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We put a perspex/glass window in at the end of the toilets, so the whole communal area and sinks can be seen from the corridor by anyone. All toilets/urinals are within closed cubicles.

I had this last week, but it was explicitly Adobe Reader. I removed it in Add/Remove and haven't got round to reinstalling it yet (we have Acrobat Pro also installed).

No, i've not got to a stage of needing to do that yet; different copies of Smartadmin are on each of the servers (inc a Win10 'server' VM) that have Paxton, TrustE, CardExchange etc on so I don't have it on any local workstations.

We also use Zettle. Peter

Have you played/tried with your current models? We have two versions of Iiyama and thought we'd fallen foul about this. Turns out on one model, it's the "pause" button, and on another it's the "blue" button. Not mentioned in either user manual.

We have guest file indexing on everything. The one time you think you won't need a file restoring from C: is the time something goes wrong such as Unifi controller or CardExchange server which puts its config files in non-standard places and you haven't realised.

I've started watching the PDQ announcement video twice and fallen asleep both times! But certainly interested in it as we're looking to ditch CC4.

Don't you mean pulsar.exe ?

I’m not aware there is one; the 9 buttons allow you to enter your PIN/access code for entry.

If you search for “virtualbox” there’s at least one long thread on this subject which includes several peoples solutions - not just Virtualbox. (I’m on Tapatalk so can’t search and share link for you right now.)

Nice!.

We had a visitor at church during our Panto run; kept nibbling the staff biscuits in the wings. Eventually I set the cameras on IR, put the biscuits on stage and left every door in the building open. Tadaa.... She'd been hiding in the loft all week, too scared to come down when there were 200 people in but going for a roam when we all went home at 10.30/11pm Had been missing from up the road for a week.

https://www.faqforge.com/windows-server-2016/configure-scheduled-task-item-using-group-policy/ Set the tasks up with that initially, then you just need to change the time either in the task (per server) or in the GPO (global) when you want reboots to happen - being careful your DCs don't all go down at once.

I've just set up GAM on Cloud Shell. Can we share the one instance or does each of my team have to setup their own GAM project, instance, API keys etc per that video above?

Out of interest, why? Unless you're going higher than a 1Gb link, why bother?

This doesn't help you for now, but with Salamander we have a classroom admin added to every classroom when it syncs, so we can get in and add teachers by logging into that admin user. (One user per year group, per academic year, as there's a limit on how many classrooms each user can be in)

Yes we've had the email. I hit the "please contact me" button back in December, to which someone eventually rung me - but my renewal portal still says "your renewal is pending us getting in touch" so I can't actually accept/deny the renewal yet!

You can let your SIMS lapse (ie not tell them you're leaving), then go back to them in April/May/June if there's an issue and they'll backdate you as though you had signed your new contract.

Is this the exam invigilator clock software? Or something else?

Without looking properly I can't comment on the syntax's of the conversion lines, but one thing I fell for when doing something similar was that I exported the string to file on one PC and was running the script on another; the encryption key for the conversion to/from secure string was therefore different. There is a way to store the encryption key in a safe place so that the same key is used on both conversions if necessary - I had to do this as my script was executing on newly built PCs.

Asked by a user whose name is ticktock and has a clock as their avatar.

Similar to above, we have SQL and Exchange updates set to Not Approved by default, then approve them as and when I want them to go on. So it's not automatically updating SQL/SIMS at random, it's doing it when I want it to.

NRS set it all up for us when we bought it all - TrustE, SmartID and Paxton - all at the same time. As I said above, I don't know how much Civica have taken on this, but they are certainly aware of it and know their customers use it from NRS times. Many of the NRS staff moved over to Civica but who knows now. As long as the printer has an onboard (internally USB connected) Mifare reader then it should be fine. Note that you can't have the printer networked (ethernet/wifi) even if it has such ports as the smartcard reader needs USB. We have ours on a AnywhereUSB (https://www.digi.com/products/browse/anywhereusb). Peter

If you ignore SmartAdmin and Paxton for the moment. CardExchange can use its own DB of users/cards, or it can interrogate and write back to an SQL or Access database. As we/you use NRS, CE looks to the NRS SQL to "select * from sometable where PrintCard = 1" and displays 1 or more such records. You select the template (staff, student, sixth form...) and hit print. CE then prints the card on the printer, reads the Mifare number as it does so, then writes back to the NRS database with the Mifare number. Now SmartAdmin does two things: 1) It's the UI to tick which users need a card printing. You find a student in SmartAdmin, tick them, then hit print (which simply opens CE). 2) As it does now, whenever it detects a change to the Mifare card number, it syncs it to various places including Paxton and TrustE. See below, me pretending to print my three IT team members. When printing year 7 at start of the year, I sometimes dip into SQL and "update sometable set printcard = 1 where year group = 7"

We have two Evolis Primacy's (one with mono ribbon, one with colour ribbon), both duplex. I bought a Magicard 600 in summer as one of the Primacy's had been throwing a dicky fit, but a bit of TLC and magic fairy dust and it's sprung back into life better than it's ever been! (ps - pay attention to the configured time delays between loading cards; that's what causes most problems as the printer tries to load next card whilst whilst the previous one finishes printing (after it's read the mifare). - - - Updated - - - We have two Evolis Primacy's (one with mono ribbon, one with colour ribbon), both duplex. I bought a Magicard 600 in summer as one of the Primacy's had been throwing a dicky fit, but a bit of TLC and magic fairy dust and it's sprung back into life better than it's ever been! (ps - pay attention to the configured time delays between loading cards; that's what causes most problems as the printer tries to load next card whilst whilst the previous one finishes printing (after it's read the mifare).