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With the ban of Hikvision cameras looming (including rebranded), what brand do you use that is similar to Hikvision in term of pricing & quality?I have tested UNV (Uniview) brand and it's not as good as Hikvision. So what else are out there?Thanks

Did another factory reset today, and it worked this time. So, I guess, like gtg93 said, it does take time for it to be updated. Thanks for the replies, everyone.

Thanks, yes, 100% correct serial number and in School Manager, it showed me the date of release which was yesterday. However when I did a factory reset and tried again, it still shows that it's managed... :/

Hi all, Bit of a puzzle, this one and I'm hoping you can advise me! iPad Air 2 was added by Apple to our DEP a few years ago and is managed by our Apple School Manager. And it shows up on our Apple's Profile Manager. (in-house) We now want to make this as a stand alone iPad. I have removed it from Apple School Manager and also removed it from Profile Manager. Then I did a factory reset the iPad, but when going through the steps, it still want me to connect to WiFi and for it to be activated by our org. How do I get rid of this bit? I thought removing it from Apple School Manager and Profile Manager would do this, but it hasn't. Or did I miss a step? Thanks,

Hi all, Hoping someone could help with this issue... Recently, we changed our password requirements on the Windows side (AD) to be more stronger and encouraging the uses of Passphrases (i.e. 3 words and chars) Once the user has changed it to the new & stronger passphrases, they can log on to a Windows PC with no issue. But when they sign in to an Mac (AD enabled, goes via Open Directory), they are being prompted to change their password. Question: Why and what caused it? I inherited the Mac setup by a previous staff so I don't have access to very much documentation. Is there a setting somewhere where I can make this changes so it can/accept the use of the longer passphrases via Open Directory? Our Mac setup - using Profile manager with Open Directory for login. Thanks all.

Yes, editing large projects over network is not good. What we have done was to have 2nd partition called 'Data' and let the students copy the files from NAS to this, and edit from there. Once done, they copy the project back to the NAS box. We have warning on the wallpaper to remind them to backup all the time as the data on the LOCAL drive will be wiped. So far, no issue.

Do you have Profile Manager? If so, set the wallpaper path from there.

Veyon does look good, thanks! Will be giving it a try. Cheers.

Is there any decent screen sharing software where the software is installed on a tutor PC in a classroom, load it up and "mirror" the screen to all students PC within the classroom. I've tried a few software but all of them go via the Internet, which is something we don't want as there is a noticeable 'lag' and a security risk. Would prefer for it to be internally. I've looked at LanSchool and while it's perfect, it's out of their budget, sadly. Is there a similar tool that can do it. Bonus if it's cheap or freeware! Thanks,

Has anyone used OpenLM to manage different licensing platforms and how well does it work for you? Any pros/cons? Thanks.

Thank you, I will check out MRBS and also Booked.

Great idea, but would not work for us. The equipment booking is required by the Creative Arts team and they're located in different building. And we can't give them access to the library system due to Data Protection (we manage many academies).It need to be a stand alone solution, either by a software or web based. Thanks for the suggestion, tho.

Hi all, A member of staff need some sort of Hardware/Devices Booking System (digital camera, tablets, etc) as she has given up with paper based. I've looked at WUBS - https://sourceforge.net/projects/wubs/ - but it seems to be a little bit out of date and it has not been updated since 2013 so a bit of a concern with bugs. What do you use for this purpose?

Sorry, forgot to update this post - it turns out to be an issue with the installer from the CD - I downloaded the latest patch from their website, installed & rebooted. It worked fine this time. Hope this helps to others with the same issue.

We've got this same piece of software too, and like you I am seeing the same error message. Did you ever resolve this, and if so, what did you do to resolve it, assuming you did? Thanks.

I tested it on physical PC and had the same result so it would appear it's nothing to do with Hyper-V. Our proxy server/web filtering is Smoothwall so wondered if it's something on it that prevented it from booting up properly...

Figured it out… it didn’t like our proxy server! Because it tries to grab the latest Windows Update before allowing me to create a username for the first time, it got stuck, waiting for internet connection. But because of the blank screen, I can’t do anything with it. Solved it by turning off the network settings in Hyper-V to ‘Not Connected’, rebooted and it booted straight to the Create User page and completed the setup. Plugged in cable, joined domain, rebooted and all is good now. Poor design by Microsoft!

Hi all, Does anyone have any issue with installing Build 1511 on Hyper-V (Server 2012 v6.2.9200) ? Once the main install was completed and OOBE details filled in, it does the final reboot and this is what I am seeing. Basically, a white box with the blue dots loading across on the bottom. I left it overnight and it was still the same on the next day. I've searched high and low and couldn't find anything so it must be unique to my Hyper-V box! Has anyone come across this issue before and if so, how can I resolve this? Thanks.

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As more and more people are being invited to try out the new Skype for Web, I thought it's time to have the Skype Web plugin packaged to be made available to other PCs so we can try to get rid of the bloatly Skype client! However I've noticed that it installs to the user profile, i.e. C:\Users\tony\AppData\Local\SkypePlugin which means the next person who logs in to the PC will not have the plug-in installed at all. I have also tried using the ALLUSERS=1 string but that returned as: I was wondering if you have experienced this and if so, how do you resolve this by making it available to everyone? We use SCCM. Thanks,

And for this issue... it wasn't GPO, but was caused by conflicting LSP. Removing the 'bad' LSP resolved this. Thought I'd update this in case anyone esle had the same issue.

It's part of a bigger script, so can't share that. But here's a snippet of it where you can edit it to your details... WshShell.RegWrite "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ProxyEnable", 1, "REG_DWORD" WshShell.RegWrite "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ProxyOverride", "10.*;", "REG_SZ" WshShell.RegWrite "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ProxyServer", "YOUR.proxy.server.co.uk:8080", "REG_SZ" WshShell.RegWrite "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page", "[url]http://www.YOURschooldomain.co.uk[/url]", "REG_SZ" WshShell.RegWrite "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Default_Page_URL", "[url]http://www.YOURschooldomain.co.uk[/url]", "REG_SZ" WshShell.RegWrite "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\DisableFirstRunCustomize", 1, "REG_DWORD" WshShell.RegWrite "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\NoUpdateCheck", 1, "REG_DWORD" WshShell.RegWrite "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Show_StatusBar", "yes", "REG_SZ" WshShell.RegWrite "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Window Title", "Internet Explorer provided by YOUR SCHOOL NAME", "REG_SZ" If you look under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main, you can add more entries to it to tweak it to your needs. Hope this helps!

Okay, I figured it out. There is another GPO that has Internet Explorer Maintenance in it. So I guess it got imported from another policy. Further searching tells me that on Server 2012, this will not show up, therefore I couldn't edit it. I confirmed this by creating a new GPO and Internet Explorer Maintenance does not show up. Moving a PC into a clean GPO and IE10 works fine. That means I will need to start afresh with a clean policy and copy the settings. Thanks for the directions, guys.

The proxy server settings were imported using VBS scripting upon logging in. As far as I am aware, we're not using Internet Explorer Maintenance.