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Bump for the back to school crowd

The advert is now up on the college website: https://www.strichardreynolds.org.uk/our-college/work-at-srr

We seek to appoint a Network Manager for our Catholic College based in Twickenham. Start Date:​ ASAP Working Hours:​ Full-time (52 weeks plus 5 weeks holiday), 36 hours a week Salary:​ Depending on experience but approx. £38k - £45k per annum. We are looking to appoint a Network Manager to provide support to the whole school. The Network Manager will be part of a committed and enthusiastic team of support staff, providing exceptional support for learning and teaching at our College in order to provide a world class education for our pupils. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape the role and develop as the College grows. This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate as we have recently moved into a new building and we have made a significant investment in new technology. The position will involve, amongst other things: ● Taking overall responsibility for the management and development of the infrastructure of the school’s ICT network, liaising with key staff to ensure that ICT services meet curriculum and office needs. ● Support the development and implementation of ICT in the curriculum, including eLearning. ● Have an overall view of the capabilities of the school’s ICT services and contribute to continuous improvement to meet future needs to ensure competent and forward thinking management of ICT. ● Keep abreast of new technological developments in ICT and present proposals with recommendations to senior management which would benefit the school. ● Plan for major developments of the ICT service and project manage their implementation. ● Line manage and take responsibility for the work of the ICT support staff to ensure they carry out their duties effectively and receive adequate support, guidance and training in order to provide a high quality ICT support service. ● Update and ensure adherence to the eSecurity Policy, the eSafety Policy, and all relevant Acceptable Use Policies You will have: ● An empathy with, and be fully supportive of, our Catholic identity and mission, if not a practising and committed Catholic ● A love for working with and supporting young people ● A positive and pro-active attitude to life and work ● Good organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks, and manage your own workload ● Excellent communication skills, being able to competently deal with all of our stakeholders ● A friendly, approachable demeanour with an adaptable and flexible outlook ● Excellent time-keeping and a responsible, reliable and mature attitude towards work ● A willingness to learn and develop ● Relevant technical qualifications ● Degree level qualification or equivalent experience The ad will be on the college website http://www.srrcc.org.uk very early in the new year, but any questions please feel free to direct to me. Thanks!

I'm working on converting all our paper-based forms to Google Forms. I've got AutoCrat helping now with mailing certain staff on submission of a form. By using Copydown I can create options whether or not to have the completed document mailed to one or more staff members. This is working really well. What I'd like, though, is a way of specifying that once a form is submitted it goes to one person (e.g. line manager), that person somehow authorises or signs off the document and then it's automatically sent to, say, the Business Manager. They sign off on it and it goes to the Principal for final sign-off upon which a copy is emailed to the original form submitter. Extra bonus question: Is there any way of automatically pulling through a staff list from a GSuite staff OU into a separate sheet in Google Sheets so I can do some parsing on names to email addresses?

Thanks - just uninstalling that update on both clients and servers.. fingers crossed. Still no luck, unfortunately...

I tried that too, to no avail. Thanks for your help, regardless.

Yes, added that back in with Read, ran a gpupdate /force, and I can see it's being applied with gpresult, but still no mapped drives.

Cool, so I removed it, which obviously removed it from Security Filtering. I then added Domain Users in the Security Filtering. No joy. I then explicitly added my test user in there. Still nothing, I'm afraid.

Yes

Sorry, replied to this in an edit - Authenticated Users have read permissions on the Delegation tab by default?

I tried creating a new GPO to map the netlogon folder (standard permissions). Again, using same user worked fine in Win10 but not Win7. I also tried adding Domain Computers explicitly to the Security Filtering on the GPO itself. To your last comment - Authenticated Users have read permissions on the Delegation tab by default?

This is a bit of an odd one. I've verified that SYSVOL is replicating perfectly. New GPOs appear on both DCs in no time; they're just not all applying to Win7 machines (either user or computer policies). Win10 PCs in the exact same OUs using the exact same user work fine and pick up changes to the same GPOs immediately. I've tried recreating them, importing the settings to a new GPO... No WMI filters are in operation and I've tried reimaging the machines to eliminate any GPO tattooing... These aren't Win10-specific settings either - they're relatively simple things like drive mappings. In event viewer I have a ton of 1085 errors: "Windows failed to apply the Group Policy Printers/Drive Maps/Folder Redirection settings. Group Policy Printers settings might have its own log file. Please click on the "More information" link." Servers are 2012R2 with a functional level of the same.

I did an easy fix to the path changing by blocking updates through GPO.. we reimage enough that major updates can be pushed out when we choose.

We're an LGfL school and, at the moment we don't host our own Exchange, but we're looking to migrate to G Suite anyway. This gives us the option of a fresh slate, and the opportunity to get rid of a buttload of old emails with, no doubt, a ton of sensitive data on. However, SLT want to retain their archives. That's fine. But most of them have got email accessible on their own devices (phones and home laptops). LGfL fairly widely publish the method for doing so. I presume it's the member of staff's responsibility to keep their passcodes/passwords secure, but I'd like to at least offer them a more secure "recommended" method so as not to annoy the hell out of them. How have other schools handled this? Does anyone know a simple method of making email on mobiles have two-factor authenticacation?

One week to go, folks! *bump*