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Not sure how you work that out, not one of those would count as a light user if they're using any of the EPPs which I know all of ours do Unless you're saying your staff are never using Office etc to support lessons (TA side), Catering/Site Team not using any kind of spreadsheets etc (I guess you could force them all to use online only, but if they aren't they should be counting) Even external trainee/PGCE etc teachers who come in do count against it as it counts externals as well Steve

There's the pc health check one (https://aka.ms/GetPCHealthCheckApp), but frankly even the ISO we tried earlier does the check and just refused most our machines Without forcing it to install looks like we have next to none it's counting as supported between fussyness on CPU and TPM Steve

Yep and dns etc too At least months is the answer to that one! I had a reminder email from RM in July about the fact people can do it themselves so logic says even older than that Steve

We had both done last week so looks like they’re starting to work through them all I didn’t pay much attention but seems it’s everyone has flu jab, and Covid were optional to have at the same time Steve

Without more info to dig into it, then yes that does sound like it "could" be cabled correctly, but you should be able to tell if you login to the console/software (assuming you have it installed on a server/pc somewhere), as it'll have a list of what ports are assigned to what (trunks in, extensions etc) For example on ours, we have the analogue and gamma line coming into the ipv500, which links to the switch as you mentioned. The weirdly named ports are just individual extensions (and then for us we have expansion units with more on, but it sounds like you only have the one) You should be able to see it flashing certain colours on ports when turned on (normally it'll be red leds flashing) that give a status code for it, for example on ours 1+9 is a daughter card status, do you have anything showing on them? Steve

Out of curiosity, for those with 3cx, are you all hosting it yourselves or using cloud based? While I like the idea of cloud-based for it, I dread to think the complaints if the internet is down and we have no internal lines either! (It doesn't seem the failover works cross platform last time I read) Also, is anyone using specific hardware to keep old analogue lines etc alive with 3cx, or just dumping them all? Steve

Not sure if that was just a generic comment, or specific to your VPN, but Solus works fine through VPNs, it's normally just some config work that needs doing on them to ensure they register DNS back so it updates it for Solus as by default a lot of VPNs don't always register reverse DNS so Solus can't work out who they are and show as offline. Once that's done they should update as normal over the VPN Steve

Will be! Finally upgrade my 6 plus that’s on its last legs

If you add yourself as admin access on that account can you open it from your account? (Like in owa open mailbox etc) Steve

We’ve had a student who keeps saying they get this (only at home) and it turned out it seems to be restrictions on a NHS staff laptop that was causing issues Opening it in Incognito worked fine, so might be worth a shot if it’s only at home rather than on-site to see if it’s something be blocked on their settings Steve

Anything with that window handle is normally linked to memory issues at least from previous experience Have they got lots of reports/panels etc set? Or someone who runs lots of data without ever restarting SIMs? Steve

At a very basic level you could just split it and compare the first 3 (no need to do left of . etc) $IP1 = "192.168.1.0" $IP2 = "192.168.5.1" $IPArray1 = $IP1.split(".") $IPArray2 = $IP2.split(".") if (($IPArray1[0] -eq $IPArray2[0]) -and ($IPArray1[1] -eq $IPArray2[1]) -and ($IPArray1[2] -eq $IPArray2[2])) { Write-Host "True" } else { Write-Host "False" } Deffo a neater way to do it, but whether it's worth the time is another matter The only issue with splitting it will be things like if you have a subnet that would cover multiple IPs in the 2nd/3rd compare, which this wouldn't show up Steve

The old smart notebook should include the drivers for the board (https://downloads.smarttech.com/techsupport/k1fi2rh8stf3eja6kjs1sdl0wa/Current/Notebook%2014.1/smartesi2014juneusb2.exe) and a 30 day trial of notebook, but the drivers should still work after the trial stops if you're aren't wanting to upgrade the software etc Steve

Well that capitasolus address changed back in July to the new ess solus one at least for solus, but guessing it could be affecting other servers if they haven’t updated yet (as part of the sale from capita) Steve

It's based on what you choose in your profile unless that's changed - "Select your Region/State Flag" Steve

That SID isn't an old one - S-1-15-3-1024-2268835264-3721307629-241982045-173645152-1490879176-104643441-2915960892-1612460704 etc that's a prebuilt HyperV one that should exist You should be able to use icalcs to reset the one you're talking about, but if you're missing the other HyperV SID it looks like something odds happened to that server... icacls "E:\...\Disk-C.vhdx" /grant "NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\MY_VM_GUID":(F)

So like if you look at the security on the folder for that VM it should have a long GUID like S-15-3... and a Virtual Machines permission set Then on the individual VHDXs etc it should have the VM guids e.g. Get-VM 'MYVM' | Select-Object VMID Steve

Out of curiosity, anyone who uses Salamander (full tool) is there a way to customise the CSVs before they get uploaded? Last year we used unified groups within Salamander to match to existing Teams as it was a new install, but this year I still want to customise the display names e.g. 21/22 - English etc, rather than just 7A/Eng etc, and there doesn't seem to be anything to do that within Salamander by default. And I'm guessing if I manually do an upload first via SIMs reports etc, it then won't match to what Salamander is using to automatically update after Thanks, Steve

I mean checkpoints can be a lot of things, but the main few to check normally would be, the real event logs linked to VMMS service to see the error details. Are the integration/VSS services running within the VM if it's using app aware within Veeam? Based on the wrong folder being used for hyperv, have permissions been changed around on the VM folders at all? As you may need to reset VM permissions back to create AVHDXs again Steve

Normally that suggests the default HyperV filestore folder is missing. What's it set to in hyperV and does it still exist ok/permissions etc? Steve

It's worth doing some more checks first regarding things like your time sync if you're using NTP. Have you got the new PDC setup for external connections, and disabled HyperV integration etc, otherwise when you take the old one offline it'll nuke your time settings etc Steve

If anyone's feeling like being a guinea pig and making the last week of Summer a risky time Windows Server 2022 (Standard Core/Datacenter Core) (released Aug 2021) 64 Bit English Edit - As a side note, despite it being called core it is desktop edition too! Steve

That's normally an issue with a slow external device/nas etc disconnecting too soon. I know some people were having a similar error when using AWS gateways as the cache was disconnecting too soon. As a temp trial have you tried extending SMB timeout on the server? Set-SmbClientConfiguration -SessionTimeout 300 etc Steve

Is this something that's only happened in the last few days or is it on-going? As they released a new patch that "breaks/fixes" printing again where it'll always prompt UAC on driver installs "By default, non-administrator users will no longer be able to do the following using Point and Print without an elevation of privilege to administrator: Install new printers using drivers on a remote computer or server Update existing printer drivers using drivers from remote computer or server" https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/kb5005652-manage-new-point-and-print-default-driver-installation-behavior-cve-2021-34481-873642bf-2634-49c5-a23b-6d8e9a302872 Steve

I’ve got collections setup for win10 versions so I’ve just applied it direct to that collection. The application being a wusa.exe command etc to apply it But no doubt you could script a check in if you don’t have any like that Steve