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Everyone isn't using the .net. Everyone has the .net (and the .org), but staff are still using their .uk one primarily, since it allows them to communicate with parents/agencies and it's the one that they're used to. They tend to use their chosen flavour of internal services only emails when they need to communicate with pupils (since that's all it's really good for.) I'd like to ditch 365 and our internal host altogether. With Google's infrastructure it would be incredibly easy to make it so that the internal service only rule only applies to kids, and let the staff use their .Org for everything internal and external. Until you consider the human element, that is. Our staff would, to be diplomatic, not take the transition well. So if I set their mail to .uk to make Spiceworks work again, and set their .net as a ProxyAddress, 365 will still make .net their primary email address instead of school.onmicrosoft.com? Edit: I accept the situation is pretty convoluted. It's really just come about as a series of unfortunate muck-ups and emergency transitions. We ditched Frog because it just wasn't performing, so then we had no VLE. So we looked into 365, since it was free already paid for as part of our volume licensing. 365, it turned out, was up there with Frog as 'not very good', so I started looking at G Suite. G Suite turned out to be a lot better, but by the time I got it set up and ready to go, some of our staff were already using 365, so I can't just turn it off and pretend it never happened.

Yeah, fair assessment. The company has just been crashing in slow motion since the One was released. I still use a OnePlus One with CyanogenOS. It's still a fantastic phone. But I definitely won't be buying another OnePlus handset in the future. Just 'cuz everyone else is doing it, doesn't make it OK. That's why I flashed my S7 Edge on day-1.

Because that's not how the Office 365 tenant (their current mail attribute) works. We have three email systems at the moment. (Personally, I hope we ditch 365 in the future, but it depends on what the staff are using and that's a discussion for another time..) SchoolDomain.uk - our internal/external email. Used by staff only, it's our original email system can be used to communicate outside the domain. SchoolDomain.net - Office 365 tenant, internal service only, used by staff and pupils. SchoolDomain.org - G Suite for Education domain. Internal service only, used by staff and pupils. The problem is there's only one 'mail' attribute per user and everyone wants to use it. Google is smart enough to convert domain names, so if it sees the wrong domain in the mail attribute it simply changes it to SchoolDomain.org. Easy peasy. But SalamanderSoft needs to see their G Suite email as-is, so we opted to use the Office (physicalDeliveryOfficeName) attribute to hold that information. Microsoft is a pain in the ass. If it sees a domain that isn't its own tenant, it makes the primary email address the default school.onmicrosoft.com domain rather than using the SchoolDomain.net address. It still recognises they have a SchoolDomain.net address, and it does assign them that address, but it doesn't set it as their primary email. Both of these services are, as mentioned, internal services only. Spiceworks operates out of a SchoolDomain.uk email address, so it cannot email these addresses. However, you can't tell Spiceworks what attribute to use for user emails, the only LDAP attribute you can change is SAMAccountName. It uses 'mail' for emails. That's it. End of discussion. So right now, it turns out, Spiceworks is emailing SchoolDomain.net addresses and the emails are being rejected because internal service only. So I need to change the mail attributes back to our .uk email addresses to get Spiceworks functioning properly again. But this is going to muck up Office 365 because the mail attribute won't be our tenant address, so it'll change everyone back to being school.onmicrosoft.com So I need to figure out how to change what LDAP attribute Office 365 uses for its email addresses. Does it make sense now?

We've been using Spiceworks helpdesk for a long time and we've come across an issue where it's not emailing users. After some digging it turns out it hasn't been doing this for a long while, and the culprit is because of the E-Mail (mail) attribute on each users' AD account. Current their mail attribute is set to their Office365 tenant email address because if the mail attribute doesn't match an Office 365 tenant name, it changes the users' Primary E-Mail Address to their [email protected] variant which just confuses and annoys everyone, but if you set their 'mail' attribute to your O365 tenant, it sets their Primary E-Mail Address properly. So that's what we've had to do. However, this is resulting in Spiceworks not being able to email users when a ticket is responded to or closed, and Spiceworks doesn't have anywhere to change what attribute it uses for user emails. So I'm left with a decision to make. Somehow I'm going to have to put another entry into each users' AD account with another email address and point Microsoft's Azure AD Connect tool at that. I'm thinking of using the Web Page (wWWHomePage) attribute, since it's on the first tab of a user properties and because we already use the Office (physicalDeliveryOfficeName) attribute for G Suite. Using the Synchronization Rules Editor I have found Outbound User rules (Out to AAD - User Identity; Out to AAD - User Intune; Out to AAD - User LyncOnline; Out to AAD - User SharePointOnline; Out to AAD - User AzureRMS) which list the 'mail' attribute under their Transformations section, so in theory this looks to me like I would just need to edit it from the 'mail' attribute to the 'wWWHomePage' attribute. I just wondered if anybody else had attempted this and can confirm this is right (or slap me and tell me not to touch things if I'm wrong)

I'm much more partial to the beer-inspired melodies of Hip-Hops, myself. Apparently there's a lot of osmium music doing the rounds too.. I keep hearing people refer to heavy metals.

