Oaktech

Have a look and see if you are able to get City Fibre, I've been a customer for +10 years now through 3 jobs and my home broadband.

I'm just going to go back and check what we have allowed, because unless there are duplicate allow rules hidden away in another more general policy, all I've allowed is the one domain stated by Ruth Miskin and removed all of our other attempts to get it to work just for staff. 🤔

Oh, wait - spoke too soon. Can still access, but preview broken and release is painfully slow - in excess of 5 minutes between hitting the button and the email arriving in inbox.

Fine for all of my tenancies at the moment.

I'm seeing this from both sides - my son is doing mock sats and has an £5 temu mp3 player with classical music on it and £12 bone conduction headphones - he has the planets suite. The school had to be made aware of the regulations before they'd allow it, but it really helps him to concentrate. We've not had any requests for it here yet, but I've got 3 MP3 players that were supposed to be prizes for something but then covd happened and the competiton did not! I've loaded them with a bundle of chillout that we have bought DRM free from 7digital. I've also used a signal generator to create some long sine wave tracks as well as white noise and fan sounds.

Right... I've gone back through this and discovered that someone - unsure who at this stage - has imported an ADMX from an on-prem AD into our InTune and assigned it to the ICT . It's labelled 'Best practice student restrictions ADMX' so I'm guessing it was centrally done. It has 'remove common program groups' enabled. Tooltip: Removes items in the All Users profile from the Programs menu on the Start menu. By default, the Programs menu contains items from the All Users profile and items from the user's profile. If you enable this setting, only items in the user's profile appear in the Programs menu. Tip: To see the Program menu items in the All Users profile, on the system drive, go to ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs Which is the exact behaviour I'm seeing. So I've disabled that. I'll see how it goes in the next couple of days and I've let the central team know my displeasure. 🙄

I'd thank you... But I can't. 🤷‍♂️

I'm sorry what????

Correct... However this was the right time to do it, the govs agreed with my decision and reasoning and both the BM and the HT were ousted and replaced within the year. There was far more going on than I knew about.

Keyboard 'home' button?

Our phone servers are Lenovo M720 tiny with i5 8th gen and 16 gb ram, because that's what we had lying around at the time. They aren't Entra joined and windows updates are basically manual at the moment. Whilst we aren't a 3cx house any more,they were, and they were fine. They sit at about 20-30% cpu and about 60% ram running Windows 10 LTSC. We've liased with our telephony provider about options to move away from Windows 10 and they've advised that our phone server will be available as a Docker container shortly so we'll be swapping to Linux - probably boot2docker - in the summer.

Unless they're the same person... 😬 I had to go over the head of the BM and HT to the govs about 10 years ago to get a concern about upgrade plans/priorities taken seriously because the old BM didn't/didin't want to understand the need to change. Govs are a last resort and not every board of govs takes kindly to being approached directly.

Everyone is someone's BOFH. 🤣

I've not configured anything deliberately along those lines but that's not to say my Trust hasn't slid something in without telling me! Can you give me an example of something you're doing that is having an effect?

We are entirely cloud based, intune/entra and we've started noticing an issue where students are only seeing modern apps in the start menu - installed win32 apps don't show up, which includes Edge and Office apps. If you search the start menu for them they show as a result and can be accessed. It's like a failed redirected start menu, but we don't have that any more. Nothing of note in event viewer No classroom management software Sometimes the issue rectifies on second login, sometimes it persists untill the machine is cleaned with DelProf. The computers are all windows 11 24h2, they're all Lenovo M720q or HP 800g4. They've got plenty of disk space. Any ideas?

Yeah, please can we have that back! What's new is good, but it's not as easy as the single button.

Yes, and Yes. You can't access anything you shouldn't from it.

Not something I'm seeing here. Just done a whole room of 30 onto 24h2 using WICD sticks and intune registration.

Not my circus, not my monkeys. Our ops manager and the site team deal with all of that, and as they have oversite of all code locks and door keys it's not something that has ever cropped up. Ops manager does a walk every couple of weeks and reminds staff of their obligations about the security of physical data about once a term.

I had weird results with that tool and got a better answer out of the Netwrix one - which is free and they aren't too spammy... https://www.netwrix.com/account_lockout_examiner.html

I've had some back and forth with the product design team about 'new outlook' after raising issues with import and export of PST, opening PST and EML files from double click and integration for merge to email in word. While none of it is official, I've been told that far more features are in the pipeline for the next 2 years and every time I've asked about a specific feature I've been told that it's either in development or on the roadmap. I don't think com plugins are coming back, but most of the other things in this thread should be available in time.

Following... I have 2 members of staff who have emails that are 1 letter different and one is SLT and deals with HR issues, the other is a teacher!

Before I moved to the cloud, this ran as a scheduled task on my DC each night... ### 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 Email was sent to the office email account as they were the one's who did meet n greet with supply staff.

That's weird - I've got one on my desk and mine is soldered! We've been buying our NVME drives from Amazon. 2280 Patriot 128gb £12.99, 2242 Transcend 120gb £16.99 2230 Persistence 128gb £14.99

Are they not soldered storage?