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I'm sure you guys know more about this than me, but didn't the 360 thermal paste need to have a really high gold content to stop it melting under load or something?

And thermal imaging, and pressure, temp etc sensors. Make a proper science project out of it!

Where are the files saved? I know cloud mapped folders (one and google drive) user similar symbols.

The "won't support Office 365 beyond Jan 2020" made me sit up. I guess it depends exactly what "not supporting" means. As you say, the rest of it is largely a non-issue for schools.

We started out with LTSB but in the end wound up switching to Edu as (for us) it was more stable. It may have just been that Win10 was more mature by the point we swapped, but it seemed much easier to strip all the junk out of the Edu build than to try and get the some of the useful apps back into the LTSB version.

Only if you have google accounts set up for all your users. Also, the profile still has to go somewhere.

These days, why would you not move on to the x64 version? 32 bit is being depreciated, so you're just pushing the problem down the line.

Depending on how the GPO is set-up, you might be able to set it to uninstall Office for you. Otherwise unlink the install GPO and use a script to uninstall it. We used the following script: xcopy "\\wds\distribution$\Applications\Uninstall Office 2013\Uninstall.xml" "%commonprogramfiles%\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE15\Office Setup Controller\" "%commonprogramfiles%\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE15\Office Setup Controller\setup.exe" /uninstall PROPLUS /config Uninstall.xml XML file is: I hope this is of some help.

If you mean generally, the roaming profiles would do the trick. If it's a one off thing then check this thread out.

We've been getting the black screen issue on some of our windows 10 computers. When it happens we find an error for "Windows.CloudStore.dll, version: 10.0.16299.98" in the event log. Although not much closer to working out why it's happening.

We used to copy are desktop/start menu 'to be redirected to' folders from a network share onto the C: drive as part of the startup script (it's just icons so small enough to not take too long), and then redirect to the folder on the C: drive. Any changes are picked up at startup (provided the device is connected to your network on startup), but once the user is logged on and using it it's all local so no network required. You should be able to get the icons back after a network dropout by selecting the desktop and hitting F5 or right-lick>refresh. I'm sure this has worked for me before.

We also use Manageengine Servicedesk Plus. Licencing is based on the number of technicians (free for up to 5 technicians). Pricing is pretty reasonable - we pay a couple of hundred annually for a 10 tech licence.

First time in ages I've been able to wear a jumper during the day.

Stick this into a command prompt: nslookup -type=srv _vlmcs._tcp

Shame someone put a road through the middle of it.

I'd agree with @synaesthesia, remove the hard drives. Even when we dispose of kit, we pull the drives and send them for shredding. But how do you define waste? I mean, sure there's a legal definition of WEEE Waste that mot IT kit falls under. But the PC on my desk isn't classified as waste (yet). So if the equipment were to be donated, surely it would be "rehoming older IT equipment". To go full reductio ad absurdum, I don't need a WEEE licence to buy IT kit from our suppliers. I'm not saying your wrong. I just think there's a leap of logic or some nuance of law that we're (or I'm) missing.

This is interesting as we've been told we need signed consent before we can set up network logins and O365 accounts.

I'd guess it would be legal if you could absolutely insure that you were only doing it on your property and had warning signs. I'm really thinking of military bases and the like.

I'm not debating the legality of it. I'm just answering the questions of how it can see/interact with devices not on the same lan. We just have rogue AP detection on our Fortinet. I think it can so suppression, but it's not something we've ever looked into.

Your phone is broadcasting its SSID. My APs can pick that up. The controller can potentially use several APs to triangulate the position of the device. They don't need to authenticate with the device to know its there or to generate interference to block it. It's the same way the auto channel select works on home wifi systems.

Some (probably most) enterprise WiFi systems have ability to detect and "suppress" "rouge APs" (I know our Fortinet system can, and our old Aruba could). I can't find much online about exactly how this works, but there's some information here.

At my last school I made chrome the default (I found it much easier to manage) and cited its sandbox security as the main reason. Here we make both IE and chrome available, and let staff use whichever one they prefer (with a couple of sites forced to a specific browser as they don't open right in the other). The one thing we've found (historically) is that getting chrome profiles to work reliably is a bit an art form. We find we keep having to reset them. We're testing the newer(ish) chrome roaming profiles, which we hope will help with this.

What site is that from? Our head showed one of those temp maps in the staff briefing, and her temperature forecasts always wind up being rather 'optimistic'.

I would hope so. It sounds like a do it once to permanently increase output, type thing.

Did you know you can frack for water?