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I was looking at 3 years, but given the state of funding in schools I am keeping my eyes out for a less stressful part-time job and taking the money sooner rather than later!

We don't have this set

We have had a few users get this today. Any thoughts?

It really does not matter how the addresses get populated. Email addresses which work totally fine for other users are just being rejected for this user, and it's not device specific. MS are dragging their heels organising a remote session so I can demonstrate the issue, meanwhile the user is unable to email at least 12 emails that we've identified as being rejected. It's very odd.

Thanks, done this, deleted one of the contacts from their address book, recreated from scratch, same issue.

The user has an existing distribution list that used to work fine, but now fails on 13 addresses out of 22!

No matter how it's populated in the TO: box it says it's invalid. If I type in an invalid email such as blah@blah it doesn't get reported haha

We have a user who is getting warnings pop up in Outlook (OWA) that email addresses are invalid. If I copy and paste the exact same email address in to my TO: line they are all totally fine. Any ideas? Very odd one!

Thanks everyone.

Hi, We are looking at putting in a CIF bid to replace ageing switch hardware and WiFi in two secondaries in our Trust, we are based in the Cotswolds, can anyone recommend some firms who we would able to cost up such projects.

We've installed their latest version v25 and are finding it takes up to 25 seconds to get to the start-screen, our previous version was only taking 3-4 seconds, anyone seeing the same behaviour? This is only for our locked down exam accounts, seems fine in general

Just a heads up that we were not sent a reminder to renew our ExamWrite Pad site licence and of course it expired just before an exam!! People who are on the paid for version may like to check their expiry date and ensure they make contact with the team : [email protected]

My experience with deploying software using Intune is that it can take quite a while to action. Not at all like using the traditional GPO method sadly.

Just been reading that unless you remove all the profiles first then the GPO method won't work as the timer starts from the new profile being created. I might remove the profiles in a room next week and try the GPO on a 10 day delete window and see if it works. We use the following Powershell Script to remove profiles: as you can specify an ignore list $ErrorActionPreference= 'silentlycontinue' $Users = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_UserProfile $IgnoreList = "helpdesk", "administrator", "Default" :OuterLoop foreach ($User in $Users) { foreach ($name in $IgnoreList) { if ($User.localpath -like "*\$name") { continue OuterLoop } } $User.Delete() }

Have you ever had any luck with Group Policy settings to prune profiles over than X days or found a way to automate powershell scripts to remove older profiles in the background when the PC is in use?

If you worked a 40 hour week on the National Living Wage (£12.21) you'd be on £25,396.80 Just wondering if a partly 2nd line IT support role should not attract a higher salary if you're expected to work in a fast-paced environment?

Slightly related, we have been told by CRB that our outage yesterday morning was due to our SQL Express on the server running out of space and that we should upgrade to full SQL! I'm getting a quote for that but the supplier has asked how many CAL's we would need? Any know if this is the number of tills? Or number of users who logon to the back-end of cashless catering or number of staff and students? Also, is it not just possible to prune some of the data so that we don't need the full version of SQL? What version are others running who have their system? We are c. 1600 user accounts. Cheers

Good morning, What size hard drives are people putting in Windows 11 PC's these days? We've been on 240/250 Gb for years but finding that with multiple users logging on to devices the APPDATA folders are getting large and requiring us to intervene and remove local profiles on a regular basis. Considering HDD's of 500Gb for my next batch - is this the norm these days?

I often take an afternoon off and play golf on my own, fresh air, scenery, peace and quiet - is that what you mean?

Have to agree, that that has been our preferred method for years, also then much easier to swap in a new OS or version of Windows - just replacing the 24H2 WIM with the 25H2 one this morning for some testing - no need to generate a whole new "gold image"...

I've been asked (after the wrong parent was emailed by a member of staff) if it's possible to turn off "external" suggestions when you start typing an email in Outlook Web App. As per the attached, I've been asked if it's possible that only "internal" email addresses are shown in the suggestions but not "external" - I'm not sure this is possible, but thought I'd ask in case anyone knows....

I've just tested and it seems to work!

Are dual monitors at play?

I've been driving for over 35 years and have only ever driven manual cars, current is a 67 plate SEAT Leon but I'm looking at up to 18 month old Skoda Karoq's and the majority of them seem to be AUTO gearboxes. Is AUTO the way to go? Pros and cons?

Now in!