jdell

Severn Vale School - IT Operations Manager

Hi, We are deploying Windows 10 Education to out site over this summer and have hit an issue with the start menu customisation, trying to get the start menu to look like; We have then exported the file to XML using powershell as suggested by MS. When we try to import the file onto another PC to test or try deploying by GPO the file is not applied. We are running build 1703. This is the layout file Please help! Thanks

I agree with FN-GM, if you lock down the network properly in the first place even if they have the IDE installed then CMD wont be able to do anything. We run Phyton and visual studio in our environment and we have never had any issues with students running code on the computer suites. I previously ran a large organisation that offered 16+ education and we never had issues there.

Can I ask a few questions? I dealt with a similar issue when I took over my current site and think I can help point you in the right direction with this. What OS are your Mac's running? Are both the iMac and Macbook's running the same version of the OS down to the release i.e 10.12.2 ? There is a known issue with x.x.1 . x.x.2 versions changing the set up of the keychain. What domain functional level are you running? What OS are your domain controllers running? Do you have Mac Server? Are the Mac's and Macbooks, Mac server bound to AD?

I have my team using Solarwinds WebHelpDesk, this is the 3rd establishment I have installed it for and the key behind its success for me is the level of flexibility you have with it, if you really want to customise the set up you can. Especially to suit working in an ITIL compliant way. Spiceworks is fine as a means of recording requests etc, but if you ever look to grow into a department with ITIL at its core then you will find Spiceworks cannot achieve this as its not set up in the right way. I am move than happy to show you the custom configuration we use to make SolwarWinds WHD a super tool for a very busy IT department.

We are looking for an Apprentice to join our fast paced IT Support Team, all the details can be found here. http://www.gloscol.ac.uk/apprenticeships/vacancies/severn-vale-school/?returnPage=4

Cheers just what I needed. James

Do you allow your students to use Pintrest? Thanks

Thanks, I have asked our LA as we are an academy they haven't been too forth coming at this point.

Hello, I am hoping someone on here can help! I am the IT Operations Manager for a school who prior to my engagement has suffered from being led by IT consultants and large IT firms down a particular path best aligned with their profit margins as apposed to using the best technology, standards or best practices to achieve the schools long and short term goals. With my introduction and the removal of an out sourced IT support team, I am looking to provide the school with a independent review/audit on the schools IT systems, processes, staff and procedures. This review would be benchmarked against industry standards, ITIL, ISO/IEC , Etc. and would provide the school a level of governance which is much needed to reinforce the support for the decision that are being made and will be made moving forward. I am keen to know what you do for this level of checking, do you even do anything? I have been in contact with a few independent IT consultancy firms but the issue always lies in that they are not truly independent they will have arrangements with suppliers , software vendors or other firms to recommend their platforms or solutions during any audit. What I am looking for is very close to what a business would receive in the form of a yearly financial audit. Many Thanks in advance.

UE-V would be the way to go, in terms of set up it will require you to invest more time in the background configured to support UE-V in your environment. Its also worth noting that you need to check you have the licences for UE-V from Microsoft as its not included in the basic campus agreement. I used UE-V in a large deployment 10,000 user deployment and it works really well if set up properly, we used in with Win 7 and 8.1

Hi Ben, when you say you are getting this error can you be more specific. Are you deploying via the PXE environment or Via Software Center. When you say you are installing 8.1 is this from a ISO or a custom capture? Is this a newly built task sequence or an updated one? Which version of SCCM are you running - (version number would be best.) If you are using PXE which version of the WINPE environment are you using? If you can give as much information as possible I will try to help out.

Davit2005 what licencing do you have for Veeam is its Veeam or Veeam Enterprise?

I have seen a similar issue elsewhere when moving from 2k13 to 2k16. What server OS are you running your KMS on? What KMS version are you running? How many unique machinces have you got running Office 2016 trying to activate?

SCCM is perfectly designed to support the deployment of such applications. The question is why are you deploying software updates weekly? Why are you not using GPO's to disable auto update on the applications and then choosing a stable version of the software and running with that for a set time frame. We generally run term to term with a single version then download, UAT and deploy the next version as a supersededance in SCCM so that we have a constant state of stable systems. With Java, Flash etc we usually run one back from the current version depending on the release notes etc. Proper software management is key, in any enterprise environment it is not a good idea to run the bleeding edge version of software.