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Scheduled Powershell task... Assumes Office365 mail and on premises AD. ### Generates a request via the DinoPass API for a random simple password $Password_Part1 = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://www.dinopass.com/password/simple | Select-Object -ExpandProperty content ### Generates a date in day-2digitmonth-4digityear $Password_Part2 = Get-Date -format "dd-MM-yyyy" ### Concatenates the 2 into one variable $Password_Complete ="$Password_Part1$Password_Part2" ### Writes the output to text file so you have a local reference - can be omitted. $Password_Complete | Out-File C:\YourFileLocation\value.txt ### Resets the specified account password to the value contained within $Password_Complete Set-ADAccountPassword -Identity UserName -Reset -NewPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText "$Password_Complete" -Force) ### Emails the new password ### Email address to send from $username = "[email protected]" ### Email Password $Password = "ComplexEmailPassword" ### Converts plaintext password above to a secure string $Password = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $Password -AsPlainText -Force ### Creates a credential object to call later $cred = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $username, $Password ### Specifies email subject $subject = 'Alert: New Password' ### Specifies Email body $body = $Password_Complete ### Splatting with Hash Table $hash = @{ To = '[email protected]' From = $username Subject = $subject Body = $body BodyAsHtml = $true SmtpServer = 'smtp.office365.com' UseSSL = $true Credential = $cred Port = 587 } ### Sends Mail Send-MailMessage @hash -WarningAction Ignore

After making sure the setup is consistent, this is less of a technical issue and more of a staff training one. We've not long done this and it's all slowly coming out in the wash with some people still struggling to understand the multiscreen behaviour of their devices despite very clear email and video instructions. We have 1 type of dock and 2 types of teaching laptops in use and they both behave slightly differently on the same dock. One automatically goes to dup/dup/ext with the lid open and ext/ext with the lid shut and the other goes to ext/ext/ext with the lid open and ext/ext with the lid shut.

is this the same as adding 'domain computers - read' to security filtering? That happened in 2018.

That would sort of make sense - nobody I'd assign a student benefit to would need to own a team. In fact, some of them, it would be an advantage if they couldn't!

I'm really not seeing any noticeable difference - I assume the server CAL is only a CAL for on prem? We don't have anything on-prem any more, that's the whole point!

Only our Surface devices - needed to enter the Bitlocker recovery code twice

They're an absolute nightmare for their 'spray & pray' emails. I've had the same email at all my schools and we stopped using their services 9 years, 12 years and 1 year ago respectively.

That's my last line of defence, but I'd rather not go there if I don't have to.

Fair point... I expect I can do this off a live USB stick without disturbing the otherwise working windows instance, so I'll give that a go.

Maybe - but they need to keep working for another 2 years, budget says so!

I've got 40 of these HP Elitebook 840-G5 in circulation. I have maybe 3-4 who persistently have wifi connection issues. They were all completely fine on Windows 10 with the same hardware and wifi environment so I can only assume it's a windows 11 problem. They disconnect from the Unifi wireless at random intervals and then refuse to reconnect - no networks found. Sometimes a device will be fine for days, sometimes will disconnect multiple times in an hour. Nothing done from within windows seems to fix the issue, but a restart always does. All available drivers & Bios updated from device manufacturer website. Swapped wifi card with another device and issue persists, reinstalled W11 and issue persists. Nothing untoward in event logs that I can see? Anyone got a clue?

I had a support contract with Gamma for another product and always found their support to be somewhat combative unless they had 100% control of all aspects. I currently have Asterisk support with Logicall https://www.psdgroup.co.uk/logicall

being an askhole?

The Fates have determined this update is not part of your destiny.

Preview features might be disabled for your organisation? https://www.cloudfuze.com/how-to-hide-or-show-new-features-in-office-365/

You can easily bypass the requirement, however MS warn that at any point they might add 'requirement checking' to updates and that things could grenade on you.

I suspect if you brought this up with MS they would tell you to use the mobile app... Even though it doesn't provide exactly the same functionality.

I've got a school with a lot of services identified with IONOS DNS and their DNS changes always seem to take aaaaaages to propagate from them. I added a CNAME for a website not more than a month ago and it took over 24 hours for whatsmydns to show it anywhere near fully propagated.

Make 'em do it in notepad and CMD like I had to while I was at Uni, that'll cure them... https://www.scaler.com/topics/how-to-run-java-program/

Sometimes DC Diag needs 24hrs without an error to decide it's fine.

Are your update and patches consistent across all DCs and member servers?

Thanks Steve, the MAT has referred it to Rubrik support as they aren't sure what it's failing against either.

Settings cog - search the setting you want.

My Exec Head sent a strongly worded email saying that 'This isn't Facebook, you can't just passively like a message - you need to reply with actual words like a professional' People are still using likes, but not nearly as much. I showed it to my wife last night who does admin for the NHS and is the Queen of Outlook - she nearly threw up, so, not sure how well the transition is going to go for her... Thoughts and prayers for me folks.

That's the latest 'classic' version... This is the new, new one...