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Job at Tiverton High School for an IT Technician. The job is term time only and use of a car is essential as a lot of time will be spent at 2 partner Primary schools. If you need any details or have questions please ask. Job application and full details; https://tiverton.devon.sch.uk/vacancies/ict-technician/ https://uk.indeed.com/cmp/Tiverton-High-School/jobs?jk=56f520f29f6c8755&start=0&clearPrefilter=1 Simon Forder IT Manager Tiverton High School.

Hi , just reaching out here as Google support are not being overly helpful and was wondering if anyone else had come up against this issue? We are a 365 school with Google Classroom as an add on. This is working pretty well during lockdown for engagement but we have been contacted by SWGfL as our mail is queueing at their servers them with thousands of bounced messages. The messages come from @chime-notifications.bounces.google.com and the attachment they have sent me gives no clues a that I can see of errors or non delivery codes. All the usual notifications from @classroom.google.com are delivered fine although 2 hours late now because of this issue! There are no other issues I am aware of with our email setup was has been in place for many years. It may be that I am not seeing the obvious in the attachment so this is the beginning; *** ENVELOPE RECORDS hold/58F2B20FAE *** message_size: 9733 781 1 0 9733 message_arrival_time: Wed Jan 6 09:24:40 2021 create_time: Wed Jan 6 09:24:40 2021 named_attribute: log_ident=58F2B20FAE named_attribute: rewrite_context=remote sender: 3tvz0XxEUAIk01-4r2yB+MqDrLoMppyn55411z.t11tyr.p1z@chime-notifications.bounces.google.com named_attribute: log_client_name=unknown named_attribute: log_client_address=10.77.xx named_attribute: log_client_port=41967 named_attribute: log_message_origin=unknown[10.77.xx] named_attribute: log_helo_name=mail.tiverton.devon.sch.uk named_attribute: log_protocol_name=ESMTP named_attribute: client_name=unknown named_attribute: reverse_client_name=unknown named_attribute: client_address=10.77.xx named_attribute: client_port=41967 named_attribute: helo_name=mail.tiverton.devon.sch.uk named_attribute: protocol_name=ESMTP named_attribute: client_address_type=2 named_attribute: dsn_orig_rcpt=rfc822;[email protected] original_recipient: [email protected] recipient: [email protected] *** MESSAGE CONTENTS hold/58F2B20FAE *** Received: from mail.tiverton.devon.sch.uk (unknown [10.77.xx]) by isp2.tc1.swgfl.ifl.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 58F2B20FAE for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2021 09:24:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from EX2016.tiverton.devon.sch.uk (10.77.xx) by EX2016.tiverton.devon.sch.uk (10.77.xx) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.1913.5; Wed, 6 Jan 2021 09:24:31 +0000 Received: from isp1.th1.swgfl.ifl.net (62.171.221.17) by EX2016.tiverton.devon.sch.uk (10.77.xx) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.1913.5 via Frontend Transport; Wed, 6 Jan 2021 09:24:31 +0000 Received: from emx2.ifl.net (emx2.ifl.net [217.181.2.50]) by isp1.th1.swgfl.ifl.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C2A5F256DB for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2021 23:56:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail-pf1-f198.google.com (mail-pf1-f198.google.com [209.85.210.198]) by emx2.ifl.net with ESMTP id 105NucAS020427-105NucAU020427 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=CAFAIL) for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2021 23:56:39 GMT Received: by mail-pf1-f198.google.com with SMTP id k13so517327pfc.2 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:56:39 -0800 (PST) I am not overly stressed as this will go away as soon as we return to normal but it would be good to get the emails moving smoothly again. thanks Simon

Hi We have moved from Teams to Google Classroom as our remote/home learning platform this year. We are currently keeping 365 for everything else including email and as such I have provisioned all our users across to Google so they use 365 authentication to login to GC. This is working quite well with the usual caveats about sending emails inside GC etc. The one thing that is bugging me, and I'm sure it can be made to work, is the fact that when a students is missing from a class the teacher cannot search for users when they click the 'invite students' link. They can enter the full email address of the student who then appears in the search but if they do a name search nothing will appear. All the students are listed in the Google Directory Users list with correct first name, surname, email and when I search in the Google User list I can successfully find anyone.. Is there anyone else who has a hybrid setup like ours who has got this work at all please or is it something that needs say Gmail to work? Many thanks Simon

