TC-1927

Thanks to both! Very helpful.

Morning Everyone We are reviewing the way we generate pupil reports and are interested to see what other school's reports look like before we design our own. Is anyone able to share their designs/templates so we can see what others have done and what the general standard looks like? Many Thanks!

We discovered this was happening to us last week. I logged it with our Local Authority who provide our SIMS support, who deployed Patch 20676 (PRB10301). This has cleared the issue, but it has also blanked everyone's home pages. Which was nice of them.

Will bookmark this for the summer. Cheers both!

I just remembered how far I got with that walk-through: "...Then purchase and install a server-authentication certificate from a public certificate authority. Make sure you match the certificate’s subject name with the Fully Qualified Domain Name of the server. Launch IIS Manager and import that certificate to the default Web site" Purchase a what-from-wherenow?

Hi We are also looking at this. From what I have read, in order to achieve the above you'd require a full-fat SSO implemented, which would require ADFS. I started working through this in my test environment, but real life got in the way, and by that time I had sort of decided that AzureADConnectionTool (ie dirsync) would probably suffice for the meantime. If anyone has this working (especially in a Local Authority environment) I'd appreciate any pointers.

Hi We saw these guys at Bett and have been trialing it. Looks good. One or two staff are starting to use it in lessons. @JRowley - it took overnight for ours to set up. Their support have been helpful so far but the issue we're having is more MS related:- When bulk adding new users to Teacher Dashboard, it requires all users to have their OneDrives already provisioned. Apparently this is possible with some powershell-fu. For our existing user base this isn't too problematic but for new pupils (ie over the summer) we're going to need it to work. Does anyone have any idea of how to do this?

Morning, I've been using a similar script which I got off here before. I think it was an older version, but it works like a charm so many thanks to whoever wrote it: Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network") Set objWMI = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2") ' Get service tag and computer manufacturer For Each objSMBIOS in objWMI.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_SystemEnclosure") serviceTag = replace(objSMBIOS.SerialNumber, ",", ".") manufacturer = replace(objSMBIOS.Manufacturer, ",", ".") Next ' Get computer model For Each objComputer in objWMI.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem") model = trim(replace(objComputer.Model, ",", ".")) Next ' Get computer object in AD Set objSysInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo") Set objComputer = GetObject("LDAP://" & objSysInfo.ComputerName) ' Build up description field data and save into computer object if different from current description ' We also do not update computers with a description that starts with an underscore (_) newDescription = WshNetwork.UserName & " (" & serviceTag & " – " & manufacturer & " " & model & ")" if not objComputer.Description = newDescription and not left(objComputer.Description,1) = "_" then objComputer.Description = newDescription objComputer.SetInfo end if Would anyone be able to tell me if there's a straightforward way of date stamping (not too worried about times, just DDMMYYYY) the description in AD when the users log in? Thanks!

Thankyou - back on the blower I get.

Hi Does anyone know that what I've just been told by our supplier is correct - that we can't use our existing school apple ID and have to register new IDs for both VPP and DEP? Thanks!

How many classes do you have to kit out for £2k? I think the biggest problem you'll have is managing expectations! Some printer manufacturers (Konica, Samsung and Epson I know for sure) make IOS/Android apps to talk to networked printers*, and there are apps which can do the whole network share thing on both devices as well, with vary degrees of ease of use for the end user. Essentially they're all workarounds though. Search the app store/google play. As a means of getting more diverse multimedia into classrooms tablets are great, but unless you go the whole hog with windows tabs I can't see how they can do away with desktops/laptops for admin etc. *Konica's is called Pagescope

Thanks for the replies! It's still easter term here at the moment, and they have inspection coming up so I'm not moving anything just yet lest I become swiftly unemployed. Hoping that I can crack it over the summer having given them the summer term to move stuff! I'm going to get a media share up and running anyway to 'encourage' staff to at least attempt to differentiate - I neglected to mention that I already have redirected my docs in place as I'm sure you're aware with teaching staff we have horse>water issues. Also - I see both sides of the argument for/against departmental restrictions but I probably won't implement them in this school - at least not for the forseeable. It depends on the size/needs of the school and staff in fairness.

