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I've just been through all this... Had a link to test things last week, installed the browser extension, but it then fell over as the prompt to 'share the microphone and camera' that should appear in the address bar, didn't...! the test launched in a new window that didn't have the icons on the right hand side of the address bar... we are using Edge. Tested again on monday morning and got the 'you need to install the Mettl Secure browser' prompt. Which i did and the test fell over on the same point... after long conversations between myself, the exams officer and the Cambridge support people... the secure browser is not needed, only the extension...! despite the web site saying no additional software needed... have now managed to GPO the extension to the broswer to our laptops and all now seems to work on the test... we're getting the share the microphone and camera prompt... Does seem an awful lot of faff for the 4 students we've got taking it...

In a cmd window, what does the output of 'netsh winhttp show proxy' give...? we've had issues where the system proxy (the netsh result) was different from what was set in our managemnet console (CC4.5)

We used the Kernel Office 365 migration tools from Nucleus Technologies they have two versions, a simpler version which i'd recommend... and a full blown version... but both use the outlook profile on the machine, both need a global admin account on both tenants and neither can use MFA... We did a Office 365 to Office 365 migration to bring our disparate tenancies under 1 umbrella tenant... not cheap... £1500 for 1000 mailboxes... There are no 'free' mechanisms and no Microsoft tools really... there are lots of 'kludges' where you can export a PST from then security section of the Office 365 Admin console... but not simple... We had the added issue of keeping the same domain name, so had to copy the mailboxes, delete the source domain, add it to the destination domain and then change the alias on all the mailboxes.. so the down time is a concern... took us 4 days to migrate 150 mailboxes.. in that time they had no email access... Not moving domains is a lot simpler and the new users can get access the moment the account is created on the new tenant... and then they wait whilst the copy happens... Preparation is key... we had users with 40Gig mailboxes which slowed the process somewhat... so get users on board early... cleanup their mailboxes... etc I've only done the first 150 users... and i'm only planning to move staff accounts... Student accounts will be created afresh... my 2p PS This only does Email... share point and one drive is another thing i'm about to think about...

we use the FileExplorer app on the iPad to upload to a share on the server that teachers have access to from their desktops. This gets them off the ipads and into an area that staff can see them and archive / print as necessary.. the link to the app store page is: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/fe-file-explorer-file-manager/id510282524 there is a paid for version I use at home, but the free one works fine for a single server connection... my 2p

we use Mutiny here... https://www.mutiny.com/product/academic/ and its £1 per device for academic use... its free for the first 10 devices, so worth a download to see if it works... can run on a VM or physical...! It paid for itself when it spotted a failing drive on one of our user data servers...

The Licence server software should be on the original Sibelius installation DVD... according to the sibelius notes i have... and has been said previously, your avid master account... but if you have neither... you're a bit stuck... good luck on your hunt..

another 'plus one' for winff... converts virtually anything to anything else... easy to make custom presets as well with a bit of ffmpeg command line knowledge... used it for professional media mangling in my previous job and now in school for mangling anything' from drama' videos to shrinking our hi-res CCTV down to something staff can watch easily...

Simplest option would be a cheap freeview TV, doesn't need to be a smart one if you don't need anything interactive, put gaffer tape over the IR reciever and hide the remote control...! leave it set on News 24 and use a timer to turn of the mains to it... may need to be restarted each day though, unless the TV turns on when power is applied. IF you go down the smart TV route, most have timers built in that will turn on the TV to a certain input at your chosen time... my 2p

we have Avaya IP Office too... with voicemail pro. 250 odd staff, probably 150 extentions accross 2 sites, all on our internal LAN. Paid for itself in 9 months over phone line rental etc.

Hi there, without knowing the specifics, and it sounds like both of your arms are tied... i quick google found this on Amazon... Haven't used it myself, but the description seems to be what you need... which is line level audio from a laptop to a phono socket(s) 20m away... and theyre USB powered... no idea what the quality might be like...

Glad you got it working, even if it needs a minor tweak... i probably spent a week in all getting the first import to work, most of that was with the mangling in Excel... mind you... got to know the inner workings of excel quite well...

we're currently using 1.6.1 of MRBS... hadn't looked for an update recently... i'm a bit of an 'if it ain't broke...' person..!

