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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?

I work at a small college and we are looking to replace our traditional server/switch/san infrastructure as its hitting its 8th birthday and starting to show its age. Everything is on VMware, but can't upgrade to 6.7 due to the age of the host servers. I've spoken to resellers and vendors and shortlisted down proposals, but have got to a point where I don't know whether should look at converged or go hyper converged. All are hybrid SAN/HHD solutions, same amount of RAM/Processors, proactive support packages. Has anyone got experience/reviews of the following kit, or have moved from one to another for any reasons? Dell FX2 3 nodes FC640, SCv3020 SAN HPE DL360 3 nodes, HPE MSA 2052 Starwind XL-H-11.8 2 Node Nutanix NX-1365-G6-4108-CM Appreciate any advice, Thanks

We're on 9.508-10, maybe once a month or so we have a dropout of about 10 seconds, but looks like it's the web proxy service crashing and restarting. Haven't had any other issues.

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Hi We are finding the adobe serialization abit hit and miss. Will work on some macs and not others. Did you find a way to check in macOS?

Just working on my reference image for next year, this powershell script worked for me $AppsList = "Microsoft.BingWeather","Microsoft.XboxApp","Microsoft.SkypeApp","Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollection","Microsoft.BingSports","Microsoft.ZuneMusic","Microsoft.ZuneVideo","Microsoft.Windowsalarms","Microsoft.People","Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub","Microsoft.WindowsMaps","microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps","Microsoft.Getstarted","Microsoft.3DBuilder","Microsoft.GetHelp","Microsoft.oneconnect","Microsoft.wallet","Microsoft.xbox.TCUI","Microsoft.Xboxgameoverlay","Microsoft.GamingOverlay","Microsoft.xboxidentityProvider" ForEach ($App in $AppsList) { $PackageFullName = (Get-AppxPackage $App).PackageFullName $ProPackageFullName = (Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -online | where {$_.Displayname -eq $App}).PackageName write-host $PackageFullName Write-Host $ProPackageFullName if ($PackageFullName) { Write-Host "Removing Package: $App" remove-AppxPackage -package $PackageFullName } else { Write-Host "Unable to find package: $App" } if ($ProPackageFullName) { Write-Host "Removing Provisioned Package: $ProPackageFullName" Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online -packagename $ProPackageFullName } else { Write-Host "Unable to find provisioned package: $App" } }

The key points were from Grammarly Review 2018: Is Grammarly Good & Safe to Use? The first point is under - How does Grammarly use my Information? But yes looking at the policy document again i can't see the last point, although they have got a faq on their website about keylogging - https://support.grammarly.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003816032-Is-Grammarly-a-keylogger- while it says they dont record every keystroke on your device, they do record keystrokes within their applications.

Hi Our marketing department use Grammarly, but their privacy policy isn't great privacy-wise The site and the software collect the users’ Unique Device Identifier, geographic location from where you are operating your smartphone or PC, the language you are interacting with. Grammarly site and the software collect and receive the type hardware and the software you are using, the information obtained from the cookies. Also, if you logged into the Grammarly from your Facebook or Google+ account, they will collect your basic information from respective social media. More importantly, any content you write on Grammarly, you give Grammarly full permission and access to use it for improvement of algorithms underlying the software and the services. Grammarly keeps track and records all of your keystrokes and then analyses the content to detect and suggest the errors. The user themselves are solely responsible for the security and proper use of all user IDs, passwords or other security devices used in connection with the Site and/or the Services. Grammarly doesn’t guarantee 100% safety of the information transferred to them by the user. The users should acknowledge at their own risk. I'm debating whether to allow them to continue using Grammarly but have a company policy stating they must turn it off if typing confidential information or just block its use. Does anyone else allow this or have a policy inplace to make users aware of the risks?

we use - Alertus Desktop Notifications free for education(https://www.alertus.com/donation)

Hi What are peoples thoughts on the announced price rises for jisc in 19/20 https://feweek.co.uk/2018/03/06/funding-cut-leaves-colleges-paying-high-price-for-essential-it-services/ Would you move away from ja.net as your isp? Very little downtime, cyber security protection and excellent quality of internet, but could others provide this for less?

Did you find any pricing? Might start looking into this. Thanks