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I need to export a shuffled playlist to a single audio file (pref WAV) with no gaps between tracks... Funny one I know! Any ideas or suggestions gratefully accepted

Tried these and the only one that works is the 'C' option (boot from disk) When I restart the machine , I get no 'chime' Could be that the HDD is in a state... Booting from disk , it won't allow me to wipe the disk / reinstall OSX. I'll bung in a blank drive - I'll either be able to install OS X or something is fried.

I've got an old MacBook Pro (probably 2009) that I've tried to upgrade to El Capitan. The Upgrade ran, the machine rebooted with a grey/white screen, an Apple logo & a status bar. The status bar gave random times that didn't match the time it was taking (which I understand) then after 24hrs , it stopped giving me any idea of time left .. and just stuck. Left it like that for another 24 hrs with no change. Have since rebooted (no change) I can restart and run from the original OS DVD and get into Utilities / terminal etc. I have read that my issues maybe due to 3rd party kext files. I know how to run a command that produces a list of all 3rd party kext files (using GREP) , can anyone advise me on the best way to move these files to a temp folder I've created. If anyone has any other ideas of how to rescue this Mac (without reformatting / starting again) I'm all ears NOTE : I don't have a time machine backup ... and I'm not that bothered. There's only a few files that I'm interested in and I know I can get them. I mainly want to have a play & see what I can do. I don't know that much about MAC's , so this has been a bit of fun.

More info : I create a Word 2016 Template & go to Design / Page Colour and set the background colour (light blue for example). I set font / font size Save in the mandatory profile I login as a user, open Word / Shared Docs and select the template. Fonts settings are as set, BG colour is now white. If I go to Design / Page Colour to check what the BG colour should be ... it's set correctly (light blue)!!!

Hi, I'm creating some templates to share with staff (made available through their mandatory profile in '\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates') Font/font size settings are fine but when a user opens the template the background colour that I set is not visible - template appears to have a white background instead. I'm sure this is something simple...

As an example; I know that I can add users in bulk from the interface by pasting a list of users like user1;user2;user3 etc BUT our usernames bare no resemblance to their actual names & the teacher wants all students to be listed with Class Notebook with their actual (forename surname) name. I can generate a csv with all of this info but is it possible to populate a Class Notebook with it using the API?

One of our teachers wants to start developing Class Notebooks for use across the school. I was hoping to do all the management (adding users from CSV etc) with Powershell but it looks like I have to use the API? Can anyone point me at some simple 'getting started' tutorials?

Hi, We've just started supporting a local primary. They run the free version of ESXi & two VMs. The want to replace the physical host & I think ... they may want me to sort everything out, keeping their costs down to a bare minimum (no extra licences , just a new server) I don't really know much about the free version of ESXi. I would imagine that I can run multiple Hosts with it on the same network but I wouldn't be able to migrate VM's from one to the other. Could I install the full version (60 day trial) on the new server, put the trial licence into the current host & migrate the machines over that way? If not... I'm open to suggestions!! I know there maybe nice ways of doing this if the school was prepared to spend an extra couple of bob ... but there's no spare bob in the kitty!

Think I'm sorted, just need to mail-enable the accounts without setting up an on-prem mail box Running this in Exchange should do the trick Enable-MailUser -Identity John -ExternalEmailAddress [email protected] As almost all of our users' mailboxes are now in the cloud, I guess I should really be thinking about killing the Exchange server / Hybrid config.

In case anyone is looking; the new staff have neither a legacyExchangeDN attribute value nor do they have an x500 proxy address. I believe this explains the above behaviour.. alltho' I'm not sure how to correct it!

Hi, With O365 & on-prem Exchange 2010 in a Hybrid config we successfully migrated all staff mailboxes to O365. New staff obviously don't have a mailbox to migrate, a mailbox is created within O365. We have several MFDs with a 'Scan-To-Email' function. This works by sending an email from the users email address to themselves. The MFD's point to the on-prem Exchange 2010. This doesn't appear to work for new staff. They get no emails. It looks like the request gets pushed through to Exchange 2010 but nothing happens. Looking at the staff members attributes in AD I saw that that the new staff had no 'target address' attribute value. I have added the correct setting (comparing it to accounts that do work) When the new staff now try to use 'Scan-To-Email' , emails are pushed out of the local Exchange to O365... and the user receives an email notification ( a bounce-back, including the scan-to-me email) saying that the email couldn't be delivered because the user is unknown! Reported error: 550 5.1.10 RESOLVER.ADR.RecipientNotFound; Recipient not found by SMTP address lookup I'm sure this is something simple, can anyone advise?

