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Hi All I wonder if anyone can help or advise. We currently have sync between O365 and on-premise AD using Azure AD connect. We will soon be having a new server and system set up, so I am wondering if it will be good time to disconnect the dir-sync, on a permanent basis. We are only a small school so creating new users twice, once in AD then 0365 is not a problem, same with any password syncing. My question is , is it straight forward to remove/disconnect AD sync ? I have done a google search which seems to show it is. However if anyone has any advice , eg are there any 'gotchas' I need to be aware of . Thanks in advance.

Hello I am in the process of setting up spiceworks help desk. I have installed the software and am now trying to log in, there is a message saying unable to connect to spiceworks, this is at the stage of logging in with username and password. It brings up a dialogue box with my proxy settings already configured. I press the test button, and it brings up a green 'passed' message, I save the details and try and log in again , simply to return to the dialogue box. Any ideas. Thanks.

....just realised there are two Security and Compliance sections.......found it. Thanks

Thanks, but I don't seem to have a Data Governance section under Security & Compliance , any ideas Thanks? Will

Hello hope someone can help. We use OneDrive in O365 at our school. Students and staff use it as they would a memory stick to copy school work to, and then work from home etc. Nothing fancy. What I would like to know is if someone deletes a file, and then also deletes from the second recycle bin it's gone, is there a way to prevent this happening, or is a file recoverable somehow ? I have heard someone talk about 'hold' policies, but I'm not sure this is what is needed. If anyone can help I would be very grateful. Thanks Will

Hi, I had this working perfectly as per Arthur #2 with SketchUp2015, I have now installed 2016 version applied the exactly the same technique to 'program data' it does not work. I uninstalled 2015, still no joy, has anyone got the stl extension working for students....thanks.

Hello I wonder if anyone can shed any light on my problem When a student logs on to the dynamic learning website (dynamic-learning.co.uk) and navigates to a course a #2046 error comes up with a prgress bar. Previously this site has been working for the last year. The only change is IE 11 and flash player 18 have been installed. However when a member of staff browses to the site all seems fine so it can't be these two changes. I have tried chrome same problem. I have added all the exceptions to my web filtering still no joy.....I have come to a very frustrating dead end. The rest of the site is working fine and students can download powerpoint courses. Update...I think I have found the answer.....If I add 'fpdownload.adobe.com' to the list of unfiltered sites on the web filter proxy it works....hopefully won't have any knock on effects on anything else....

Hello all, I would like to make a small amendment to the following script (taken from elsewhere on Edugeek) which logs users off if a mapped network drive is not present. I currently use this, however as mapped drives can take a while to appear on my network after desktop appears especially on laptops, I have to build in quite a long sleep time before script runs. What I would like to amend it to do is to log off user if the C drive is visible NOT if a mapped drive is not present I then could make it a much shorter sleep time if a student somehow manages to bypass normal log on. I am no scripter so any help will be gratefully received . 'check for unplugged network cord during logon 'checks for mapped drives 'merge registry key to run '| Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 '| [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] '| "check-home-dir"=""C:\\WINDOWS\\whlogoff.vbs"" 'copy this vbs file to c:\windows directory Option Explicit ' Added By SM Dim objNetwork Dim strUserName Dim WshShell, WshNetwork, ObjFSO Dim intReturn Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network") Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set WshNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network") Set ObjFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") ' Wait until the user is really logged in... Added by SM While StrUserName = "" WScript.Sleep 30000 ' 30 seconds StrUserName = WSHNetwork.UserName ' Get the user name Wend if strUserName = "Administrator" then 'Ignore the admins ;-) Added By SM else 'Check if the home drive is there... Added By SM if ObjFSO.DriveExists("m:") then 'Yes it is bail out... Added By SM else 'No its not, has the network cable been pulled... Added By SM intReturn = WshShell.Popup("Please ensure the network Cable is plugged in or the Wireless Button is on.", 8, "Login Error", 0) If intReturn = 1 Then ' Trap the button click... Added By SM 'Wscript.Echo "You clicked the ok button. This would log you off" WshShell.Run "logoff.exe" Else ' The popup timedout log the user off... Added By SM 'Wscript.Echo "The popup timed out. This would log you off after a timeout" WshShell.Run "logoff.exe" End If End if End if

A thought occurred to me whilst driving home...it always happens that way....just over a week ago I trimmed down the students' profile, resulting in quicker log on (on a wireless laptop as much as 40 seconds quicker). So my guessing is, during the longer "user profile service" it allowed the network to fully initialise and then allow group policy to load and deploy. I have just re loaded what I removed the other week to the longer loading profiles and it now works and group policy deploys (but every time not intermittently ). So by trimming the profile and making a faster logon, great for my wired connections, I have now inadvertently created another problem with the wireless laptops, they seemingly can't initialise the network quick enough for GPOs to deploy. It must be a narrow time window of "opportunity" as 3/4 of the time they do deploy, only a second or two I'm guessing.