Guys we have a position opened up for an IT Tech. at Tiverton High School. We want somebody who can hit the ground running and will be expected to go out an support a few local primary's solo . Initially the job is temporary pending the local schools we support re-signing come April but that hasn't been a problem in the past. Vacancies Get in touch if you need any info.

I have just managed to find a script that someone cleverer than me wrote ; This script assigns all 'Company Administrators' as Owners on every user's personal site I have changed the script so that the Company domain is 'YourDomain.com'. Also, if your Admins' email addresses aren't the same as their UPNs, you'll need to amend the script accordingly... ########### $objCreds = Get-Credential Connect-SPOService -Url https://yourdomain-admin.sharepoint.com -credential $objCreds Connect-MSOLService -credential $objCreds $objRole = Get-MsolRole -RoleName "Company Administrator" $colAdmins = Get-MsolRoleMember -RoleObjectId $objRole.ObjectId | Select EmailAddress $colUsers = Get-MSOLUser -All | Select UserPrincipalName foreach ($objUser in $colUsers){ $strUser = $objUser.userprincipalname $intPos = $strUser.IndexOf("@") $strUser = $strUser.SubString(0, $intPos) $strSite = "https://yourdomain-my.sharepoint.com/personal/" + $strUser $strSite = $strSite + "_yourdomain_com" foreach ($objAdmin in $colAdmins){ Set-SPOUser -Site $strSite -LoginName $objAdmin.EmailAddress -IsSiteCollectionAdmin $true } } Write-Host "Press any key to continue ..." $x = $host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown") ############ I have tried putting my school domain in but am not getting any joy and not having delved too deep into PowerShell it is just confusing me! Maybe one of the many guys who is more familiar with the scripting of PS can get it working? Simon

peter did you find a solution to this issue. I too would really like to access the pupils onedrive and manually doing 1400 is

We are at a bit of an impasse. County have forced us to shutdown 3 IT suites and change them back into normal classrooms as we need the space. In order to sweeten this pill they gave us funding to buy 3 sets of laptops and a wifi upgrade which was very useful. We are now wondering how to effectively distribute these to pupils with the least amount of disruption as possible whilst maintaining the integrity of the system. I favour a central store by our IT support office where all the laptops are kept and managed by the techs who can book out/in and put on charge etc. SLT see this as a point of disruption and want the laptops spread out across the school. I can see the advantage in terms of avoiding a bottleneck but can see a whole raft of other potential problems like; who is responsible for them, who makes sure they are on charge, who checks for damage etc. etc. How do you do it, and does it work?

We use Epraise - works well and has API's to display live graphs on our webpage...

Within the client you simply set the session type as 'Microsoft RemoteApp Desktop' and then add the server URL, I was orignally putting https://myserver/rdweb which failed to connect but with help from Matthew just put myserver and the client connects and lists everything published to rdweb as icons on the homescreen; I currently have Win8, Win7 and some published apps.

I'm trying out an AXEL M80 at the moment and have it connecting to a 2012 RDS VDI server using pooled W7 and W8 VMs. Performance looks pretty good and the sso works well

