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https://www.opgs.org/trainee-it-technician/ We are seeking to appoint a Trainee IT Technician to work within the IT Support Department at this popular boys’ Grammar School, with a co-educational Sixth Form from 4th January 2022. The successful applicant should have a sound educational background and have good levels of achievement in English, Maths and IT. Applicants should be proactive and well organised and be able to work as part of a team, with excellent verbal and written communication skills. The post is for 37 hours a week, all year round with a salary in the Oakwood Range Band 4 (starting at £18,517 with 24 days annual leave) and is initially a two-year temporary post. For further details and an application form telephone 01622 726683 or email [email protected]. A letter of application to the Headteacher together with the application form should be received by the closing date of 12 noon on 3rd December 2021. Oakwood Park Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with former employers and Enhanced DBS check.

Thanks for all the feedback, good to hear that generally the service and experience has been good, but also good to hear where it has been found lacking. Has anyone ever gone through the process of leaving e4education?

Good Morning, Sorry to jump on an old thread but wondering if either of you have managed to resolve your issues or work out anything that may have been slightly wrong? I've currently got it where STAS on the DCs does not appear to be reading all the login events. Cheers

So we have 2 lookup zones, internal domain name and public domain name. In the public domain name zone there was an A record pointing to the server for the public DNS name of our VPN server. It was all setup before I started working here. Once I removed that it automatically stopped laptops here connecting to VPN when in school. Which I suppose could have been an issue as the Sophos XG reads the AD logs it could see different logins or from a different UPN.

My resolution seemed to be just updating the Unifi firmware (I have not updated since either though). Interesting that you have just configured AOVPN. I also have that configured and one thing I noticed around the same time as this was that my clients were still connecting to the AOVPN even whilst in school. Digging into that I noticed I had an internal DNS record for it so removing that stopped the VPN from connecting internally and combined that with the Unifi upgrade it could well have contributed to the solution.

Good Afternoon, I'm looking to get some feedback on e4education and how good they are at delivering a website. Ideally from scratch a full bespoke site through to user support and maintenance after launch. If anyone can provide that would be great. It would also be good to hear from their customers in Kent if anyone on here is from that area. Thanks

Afternoon, I'm looking at ways to either write data back to an SQL table from either a powershell script to sync a AD attribute to an SQL Table or creating a Power App that can read data from an SQL Table and then allow us to add a value in? Has anyone ever done anything like this at all? Thanks

Yeah so basically I rewrote that part of the script into one line and then it was happy really. Thanks for the help

All good, I've managed to get it working now.

So I have made those changes. I now have the name being shown with AD Attributes missing, so that is now working. The problem now is that I get Exception calling "ToInt64" with "2" argument(s): "Additional non-parsable characters are at the end of the string." and in the handful of users in the group I am targetting, they have different PrimaryCardID numbers but are getting populated with the same PAXTONID

## Add converted card number to users AD objects ## ## Import Active Directory PS Module import-module activedirectory ## Set script Variables $users=get-adgroupmember "IT Support" | ForEach-Object { $username = $_.SamAccountName $user = Get-ADUser -Identity $username -Properties givenName,surname,SIMSPID,PrimaryCardID,PAXTONID if($_.PrimaryCardID -eq $null) { Write-Host "AD Attributes missing for $($_.givenName) $($_.surname)" }else{ $c1 = $user.PrimaryCardID.ToString().substring(6,2) $c2 = $user.PrimaryCardID.ToString().substring(4,2) $c3 = $user.PrimaryCardID.ToString().substring(2,2) $c4 = $user.PrimaryCardID.ToString().substring(0,2) $convertedcard="$c1 + $c2 + $c3 + $c4" $cardnum = [convert]::toint64($convertedcard,16) Set-ADUser -Identity $username -replace @{PAXTONID="$cardnum"} } } Hopefully that is a bit clearer. I have also added an if function and interestingly it does not give a first and last name but does show "AD Attributes are missing for"

$c1 = $user.PrimaryCardID.ToString().substring(6,2) $c2 = $user.PrimaryCardID.ToString().substring(4,2) $c3 = $user.PrimaryCardID.ToString().substring(2,2) $c4 = $user.PrimaryCardID.ToString().substring(0,2) Each of those lines are returning the error. It is almost as though the script is not reading the user and user attributes form the previous lines in the script.

