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USB vacuum keyboard cleaner... So feeble it couldn't pick up a spec of dust let alone some of things I pull out of student keyboards!!!

What I do is have a second schedule that has an exact copy of all the apps we distribute but no scheduled time. When we reimage a PC, we add the PC name to that schedule (so the reimaged pcs are the only ones listed if we do a couple or a room) and then click on schedule now and choose distribute all apps. Works fine for me, tbh not waited long enough to see if it would automatically redeploy. Andrew

Out of interest, what's the latest you could delay installing the Summer 2015 release? Is it needed for the summer exam results processing or is the October census the first critical date? Only a theoretical question as we are rolling it out in a couple of weeks time Andrew

Never has one small icon made so much difference. Good spot, just made my life easier!!!

You're getting a GO? You must be paying more than us then... ;-)

Ours is possibly even worse than yesterday regardless of which proxy I use, SWGfL's or our own inhouse....

Open IIS Manager on your server, browse down to your WSUS folder and then click on "Check Bindings". That will tell you the port number WSUS has been setup on. From memory by default it can be 80, 443, 8530 or 8531. Andrew

Check the reg keys for WSUS on the client, should be:- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate] "WUServer"="http://WSUSServer:8530" "WUStatusServer"="http://WSUSServer:8530" Restart the Windows Update service Run the following shortcut by right clicking and selecting run as admin %windir%\system32\wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow Then see if it appears If all else fails, check the log file in c:\windows\WindowsUpdate.log Hope that helps Andrew

Assuming your connection is up long enough, the SLA for SWGfL is here:- http://swgfl.org.uk/products-services/schools-internet-service/Terms/Content/SWGfL-Customer-Manual-v2-0 pp 15-18

I think it was a typo, it's actually a small number of customers who haven't been suffering over the last week/month. Several schools in my local area are all suffering, mine included. My job has been open a week and not even acknowledged yet, 3 jobs open in my other school, 2 in another school down the road etc. I appreciate a system of this complexity will suffer issues occasionally but the past couple of weeks have been a joke. Andrew

Quite true, it's battery or bust. Fun little project though and perfect for numerous site visits all day to check the icecream hasn't melted etc

Thanks for the replies. Just checking, is the Ubiquiti mFI temperature sensors with an mPort completely wifi? From the diagram I picked up on google it looked like the sensors were attached to the mport by cat5 with the mport being wifi or cat5 enabled tot he LAN? Has to be wifi from sensor to monitor in this case as not allowed to drill into the freezers to run cat5... Cheers Andrew

Opposite problem to most at the moment given the heatwave but... The kitchen manager has asked me if I can rig up a solution to monitor the temperature of the walk-in freezer and walk-in fridge and send an alarm (either SMS or email) to the kitchen manager to warn her if there is an issue over the summer. They had a company in to quote but it was £4k install and £20pw for monitoring!!! I'm thinking something like the rack bars we all use for our comms rooms but in this instance I can't run any cat5 in, would have to be wifi and would have to work at -20C Anyone know of anything that would fit the bill? Cheers Andrew

Our much loved and used to death Kodak Playsport video cameras have just about reached the end of their lives after 4 years being "tested to their limits" by our PE department. As they are EOL and have been for a while, what do people recommend to replace them? Our requirements are:- 1080p SD or MicroSD card for storage Water/PE Staff proof Decent battery life charged through USB Must be able to be fitted to a tripod (for recording EPIP's etc) Cheers Andrew

Cheers, pretty much confirms what I was thinking. Andrew

Hi I have a couple of physical Windows 2008 SP2 servers (ver 6.0.6002) that in an ideal world I would like to do an inplace upgrade to Windows 2012R2 (the domain is already running W2K12R2). One server has nothing but home directories on it while the other also has home directories as well as Papercut NG and most of the print queues for the school. Is an inplace upgrade a bad idea or can someone confirm it actually upgrades as easily as M$ claim? Cheers Andrew

Our old website was unresponsive and the PC/Mobile view ratio was 80%/20%. Our new site is written completely in html5 and is fully responsive and in the 6 months since it went live the view ratio is now 65%/35% in favour of mobiles and tablets...

Hi I've been evaluating AdBlock Plus and have decided to roll it out to 800 PC's in the school. Preferably I'd like to roll it out using PDQ Deploy (our tool of choice) but my google-fu can't find a way to script the install. Is there a way to do this (for AdBlock specifically but any extension of choice in future)? Cheers Andrew

Hi I'm playing with moderated lists at the mo and am banging my head against a solid brick based object. I have created a moderated distribution testing group with a couple of test members. In Mail Flow, I have setup my helpdesk account as the moderator and one of my team as a member who doesn't require message approval. I have sent a message to the list from my account (and I know the list is moderated as if I go to open the + button it tells me I can't as it's a moderated list) and it doesn't deliver (as per design) but the approval message never arrives in the moderators inbox. If my team member sends a message, it delivers (as per design) and if I make myself a moderator it also delivers (again as per design) So my question is - where the ^^&*&* does the authorise message go because I can't find it anywhere... Cheers Andrew PS Exchange 2010 only so no issues routing through an Exchange 2003 Hub etc

I was seeing worse performance with GPU enabled than disabled. TBH not revisited this since September but on the list to benchmark over the summer especially as we are about 6 versions newer since then!! Fell into the not broken so don't fix it category...

Yes, drive R is the staff/student remote home drive and it runs just as fast as a local PC not on the network. And as far as I can remember, Chrome stopped complaining about using network drives in approx v35ish...? Andrew

According to various Chrome forums I should already be burning in hell for using this command line but I start Chrome using the following: "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-gpu --disable-d3d11 --disable-logging --disable-ipv6 --user-data-dir="r:\Chrome\User Data" --disk-cache-dir="r:\Chrome\Cache" --homepage "http://website/aup.html/" -- "%1" As I have chrome updates disabled and push out new versions through PDQ Deploy I don't have issues with profiles complaining about old versions of Chrome etc. Been running this since September and thus far, no reported issues. Andrew

Same as many others in this thread, Windows 7 is rock solid so will use that image for one more year, finish installing SSD's into the remaining PC's (about 20% still to do) and then look at rolling out Windows 10.1 for Summer 2016. Andrew

Hi One of our LT is looking at purchasing the above module for SIMS to store our observation and appraisal records centrally. Anyone else using it out there who could give me a quick pro/con summary. Thanks Andrew

Yes it was Thanks, keeping the young 'uns amused in the office this morning