Hi I was very excited by the news that SWGfL our rbc are offering a transparent proxy module for free as part of their services - that would really move us forward with mobile devices and is just what we need. BUT I had notification from them that can only implement this if my internal and external domain names are different - which they currently aren't! I have all manner of services/certificates etc. running, including Exchange 2010, which could be badly affected by a domain name change and the thought fills me with dread. I have read that many of you have setup transparent proxies with vlans and was wondering whether this was straightforward bearing in mind we only have cheap HP L2 switches (2510G)? I really don't know what I am doing and apologise for this but do I simply; - tag a vlan on the ports which my Ruckus access points are connected to. - setup a new wlan in the ruckus controller which is linked to the tagged vlan. - change our squid box proxy to transparent and somehow capture only the requests on the tagged vlan. The bits that then confuse me are what do I do about IPs for the vlan? do the connected mobile devices have a completely different IP to my IP range or do I use 2 dhcp servers so they use ranges from our existing range? How do I sort out the DNS issue as this is the reason for the swgfl insistence that I change domain names... and how do I get the squid box to talk to the upstream swgfl proxy without an L3 switch? I have been scouring info on Google but its almost the simplest questions that I'm having trouble finding answers for. Thanks in advance Simon

Hi Pete Just wondered how you went about setting up the transparent proxy service. We have a request in but the prerequisites talk about renaming our entire internal domain which sounds like a real headache especially as we use Exchange 2010 which apparently doesn't like domain renaming. Did you manage to do this without too much pain? Cheers Simon

Been running on-screen exams for a few years now all using different software (!) first time we've ever had a failure.

Ours are freezing on question 5! The exams officer is livid as we had a problem with our Year 10 mocks on the 10th where some failed on question 6 and the WJEC were rubbish at supporting that issue. We have resorted to paper to finish the exam. Update: Just heard it's a national issue with the Geology exam, heads have GOT to roll!!

At the risk of sounding like a complete numpty here, do you have to enter the 'confirm your domain' CNAME DNS record in your domain DNS server or does the RBC need to do it for you? My domain hasn't been confirmed for over 24 hours now

Absolutely and they are very apologetic once discovered (often by pupils) but still it occurs! We do have shares with what you think are obvious names like PUBLIC and STAFF but we then have staff setting up their own staff folders inside subject areas on the PUBLIC drive. I did find an audit tool sharealarm but don't know if a) it's any good and b) whether it will tell us anything useful apart from who to blindfold and stand against the nearest wall. I am considering the vle route but the sheer amount of work involved is a bit mindboggling and we'd seriously need to beef up our Moodle server's capacity.

We have had a few problems recently with teachers saving confidential data to a public shared drive meant for pupil resources As a parent recently helpfully informed the local press that disability info was freely available at school the Head had asked me to tighten up the whole system. As a starting point I need to at least monitor who has added files to the drive and would be overjoyed if a utility/script was available which popped up a dialogue box when users try to save to the drive which could be customised, you know the sort of thing "you are about to save something which can be seen by everyone etc". Does anyone know of any such software I could try? Also what systems do other employ to avoid this scenario? Cheers Simon

You can disable or enable whatever you want BUT you do so for all users (we like a 'them and us situation' here

I was and had to laugh at the swgfl hard sell before the figures came out!! Definitely going, I'm from Tivvy High so its a short walk up the hill for me

staff proxy is working fine here albeit a right pain for the techies! I don't envy the LA reps at the NMs meeting in tiverton next month, at the last one they got hammered because of the swgfl renewal costs

Many thanks, I'll give it a go and with that Kix manual a bit of light bedtime reading...

I have inherited a Kix login script and it's all double dutch to me! The entry I'm interested in is this one; If exist (“o:\)=0 Use o: “\\..\..” Does this entry map the drive ONLY if it doesn’t previously exist? If so how can I delete the drive first then map it to get rid of a persistent drive, would changing the 0 to a 1 make the difference? Cheers Simon

Not yet, that's why I wanted to get this sorted before we deploy.

Has anyone out there ever tried the server 2003 domain rename tool? I'm quite keen to change just the Netbios name of our domain and wondered how easy this was, all the documentation I've seen talks about the DNS name with only passing comment on the Netbios name. I'm hoping the biggest issue will be the users will have to locate the new name in the domains list at login... anything else I should be aware of?

Looking specifically at the filtering side of things I like to look of the linux based solutions like smoothwall. I have looked at our local swgfl solution which is RM SafetyNet Plus and was wondering what advantages I am getting by adding our own layer of filtering locally? :-k