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Something like this should work: https://www.paragon-software.com/free/pm-express/

Ah ok thanks

We're currently using context aware login for our user accounts, we don't currently have MFA for our student users. I'm really wanting to push this. However the powers that be say its to intrusive in the classroom. I can find an option to only allow login if the user is attempting to login via our IP. I'd like to force MFA if our IP isn't detected, and disable MFA if the IP is. This would only be for our student group as are all setup for MFA on and offsite. Anybody managed this with Google admin panel? Cheers

Hi all, I have no idea about BMS systems, my angle on this is purely from a computing and usability perspective. The school is needs a new BMS system, specifically for heating. I said to the finance/management team here that a web (browser) based system would be the best approach that would also support android/iOS apps maybe? Ideally a 3g/4g controller with the options for wifi, i assume ethernet is standard. Anybody able to name drop any manufactures that can do this...... everything i'm looking at online requires a dedicated onsite computer/software instance. due to the footprint of the site a mobile phone with a app would be best when they are changing settings. Then again, i'm not sure if the search terms i'm using are correct. What are your schools using? do you guys get involved with that? we've never been asked before but it has a plug on it so its IT now cheers

I've used PDQ Deploy to push this out site wide, it will only run if the driver doesn't exist. Thanks again

I've sorted it!!! I knew i wasn't going mad! in a nutshell, the driver in the deploy location was incomplete so it would never have worked as the file was missing... hence the errors. I just re-extracted the driver again and the below script worked! cscript "C:\Windows\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US\prndrvr.vbs" -a -m "Generic Universal V4 PCL" -i "\\nsnet.net\Deployed Resources$\Print Drivers\2023\kobxxka_01.inf_amd64_c189b9e35b8454d2\KOBxxKA_01.inf" Big thanks to altecsole for pointing me in the right direction! the reason i had a handful of computers that worked...... well we tend to use the same computers before we go all out when testing things, a soft launch if you will..... seems we used these same computers to "test" the print driver before we deployed site wide! These computers had the full complete extracted drivers in their driver store! What are the chances of that lol. out 100s of PC the three i tested were the same that were used last time. Thanks for everyone's input

yes same error

I've already copied the .inf file to a accessible network location. and used copy and paste for the path. As you see in the screenshots..... it works on some but not others. i'm really baffled as these computers are in the same ou setting the same gpos and using the same user account to do the testing.

Thanks for this. i've given this method a try using; cscript "C:\Windows\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US\prndrvr.vbs" -a -m "Generic Universal V4 PCL" -i "\\nsnet.net\Deployed Resources$\Print Drivers\2023\KOBxxKA_01.inf" and it worked on the computers that worked with what i used before pnputil /add-driver "\\nsnet.net\Deployed Resources$\Print Drivers\2023\*.inf" However, on the computers that gave the "unable to find the file specified" before..... i get an "error2" message with the script i posted above....... These must be related, but i can't seem to find any references in the event viewer. Arrrrrrgh EDIT: apparently error 2 is File Not Found.

Anybody got any thoughts? I'm so close yet so far! i've got it working in some instances, but in others i'm getting "failed to add the driver package: the system cannot find the file specified" EDIT:Running as a system admin from this location "Z:\Network Shares\Deployed Resources\Print Drivers\2023" also gives the same error if i run pnputil /add-driver "Z:\Network Shares\Deployed Resources\Print Drivers\2023\*.inf"

I understand this is by design now. The next task is to get the driver on the client so that i can use the advanced features of the driver. I have got this working.......kind of. as per my post #4 i'm running pnputil /add-driver to add the driver to the clients driver store. IF this works i then get the advance features of the print driver. I'm doing manual testing at the moment, manually running pnputil /add-driver "\\nsnet.net\Deployed Resources$\Print Drivers\2023\*.inf" (i've also tired without the *.inf wildcard and called the driver by name..... no difference. Any ideas why i would get the two different responses below? This is being ran by myself on a classroom of computers, they have the same GPOs applied.