Edge can be very flaky in certain things... I think I did the last import using IE11... possibly Firefox... they're the browsers I use most... enjoy the time off...

looks like the browser / server has 'lost' something on the MRBS side...! Haven't come across that particular error myself. I'd try the usual things.. log out of MRBS, close the browser, re open broswer, login fresh etc. Have you set up admin users in the config.php file? I know you're using AD to authenticate though so that 'should' work... We never got AD authentication working smoothly and used session authentication in the end... it was enough to stop the teachers messing things up..

of course... The bulkyearmake.php file needs the csv to have 7 columns in this order: Room ID, Day, Period, Class, Teacher Code, Subject Code & Number of Students. Room ID should be the MRBS 'room' number - see browser address bar when room is open, Period should be defined as 'Mon:7' or 'Mon:07'. The bulkyearmake.php file does have some help comments buried within the file. the first 2 lines of my csv file is: Room ID,Day,Period,Class,Teacher Code,Subject Code,Number of Students 7,Wed,Wed:6,111/Fn1,Mrs A Baker - Food and Nutrition,A, Obviously the 2nd line mentioned is just how we display rooms / teacher names / subjects etc.... I didn't use the number of students column and it didn't fall over on import. hope that helps.. PM me for more info or if you want a copy of the mangling spreadsheet, but its all very basic macros for deleting empty columns, removing columns we don't need, formatting cells to be correct, adding columns together to generate teacher plus subject and doing lookups to convert room names into the Room ID numbers etc. Nick My excel spreadsheet 'mangles' the Bromcom export csv into the above MRBS csv layout

There isn't a direct import from csv as such... I found a php file on edugeek called 'bulkyearmake.php' and that does take a csv file and adds bookings en masse to the system. We take a csv export from bromcom, run it through a spreadsheet with 15 or so macros to mangle the data into a form that the bulkyearmake.php can handle. the bulkyearmake.php thread is here: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/scripts/40387-sims-mrbs-script-available-4.html#post868310 happy to share the mangling spreadsheet to show what we did... We have to tweak it each time we do an import as Bromcom changes its csv export fields and we have to amend the column names etc. kind regards Nick

Hi mdrabble, we use MRBS... https://mrbs.sourceforge.io/ of the things you list: Authenticate using Active Directory - Yes, but we use the windows session credentials. Import TimeTables from SIMS.net - don't know... We use Bromcom and a export to csv for the rooms, mangle it in Excel to a form the MRBS understands. We use the bulkyearmake.php file i found on Edugeek to import the mangled rom data. Support 2 week timetables - yes, we run 2 week timetables. importing the data is fun though, the half term breaks the 2 week cycle as you have to 'bump' the week. the xmas and easter breaks are fine as they're 2 weeks (ish) Preferably free or a cheap as possible! - free SSO would be nice but not essential - don't know... we dont use that but are starting RM Unify soon... Prefer on premise but can be hosted - hosted on one of our HyperV farms... hope that helps...

I once had to rename 25,000 TIF files... but found a utility called BRU (Bulk Rename Utility) which will rename loads of files and gives you options of pre pending names / numbers or adding names numbers at the end or in the middle of the file name... a quick google (Bulk Rename Utility) does still list it... its free for personal / home use...

you can use powershow... (OfficeOne: PowerShow) that lets you customise which PPT runs on which Monitor. Downside is it costs $120... I came accross it when i was doing a theatre show that needed to show different images on different screens. Luckily the Director changed their mind to be one image accross all screens. Might just be easier to use a second hand PC... we have more of them here than cash available...

a quick google gave this live clock: Large Live Clock or have i got the wrong end of the stick about your requirements? Our exams invigilators use a physical clock... much easier for us... until they need batteries..!

Still broken for me and users... Been 3 days now.... thank goodness for back doors...

We have a 2200 that's about to be disposed of... Chassis looks the same... Batteries went and we upgraded to a new box with bigger capacity... We're in Wantage, Oxfordshire... Nick

Hi There, We're looking for an ICT Technician to join us in a small team that look after a 3 site Academy, 5 Primaries with another Secondary school. 50 plus Servers, half are virtualised. We use vSphere, Hyper V, Windows, Mac, a little bit of Linux, and 400 odd ipads... Come and get your hands dirty...! Details can be found here: Please feel free to PM if you've any questions. Thanks for looking Nick

Hi There, We're looking for an ICT Technician to join us in a small team that look after a 3 site Academy, 5 Primaries with another Secondary school about to join us. 50 plus Servers, half are virtualised. We use vSphere, Hyper V, Windows, Mac, a little bit of Linux, and 400 odd ipads... Come and get your hands dirty...! Details can be found here: Thanks for looking Nick

HI Ben, Found the details...! here's the quote from the RM Support call i'd raised: This updated build disk is delivered via CC4UPD187 and 188. (Updated WIM images and build disk version for Windows 7 x86 and 64 respectively) The updated version of the build disk (Rm Default Build Disk WinPE 3.1 version 1.0.0.19)will then allow you to select USB device drivers to be added to the disk as well as the network drivers which can then be utilised during the build process. Nick