kennysarmy

Good thread. (just spotted) I kept myself active in lockdown 1 with some running, but my challenge since lockdown 3 started is to complete a virtual journey from Land's End to John o' Groats! It's 1083 miles and I set myself the target of doing it before my June golf trip (hopefully that goes ahead - only to Nottinghamshire) Current progress.

Seriously?

I've been asked to reset everyone's photos by SMT so that they all just show initials again. I've run the command : Set-OwaMailboxPolicy OwaMailboxPolicy-Default -SetPhotoEnabled $false Which I believe stops the end-users changing their photos. I then followed further from this guide: https://www.codetwo.com/admins-blog/prevent-users-from-changing-profile-photos-microsoft-365/ To change the SharePoint Online profile policy! I then found this script to reset all the user photos: $Users = Get-AzureADUser | Where {$_.UserType -eq 'Member' -and $_.AssignedLicenses -ne $null} foreach ($user in $Users) {Remove-UserPhoto -Identity $user.UserPrincipalName -Confirm:$false} This was all done over an hour ago. If I check a user in "Microsoft 365 admin center" or "https://outlook.office.com/people/" or Teams admin - there are still users with a profile photo showing! I reset a few manually using this command: Remove-UserPhoto -Identity "" And they seem to have been reset in all but "People" Q. Does it just take a long time to happen? Q. Is there any other way to remove everyone's profile photo and reset to default?

Thanks. Our current system is on-prem AD sync to Azure. Teachers currently have the rights to create their own class Teams - which they then populate with the students in each class manually. I'm not sure I'd want all my user provisioning to be automated with Bromom :/ Groups provisioning could be interesting though, as of yet I can't see the benefits so would need to understand more. I'm not sure how much we use the Bromcom Calendar but I guess that could be useful. Classroom *Teams provisioning does sound interesting if this works reliably and could potentially save our teachers some time at the start of each academic year. I missed the webinar - is there a recording of it I can watch?

Is this still the case?

Has anyone taken the plunge and setup Bromcom to provision their Office 365 users, groups, calendar and teams (Classrooms!) ? I've been asked to look at it.

Hearsay m'lord.

Yep, exactly that we still had SIMS supported until March 31st this year. What can you do?

Just had my first staff email asking how to turn it off

We planned our migration to take place between the exam downloads day and school re-opening in September. Test migrations, testing and some training had taken place in June July.

We're a secondary of around 1450 students, we've given out around 40 laptops - 50/50 between our own and government ones. I feel for you guys handing out loads - we get enough grief and calls from parents asking for support!

One of our pastoral team has just sent me this.... I have just come off the phone to student X, who has said that he has not hacked/been onto anyone else's account and thinks someone maybe trying to frame him. I asked him if he had fallen out with anyone etc and he said no. He said he thinks someone maybe using his IP address when they do this. I asked him how that can happen, and he said that he did not know, but knew it was possible. He intimated some of his friends could so I said that he needed to think tonight about whether he knew who was doing this/could be doing this and let me know. I told him I would speak again to IT to see what you thought of what he has said. Thoughts please. I know what I think!!!!!

Yes and the staff embed the direct links to the videos in our VLE.

The "hacked" student appears to normally use a Windows 10 device using Edge 88.0.705 to access Teams. When the incident occurred her account was using Chrome 88.0.4324 on a MacOs Curious

Our instructions to staff: Video files uploaded should be prefixed with the Subject area and teacher’s initials in the ‘Title’. Category should be changed to “Education” and Audience changed to “Yes, it’s Made for Kids” – this disables ‘Comments’. When publishing the video ensure its set to “Unlisted” so it will not appear for public view on YouTube but can still be shared on Firefly.

All our videos are hidden! - - - Updated - - - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf7kSj25kUih2Ot20iOMpTg

A lookup of the IP normally used by the "hacked" user is shown to be an EE one. The "rogue" IP address used is with a different ISP.

We've had an incident of a student claiming their account has been "hacked" On checking the "Sign-ins" in Azure I can see the same IP address has been used by two different students! Suspicious. They live streets apart. Correct me if I'm wrong, but IP addresses logged will be unique to the router in the property? The only way the "hacked" student could have the same IP address is if they were physically at the same location as the other student?

We have a helpdesk email address which is a shared mailbox in Office 365 - up until today we've been able mark each email with a custom "category". Today, each time we mark an email the category label flashes then disappears. Any of you lovely people got any ideas why that might be? It's working fine on my own office 365 account, just the shared mailbox one that's playing up!

https://school.apple.com/ useful link - click the ? top right.

Am I right in thinking that in order to be able to use the Office 365 app "Access" we would need to update some of our students from the free A1 licence to the paid for A3 licence? Thanks.

Correct me if I'm wrong but you're saying the staff of a typical secondary school are unable to manage a project of this type?

It appears that I am on the latest "modern" view of the admin center and that the article I was following was on an older "classic" view :/

On the phone to MS Support about this now

I've duplicated the policy "Education_SecondaryStudent" It created a new policy called "Education_SecondaryStudent copy" I've been able to edit the description, but I'd like to change the actual policy name - I just can't see how to do this