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Oaktech

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  1. Have you tried a different viewer? I've previously found VLC to be a bit weird about RTSP links. Anycam.io will let you download a free single cam viewer just to prove if it's VLC or not?
  2. I'd always take a full backup, but I've never had a problem with the Minitool, Gparted or Easeus Partition Magic tools. Worth saying that if it's a data partition rather than a recovery partition, it probably needs to be moved to the end of the drive after the unallocated space, rather than in front of the C drive, which will possibly cause you to break the machines ability to boot.
  3. Is there another partition between the one you are trying to extend and the free space on the disk? Have you got the numbers right - definitely not trying to extend 1024gb when you should be trying to extend 1024mb? If there is a partition between your C and the free space, then you will need to use a 3rd party tool like GParted to move it in front of the C partition, or delete it if you aren't going to need it.
  4. Depends on your budget... So far our little darlings haven't managed to do significant damage to our Lenovo 500e - we've got Gen2 and these are less than £100 on the refurb market.
  5. We've moved to year-of-entry-initials. Basically the kids at primary cannot type anything more than that accurately. 23JS1 for John Smith 23JS2 for Joanna Smith etc.
  6. I've fairly recently moved a school from OneLAN to A&K PADS with Crystal CMS. It seems to be working well for them. Might be worth a look.
  7. We've had a couple of forms do that when MS has decided we look too much like we're phishing or collecting unacceptable amounts of personal data - a 10 minute support call to MS brought them back.
  8. Can you not just deploy the driver as a software package like any other app? You can then set supersedence within InTune if you need to upgrade drivers in the future, at that point windows will find the appropriate driver?
  9. Check the location of the VHD... I had one the other day where two machines were clustered with shared storage, but the location of the VHD was in the M drive which is only mapped to the clustered storage on one node at a time. Moving it generated a similar error. had to shutdown the machine, remove the VHD and re-add it mapped to the c:\cluster storage shortcut location that is shared by all nodes.
  10. I run it from a share rather than install it... Obviously not an option if you're cloud based.
  11. Another +1 for TSOHost They also host our non .sch.uk stuff at an appreciable discount.
  12. I think this is 'a feature' it certainly was on our one. We just made sure to patch anything critical or that was also held up by UPS to the half of the switch that stayed up.
  13. The W52 has had a firmware update less than a month ago. When I spoke to Yealink about them they said that they would be getting 2 more years of at least annual security only firmware updates even though they are a discontinued line because there are so many in the wild being supported by large telcos.
  14. I've just bought a few second hand dect sip phones off marketpalce - 2 w52 and a w73. The w52 are for home and the the w73 is for work. It was cheaper to buy 2 complete second hand w52 kits at £25-30 than a kit and a second handset! There seems to be loads of the w52p around because they were handed out like sweets to the first people to convert to sip on BT. Here's the link the 73 I also bought... https://www.voipon.co.uk/yealink-w73p-dect-phone-system-p-9613.html Wi-Fi sip phones do exist, but they're more expensive and you've got to be very, very certain of the quality of your wi-fi! https://www.voipon.co.uk/fanvil-linkvil-w611w-portable-wifi-phone-p-9957.html Edit to say: We've just moved my mum, who the home phones are for, from her own 38mb adsl+phone on Sky, to piggybacking off my Toob fttp via a Ubiquiti wireless bridge. We get 900/900 and she gets about 70mbps and SIP still works beautifully! SIP service is £8 a month for 500 minutes via Freeola VoicePRO as they are the only people I could find who do free 0800 calls!
  15. I've had a few personal injury claims calls recently. The thing that's weirding me out is they are stating a specific injury on a specific date, about 3 years ago, that I did go to A&E for. It was however an incident that was completely self inflicted, nobody else was affected, present or responsible... And no I wasn't inebriated! It was just a minor eye injury related to gardening, it's not like it's anything particularly personal or sensitive - but I'm a bit concerned where they have got that information from? I didn't mention it on social media.
  16. Can't find anything administrative to sort it - but manually... Three dots menu top right, Open Settings > Appearance, scroll down and turn off "Show Briefcase Icon on work profiles." Then restart Edge. Delete all duplicate icons.
  17. Is your offline files cache full?
  18. See if this helps... We were only seeing it in Notebook, but it's a weird one... /forums/educational-software/234941-smart-notebook-inking-issues.html#post2011737
  19. Just gone with Toob over CityFibre as it's now available in my area. Previously been a happy CityFibre business customer. I run 2 properties off it over a Unifi wireless bridge. Unifi wireless at both properties - one longrange AP and one AC Lite. 2 Unifi 8 port POE Lite switches one at each site. Disposed of the Toob router immediately and now running a Mikrotik Cloudcore router plugged directly into their service. Vonage telephone service over Toob & the wireless bridge with QoS and a Yealink DECT handset at the other end. Toob customer support were very helpful and gave me details to set up the Mikrotik without questioning what I was doing.
  20. Your SLT needs to back you up after the near miss with the encryption script. No mucking about, VMs or the module doesn't get taught in it's current format.
  21. We upgraded a suite to be able to run virtualbox and set up immutable VMs they could then do as much damage as they wanted in there with immunity. Applocker etc remained firmly in place for everything attached to the domain.
  22. Can you humour me and try swapping the ram out too?
  23. Someone once told me that per-computer printer installation via GP was essentially broken after windows XP due to changes in driver architecture, however item level targeting is not... So... At my current schools, it a single 'follow me' queue everywhere to everyone all the time, so it's not an issue - I can count on one hand the number of tickets we've had for printers not mapping in the last 5 years since we changed to Follow me. Prior to that, in a different life at a different school where we had 20+ different print queues for departments and building I used to aim all printers at all users in a single GPO (because processing 20+ printer GPOs would have been madness) and then use item level targeting to determine which printers could apply to which groups of computers. I also made sure that I set a 'Delete All' at the top of the GPO to prevent weirdness. That worked a treat. You do have make sure that if you move PCs around you update security groups. It would also be possible to do it with WMI filtering, or even possibly with security filtering in the GPO scope although I've never tried those and it would involve going back to individual GPOs for each printer allocation and making GP processing sloooow.
  24. Have you tried physically swapping the ram & storage with another device?
  25. We deploy it to chromebooks and windows laptops. It's pretty much flawless on the Chromebooks, but we have some issues with the Windows laptops taking upwards of 30 minutes after login to apply the correct filtering if it's anything except student level.
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