Sorry for dragging this old thread back to life... To answer AlanD more fully, yes we are using PPSK on the Aerohive. It's not an issue now because no one (almost!) is using the wifi. This is OK for limited use but not ideal for BYOD. I'm a bit further down the track than I was, at least in understanding the concepts I've created a test BYOD policy in the Aerohive This contains a BYOD SSID I'm going to push that down to a single WAP for testing purposes Binding the Aerohive to a RADIUS server seems easy enough (**!!!**) Setting the Smoothwall up as a RADIUS server doesn't seem that hard either... But I'm a bit confused about setting up the NPS role on a windows server Can I set it up on a DC?

Thanks for the tip, much appreciated

Hi, yes; we are installing the Office 2016 package & using the ODfB client

Hi, We have O365 & use Office 2016. Some of our office staff have started using the OneDrive for business Office 2016 app. When it works, it's great... unfortunately it seems quite erratic. At the moment (when I'm lucky) I can make a connection by: 1) Getting the member of staff to open an Office 2016 Application such as Word 2) Getting them to sign in and then close the application 3) Open their online O365/OneDrive and click the 'sync' button This is more than a bit 'round the houses' but it works... most of the time! One day it works on a machine, the next day (on the same machine) it wont, I get either 'cannot connect to this sharepoint site' or 'this site uses an unsupported protocol' messages. On the same machine, staff can log into any of the other Office 2016 apps without issue. Anyone else having similar issues?

Thanks for that. I'll need to dig into the Smoothwall documentation, figured that we might need to set up a Radius server.

Just out of interest : Is the GPO definitely being applied? (How are you checking this) Any error messages in the event viewer? Is your desktop GPO similar to mine or have you used a different approach? (I probably cribbed mine from something someone posted on this forum)

Is the GPO definitely being applied? Any error messages in the event viewer? Our GPO looks a bit like this User Configuration Admin Templates / Desktop / Desktop Allow only bitmapped wallpaper = enabled Desktop Wallpaper - path to wallpaper (c:\myDesktop.bmp) Enable Active Desktop = enabled Preferences Windows settings / Registry HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop Wallpaper\c:\myDesktop.bmp ** I don't know why we ended up dropping the path in twice, all I know is it works and has done for years. We also have a Computer / Startup script as part of this GPO, a simple one line bat file 'xcopy \\networkShare\myDesktop.bmp c:\windows /d' This copies the myDesktop.bmp file across if (a) it isn't already on the C drive or (b) it is on the C drive but the version of it is older than the one in the \\networkShare Like I say, working on Win7 machines for a couple of years. Plugged in some win 10 laptops (W10 EDU 1607) & it worked straight away.

We've just started rolling out a few Win 10 laptops, the GPO that pushed out the desktop background to our Win 7 machines, pushes it out to the laptops with no tinkering needed. We've also customised the start menu / tiles with a GPO & an .xml file & that works fine. To set that up I probably followed one of the links you posted (or something similar) Sounds like you are trying to do a bunch of things all at once, starting with your problem with changing the wallpaper (you do mean the desktop background? Just want to make sure we are talking about the same thing) (a) How are you trying to do it (b) How is it not working - what is happening? (no change to desktop? black screen?)

At a guess, here's what is happening. Traffic is pushed from the WAPs to a switch based on VLAN ID and the Switch pushes the traffic on to the gateway address for the VLAN. Because the proxy is transparent , no proxy info needs adding in the AeroHive management console. If we want to push the traffic through to Smoothwall, the change needs to be made on the switch (changing the gateway address to the Smoothwall IP) I'm just guessing here so please correct me! Once we figure this bit out the next thing will be HOW users connect. On the wired network, when a user logs in, their machine registers a token with Smoothwall which identifies them and ensures they get the correct filter settings. How will this work with the AeroHive? Does it need binding to AD? Currently it does not, users & their email addresses have been imported from a spreadsheet & are enabled for wifi use manually.

