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Hi All, I have just installed Xibo as per the following community guide - https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/xibo-step-by-step-installation-iis-8-5-on-windows-server-2012/9878/16 (I understand this isn't a supported method so hoped someone on here could help!). The only difference is I'm on Server 2016 with IIS 10 but other than that the same. When trying to save/apply settings within the web UI (for example, approving my first display), the cog appears at the side of the save button and just spins, never actually saving / applying. I've looked around their forums and can find people with similar issues however generally in different environments (Linux/Docker environments). With others, it's been fixed by either permissions or they've found an error in a log which has lead to a fix. However I'm getting no errors that I can see, and as a test I've set the XIBO and PHP directories to everyone full control but still getting the error. I believe a couple of people on here us Xibo so any info or advice anyone could offer would be appreciated. Cheers

Bizarrely, that fixed it immediately for us - we blamed it on poor print drivers as we'd had new copiers installed around the same time and didn't think it'd be the ISP/Filtering. Silly question, but you've definitely also ticked the "bypass proxy for local addresses" box in internet settings too? Might be worth speaking to RM support about it - sounds like it might be common issue and they might have a quick answer...

We had a similar problem at a school that moved to RM Broadband - adding our IP range into the bypass local addresses list in IE fixed it for us.

Assuming it's for a contact form, I read this supports Joomla 2.5 and recaptcha 2. http://www.ext-joom.com/en/extensions/ext-simple-contact-form-module.html Not sure if simply using that extension is quite what you're looking for ?

Hi All, Firstly, I've seen the sticky but seems slightly out of date - as are the other posts I can find on Edugeek and elsewhere so hoping someone could offer some info / advice? We currently have a suite of 15 macs - running (I believe) OSX Sierra, and a mac server running the same version of OSX with the server add-on. Currently, they're configured (albeit, patchyily) in the old Magic Triangle setup, linking OD to AD however I'm under the understanding that's the old way to go about things. We're looking for a better way to configure the macs to allow login via AD authentication, and allow the users to have access to their Windows home folders and shared drive on the macs too. However we still need the ability to be able to push policies out to the macs too. Can anyone offer any advice? The best way to go / links to some relevant information. https://support.apple.com/kb/PH26282?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US - I've found this which has some info, but not being a mac expert (or user) I think I'm going to need a bit more of a guide or at least more info on the matter. I think the last time I did anything in depth related to macs was when we first set these up a few years ago. Anything at all is appreciated, 3rd party tools will also be considered too. Cheers

This is the issue... There are approx 3 teachers per year group and 2 classrooms. The 3rd teacher tends to float a bit, so it'd be a matter of installing it for at least 50 staff on twice as many machines. Considering the nature of the software, I'd have thought MS would've released a proper multi-user installation option in the form of an MSI.

From memory, I don't think photorec had many options, however it's probably a few years since i used it so might be thinking of another tool - However just thought I've used Recuva in the past too - https://www.piriform.com/recuva - not often had a lot of luck with it but might also be worth a try if you haven't already

This may have to be the plan for now. The problem we have is that some people aren't using it when we have a shortcut to the website on the desktop currently - it was hoped by pushing out the desktop client and having launch at startup would prompt them to use it more.

How have people rolled out Teams to computers? I've tried with a simple powershell script as a logon script but it just errors out. I'm yet to start searching through event logs just wondered if anyone had a suggestion?

It's my favourite tool - armed with this, it usually results in copious amounts of cider/wine/chocolate bern brought as a thank you for saving hours and hours of work.

Have you tried minitool power data recovery? https://www.powerdatarecovery.com/ - My go to for this sort of thing. Free version only allows you to recover 1GB, but if the data is worth trying to recover it might be worth paying for... There are a few of options on it, however in your case I'd try both Lost partition recovery and damaged partition recovery.

Thanks! I have had to add -proxy "http://censornet:8080" to the Invoke-WebRequest to put the command via the proxy (the server the script runs from has a direct connection to the web). I'm unable to simulate any real issues with the proxy during the day, however trying to connect to a page that doesn't exist gets me a 404 error (as you'd expect) and no email. This isn't an issue if the script will work as wanted when the proxy is having issues however so I'll try after school today. Thanks again!

I've made a few changes after reading a blog about someone trying to achieve the same thing (wish I'd saved the link!), however I'm unable to get it working as I'd expect. The script is: #If connection to censornet succeeds (change proxy name from PROXYSERVER below if needed) if(Test-Connection -Cn PROXYSERVER -BufferSize 16 -Count 4 -ea 0 -quiet) #Then run connection test via PROXYSERVER { #Set proxy and download URL (change proxy details in first line if needed. URL can also be changed if needed.) $proxy = new-object System.Net.WebProxy("PROXYSERVER:8080") $WebClient = new-object System.Net.WebClient $WebClient.proxy = $proxy $url = "http://www.microsoft.com" $content = $WebClient.DownloadString($url) #If download URL connection is OK, exit. if ($content -ne 0){“PROXY IS UP - NO MESSAGE SENT”} #Else, email with error (Change to and from if necessary, as well as site name and SMTP server) else {Send-MailMessage -To "[email protected]" -From "[email protected]" -Subject "CHECK PROXY" -SmtpServer smtp.domain.com} } #Else send the email (Change to and from if necessary, as well as site name and SMTP server) ELSE {Send-MailMessage -To "[email protected]" -From "[email protected]" -Subject "CHECK PROXY" -SmtpServer smtp.domain.com} The aim this time is to ping the proxy server, if it doesn't respond to send an email. If it does respond, the aim is to connect to a http URL, then again if no error is returned do nothing, if an error is returned to again send an email. The above is pretty much what I found someone on a blog using, and they claimed they'd had it working - people commenting saying it was working etc... The only changes I've really made is added the else commend commands to be an email rather than creating a log and have removed authentication for the proxy. When the script runs on Microsoft.com, it runs as I'd expect returning the "PROXY IS UP - NO MESSAGE SENT" on screen, however if I try it against a random URL (simulating a failed connection) it returns a 503 error within the powershell windows and then again displays the "PROXY IS UP - NO MESSAGE SENT" message. Any thought's on what needs to change? The idea is if any error is returned when connecting to the URL, it'll ping an email off rather than just display the error on screen. Cheers

