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Do you thrive on solving technical challenges and keeping systems running smoothly? We’re looking for a skilled and proactive IT Network Technician to play a key role in maintaining and developing our college’s IT infrastructure. Join our forward-thinking team and help create a reliable, innovative digital environment where staff and students can thrive. Principal Duties · Network Maintenance: Assist with providing second line support for routine network tasks, including cabling, connectivity, testing, queries and issues. · Hardware Support: Participate in hardware installations, audits, and maintenance, including replacing components and ensuring smooth operation. · Software Support: Help with software installations, updates, and troubleshooting. · Second-Line Support: Provide support to users for technical issues, escalating when necessary. · Customer Support: Communicate effectively with users, guiding them through troubleshooting steps and providing technical assistance. · Security: Assist with network security tasks, such as user account management and access permissions. · Autonomy and self-management: The ability to work without constant direct supervision, manage your own time, and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines. · Documentation: Document tasks and procedures, ensuring proper knowledge transfer. · Operating Systems: Deploy and manage Windows and Apple operating systems. · MDM: Work with MDM products to manage Apple and Windows systems, along with mobile devices, such as iPhones and Android devices. · Escalation: Escalate issues to more experienced staff when necessary. Kendal College | IT Network Technician

We have a few of these and would fit SH-12s in that slot.

Kendal College are looking to appoint a new manager, as I move on at the end of May. Kendal College | IT Network Manager

Ablesign - currently free, but looking like they are planning to start charging $2 per screen/per month. Installed around 18 months ago and seems easy to manage and reliable.

Hi This has got us scratching our heads..... when a new AD user is created and they logging for the first time, a user folder gets created on a file server via a gpo \\fileserver\studentdocuments$\intake 2023\%username%. But since around mid November this seems to have stopped working. The weird bit is, if we log them on with a computer that hasn't been turned on for a few weeks, that folder does get created and the drive mapped no problem. Looked at rolling back windows updates, if there have been any changes to GPO, but cant find anything that would be restricting the folder creation. Permissions haven't changed since September when 1000+ account were created without issue. Anyone seen anything similar?

+1 for Mosyle We had similar pains on our mac network, tried JAMF for a year but have been happy Mosyle customers for the past couple of years.

Now the dust has settled a little on this change to CE, what are peoples thoughts on how they are going to implement this. I think for this year we will go from being fully compliant to only a subset, just what's needed for funding to be fully covered. Once they review the new question set, fingers crossed ESFA and others stop using CE as a guide on establishments cyber resiliency. I'm just in the process of creating a paper for SLT on some expensive NAC solutions, a policy based approach, or an MDM, intune? where if staff which to connect to our network they need to jump through a few hoops to gain access. In terms of cloud and remote access to resources, hopefully Azure Application Proxy will work for most. BYOD is risky and in fairness this has made me look at how we allow this.

Hi Has anyone worked out a process for BTEC marking sheets(or any attached document) to be uploaded as feedback to the student if collecting assignments via Teams, instead of just using the feedback text box? https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053-schools-and-universities/suggestions/40140295-improve-teacher-feedback-on-assignments-zoom-rot Thanks

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Hi Has anyone had a request to block chat between two students on Teams (safeguarding)? The only control I can find is to turn off chat altogether in the Teams policy for the two students, but this then affects their interaction with other students and teams in general. Has anyone found a granular solution the would limit communication just between two users?

I've been looking for it the past few days and can't find it either

Hi We are currently looking at bring all our different portals together under one and are looking at MyDay. Does anyone use this, https://myday.collabco.com/ how have you found it, easy to administrate? or do you use an alternative to MyDay.

We've used https://mrbs.sourceforge.io/ for the past few years for booking out several laptop and ipad trolleys. Links into AD for staff to book out kit.

Hi In their ultimate wisdom, Microsoft seems to have removed the cmdlet to assign templates to the Microsoft teams module and it was only available in a preview. We are wanting to create teams from an CSV file and set them as an EDU_Class, giving the team, the assignments and class notebook tabs. Has anyone a workaround or know which previous version had this included. This is the code we are trying to use #Creating Microsoft teams using .csv function Create-NewTeam { param ( $ImportPath ) Process { Import-Module MicrosoftTeams $cred = Get-Credential $username = $cred.UserName Connect-MicrosoftTeams -Credential $cred $teams = Import-Csv -Path $ImportPath foreach($team in $teams) { $getteam= get-team |where-object { $_.displayname -eq $team.TeamsName} If($getteam -eq $null) { Write-Host "Start creating the team: " $team.TeamsName $group = New-Team -MailNickName $team.TeamsName -displayname $team.TeamsName -Template $team.Template Write-Host "Creating channels..." Create-Channel -ChannelName $team.ChannelName -GroupId $group.GroupId Write-Host "Adding team members..." Add-Users -Users $team.Members -GroupId $group.GroupId -CurrentUsername $username -Role Member Write-Host "Adding team owners..." Add-Users -Users $team.Owners -GroupId $group.GroupId -CurrentUsername $username -Role Owner Write-Host "Completed creating the team: " $team.TeamsName $team=$null } } } } Create-NewTeam -ImportPath "C:\CreateTeams\NewTeams.csv"

Hi Any Janet/JISC users signed up to https://www.jisc.ac.uk/janet-network-resolver how was the setup process, any negative impacts?