jslate1980

I installed 50 unifi wireless ap’s at my school over the summer. At the same time I moved the schools filtering from Lightspeed to smoothwall. To get around the proxy I just set unify urls to bypass authentication. And so far it’s been able to pull the firmware updates to the controller.

Point them towards getmitm page on the smoothwall and get them to install it themselves. As it has instructions. Only instructions that are different from the page is Macs as you have to provide trust for the certificate.

Happy to say that I am sorted now. The county’s schools ict support have provided me with a solution at a very reasonable cost on lease til March. Which gives me time to check options while holding costs to next years budget.

Hi After working out yesterday that my email system was down. Turns out the schools lightspeed bottle rocket has died. Does anyone got any suggestions for a affordable alternative? Regards Jon

Have a look on the advanced support site as there is instructions on how to do this. I would pass a copy of the file but don’t have access anymore, as we moved to Bromcom in April. You will need a copy of the schools license key.

Depends on a support contract to replace the equipment after the 1 year warranty finishes. I am moving from Meraki to Unifi AC Pro’s over the summer. For under £5000 I have purchased 50 access points. Jon

Randomly I just bought this yesterday.

Already had prices back from the new company and the price looks like they have been locked in from the previous years pricing.

That’s what I thought. On the day of the 45 day renewal confirmation email, I filled in the change of reseller form and emailed the old company of my intentions to move. Today I received an email from previous company saying that I was obligated to continue the contract with them for the remainder.

I am interested to know is it possible to move a 3 year agreement to another supplier? Just I have 2 years left and I feel that the current company I use doesn’t understand the educational sector.

You are correct, without vlans I don't think it will work.

You could set a range of ip addresses not to need authentication on the rocket box, but apply a strict web filtering rule set on the ip range.

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That's correct. Looks like the author is looking at doing more in the series as well.

I don’t know about classroom based courses,but pluralsight has a new hp aruba video course. Which I enjoyed.

Hi I am currently looking for ways to save energy with hardware on site. I am putting a proposal together to replace a percentage of computers at my school with Intel Nuc’s. I am interested to get feedback from schools who have purchased these types of device. Also interested to know what you are using them for. Regards Jon

What relay did you end up using?

How are you installing it silently?

Are you using a support ticketing system for logging faults at the school? This may help get understanding on what types of fault are happening and how long it is taking to fix these faults.

Hi if a normal user tries to open it they get a "error 1324 the path my pictures is invalid". Looking at the autodesk forum they suggest redirecting the profile to the local drive by changing the registry keys. But this just sound daft to me.

Hi Has anyone been able to get autocad to work with users that have redirected my documents? Jon

Here is a screenshot of what I have put together for my school with the product. It is easy to use and you don't need to have any knowledge of html or css.

The link is here https://www.livetiles.nyc/mosaic-lp/ you need to sign up with your office 365 email. Once registered they send you the link to download.

Look at mosaic from https://www.livetiles.nyc. It’s free to schools and provides an easy way to create feature rich content. I built my school intranet using it and am impressed on what it can do.

Worked it out in the end. Created a batch script that runs in the task sequence to hide the files in default profile. attrib "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Steps Recorder.lnk" +s +r +h attrib "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Windows Fax and Scan.lnk" +s +r +h attrib "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Remote Desktop Connection.lnk" +s +r +h attrib "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Windows Ease of Access" +s +r +h attrib "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Settings.lnk" +s +r +h attrib "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Immersive Control Panel.lnk" +s +r +h attrib "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessibility" +s +r +h attrib "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools" +s +r +h attrib "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools" +s +r +h attrib "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Windows PowerShell" +s +r +h attrib "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools\Command Prompt.lnk" +s +r +h attrib "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools\Devices.lnk" +s +r +h attrib "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools\Run.lnk" +s +r +h attrib "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools\Default Programs.lnk" +s +r +h attrib "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools\Control Panel.lnk" +s +r +h attrib "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WinX\Group2\Control Panel.lnk" +s +r +h attrib "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WinX\Group2\Task Manager.lnk" +s +r +h attrib "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WinX\Group2\run.lnk" +s +r +h attrib "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WinX\Group3" +s +r +h attrib "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo\Compressed (zipped) folder.lnk" +s +r +h attrib "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo\Fax recipient.lnk" +s +r +h attrib "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo\Mail recipient.lnk" +s +r +h