Afternoon, I'm trying to get a powershell script working that will take an AD Group and then for each member it will pull some AD attributes, take a custom attribute, convert it and write it back to a separate atrribute. Hopefully that makes sense. Here's the script: [color=#000000][font=Helvetica] [/font][/color][color=#A82D00][font=Helvetica]$users[/font][/color][color=#696969][font=Helvetica]=[/font][/color][color=#0000FF][font=Helvetica]get-adgroupmember[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Helvetica] [/font][/color][color=#8B0000][font=Helvetica]"IT Support"[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Helvetica] [/font][/color][color=#696969][font=Helvetica]|[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Helvetica] [/font][/color][color=#0000FF][font=Helvetica]ForEach-Object[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Helvetica] {[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Helvetica][color=#A82D00]$username[/color] [color=#696969]=[/color] [color=#A82D00]$_[/color][color=#696969].[/color]SamAccountName[/font][/color] [color=#8A2BE2][font=Helvetica][color=#A82D00]$user[/color][color=#000000] [/color][color=#696969]=[/color][color=#000000] [/color][color=#0000FF]Get-ADUser[/color][color=#000000] [/color][color=#000080]-Identity[/color][color=#000000] [/color][color=#A82D00]$username[/color][color=#000000] [/color][color=#000080]-Properties[/color][color=#000000] [/color]givenName[color=#696969],[/color]surname[color=#696969],[/color]SIMSPID[color=#696969],[/color]PrimaryCardID[color=#696969],[/color]PAXTONID[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica][color=#A82D00]$c1[/color] [color=#696969]=[/color] [color=#A82D00]$user[/color][color=#696969].[/color]PrimaryCardID[color=#696969].[/color]ToString()[color=#696969].[/color]substring([color=#800080]6[/color][color=#696969],[/color][color=#800080]2[/color])[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica][color=#A82D00]$c2[/color] [color=#696969]=[/color] [color=#A82D00]$user[/color][color=#696969].[/color]PrimaryCardID[color=#696969].[/color]ToString()[color=#696969].[/color]substring([color=#800080]4[/color][color=#696969],[/color][color=#800080]2[/color])[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica][color=#A82D00]$c3[/color] [color=#696969]=[/color] [color=#A82D00]$user[/color][color=#696969].[/color]PrimaryCardID[color=#696969].[/color]ToString()[color=#696969].[/color]substring([color=#800080]2[/color][color=#696969],[/color][color=#800080]2[/color])[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica][color=#A82D00]$c4[/color] [color=#696969]=[/color] [color=#A82D00]$user[/color][color=#696969].[/color]PrimaryCardID[color=#696969].[/color]ToString()[color=#696969].[/color]substring([color=#800080]0[/color][color=#696969],[/color][color=#800080]2[/color])[/font][/color] [color=#A82D00][font=Helvetica]$convertedcard[color=#696969]=[/color][color=#8B0000]"[/color]$c1[color=#8B0000] + [/color]$c2[color=#8B0000] + [/color]$c3[color=#8B0000] + [/color]$c4[color=#8B0000]"[/color][/font][/color] [color=#A82D00][font=Helvetica]$cardnum[color=#000000] [/color][color=#696969]=[/color][color=#000000] [/color][color=#696969][[/color][color=#006161]convert[/color][color=#696969]]::[/color][color=#000000]toint64([/color]$convertedcard[color=#696969],[/color][color=#800080]16[/color][color=#000000])[/color][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica][color=#0000FF]Set-ADUser[/color] [color=#000080]-Identity[/color] [color=#A82D00]$username[/color] [color=#000080]-replace[/color] @{PAXTONID[color=#696969]=[/color][color=#8B0000]"[/color][color=#A82D00]$cardnum[/color][color=#8B0000]"[/color]}[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]}[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Helvetica] [/font][/color] The idea is that this will populate AD and then allow Salamander to sync it through to Net2 for the card ID's. However when I run the script I get an error that says "You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression" Does anyone have any ideas?

Morning All, Just a quick one. I have a teacher on site who has been writing on a brand new Viewsonic interactive touchscreen with her board marker pen. She says it is OK though as it just wipes off. Question is does anyone have any link to any evidence that says the chemicals in the spray could potentially damage the screen. She has not listened when we have asked her not to write on it. Cheers

So I have tried removing all the device restrictions profiles and that has not made any difference. If I have a normal Windows 11 install (Not AAD Joined or Intune managed or AutoPilot) and sign into OneDrive then the Share option is there as it should be. The only issue I have with the Store is it doesn't seem to want to connect but that could be a side issue for me to be fair.

Yeah, even when looking at the Show more options, there is no option for Share in there.

I am just testing out Windows 11 and Intune. I have got a laptop, deployed Windows 11 through AutoPilot, set some policies through Intune, all working well. However, in the context menu for files in OneDrive I have no option to share. I have the options for keeping on device and free up space but none to share. I have tried all the various online suggestions about changing UAC but still not been successful. I have tried removing the restrictions policy and still cannot get it to appear in the context menu. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced the same or got any ideas on what to do next? Cheers

So I can't see them options. I have manually added the python path into the settings.json but it then still says that my configuration is invalid. It works when I am logged into my admin account. The only thing I can think of is our student accounts are blocked from browsing the C Drive.

So once I login as the user for the first time I can install the Python extension from within VS code but it then tells my that Python is not installed and needs installing before the extension.

Afternoon, I am trying to get VS Code and Python working on our student computers. I have deployed VS Code and Python to the computers and they both sit in Program Files. Students are then able to install the Python Extension from within VS Code. However they are not able to run any python code as it cannot find the interpeter. Even After manually typing in the path to python.exe. Does anyone know how I can get this working? Thanks,

I know this is an old thread but has anyone managed to find out what exceptions are needed to get this to work. We just get Connection Error when trying to log in. Cheers

Do you have a copy of the script you use and the way you setup the excel file that you wouldn't mind sharing?

Microsoft Bookings could work with the correct 365 licensing

Morning, I'm looking for a bit of software that may or may not exist. Each year we have to print ID badges for our 6th form and staff which include their picture. Currently we have an old in house built system which is no longer maintained as the person that made it has left without leaving documentation. The process essentially is the user logs in with their AD Account and it takes them through the process of taking their picture. It then automatically crops it and puts it into a predefined template for the school and populates their name and job title from their AD attributes. We then also have to scan it into our canteen tills as the previous network manager then wrote a PowerShell script to export the card ID from the canteen's database and then sync it across the various systems we have on site. I'm looking for an easier way to manage this and one that can be easily supported. If anyone has any ideas that would be great. We currently have EntrySign for a digital visitor management solution and will be getting Paxton access control in the next few months. Thanks

Yes! Thank you! Knew I would just be being a bit blind and stupid!