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Topaz support are toshiba specialists - might be worth a try

Hi All, I am hoping to find out what cloud services you support/allow for school data. We have Office 365 and support OneDrive if used through the school linked account. I have seen an article on the DfE regarding cloud services and was wondering what cloud services (if any) you support? I can see that Google and Microsoft are on the list of DfE guidance, but not services such as Dropbox. I want to cement our policy regarding this. Many thanks

What scripts do you have? I am starting to work on some scripts. Many thanks

Aerohive - with Hive manager online (HMOL) allows you to manage multi-sites using via the web. We have a 1:1 scheme and we currently have 645 concurrent devices on our single site.

Has anyone else seen the attached screenshot? I think it is a group policy possibly lined to a security setting blocking some flash content - but I can't get to the bottom of it!!

Has anyone been able to sign up for Youtube EDU? We are looking to enable this youtube feature and allow EDU content through our smoothwall filter. After signing in to Youtube for Schools - https://www.youtube.com/schools - We get the below message. Has anyone been able to successfully register their school and get this working? We are aware of the issues with the YouTube for Schools product sign up flow. We realize this is a frustrating experience and thank you for your patience and understanding. Please stay tuned for an update.

We were hoping to achieve the same...but our site team are a bit 'old school' and don't want an online system...they prefer paper! It would be easy to implement using it as a 2 ticket system. Simply set different request types and sub request types...for IT and one for the site team. We purchased via unipress because of the support. They even provide support when using the trial version. Great support team.

We use WHD and have done now for several years. It can link assets to users. Users can login with their current AD username and password for ease of use. Everything is logged and users can keep track of their tickets. You can setup a trial for one user. Before this we user paper forms...this revolutionised how we work and manage jobs.

Do you tend to run 4 vCPU per VM or is this an exception for exchange?

I've seen the best practice guide and found it really helpful...was looking for other admins real world setups.

We are currently running exchange 2013 on-premise within VMware vSphere 5.5 We are currently using 1 vCPU and 10GB of RAM. The VMware host has dual 4-core Intel Xeon processors. What is your setup? Should I increase the number of vCPU's to improve performance? Or are there any additional VMware tweaks that can be made to improve server performance? Many Thanks

We run Exchange 2013. We do not use Sharepoint as we have Firefly, neither do we use lync. There is talk about us investigating office 365 because of OneDrive and iOS apps (as we have 400+ iPads). In general terms taking all our data and migrating to 365 cloud storage and using those services.

We currently run everything internally using VMware and Windows Server 2012 R2. Has anyone made the move to a complete Office 365 solution? I am interested in visiting a few school that have made the change to see their experiences. Any help is greatly appreciated. Our Headteacher has asked for this to be investigated.

Is there a powerless cmd that will enable me to delete e-mails from the Sent Items folder for all users? I have a command that I run to delete all items, but I am hoping to narrow it down. Below is the command that I run to delete e-mails between certain dates. Get-Mailbox -organizationalunit "Teaching Staff" | Search-Mailbox -SearchQuery '(Received:01/01/2011..01/09/2012)' -deletecontent Does anyone have a way of doing this?

I'm sure this question has been asked or at least thought about a lot by the Edugeek forum members... We use to use Studywiz to map to users documents using elocker mapping, but we have now moved to firefly and this does not have the same functionality. We are looking to have an app on the iPad that authenticated a user to either own file share on a windows file server - the user would need to be able to save directly from an app to the share and to open existing documents already in their documents. I have seen that WebDAV has been mentioned, is this the only real way of doing this? Or have others found a different way. I have found a company called 'Foldr' and I am currently going down this avenue - has anyone ever heard or used this before? What were your experiences? Many thanks

Thanks for the quick reply. Running server 2012 R2. I'll give wisesoft a go. Thanks for the syntax example

I need a batch file to disable user accounts of students that have now left the school. I only have the student's login number and we have these students setup in different OU's. The student number is the username. How can I search AD and disable the account without needing the nested OU? Many thanks

I'll be honest with you - we ran into exactly the same scenario. We installed a VM ourselves and completed the installation, purchased a certificate and so on without the support of firefly. Firefly then came onsite for a implementation meeting (after the system was up and running) - this turned into a branding meeting and seems you do pay a lot for this service. I think the cost is justifiable if they are hosting the server in the cloud, but if you are hosting internally this 'compulsory' charge is crazy. I know this isn't of much help - we ended up paying for this one off fee, but at the expense of the parent portal which we then couldn't purchase.

SQL on the separate drive also? How much storage are you using for your resources?

We have now purchased firefly and ready to run the installation. Are you running everything on one drive or have you split into the OS and Data?

Good afternoon, We run our own internal exchange 2013 server, how can I enable TLS encryption? Or check that it is enabled? It is important because all local schools have now moved to Office 365 which will only send and receive using TLS encryption. We are unable to communicate via e-mail with our feeder school. Has anyone experienced the same issue or have any advice? Many thanks

Do you know if it scales well with multiple users? Windows or Linux as the OS?

We run our own internal Exchange 2013 server. Recently our feeder school have moved to Office 365 and are receiving a bounce-back message. Remote Server at emea01-internal.map.protection.outlook.com (10.174.64.25) returned '450 4.7.0 Proxy session setup failed on Frontend with '451 4.4.0 Primary target IP address responded with: "451 5.7.3 STARTTLS is required to send mail." Attempted failover to alternate host, but that did not succeed. Either there are no alternate hosts, or delivery failed to all alternate hosts. Has anyone else seen this?

Hello all, Does anyone content filter their Exchange 2013 server? In 2007 and 2010 you use to be able to add good and bad words via the GUI, but this is now only possible via Powershell. I have found the commands, but wanted to know how everyone else was doing it? I have download a pre-defined list in a text file I am only looking at internal e-mails as external e-mails are filtered by our SPAM filter. Many thanks

Can I assume that the surfoff.txt doesn't need to contain anything? Will the following just work? bcdedit /set {default} recoveryenabled No bcdedit /set {default} bootstatuspolicy ignoreallfailures Regards Rob