Sorry, yes i misunderstood. Google also has App passwords: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en Google are also enforcing 2fa on accounts its staggered and deleting stale accounts. So it's probably the same thing i guess

I've had this on my personal accounts also. I use Gmail with outlook going and being able to be sent via Gmail. I noticed it stopped working. I think MS have forced the use of 2fa so a lot of users seem to be having issues if the access outlook emails via 3rd parties. To fix mine i have to set up a "app password" on outlook.com and use that instead of my actual password. This negated the need for 2fa on the 3rdparty (Gmail) and started to work again. Hope this helps

Hi all, I know this is a bit of an odd questions, i'm just after an approximation. What does it cost you? what are the computer or user numbers that you're licensed against. I have completed a contact us form on their website, happy for Impreo to PM me or reply to this post is any agents are monitoring this post. At the moment we're looking at Smoothwall Monitor or Impreo Classroom Pro. We has decided against fastvue. I think i like the idea of Impero as it will allow to move away from ABtutor and i kind feel like i'm cheating on SOPHOS if i use Smoothwall. Cheers all

Thanks for the reply, do you know if it supports Chrome OS also independently? As in we don't need a Smoothwall device for Chromebook user authentication? Can't seem to see anything on their site about that.

Anybody using Smoothwall Monitor with a Sophos XG? Is monitor independent of the firewall you use or is a SMoothwall Firewall a prerequisite? https://www.smoothwall.com/education/monitor/

Just an update to this, i've managed to get it working on my Admin pc. I haven't started testing non admin client machines yet. It still displays the Microsoft driver in print properties, however it does use all the advanced features. Basically I had to add the print driver to the client driver store. To do this I had to "deploy" the driver from a network accessible location to the client. The Printer is still deployed via GPO. I used the below command in powershell to manually get the driver to the client (sat at the machine logged in as admin) pnputil /add-driver "\\network.net\Deployed Resources$\Print Drivers\2023\KOBxxKA_01.inf" This worked great and ONE of the reprographics computer is up and running with all the adviced feature.......... ......... but it only work on my Admin PC and the ONE client computer........ i get an error when trying to install on another two pcs (including another it admin machine and account. the errors says unable to find the file specified........ not sure why this has started...... maybe i just need a coffee because the path is 100% right.....

Just found this on Papercut's site. Type 4 drivers on the print server are never downloaded to the clients This is by design and expected. When the Type 4 driver used on the server does not exist on the client system, Windows will use the client’s preinstalled “Microsoft enhanced Point and Print compatibility driver” to build the connection to the shared printer. This driver may not have the same feature set as the Type-4 driver that is on the queue on the server. So i guess the next issue i've got is that as the type 4 drivers don't exist on the client and it can't get them from windows Update i have to get them there..... We have PDQ and mainly use GPOs. NOt got much powershell experience. How are you guys doing this? Cheers (again)

Hi all, I'm stumped with this one. I've just never seen it before. We've had new printers over the holidays along with type 4 drivers. All deployed via GPO and print management. We also use Papercut to control printing. The printers installed on the print server have the drivers "generic universal v4 PCL" as installed and setup by our print suppliers. The printers are deploying/installing and working on our Clients, however it installs "Microsoft enhanced point and print driver" which has lots of missing options in the driver...... this mainly is affecting our repro department. Anybody else seen this behaviour? Our suppliers are looking into it but have never seen (or noticed it before) Server 2019 and Win10 1809 LTSC. Cheers all

is this a local install or web based?

Hi all, We Sophos here and we're very happy with it and the other sophos products we're also using. The only thing i feel that could be better is user level reporting. We're looking at 3rd party reporting solution that works well with the XG/S Sophos Firewalls. What you guys using? I was looking at impreo and fastvue. Would like prefer something that is cloud based, supporting Google SSO would be a +. Cheers all

You'll notice it straight away when it smells..... no need to go sniffing around on your hands & knees although i was told by the Fire dept that its toxic.... hence why i got into trouble for entering the server room and removing it. you might want to consider removing it if you suspect an issue, as it could be too late when you need to take action. I vividly remember thinking..... if i don't remove this..... it's going to burn the school/server room down...... i don't need that kind of stress right now!

Yes we had this. Fire brigade were called as the battery was having some kind of thermal runaway. I got into trouble for removing the battery and putting it in the middle of the empty car park. luckily it was the summer hols. Good times we now have physical room checks and a battery replacement program. Lessons learnt by all.

Maybe i'm overthing it. no post count, just pm to me with the title "hello" and the contents were: "How are you doing"......... just thought it was odd.

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