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Re Konica: Never had problems with machines falling apart. During / since COVID toner ordering has been all over the place. Auto ordering seems not to match what we require even though we go and update the stock manually. Engineers can be a little moany and awkward. They tend not to replace certain consumables until they cause the machine to stop running - which is frustrating.

You could possibly knock some SQL up to get it all in one go - but given the structure of the tables, might be easiser to go down the report path.

You'll need to run it per dataset - and remember to include Leavers

Easiest method imho: Run Report, Right Click, Exporting, Export, Clipboard, Paste into Excel

Intially I was thinking about WOL and get the script to turn the computers on. Then maybe thinking you could use "Test-Connection PC345 -quiet" to check if the PC was online before trying the robocopy to that machine. But potentially this could mean the PC becomes "out of sync". Would it not be better if the PC itself pulled the latest versions of the files? Then if it is off, it can update itself immediately when next turned on?

Interestingly, can get to them via mobile (EE) - but not via Schoolsbroadband. Also, if you use some of the "is it up" websites - some report it up, some report it down.

Yeah - Vista (and PS V1) will be the issue.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63221996/script-runs-with-ise-but-not-powershell-exe

Dunno if this helps: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Power-Automate/New-Lines-in-excel-cell-does-not-support-in-Power-Automate/td-p/1657228 Previously I have used a command line program (Send-It-Quiet Command Line sendmail tool) with excel to construct the command to send emails, but that is probably quite archaic these days.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-policing-shot-through-with-chinese-surveillance-technology

Give the USB drive a unique label than then use this ? $DriveLetter = Get-Volume -FileSystemLabel 'UniqueLabel' | % DriveLetter

Potentially I would be interested in 3x places.

Always found password expiry wasn't that great - seemed to encourage people to use weaker passwords that were easier to increment. https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/passwords/updating-your-approach

I would be interested.

You may have to be more specific on your requirements. "SEND students" covers a wide spectrum of needs.

uBlock Origin and PiHole

Thanks, got that stuck in my head now

That is what Guest Pupil is for: "Children recorded as ‘G’ – guest (not a pupil at the school) will not be included in the census return."

Easiest "fix" for this is to make the NLA service dependant on the DNS service. (That is the Public vs Domain problem).

Ours was nine characters

I never really understood the naming conventions they chose. I just thought maybe someone had one to many drinks when they requested them Over time I imagine schools requested their own variants, which made it even worse, but as the short list below shows, there seems to be no logic. bldmerej.bham.sch.uk htcepa.bham.sch.uk sjw.bham.sch.uk stfranrc.bham.sch.uk stmgtmry.bham.sch.uk abbeyrc.bham.sch.uk stjosb7.bham.sch.uk There were quite a few "IT" variants, you may remember some of these (they were sold as "Ability Suite" bundles) then: Chart IT Count it Flowol2 Graph Plus Illuminatus v4.00 Junior PinPoint Magic Pencil Megapaint My World Paint it Paint Shop Pro 5 Project Costing Reveal it Script it Sensing Science Snakes & Ladders Superdisk SuperLogo Turtle it

It's not great, but perhaps set Touch as primary and try to use Fancy Zones in Power Toys to get apps to snap to "correct" monitor.

Gone off all GoTo products... https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2023/01/25/goto-admits-customer-cloud-backups-stolen-together-with-decryption-key/

There are probably free apps that'll do it, but our staff use https://printtosize.com/ and seem to get on ok with it.

I think this happened once ages ago - just restarted the server tbh and that fixed it.