SteveM555

Also had a good start, Bromcom has been faster than ever and staff have noticed and no complaints. Just wish they'd reply to partner supports tickets now

Not sure what that actually achieves? what are they saying that helps with? except for annoying a legitimate visitor. Literally a few seconds into looking at the site you can see it adding a .blurred-images CSS class to the root html. 1 line patch to the CSS or JS override renders it useless and anything automated will be looking directly at the page source to scrape the img src anyway, which isn't protected from direct linking on that website. I don't think there's currently a purchasable solution to fit the new guidance, just got to be careful going forward what to publish, angles of photos, not posting high quality full resolution photos, identifying details etc.

We have the same here too.

Just had a reply to say they're looking into it 👍

Its a relief to see its not a problem our side then, would be nice to see some acknowledgement of an issue - I created a ticket on the portal a couple of hours ago and the status shows it at 100% operational. Not had great response times through tickets on the portal though. Hoping they know there's an issue by now.

Anyone having issues with the REST API this morning? All applications returning 401's suddenly and the portal "try it out" are all doing the same.

It is a REST API so it accepts HTTP methods GET, POST and DELETE and data passed to the endpoint in the request body. A very basic example using Powershell would be something like: $uri = "https://api.bromcomcloud.com/UserDefinedFieldsData" $body = @{ applicationId = "your_application_id" applicationSecret = "your_application_secret" schoolId = 20001 personId = 000 userDefinedFieldInstanceId = 0 dataValue = "Data for field" } try { $response = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $uri -Method 'POST' -Body $body Write-Host "Success! Server Response:" -ForegroundColor Green $response | ConvertTo-Json } catch { Write-Host "API call failed. Error details:" -ForegroundColor Red $errorResponse = $_.Exception.Response.Content | ConvertFrom-Json $errorResponse | ConvertTo-Json } If you were given documentation for the previous SOAP API, you should have access to the Bromcom Test Instance/School that you can use for testing. If not, I'd request this from them as I would not recommend any development on live site at all and things could go bad very quickly. The partner API is pretty good, but support is lacking a lot, asking a question is currently at 30 days with an open ticket..

For the A3 licensing you'll need OEM licenses for at least Windows 10 Pro, RTM Core (aka Home) is not supported. The licensing also won't happen unless the devices are Entra hybrid joined, as A3 is an 'upgrade' license and not used as a replacement for a Windows license. Like others have said, Id get an WDS/MDT server up and running to automate deployment, there's Powershell scripts that can run in a task sequence to pull the OEM key from the machine and activate it, so it wouldn't be a manual process with those PCs. When all the machines are Windows 11 compatible Id look at Autopilot/InTune & MECM for deployment.

I'm pretty sure it should already be disabled to prevent it from being logged into, and yeah - Just in the standard AD Users OU.

Have you installed it for your user, but running Powershell as Admin? or the other way around? Id suggest running the following if so: Uninstall-Module Microsoft.Graph -Force -AllVersions and then Install-Module Microsoft.Graph -Scope AllUsers -Force

Might sound silly, but have you imported the module? Import-Module Microsoft.Graph

I checked 10 mins ago and it's all backup now. Though the Bromcom status page for the REST API has remained at 100% uptime

Anyone else have issues with the Bromcom API this morning? Getting 502 bad gateway

This can be done with the Bromcom Partner API and there's no charge for it either. If you're familiar with programming and can make some HTTP POST requests then it should be simple.

Ollama is the engine that runs the LLM models, so it's all local. The models can be pulled directly from Ollama (deepseek r1, llama3, mistral, gemma etc.) with varying parameter size so it can scale on lower-end hardware if needed. Once the models are local it doesn't need any external resources, or even internet access. OpenWebUI provides a frontend for communicating with the models which is very similar to ChatGPT. We've been playing around with it and have LDAP logins working, monitoring and running a few 7b / 2b models. It works really well.

NetSupport DNA is a really good product and we're happy with it, problem is moving to something like classroom.cloud doesn't cover all features of DNA and for us, its more than double the cost. Senso looked to cover everything DNA does, as we're pushing for more cloud based rather than on-prem, we'll probably look at Senso to possibly replace our NetSupport products. Impero we've had on-prem years ago (Education Pro I think it was?) don't think anything would make us go back. We had terrible support, random config/groups resetting and issues with internet filtering

Id expect DKIM and DMARC to be included on any onboarding or managed service being provided as a part of the initial setup and argue that it is basic security measures that should be taking place. I remember setting ours up and using Office 365 and Cloudflare for our domain it taking less than 30 minutes, most of that time was waiting for DNS propagation.Rotation of DKIM keys Id see as a chargeable/on-going routine maintenance for security. I would also class the DMARC as not setup if the policy is still set to 'none' as it will still deliver the spoofed emails. Id expect it to be 'quarantine' as a minimum.

I can see it's also been posted by a lot of others on the Bromcom community pages too..

Same thing again this morning here

We'd also be interested in what's needed to set this up

Just to add that building with the new partner Bromcom REST API is great experience we found, we're currently updating some in-house apps we have built and have moved them away from the legacy API. There's still a few things we'd like to access data for but its quite comprehensive if anyone is looking into developing with it.

In the IT office yeah, attendance office PCs are i5/16GB ram, 512gb M.2's.

We get similar issues, manage attendance pages crashing Edge and Chrome with out of memory messages. Its the same on multiple PCs, even ours with 64GB ram, Ryzen 5800x machines. We've tried disabling the Chrome performance options, memory saver and looked at the obscure chrome flags to increase tab memory usage but nothing seems to work, and frankly shouldn't need to.

I assume you're a part of/work for TASC Software?

When they announced it we signed up the same day, it took around a week for them to get back to us. All now setup with SSO/365 for all staff and students, works pretty good.