Hi, Apologies in advance if this causes anyone to pull out their hair. Last year we had an AeroHive wiFi system installed. Traffic is pushed through to our RM router which has a transparent proxy. Everything works. Now we need to set up our SmoothWall box but we don't know where to start. Smoothwall will be set up inline, internet traffic gets pushed to Smoothwall which pushes it through to the RM router. Adding SmoothWall means (for client PC's) changing the proxy address. We've tested this with PC's and it works fine. Where do we make this change in the AeroHive config manager? Is it as simple as that or are we missing something? The company who put the AeroHive in didn't exactly leave much in the way of documentation & I was away during the install ...

Hi, I'm having a play with O365 & the PowerShell auditing cmdlets. Does anyone know how accurate / up to date the auditing data is? Is it in 'real time' A Teacher has set up a Class Notebook for all staff and there is a link to it on all desktops (the link is "https://myschool-my.sharepoint.com/personal/username_my_domain/Documents/Staff" If I run this script $DocToAudit = "https://myschool-my.sharepoint.com/personal/username_my_domain/Documents/Staff" Search-UnifiedAuditLog -StartDate "1/1/2017" -EndDate "30/3/2017" -ObjectIDs $DocToAudit | Select UserIds, CreationDate I get data back... but it doesn't look like many staff are using it! I'm only really interested in who has accessed it, not necessarily uploaded a document or modified it. Am I querying for the wrong things?

Having a dig around and some this looks *easy enough*... To get started at least! I can run a PowerShell script to extract: SamAccountName, GivenName, Surname attributes of all users in an OU and store in a CSV file. I can fiddle with the data to make a new CSV (accountChange.csv) that has columns SamAccountName, NewSamAccountname, NewUPN, (SamAccountName is the identifier, NewSamAccountName is "GivenName" + "-" + " "Surname" & NewUPN is the same + "mydomain.com" Then this script will change the attributes ******************* # Import AD Module Import-Module ActiveDirectory # Import CSV into variable $userscsv $users = Import-Csv -Path C:\Scripts\accountChange.csv #Set OU $DistName = "OU=Test users,OU=Establishments,DC=mydomain,DC=internal" # Loop through CSV and update users if the exist in CVS file foreach ($user in $users) { #Search in specified OU and Update existing attributes Get-ADUser -Filter "SamAccountName -eq '$($user.samaccountname)'" -Properties * -SearchBase $DistName | Set-ADUser -SamAccountName $($user.NewSamAccountName) -UserPrincipalName $($user.NewUPN) -EmailAddress $($user.NewUPN) } ******************* This doesn't do any error checking (users with no listed givenname or surname, users with the same name etc) but what's really stuping me is changing the primary SMTP address in the proxyAddresses attribute... NOTE : I am testing this on test accounts in a test OU!

We have O365 in a hybrid config with on-pre Exchange 2010. This has been up and running for over a year with no issues. We have a number of photocopiers with 'scan-to-me' , a user scans a document & it is emailed to themselves. Today I have had two users complain that the emails are being pushed into there junk mail folders, the emails contain the legitimate O365/EOP message "This Sender Failed Our Fraud Detection Checks and May Not Be Who They Appear to Be" I've just done a scan-to-me test and it worked fine. This doesn't appear to be affecting all users & there is nothing unusual about the users that it is affecting, previously they could use scan-to-me with no problems. I've seen articles suggesting that this is an SPF issue... which I doubt because if it was , wouldn't that affect everyone? If anyone has any ideas, please let me know!

Our student users all have usernames (in AD, domain controllers are Server 2012 & 2008 R2) that conform to a naming system (a series of letters and numbers) - this was originally set up (years before I started) to give students some protection from random cyber bullying we have O365 in a hybrid config with our on-prem Exchange. Most students had their mailboxes migrated to O365, to get this to work as we wanted it to, we had to tweak two attributes in AD - 'UserPrincipalName' & 'ProxyAddresses' Note : I *think* we might have had to tweak one of those attributes because our domain/email address doesn't match our legacy local computer domain name SLT have decided that they want all student usernames /O365 email addresses changing to be the actual students name ... and they impatient for this to be done. I'm guessing that there will be powershell scripts / tools to enable me to do this but ... I'm mighty cautious... screwing up hundreds of AD accounts and by extension, hundreds of O365 accounts ... nightmare. Anyone had to do similar? Any tips ? (other than DON'T DO IT!)