hello, I am looking at disabling 'Editor' too, we use Office365. I have the Office2016 Fluent UI Command Identifiers (can't find a 365 version specifically) but there is not an option for 'WritingAssistanceCheckDocument' or a 'Policy ID' of 27964. Have I missed something? Maybe there's a 365 version that I should find?

hello, can anyone recommend a CCTV (.mp4 format) redaction software. We are being asked to regularly produce redacted footage for multiple individual students in a group. Any ideas for something simple/clever/intuitive? Thanks

Hello, the powers that be want a 2 min delay on all sent emails. I can see how to advise users to individually set a mail rule in Outlook 365 installed version (no chance) or Set 'Undo Send' to 10 seconds in Outlook 365 web (but there seems to be no option in the installed version that all staff use) but is there a global way for IT to set it by GPO or via the Exchange Admin Centre or something

Hi, I am trying to install Flowgorithm. It comes with an MSI but even once installed when a user starts the software it says: “The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable.” It wants to install some stuff to the user profile maybe..? I don't want to make the deploy folder accessible to users. Has anyone installed this successfully, maybe there's a way to make it 'full' install or something?

oh, thanks.. that's kind of disappointing! Looking at a users get-mailboxconfiguration the font is currently set as: DefaultFontName : Calibri DefaultFontSize : 3 The font in a new email is Calibri 12, is there something funny with the DefaultFontSize setting?

Hello, we use a mix of the installed version of Outlook 365 and the web version. I have been tasked with setting the default font for all new/reply emails (!)..Research shows that it is not possible in the web version, and there may be some reg hack for the full installed version. I know soon there will be a web version, but I need some weight to my argument of how pointless/difficult (or not) this is. Anyone setting default font in Outlook?

I like the idea but...do you have loads of student 365 licenses, or doesn't it really get affected that much? There is probably also a Q mark over data retention rules, if a student leaves in Y7 would you keep their 365 data until they would have been in Y13?

Hello, does anyone have this behaviour. 1. A student is attending school and has a 365/OneDrive account 2. The student leaves to go abroad/another school, the account gets deleted as usual. 3. The student returns and gets readmitted 4. The account gets recreated but OneDrive is inaccessible as it seems they connect to their old account or the old user account of the same name is connected to their new account. A Microsoft backend issue but they don't seem to really have a plan or a fix... Thoughts?

thanks, saved me a logic headache..

Hi, a simple Q: I can list all mailboxes starting with 22xxxxx or 21xxxxxxxx with this -like filter: Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | where-object { $_.Name -like "22*" -or $_.Name -like "21*"} but to get the opposite, excluding all mailboxes containing 22xxxxx or 21xxxxxxxx I thought just to use -notlike, but it returns all the mailboxes. Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | where-object { $_.Name -notlike "22*" -or $_.Name -notlike "21*"} Any advice would be great. Thanks

Is that for all users, or one of a Microsoft 'pay for staff and get students free'? We have 1700 users - still quite a chunk...

Hello, I have been quoted £26 per device per year for Intune licensing. Just about manageable for our 100 or so laptops, but for schools who have moved all devices to Intune for device management, with say 600 devices, are you really paying £15,600 a year JUST for Intune licensing? Maybe I am missing a trick here....

To conclude, there is no way to force a user to sign in with a managed Apple ID or prevent them signing out of this and signing in with a personal Apple ID in the future?

Thanks, I did read this the other day and in the olden days of Airwatch there was a ‘device assigned’ checkbox, but in Intune I don’t think there is. Is it just a matter of publishing the app to a device group (rather than user group)? I thought portal apps had to be assigned to user groups….

I have a related Apple ID question if anyone can help? I have created federated Apple ID's for staff, when I reset an iPad it (according to the configuration profile) it asks the user to sign in with 365, but then it also asks to sign into their Apple ID (and they can sign out of this in the future if they like) we tell them to enter their school Apple ID but I thought the idea was to prevent completely users entering personal Apple ID's. Is there no way to force the school Apple ID and prevent future user changes?

That's a shame, I thought the whole idea of the company portal was to be able to publish Apps for users to install, so we have control of what gets installed. We already use the VPP but that tends to push Apps to whole groups rather than individual staff requests for Apps.

They are clicking in the company portal: "This Apple ID is not allowed to make purchases" They are free Apps - BBC News etc. I don't have any profiles connected to that iPad that would restrict App purchasing.

I’ve added an App to our Intune iOS company portal, assigned to a staff user group, but the user gets a message they are not allowed to install apps when they select it. So, how do we manage users Apps, allow users to install them from the portal, but not giving them freedom to install anything they like?

Has anyone had any luck excluding My SIMS Documents and tempSimsRpt from the OneDrive sync using GPO 'Exclude specific kinds of files from being uploaded' and wildcards e.g. tempSimsRpt* Surely if they never sync, SIMS will always use the C:\Users version and work happily?

Yes we are a secondary ~1500 students. We are struggling to see differences. Does one have a better finance package option? Are their support options good? I can't wait to leave SIMS behind personally, they just don’t seem to be able to keep up and seem unwilling to even try.

Admin are also looking to change that. But we currently use Civica which is also terrible.

We are (like most schools) investigating moving away from SIMS as an MIS. There seems to be 2 big players - Arbor and Bromcom both which we have had demos of. What were the factors that made you choose one over the other? Bromcom looks more mature but slightly less pretty, and with Arbor we would have to use a 3rd party timetable creation process (Timetabler probably), basically they seem to promise the same things. Our main drives to move are: A cloud MIS SIMS ££ Consolidate into the MIS all our various systems parent mail absence call room bookings parents evenings sisra data analytics classcharts (behaviour) staff absence manager Bluesky CPD (maybe) any thoughts would be great. Thanks

I have the PowerShell working for me, but as far as I can see the user who will be running the script (an exams staff) will need 'SharePoint Admin' rights to Connect-SPOService. This is not an option... Any ideas?

this explains it, but it would be nice for education to be able to bypass this on student accounts....harmful content, child protection blah blah etc etc https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/troubleshoot/search/search-private-content

I find it does search the users OneDrive, but it only returns in the results files that have been shared in some way (Shared to anyone, not me specifically).