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Can anyone suggest the most cost-effective way of providing web filtering for a classroom of just 15 PCs and approximately 20 different users? The teacher would need to be able to blanket filter entire categories but then add and remove exceptions as they crop up. Thank you

Great suggestions, thank you. Yeah, the building owner is providing DHCP, DNS and internet. We can use our usual web filtering and OneDrive OD will work fine. Good point re: Bit Locker. Thank you! I'm just gonna need to move the students away from mapped home drives and over to OneDrive a little sooner than planned.

Thanks - no, no InTune licences...

We're going to have a set of 20 laptops in a remote building a few miles away from our school and need our students to be able to log onto them. The building is providing a wireless network with internet access. Can anyone advise on what they think is the best way for us to be logging on? We have M365 so I think my options are: - Configure a VPN, join the laptops to our domain on-site then take them to the remote location and have users login via the VPN. - Place a DC in the remote location (bleugh!). - Join the laptops to Azure and get students to sign in with their M365 accounts. Are there any other realistic options? If I go for the third option and have students using OneDrive to save their files, are there any pitfalls I need to watch out for? Any thoughts or advise would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I've been handed an external Toshiba disk dive, it's unreadable and Windows asks be if I want to format it as soon as I plug it in but it has a member of staff's wedding photos stored on it. They'd really like them back if possible. I've done a scan with photorec and left it overnight. I've come in this morning and it's recovered about 3GB's worth of data which sounds about right. The trouble is the data is all in one large file, SWF format (with the exception of a handful of txt files). He definitely didn't make his wedding photos into a Flash movie so I'm guessing it's some kind of encrypted file. Does anyone know of a way to extract the contents somehow or are the photos doomed? Thank you.

Thank you folks, I'm going to get myself of those Netgear switches suggested by @The_Techie for now and then run an additional cable over during half term. It is only a tiny building, not much more than a portacabin so that should do the job. Much appreciated.

We have a small new satellite building and the builders only ran one cat6 cable from the PoE switch in the main building cab over to the new building. I'd like a PoE phone and PoE wireless point in there. Does anyone know of any kind of splitter or switch that I can use to achieve this? Unfortunately there are no spare power sockets either. Thanks in anticipation.

I need to use a couple of TP-Link powerline adapters when I go over to France. Does anyone know whether they will still function if I plug them in with UK 3-pin to EU 2-pin adapters? I didn't know whether the adapters would stop the data passing through somehow. Thank you.

Brilliant! Thank you. That has worked like a dream. I had never noticed the options changed when you highlighted one of the groups and clicked on the pencil before. Thanks a lot. It's definitely broadcasting 2.4g only one one particular WLAN now. I still can't get one of the CCTV cameras to connect, but that looks like a separate issue since other devices are connecting. Thank you for your help.

Thanks for the quick reply. I've tried creating separate groups but there doesn't seem to be a way of limiting a group to 2.4G or 5G. I can add or remove WLANs from a group, but there doesn't seem to be anything else I can configure beyond those memberships, the group name and description.

We have a Ruckus Virtual Smartzone - Essentials. I'd like to create a wireless network that accepts 2.4G clients only. Is there a way to limit a new wireless network in this way? I can see the option to disable all the 5G channels within Access Points > Select Zone > Configure group, but I don't want to disable 5G across all my APs, I want to disable it for all clients connecting to a particular WLAN. The problem I have is some devices require a connection to a 2.4G network, they don't work on 5G. I've create a WLAN for them but they still won't connect. I suspect it's because they're trying to connect via 5G. I just can't see a way of turning that off or forcing them to connect to 2.4G. Thanks in advance.

I have a SharePoint document library with an Excel file set as the template for this library. When people create a new form it gets saved with the default filename of Book.xlsx. Subsequent files are then named book1, book2, etc.. Is there a way I can use Power Automate to get the filename and modify it? Maybe 5 minutes after the file is created would work well. Ideally it would get the filename from a cell within the Excel file is possible. If that can't be done, can it just be named after the person who created it? Has anyone else accomplished something like this? Thank you.

We have an old PC which I've put vortexbox on to rip my CD collection. We have another old touchscreen PC. I'd like to use the touchscreen as some kind of nice jukebox front-end for the Vortexbox. Does anyone have any suggestions? Something that will display album art, let you swipe through the music and tap the one you want to play. That kind of thing. I think you used to be able to download a version of Subsonic for the Pi that did something like this before it went paid and online. Any suggestions? Thanks.

I have a room booking system set up on SharePoint and we have lists for each room. Staff can add items to these lists, view each others and delete their own. I have one list that was set up exactly the same way as all the others, but for this particular list, people (including myself as site admin) can only delete items from the AllItems.aspx view. When we view it using calendar.aspx there is no delete button for any items on the list. When we hover our mouse over days in the calendar, the little 'Add' link doesn't appear either. Opening the same list and altering the url ending to AllItems.aspx rather than calendar.aspx DOES allow deletions. The calendar view works as expected for all other lists in the same site. The permissions seem different for each view, is that even possible? This is SharePoint online and we haven't done any tweaking of permission levels at all. The list doesn't have versioning or retention policies. Has anyone else come across this?

I'm new to PowerApps, i've just started playing with it over the last couple of days. I've made an app from a SharePoint list. The idea of the app is to enable users to add items to the list, but with a more friendly user interface with fields spread across multiple screens. I've created the app, the screens and added everything to it. I'd now like to have one final submit button on the last screen which will send all the info captured from the previous screens to the SharePoint list (all added to the same record). I've been battling with the patch command to do this. This is what I have on my submit button, can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? My data source is called "Trip Request". My screens are called Trip details, Staff, Students, Costs, CostsContinued, Funding and Authorisation Thank you. Patch(Trip Request),Defaults(Trip Request),Trip Details.Updates,Staff.Updates,Students.Updates,Costs.Updates,CostsContinued.Updates,Funding.Updates,Authorisation.Updates);Navigate(Success, ScreenTransition.None)