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I keep seeing some congratulations of Server 2022, but not sure what? We are on 2022 and seem ok so far on the clients that have updated so far but I've hit pause on Windows Updates so it's only about 10 devices but no one has complained, it could be due to cached credentials though. If I can find out what specific config of 2022 and if we are ok I'll let them roll out as these latest patches fix a massive amount of security issues.

We moved to Arbor a few years back and we now download a CSV from ParentPay of the pre-admission data, do some work on that to match up with data from Arbor, and then import it into Arbor into UDF fields, and then email out to parents via Arbor using a custom report/mail merge. It works, takes a bit of work to get all the bits in place, in the past we just use to print the welcome letters and then post them out but since moving to Arbor we've made a decision to stop posting out as the speed and reliability of letters getting to people was shocking. Still no idea why ParentPay doesn't have a simple on import email signup details to parents/carers.

It does say to use low resolution images!

Never looked into OSDcloud, but will check it out!

Yeah same here, we just use it to load a Windows 11 clean, and then let Intune install all the apps. Going to hang onto MDT as long as we can.

Hi all, All our classrooms have ViewSonic ViewBoards, and we make use of their broadcast feature to publish out prayers in the morning, afternoon and end of the day, these are a mixture of PNG to small video files. We've started to transition to a video of a member staff reading out the prayer but all of a sudden we have found the TVs are being really hit and miss and will start playing the video and then just cut off and go back to the the previous input with it being random, one day one TV will play the video fine, the next day it won't. I don't think it's the size of the video, this new file is around 23mb and other files have been 30 odd mb and we've not had issues, so am now looking at the way the MP4 is encoded and seem to have a bit more success with a file that's encoded with x265 rather than x264. We have over 80 TVs the video is going out to and 98% of them are connected via cable to the network. I do have a line of communication open with someone at ViewSonic but wanted to know if anyone else here does anything else similar? Thanks.

It's not that - it's currently set to Common USB mode. So if I install the latest driver, although you get the PCL error it does send the file and does engrave although on screen you can see if buffering the file. It's a workaround that will have to do until for the time being.

Just doing some Googling and there is a USB mode setting, could it be this? I'll have a test tomorrow changing the USB mode as I have a feeling it's set to GCC USB and for 64bit it seems it needs to be set to Common USB.

So I've finally got around to having ago at getting this sorted and am stumped. I tested with my laptop using the Mercury III Driver for 5206 Mainboard and it seemed to work, sent the file to the laser cutter. So changed my plan slightly a setup a spare PC to use that instead of the teachers laptops. So imaged a PC with Windows 11 24H2, installed the driver and thought that would work but no nothing. Then plugged my laptop back in to test that and now that isn't working. So am confused now. Any ideas?

Am ordering some G4 docks for our new classrooms @Snaxident EDIT: No going for these ones HP Universal USB-C Multiport Hub - Supports dual 4K Displays Via HDMI 2.0 - HP Store UK - They look like updated versions of the ones we currently use so am hoping they work just as well! I'll keep you posted, hopefully have the modulars in by end of Oct HT. cheers.

I got a few mins to have a look and we are on a 5206 mainboard, the drivers worked on my laptop but then I had some trouble on the teacher laptop but this was possible related to me installing multiple versions of the drivers. So going to try again another day and after removing all the drivers and rebooting the laptop. thanks again, am nearly there now.

Yeah same, had lots of students trying to access via the app which wasn't saying anything about maintenance I believe so we had lots of students thinking their passwords were wrong. As much as it's an inconvenience it's better it's down at 8pm than 8am so looking at the positives!

We have this, both are great.

Yes that would be good! One app instead of two would be good, the amount of students we have who download the parent app.

This would be great, along with allowing Microsoft logins for students.

Hi @timbo343 I just created an Exchange rule that stopped the emails hitting the users inboxes.

You sir are amazing, thank you @Steve21. I'll let you know how I get on, hopefully I'll get time tomorrow to have a look.

That's very good to know @Steve21, thank you so much for the reply. I just grabbed the latest drivers from the GCC website and hoped for the best. I'll do some digging tomorrow and start by checking what mainboard version we have and see if I can work out which driver version I think need.

Thanks. Am not sure who to try and contact for support, the laser cutter is years old so it will be long out of support I suspect.

Hi all, The PC that runs our Mercury III Laser Cutter has died, it's been on the sort out one day list for about 3 years now but now need to sort with it finally giving up. Was thinking instead of using a dedicated PC the teachers can plug their laptops in using the USB lead, I've downloaded the latest drivers which says they are Windows 11 compliant but when we print something from 2D Design V2 the cutter just displays a PCL Command 0 Error. Has anyone else got this setup and has any ideas? Thanks.

Ouch! Although I had to do that earlier in the year, when ours expired. The issue is fixed with this reg key - applying this key and rebooting the DCs seems to have cleared the errors in the event log. Windows Server: Issues with Windows Hello issue and Kerberos events caused by April 2025 updates confirmed | Born's Tech and Windows World My worry was the article that suggests error ID 21 is related to the certificate hardening MS are doing. Protections for CVE-2025-26647 (Kerberos Authentication) - Microsoft Support Mild panic maybe averted!

Haha - well I think with the thanks of a friend worked out the issue (I hope)

Hi @ITGuyNW did you ever get to the bottom this? Am experiencing the error "A certification chain processed correctly, but one of the CA certificates is not trusted by the policy provider." on our DCs but it seems that the clients are still connecting. Am really not well up on certificates, the workstation certificate expired and was renewed earlier in the year so I thought all was good but I know Microsoft are hardening certificates in next months patches so I think I need to get this sorted or we could be without wireless soon which would be a little bit of an inconvenience.

Check the registry for any old entries relating to Windows Updates. I moved to WUfB a while back and found that some devices were still pointing to our SCCM server to look for updates. There is a remmediation script that clears out registry so Intune can work properly, I can find it if you need it?

Thanks Snaxident I think we must have got lucky with our docks - HP USB-C Universal, hardly no issues with the image side really. Replacing the G5 docks with them fixed the issue with screen flicker. I've spoke with ViewSonic and they have mentioned moving the HDMI version to 1.4 as we are having issues with some long runs in our Science rooms 15m, that's cable not dock though. I'll check out the G4 Thunderbolt docks, I need to make a decision on the new ones, and possible school wide in a year or so. We replaced a lot of our USB ones with ones that have the boosters in the cables and that has stopped the too many hub issues. Cheers.