Have been thinking along those lines but it affects different types of laptops with different cards.....so I'm not sure, that' s the issue, but i may try tomorrow...

Well after some sort of non-technical testing, I have found that if I start the laptops , leave them at the windows log in screen for a minute or two, then log in then all will log-in with no intermittancy, , all seems to be fine, group policy applies. So clearly something is going on in the background.....but what does this tell me, is it my wireless network, is it the laptops ?. I have found something out, but really I am no further....any ideas anyone ? And why has it just started happening ?

Good blog, but what I don't understand is why this has just started happening...

I'll give it a blast but my instinct tells me the problem is elsewhere.....

Hello, I wonder if anyone can help In the last couple of days I have had an intermittent problem with logging on to laptops wirelessly, wired connections have no issues. A user will log on, but group policies will not have applied. ie folder redirections (desktop, start up menu,) network drives etc. Any given laptop may work three or four times correctly and then on the fourth or fifth decide to not work. There is a managed wireless network here, I know it's not specific to a given AP as I have tried in different rooms. I have rebooted both the controller and APs. It affects both Dell and Toshiba laptops. I have made no changes to the network. In event viewer it tells me error code 1055 about failing to load GPOs. Would enabling the group policy startup policy processing time make any difference. I am not sure if it is Laptop based, or Wireless Controller/AP based, or even Server based. Any pointers would be good thanks

Sorry just realised what you mean......

Not sure what you mean by "opened a file in one place and tries to open it on another computer.", What's the difference to a normal account opening a file in one place and then another ?

I have done it before in the past on many occasions, but I was never really sure at the back of my mind whether it was the done thing to do. Like so many things in network management, you do things that seem to be ok until one day someone says , if you do that it will cause this or that etc etc, even though you've never had problems.

Hello This is a simple question, that I've never been 100% sure of the answer. Is it Ok to log on to a single user account(student type mandatory profile) multiple times at the same time ie they are logging on all at the same time. The reason behind this is a that a teacher wants to have a student user account that he can log on before start of lesson so when students arrive all logged on ready to work, they can later then save work in a shared area. (I work in a behavioural school , some times the logging on process can cause upset amongst the students, wastes time etc etc so he wants to be ready to go at start of lesson) And rather than creating half a dozen accounts, the teacher knows password to the one account, ie quick and easy. For a simple question it required quite a long explanation ! Thanks

Hi folks I am in process of ordering some new laptops for student use. The processor in the quoted laptops is an i3-4005u processor 1.7GHz. What do folks think of this spec ? Previous comparable models ordered in the past have come with I3-3120M rated 2.5GHz.......does the GHz rating make much difference in real world scenario ? Any advice gratefully received.

Have found the answer, I think, here. http://www.edugeek.net/forums/how-do-you-do/95325-virtualbox-image-programming-classes.html

Hello I want to be able to students to access a VM on a PC. What is the best way to do this, all I want is the students to be able to open a VM make no changes to it, not add any VMs etc, is this possible, ie they have no menu options in the VM. I have been playing around with VM workstation and Oracle box, and as far as I can see in Workstation yes you can lock and restrict a given VM but all the various settings in the overall workstation control panel such as creating a new vm etc is still possible. Is what I am wanting to achieve possible ? Any help gratefully received.

Hello Having had 9 ipads in our small school for 18 months without incident 2 get broken screens within a week. What do all you edugeekers recommend for replacement , should I try myself or leave it to the professionals. And what would I expect to pay for screen replacement if done by the pros ? Any advice gratefully received.

Hello folks I need a fresh pair of eyes. I have installed the above software on a Windows 7 station with SQL server 2008. It works fine. I have installed on a client machine and it works fine logged in as an admin but not student. The error message is "the item this shortcut refers to cannot be accessed. You may not have the correct permissions" The Share permissions are full control everyone, and the students have read execute write permissions in the security tab. I have double and triple checked this !! It's not the Blocked by group policy error message (I have created a path rule anyway) I can't see why there is a permissions issue, can anyone see what I am doing wrong. It's driving me mad. Thanks in advance.

Hi Thanks for reply. Yes I thought as much myself about the SSID. What I really want to be able to say to SLT that it really isn't a good idea and these are the risks 1,2,3 etc with unknown laptops/devices. The users will only need internet access, but they'd have to put proxy details in etc as well hence my idea for transparent proxy on totally different subnet using ubuntu (ie no cost !) as dhcp, but as we do not have layer 3 router we would have to have another router added hence the cost. I am clearly no network security expert, how many of us could really claim we are ?. But I want a strong argument, if indeed the risks are there and what are they , as to why I should go the seperate vlan subnet route.

Is it simple as that ? Would that make the network secure even tho different SSID, bit not different VLAN ?