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Thanks, adding that way was what I was thinking earlier, and is probably makes the most sense, and the recording idea is also good, hadn't thought of that , thanks!

Hello, a teacher wants to observe lessons being taught using Teams, what's the best way for them to achieve this, make them a member of any/all of the dozens of class subject Teams, and this is a manual process I suspect as I'd have to do this, ie they can't do it themself......or is there another way to achieve this observation via Teams...? Have others done this ? Any thoughts on this or recommendations gratefully received.

I always find it's not the system but the physical process of lending....I used to have to lend out only 13 laptops and 8 ipads at one point but it was a complete pain. You are just walking out of your office and teacher/student wants x number of laptops/ipads...then something always interrupts you phone/another customer whilst logging what laptop with whom.....student/teacher returns 5 mins later and meets you in corridor "this laptop/ipad is not logging in/needs charging" ...can I have a charger....back you walk to your office...give replacement or charger.....then some time later 6 laptops are handed to you whilst you are once again heading off to somewhere else....or they are sub lent to another teacher and you have to track them down, and the chargers are missing even though you have told SLT that this shouldn't happen.... and this happening throughout the day everyday....and then being told...its so easy to keep track just jot it down.....hmmm.....Lending is best avoided in my opinion.

Same here, called to someone today who wanted to download doc attachment from email in chrome, wouldn't work...nothing happens but works in IE. No changes, previously worked fine.

As I've thought all along it's a waste of time. My analogy is this, it's like having a smoke alarm in your house that may, or may not go off when smoke is detected, (or it may not go off until smoke is too thick to survive), or it may still go off when there is no smoke and no fire.........I wouldn't bother using it !

Yes the Office Removal tool (scrub) is what I used, although I used it in auto mode not manual. I think I'm just going to re-image....

Hello This week I uninstalled Office 2010 on two PCs, using the Microsoft Office Removal tool reporting it successful. I then deployed Office 2016 all good. However the PC continues to pick up just 5 Windows Office 2010 updates dated last May, nothing from earlier or more recent, strange. It seemingly installs them, (from the list of installed updates) although when it shows installing updates it doesn't actually progress through them one at a time as it normally does. (all Office 2016 updates installed fine). But then immediately says the same five updates need installing...aaagh! Has anyone got any suggestions on how I can stop this happening, or am I going to have to just re-image afresh to deploy 2016 I have WSUS set up which works fine. Thanks

In the last week or two I have come across a couple of classroom PCs that were playing up, wouldn't start, anyway got them going all fine, however when I went into the BIOS the screen has changed colour, it is now monochrome (see attached) this may mean nothing but it is not something I have seen before, just odd, (they were definitely blue before) is there a setting to make it blue again and I am just concerned that maybe a student is upto no good. The BIOS is password protected. The two PCs were of the same type. The settings all seem identical and PCs now work fine.

I should have updated earlier, netsh winhttp reset proxy , ie no proxy, was the answer, as there was a proxy setting in there previously although I am still at a loss as to what populated it...but all working now.

Hello all. In the last two weeks our County provider has changed the internet provider, we now go through RM Notify. I noticed this week that the PCs hadn't done any Monthly updates , whilst looking through the WSUS console I could see that no clients had communicated with the WSUS server since the exact time of the switch over to RMnotify (2.00pm on a school day, 10 days ago), up untill that point PCs had been communicating throughout the day and only stopped the minute of the change-over. Synchronisations of the server are working fine and I can see a number of updates from this Tuesday, so the server is connecting fine with the outside world, but not with the clients. I have added the WSUS server as an exception in proxy settings but this makes no difference, I have tried running this command 'http:///iuident.cab' but nothing shows, so clearly a connection problem. This must have something to do with the change-over but I am at a loss now what, and what to try....any ideas ? Thanks

We are a Server 2012R2 and Win 7 domain. I am in the process of deploying some new Windows 10 PCs. So therefore will be a mixed environment. I will need to add the latest 1703 Windows 10 admx to PolicyDefinitions central store on the 2012 DC. My question is will this overwriting of any current admx with same name knock any GPO settings out, or any other possible adverse effect. I am understandably cautious with importing so many templates that overwrite others. Thanks in advance.

Many thanks to Pete above, Basically our network covers the first three points, do other NMs do much Log Analysis as described above...We are only a small special school of 100+ so users, with just me running things network-wise, my knowledge of Log Analysis software (other than Windows server events etc) (as described above) is zero....

Hello, A member of SLT has approached me with a document from the National Cyber Security Centre titled "10 Steps to Cyber security" in One of the steps it includes the following "Protect your networks from attack. Defend the network perimeter. Filter out unauthorised access and malicious content. Monitor and test security controls. Analyse logs that could indicate an attack." He has then said how does this apply to our network ? I am really not sure how to answer this. We have our Internet connectivity provided by our County Suppliers, this will include Firewall. I am currently awaiting details of exactly what is involved at County before stuff hits the school network. However we have no ability ourselves to monitor and test security controls and log files. Should we have this in place ourselves or is that more for the County suppliers to do ? I would be grateful if anyone can help me with this.

Great...that worked. Thanks

Hello In the summer term I added a new Synology DS216se to the network, created a couple of folders mainly to store archived work. All was fine, and over several days copied many GBs of work to it. After returning from the summer break I now cannot connect to the NAS through explorer, ie previously I did Run, \\synology\archive and it connected, but now after an age it asks for domain user name and password, which I provide but then tells me it's wrong anyway.....I can connect fine to the nas via ip address in browser and log in that way. I have not made any changes to the NAS, and other than filling in Domain credentials didn't really make any changes to synology on first set up, ie defaults. I am at a loss as to what may be the problem. I have re-started the NAS, and nothing really seems to stand out problem-wise. Any advice gratefully received.