Although I'm yet to try this via a script over a site, I did the same as you except changed permissions to %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe on my personal machine to deny all for everyone (you'll need to take ownership first) and it hasn't returned. I made the assumption it reinstalled from the exe periodically or with Windows Updates... May just be a fluke that it hasn't reinstalled yet for me.

Running update-help in PS when proxy is set in IE but unavailable, results in the command timing out. The command works fine directly when the proxy isn't available which must mean the proxy only applies to HTTP requests. For some reason I was of the impression the test-connection command worked differently to a ping command but it doesn't seem to be the case unfortunately. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/reference/5.1/microsoft.powershell.management/test-connection

So further research and testing shows that powershell pulls proxy settings from IE on launch and sticks with these. https://sites.google.com/site/softwaretechforge/Downhome/Programminglanguage/sethttpproxydoesntworkinpowershell A quick way to get around this would be to change the IE proxy settings via batch/ps script first and then launching the powershell script afterwards, however test-connection and ping still don't go via the proxy. Is it possible to run test-connection or ping via proxy if you have direct access to the web? Unfortunately my Google powers are failing me tonight

I've got a script which is testing a connection to a URL from a server that has a direct unfiltered (no proxy) web connection - however I'm trying to test the connection to the URL via a proxy. I've got the powershell script working nicely, and if the server can't connect to the URL when the powershell runs it fires off an email. The issue I'm having is that I need to be able to set a proxy in powershell, in which the connection to the URL will fail if the proxy isn't available. I've tried setting my proxy using netsh winhttp set proxy PROXYSERVER:8080 and when I run netsh winhttp show proxy It shows the proxy as being set correctly. However when I run my script and the proxy isn't available, powershell still connects to the URL directly. The script I'm running is pretty simple: "Test Connection via Proxy" #If connection to domain.com succeeds if(Test-Connection -Cn domain.com -BufferSize 16 -Count 4 -ea 0 -quiet) #Then exit {“PROXY IS UP - NO MESSAGE SENT”} #Else send the email ELSE {Send-MailMessage -To "[email protected]" -From "[email protected]" -Subject "CHECK PROXY" -SmtpServer smtp.domain.com} But here's what I want to achieve with it but have had no success so far (the email sends whether or not the proxy server is actually there): SET PROXY "Test Connection via Proxy" #If connection to domain.com succeeds if(Test-Connection -Cn domain.com -BufferSize 16 -Count 4 -ea 0 -quiet) #Then exit {“PROXY IS UP - NO MESSAGE SENT”} & REMOVE PROXY #Else send the email ELSE {REMOVE PROXY & Send-MailMessage -To "[email protected]" -From "[email protected]" -Subject "CHECK PROXY" -SmtpServer smtp.domain.com} Hope that makes sense. If anyone has a quick fix to get this to work it'd be great! Cheers

For a minute I was wondering if Doris was an acronym of some sort, relating to the users...

I've not even considered that... Depends what version of office they're on but not been to see his current setup yet, just trying to get some ideas together. Ah, the LogMeIn Hamachi looks like just the tool - well price and free for up to 5 users too. Cheers

They're currently using OneDrive, but are finding it to be a little unreliable in terms of the sync, sometimes failing or taking longer to sync that expected - resulting in people overwriting each others files.

Hi All, Sorry if this is in the wrong category, I wasn't really sure where it best fit. I'm looking for some recommendations of some VPN software that doesn't rely on the router or a static IP for remote access. Basically, something like the Teamviewer VPN, where you have a client running at each end and it goes via the companies own cloud servers to negotiate a route to setup the VPN connection (but hopefully not as costly). The reason for this is a friend is running a small business from a shared office, that has a single shared business connection. He has no access to configure the router to setup a VPN using something like a draytek router so that solution is out of the question unfortunately as he also refuses to put his own broadband in. They want to be able to access mapped drives remotely, that are running from a workstation as they don't have a server / domain in place. I've come across this NeoRouter :: Mesh but it's not something I've used or come across before, so hoped someone on here had used something similar in the past? Any recommendations appreciated. Cheers

I believe they came from the RM support site... They must have had the contract I guess if that's the case.

Maybe I'm wrong - but I'm sure a couple of my old CC3 sites received updates and didn't pay a support contract. Unless they were paying it and I just wasn't aware of the fact.

No requirement what-so-ever AFAIK. I've supported a few CC3/CC4 sites and we've never had a contract with RM alongside.

I know people who swear by iFunbox | the File and App Management Tool for iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch. - however IME it's full of adware, and litters your computer with cr*p. Does the job, however not sure how far I'd trust it personally. Might be worth checking out if you're stuck for anything else though.