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A quick update on this... I worked with the customer on this, and about 15mins after this post - on checking in the Google domain myself - the groups had imported via GADS; and were displaying in Google mail. Some latency in cloud services is inevitable - particularly as each of the Google Apps seems to have a different "pickup schedule" for imported objects. The Teachers of groups is a large number of objects to enumerate - which could account for this. Stuart SalamanderSoft

Thanks for the lovely feedback guys. It is much appreciated

Following up on this there is a further license SKU available for Alumni - specifically Exchange (EXCHANGESTANDARD_ALUMNI) - which a number of our customers use. We have just swapped the license over for their leavers; which preserves their mailbox - and the school let the pupils know. I don't see why changing the suffix too should present an issue. They can then keep using the same mailbox - even if the license applied to it, or actual mail addresses change. Stuart SalamanderSoft

+1 for Capita hosted. Used it myself; databases are stored in Azure. All UK based. It depends on the size of your school, size of your it team, and reliability of internet. There are lots of ways of providing external access - going hosted is one way, apps is another, or if you still go local, I know lots who have RDP/Remote App access.

Definitely what @witch said. Force the machine offline. Manually copy off. Ive seen this go horribly wrong, and trying to restore aftwards with the CSC commands is not fun.

Hi Steve. Have you dropped our support team a message, as I cant see this. I suspect the issue is oversized (file size) images as AD and Office 365 have different limits. Sometimes even a dimensions resize isn't enough, its the pixel depth. Get in touch (see the website support page for details) and we will take a look for you Stuart

The Windows 8 version of the App does not run on Windows Phone. At the moment, the Phone and PC versions of Windows use different App Stores and operate differently. Of course, this is different on Win 10 - where they are of course now unified with Universal Apps. I suspect then (scaling issues aside) that the App might then work on Windows Mobile 10 as well as Windows 10.

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More info Introducing Microsoft School Information Sync - Microsoft UK Schools blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

I do believe this is what you are referring to? https://sis.microsoft.com/ This is not a Capita thing - it is an Open Standard being worked on by Microsoft with all the MIS providers. As we were mentioned - yes, Salamander can be used for Groups and Users management in both Office 365 and Google Apps environments.

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I guess that figures really, as they are completely different systems. Thankfully, I wasn't subscribed to any...

That's what happens when everyone tries to use it all at once. Same kind of thing happens on ticket release days for events...remember seeing this a lot when booking Olympics or Rugby World Cup tickets

The FAQs tell you that all user uploads need to be attached to cases now

To answer some other questions which there were regarding the Teacher App, Office 365 integration for credentials is being released tonight

Interesting. Ive been using it since January - and I wouldn't have said any of the icons are too small...are you using it on a mini or full size ipad? Most of the actions are swipe based not icon driven so Im not sure what you are seeing here? It might be worth doing some monitoring on your internet connectivity and your databases, as Im using a cloud hosted db not a local in school db - and ive not seen the connectivity issues you have. At the end of the day, the data source is your SIMS db. In terms of what opens and what doesn't - essentially - pupils are tap to select in all sub menus which you choose from swipe left/right depending on where you have docked the menu. The thee lines, consistently across most modern apps also opens the menu. Ive not noticed the menu disappear after choosing your option (attendance etc) except for when you start selecting pupils - when you then get the option block appropriate to the area you are in. The square to lines is the big photos to small photos option on pupils. As this thread has got pricing in it - Ive posted the full pricing on my blog https://thescarfedone.wordpress.com/2015/02/28/sims-teacher-app-hands-on-and-reviewed/

I fail to understand why you would want the App (which incidentally is iOS, Android and Windows Modern) to auth to AD. The point is that this is for use outside as well as inside the classroom. Now, before people start - I do not work for Capita, I am an independent journalist when it comes to my interactions there. Having attended a number of high level Microsoft events lately, and Im sure @EduTech will back me up with this, Azure AD (aka the auth behind Office 365) is the way things will be going. Windows 10 supports Azure AD auth from the initial logon - and all those schools using Office 365, guess what - that will bring SSO. So, the real story here is that by leveraging the Google and Microsoft Cloud logins - you are allowing users to keep using familiar credentials. At the moment, that will be gmail and Microsoft Accounts. I see no reason why the Google login (correct me if Im wrong @PhilNeal) couldn't be a GADS account. The same Im sure will be true of Office 365 once Microsoft sort out the issue that Capita have. Also...think outside the current "Teacher" version... there would in theory be future scope for a pupil, parent, governor etc versions. How would you get those "linked" to a device - which definitely wont be a School owned device? The freedom is that the device for the teacher doesn't need to be a School owned device either. Parents etc also wouldn't have local credentials. Let them use the same cloud logins - as already is the case with Agora. Why reinvent the wheel?

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