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Hoping someone might have managed to configure this successfully. Has anyone managed to get Macs working in a shared enviroment with Intune using Platform SSO with devices enrolled without User Affinity. I have managed to get it working in that users are able to login with their emails and passwords, but the SSO part is not working and users have to sign into all the Microsoft Apps and services still. Thanks in advance!

Just wanted to reach out to anyone that is using Wonde's MyLogin product. How do you handle printing and auth with PaperCut? If anyone is doing this would be great to hear from you!

Good Morning, Does anyone know of any audiobook subscriptions that schools can use? Cheers

Is anyone using and having issues with LibreSoft and SSO with Microsoft? I've run into and issue with it where users hit the Sign in with Microsoft button, enter their details but then nothing happens. The auth dialogue box disappears but LibreSoft remains on the front page asking for a barcode or to sign in with Microsoft. I've got their support looking at it as well but with a test Microsoft Account I gave them they were not able to replicate the issue. Cheers

Just make sure you have that enabled for whatever role your account has.

The users just need to have the right permissions set to have the Evacuation List option at the top.

On the web portal you can print an evacuation list which shows all the people that are currently signed in. We have a shortcut to that page on out staff devices and when the alarm goes they quickly click the shortcut print the list and get to the evac point.

I have managed to use OSDCloud for ZTI from USB boot. I am still working on getting it to work over PXE.

Was the cert valid or had it expired? I remember sometimes those messages could be misleading so it might also be worth having a look in the Event Viewer for the errors when trying to connect Always On VPN Authentication Failure After February 2025 Security Update | Richard M. Hicks Consulting, Inc. - this is slightly different but might be worth checking as well Always On VPN – Basic Deployment Guide – Jon's Notes - This might help with understanding the setup of AOVPN a bit more.

Sounds like the VPN is using machine certs to auth the connection but has not been able to renew the machine cert. You can check the local certs on the machine and see if there is one that has expired. You should then have a CA somewhere with some templates so have a look around in the CA and see what certs it should be issuing. I have also seen this where the machines are managed through Intune and use SCEP profiles to get certs, again could be something in that profile that might need looking at if the machine is not picking up a new cert.

Lenovo Yoga 300w - decent laptops for students general use, stands up to daily use and comes in at a decent price point... if you can get a Lenovo partner to work with as well they can get decent deal reg pricing.

I have worked at a school previously and had a similar setup, except with the addition to cashless catering. At that school Civica had a piece of connection software that worked with CardExchange so that when cards were printed it would write the card number back to the cashless database, the Civiva connector would then write that back to AD and Salamander would handle the Net2 entries. I'm sure other cashless providers could offer something similar. Or script something to update their system from AD if you have a table with a decent primary key in both to match users. The biggest problem I've ever had and not come across the solution for is entering card numbers into sign in systems like SignIn App, Inventry and EntrySign.

So I went with CardExchange Enterprise Edition v10 with the LDAP Plugin. Think they also used to do a Net2 plugin but it made more sense to have AD as the source of truth and then sync everything from there. I go all the hardware and software from ID Card Center - ID Card Centre | For all your Identity and access control needs

I've got a similar setup. I went with a Magicard 300 card printer with encoder paired with CardExchange for design and printing. This also allows us to read the card information and write it back to in my case Active Directory. I am storing 2 versions of the card information in there and then from PaperCut syncs directly from one of the attributes and then Salamander syncs the other card number over to Net2.

Migrated to Furlong SchoolBase this year and it has been a dream, easiest MIS I've ever come across. Still using Sage for accounts but there doesn't seem to be a desire from our accounts department to change that as yet. Integration between the 2 is all good though and works really well. I'm happy with the solution.

I've had staff complain about this as well. They oddly can't see one of the Sharepoint libraries in the Quick Access even when clicking on Show More so they are having to save locally then upload or sync the library down to file explorer.

I have successfully moved away from on prem servers to Azure cloud hosted. It has worked brilliantly and was a pretty easy process. There are still a few things like PaperCut that are prohibitive to moving away from a traditional local DC and making everything cloud native and fully SASS based. Although there are alternatives like PaperCut Hive and Printix, I think they both need a little bit more work and will get reviewed at some point when our managed print contract comes up for renewal. Going fully cloud made more sense for my use case though, small single school. Not sure how the costs would look on a larger scale, but certainly using Reserved Instances and in some cases using a virtual appliance firewall to do site to sites with certainly helps with that compared to using the Azure VPN.

Good Morning Has anyone every ever had to set manual DNS entries onto iPads through Mosyle? My iPads sit in a main wireless VLAN on the normal SSID but I need to point their DNS to a LS SmartShield rather than the normal DNS that the DHCP server is dishing out. Cheers

Give @Wave9_Lee a shout, he can sort you out.

I'm using Ninja and have been very happy with it and it's price point is pretty good.

Morning Just had a question from our DSL as we are planning the roll out of CPOMS plus a migration from our current MIS. There are a load of pastoral notes in the old MIS and the plan is to move over to CPOMS for recording all pastoral and safeguarding. However the DSL does not want to lose all the historical data in the old MIS. Does anyone know if there is a way to import it into CPOMS at all? Cheers

So the issues I have with the alerting at the moment is when a user searches for something like "porn" no alert is sent. Then when added into Flagged Items it then sends a stupid email alert that doesn't include anything useful so the users have to actually go into the Lightspeed portal and click around to find out what has happened. It is also marginally annoying that with Alert you have to close down cases each time to trigger new email alerts for users, although I can see the point of it.

Hi everyone, I'm just doing some testing of Lightspeed Filter and Alert. Wondered if I could get some feedback from those who already have it in production and what they think of it. Mainly from an alerting perspective. Cheers

Depends who you talk to. I've just done a bit of a review of our current CCTV and spoken to various installers. There are a couple of different views. 1. Using Hik cameras is fine as long as you use a different NVR. 2. Using Hik is fine if you have a decent firewall and can block any in and out traffic from the WAN so the NVR can't call home as such. Legislation as it currently stands doesn't stop the use of it in schools so a lot of installers are still installing it as it is really cost effective. Some installers have moved to using hik cameras and 3rd party NVRs. Others have moved completely away from it.

I've had good success previously with Synology Surveillance Station and Hik cameras. That worked out to be pretty cost effective and we didn't have that many issues with it.