Rob_D

We don't run BYOD (yet), but have set up staff and student SSIDs (mostly for web filtering). Then we've got radius setup so they can authenticate with their network credentials. You can control access through AD group memberships. (We have a wifi group that people need to be in to be able to authenticate). It might also be worth having a provisioning SSID. No authentication, but only takes them to a portal where they can download the necessary certs and management profiles/apps.

We use the Magicard Pro Rio. It has worked well for use for the last 4 years or so.

We've have the same issue with the windows 10 photos app is just not consistently available on the computers. Although for us it looks like something user-profile related might be going on as resetting someone's roaming profile sometimes makes it appear. For the most part we're getting around this by pushing the windows 7 style Photo Viewer. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/14312-restore-windows-photo-viewer-windows-10-a.html I hope this helps.

We've got quite a few of these keyboards and mice floating around and we've not had any problems with them. The mice seem pretty robust and decently responsive and the keyboards are well made and have a fairly light actuation force (it's been a big selling point with our teachers, they say it makes for more comfortable typing). https://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-MK120-Desktop-Keyboard-Windows/dp/B003K1FXTO/ref=sr_1_1?

This can also be done in the GPO, under User Config>Policies>Google Chrome>Incognito mode availability. setting it to "forced" You could also set Ephemeral profiles. (User Config>Policies>Google Chrome>Ephemeral profile), which would have a similar effect, all profile information is removed at the end of the session.

I would imagine "C:\users\public\desktop"

Okay. So you're not redirecting desktops (the desktop folder for each user is C:\users\%username%\Desktop) First are you creating the link in the user's desktop folder, or the "public"/"All Users" desktop folder? Non-admin users probably won't have permission to change items in the public folder. So make sure it's going into the user's personal one. If you're putting the link in the user's personal desktop then I don't see why they shouldn't be able to edit it however they want (Can they edit/delete any of their other desktop icons? Can the create their own icons?) If they can't change any icons, then it's permissions on the desktop folder, so you'd need to tweak them so the non-admins have edit/delete permissions. It's more likely to a permissions thing in the file structure than GPO setting (or at least that should be easier to trouble shoot). I'd start by looking at the permissions on the user's desktop folder, and on the shortcut your copying. I hop this all makes sense.

Sounds like a permissions thing. Just to be clear, your redirecting the desktop to a network share where each user has their own desktop folder? And this is where you're copying the shortcuts to? Can the users delete/edit their other desktop icons?

Thanks for all the suggestions. We use local profiles for the students, which should clear at shutdown. I'll make sure this is happening on the laptops.

+1 for my-picture. I've used them a few times for canvas prints at home and they've always come out well and been reasonably priced.

We've not re-imaged the laptop(s) yet as the student has had the problem across multiple devices (All laptops). We've never seen it happen, they only come to us after it's already broken, and no-one else as has either far as we know. It is possible that the student is using the shortcut keys intentionally, but it seems unlikely that they would do this accidentally. I'm still giving them the benefit of the doubt, so was wondering if anyone knew of a way this could be done inadvertently, or at least without an "are you sure" popup.

Hi guys, Bit of an odd one. We have a student who's laptop (domain joined and managed the same as all out other computers) keeps going into high contrast mode. Does anyone know if there's any way to see when/how high contrast mode is triggered? I can't find any way to accidentally turn it on, can anyone think of anything? By this point, pretty much everyone involved is thinking user "error", but it would be nice to be sure. Thanks for the help.

Work keys split into 2 parts Masterkeays (we're transitioning from one key type to another), paxton lift fob & desk keys (*2) get locked in the key safe at work. Office key and key for the hall laptop lecterns stays with by ID badge and goes home (because I need both before I get to the office key safe). Home keys are front door, back door, shed, bike lock on one "ring" and car keys and the elephant key protect fob on another that's clipped to the first (so I don't have house keys dangling when I drive - heard it can knacker the ignition somewhere) I use a keysamrt holder for my home keys to stop jangling and reduce wear on my pockets.

I enjoyed the episode and I'm looking forward to part 2 on Tuesday. TBH I don't see why they couldn't have broken down the theatre doors (apart from the story needing them trapped in the lift).

We've always managed to get the Smart MSI installers from https://education.smarttech.com/en/products/notebook/download#admin You mean the MST right? When we've done it, you generate an MST using the Smart Install Manager and then apply that to the MSI using msiexec /i "SMARTLearningSuite.msi" TRANSFORMS="{full path to location of transform .mst}\SMARTProducts.mst" /qn

If you're using LTSC remember you'll need to install little things like the windows calculator and photo viewer (or live without them I suppose).

We don't have an "Apps" folder in our start menu, but I'm not sure there was one to start with, it might be part of the classicshell start menu which we don't use.

We use a mix of Sophos and Windows Defender/Applocker.

Have you tried using Decrapifier to get rid of all the junk off the start menu. We run Win10 edu (1809) and the decrapifier script was working fine for us last week. (redirected start menu without classic shell for us)

When I did this I used COUNTIF and SUMIF. =COUNTIF(A:A, "username") Counts the number of rows where "username" is in column A - number of print jobs for a given user. =SUMIF(A:A, "username",C:C) Adds together the number in column C (page count) of rows where "username" is in column A - total number of pages per user.

When I first started out, I was part time in 2 different schools and had a weekend checkout job to get up to approximately full time hours. Then I got another part time school gig, taking me up to 3 different part time schools, and dropped the shop work. Now I work full time in one school, I kind of miss the verity. IMO smaller schools with less budget want IT support and a tech who knows their system, but don't want to/ can't afford a full time tech, so getting someone in for a couple of days a week is a good compromise. Also (as has been suggested), it's attractive to older people on the wind down to retirement/ or post retirement. Which means bags of experience without breaking the bank (hopefully anyway).

My first couple of proper school jobs I worked alone. Both were in smaller primaries. The first was a 3 form entry but only juniors (technically there were 2 of us but we never worked the same day). The second was a single form village primary, where I was on my own 2 days a week. When I first started I could always find something to do (or was firefighting). But the longer I stayed on especially in the second school (and the more stable the system became) the less things I ended up doing. Waiting for the teachers to tell me they needed/wanted something extra, seemed to work better than being proactive and getting nowhere with SLT. SLT were always much more reactive when a teacher asked for something. So I did find I spent a lot of time reading up on new tech and playing with it in a test environment. Now I'm in a team of 5 (ish). It's a very different environment, everything is much busier, I find it harder to be able to focus on tasks and (ironically) get interrupted more. There are times when I miss the peace and quiet my old shower cubicle (don't ask).

Our school email policy states that staff should not send emails between 8pm and 8am and recommends staff who are working late use "delayed send" in outlook if they wish to compose emails out of hours. My opinion is that this is backwards, and we shouldn't stop people from sending emails but rather educate people to not read emails (unless they really want to). But no-one else on the team agrees with me.

TBH, at this point we're telling staff they should just be looking for non flash alternatives given how close we are to flash going fully EOL. And Google do seem to be leading the charge away from flash.

I thought chrome's built-in flash went away a while back. We've been using the separate msi (the PPAPI version) for a few years now.