I've been putting it off for too long now, it's time to tackle the hulking great mess that is one of school's staff shares. I don't know where to start really - it's around 1.5TB of data and ticks all the boxes: - photo and video evidence, spread out nicely all over the share - lots of uncompressed photos with lots of publisher/office files relying on current file paths - users creating their 'own' folders (and moaning when stuff goes missing), in no particular location. - hilariously long file paths etc! I've been running regular backups on it, but rather than buying more space I need to get it organised first. My first step is probably to pull all the multimedia files out and move them to a different location, so any scripts would be much appreciated - but does anyone have any similar experiences/stories and more importantly some advice on where to start? Cheers!

OK, reinstalled the server again and it's started working. No idea why, but it seems to be running now! Thanks for your help all - especially @caffrey

Yeah, rebuilt the box to 32 bit (it was 64 bit to start with), clean install of client, correct server key, click 'register' and get this: Client found response content type of 'text/html', but expected 'text/xml'. The request failed with an empty response. If I click 'Display admin' it takes me to the Xibo login page, and I can log and and administer the xibo server from the client. Thanks again.

I did. As I say, it's got rid of the 'preg_replace(): The /e modifier is deprecated, use preg_replace_callback instead' error but I'm still in the same position with trying to register the client. Looks as if there's a file missing somewhere, maybe one that the server should be copying over when it registers? I'm guessing...

Still stuck... anyone?

Hello again, Tried again this morning with a clean build 32 bit W7 client and I'm still seeing the same 'client found response content type of 'text/html', but expected 'text/xml'. The request failed with an empty response'. On the client info page there are two errrors that don't relate to blank templates: There are two errors that show up on the client info page: RequiredFilesAgentThread - Error - RequiredFilesAgent - Run Message - Exception in Run: Client found response content of 'text/html', but expected 'text/xml'. The request failed with an empty response. LibraryAgent - Error - LibraryAgent - Run Message - Exception in Run: Could not find the file 'C:\Users\administrator\AppData\Roaming\Xibo\Xibo Digital 'Signage\2.0.0.0\requiredfiles.xml'. In that folder there are three xml files called cachemanager, log and stats. Anyone any ideas?

@3s-gtech thanks. I've reinstalled once or twice now following their guidelines closely, so if it's anything that I've not configured correctly then it's not in the documentation. Just noticed that rolling back XAMPP has got rid of the 'preg_replace(): The /e modifier is deprecated, use preg_replace_callback instead' error that was spamming the logs in the administration console, so the only errors I'm seeing at the moment are on the client when I try and register. I'm going to try a 32 bit client when I'm on site tomorrow. Thanks all (for now!).

Thanks for the reply - I've rolled it back to that version of XAMPP but I'm still getting the same error on the client. I've just noticed that despite me saying I'm using a 32 bit client, which I thought I was, I'm actually using a 64 bit client which doesn't look like it's officially supported... will report back once I've cobbled together a 32 bit client to test! Thanks again.

Hello, I'm having an issue with my Xibo installation and I've not really got anywhere by asking on their launchpad page. I'm getting the following error in the xibo administration page: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is deprecated, use preg_replace_callback instead 8192 Deprecated Call C:\xampp\htdocs\xibo\lib\app\kit.class.php 262 ... and I can't register any clients. When I click the 'display admin' button it takes me to the xibo administration page, click 'register and I get: Client found response content type of 'text/html', but expected 'text/xml'. The request failed with an empty response. The XAMPP and Xibo server is on a S2008R2 box, W7 32 bit clients. Hope somebody can help! My PHP knowledge is limited (ie non existent). Many Thanks!

Hi guys, Been using the forums for a while now for various troubleshooting needs and I would firstly like to say what a valuable resource it has been... thanks to all! I'm hoping to set up some kind of Intranet based virtual announcement/message board on our S2012/W7 network. Ideally it would be hosted internally, staff would be able to post announcements to it without an administrator needing to 'OK' posts, and it would authenticate automatically using their existing network logon credentials. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could achieve such a system? I'm pretty confident with the majority of windows server/network support but my coding knowledge is limited unfortunately. Many Thanks in advance!