Please note: My attendance usually renders the stream NSFW

Never saw a problem with You are now addicted to Buffout myself

Wait, you're telling me people actually use power armour? I just get in it, fast-travel back to Sanctuary, and put it in my power armour galleria. I hate the HUD, the thunking about, the noises, the lot.

Season 1 of Elementary was fantastic. I didn't even bother finishing Season 2.

Started watching Gotham recently. It's not bad.

Haha, the caretakers never did seem to have very good bios

IIRC there was also 'The Squits', which you contracted by 'eating leftover pizza found under the refrigerator'. Didn't quite get that one when I was little, but I do now Don't know why I remember that one. There was also an invisibility disease(affliction?). I don't remember any of the others.

Cultural difference, then. We do have VDI's for the staff* and they get used fairly frequently, but that's mostly for SIMS and/or 4Matrix, and once we have RemoteApps set up we expect that staff VDI usage will drop off considerably. It's certainly not something the vast majority of our kids would bother with, and since our kids have both G Suite and Office 365, plus are able to use USB storage, there's no issue with them moving files between school and home. I've tried to keep kids using freeware where possible (Blumind, VLC, Audacity, Paint.Net, Google Earth, Foxit, etc) so that the ones that do want to can use the same programs at home, but we don't offer them any form of remote solution and none of them have ever asked. * Well, we have VDI's, or the ability to remote through to a specific machine. Most staff choose the latter, but I'm lumping the stats together because functionally speaking they're both the same to end-users, 'school network from home'.

VDI's on-paper are a great way of keeping old, sluggish machines 'working', but I can't see an implementation like MySchool Desktop being worthwhile before College because kids simply don't care about school outside of school (and half of em don't care inside school too) I can imagine college kids signing in and working from home at night/weekends instead of trawling around with USB's, but in the same vein, I can also imagine college kids would get along fine with just a USB, especially if it's only offering them 500MB storage. If they can connect to this VDI from home they have their own internet and their own PC. In this world of FOSS operating systems (Ubuntu, Mint, etc) and software (LibreOffice, VLC, paint.net, OpenShot and Blender should get you through just about any course you can shake a stick at) and when you incorporate free systems that can work as VLE's like G Suite or Office 365.. Aren't you just adding in another layer of complication where it isn't needed? We did, for a short spell, replace the shell of some of our older machines from explorer.exe to an RDP software (I think it was Citrix..) and ran them using on-side VDI's, but the response wasn't positive and since W10 we haven't had to do that. I think that kind of approach can work in-school but in the grand scale of things, I don't see why Desktop as a Service needs to be a thing.

I used to love Theme Hospital! Nothing like an outbreak of Bloaty Head to give 12 year old me a chuckle "Patients are reminded not to die in the corridors."

To clarify: Pressing insert will no longer result in character-overwriting at all? The input is ignored?

Watched all 3 seasons of BBC's Sherlock over the last 2 weeks. Now I find out there's a season 4. It's not on Netflix. It's not on BBC iPlayer Sad Gara

Given that every MP3 player going is designed to use headphones, and FM radio capability uses the headphones as the antenna, I think you'd be quite hard-pressed to find one that doesn't come with radio. It's just a standard feature by now. I'd personally say +1 for the Clip, I've had a few of them over the years and they're fantastic, cheap, and have expandable storage (so you could keep the exam audio loaded on microSD cards and not issue it until it was needed) but if radio is such a deal-breaker you're gonna struggle finding something.

Confirmed on 1607 LTSB

Yes, but you also go runn/swimm/bowling. And yes, a person can "golf" Edit: beaten to it

Golf has always been a verb. "Playing golf" and "Gone golfing" are both acceptable.

I don't like any doctor for their first couple of episodes I'm sure I'll hate Whittaker at first, too, but like the rest of them she'll probably grow on me.

Similar for PC users: Golf With Your Friends on Steam

Usually it's just name on card/account, account number and sort code. Bank transfers work for a gentleman's agreement between friends, but if you're unfamiliar with online banking (or can't access it at the time) or simply want some kind of payment protection, a cheque is still a good idea. They just need 20th-century-ising.

Because cheques work in theory. It's authorising a one-time payment of a specific, non-negotiable amount without having to use online services. It carries with it its own problems (no guarantee funds are available, 3-7 day wait, etc) but in principle it works. It's a decent middleground between a BACS transfer that carries no protection and setting up a proper purchasing framework. I don't have a chequebook, the only time I've ever handled a cheque is when British Gash owed me £600 and refused to pay it via any other method. But I get why people still hang on to them.