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Are people doing hybrid join with intune so machines can be managed via GPO or are you going full cloud and having your machines only join via Entra AD - Even if your computers never leave site? Has anyone got intune with device licenses only? We're mainly a Google school but have a lot of windows machines. Don't feel GCPW is the way to go but don't really want to pay for Microsoft A3/A5 if we're not going to use a lot of it.

+1 for vericool. We've had them for years now after moving away from Cunninghams. We moved from their on-prem system to their cloud system this summer and not really had any issues. It's not fully cloud as the menu still needs to be edited via a local application but I assume this will eventually be in the cloud.

Might find some ideas in this thread: /forums/coding/235550-bye-bye-replit.html I think virutal machines and locking down certain things seems to be a good option.

Is this to backup specific data in Google Drive or to backup your staff/student google accounts such as Drive and Gmail? We currently use Spanning Backup to backup our staff and student accounts. Not entireley sure on the pricing as I don't deal with that part but I think it's £12,000 for 2000 licenses for the year. Not had to use it very much but has come in handy to restore a few things here and there. I will say the one time I tried to restore a large folder it took forever. It seems the restore is very slow.

The baseline GPOs are a good start from a security side of things: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55319

Nice build for the price. Make sure you get a decent monitor to go with it! 1440p is very nice! Just be careful with buying second hand computers. A lot of people end up not being able to play games because the previous owner was banned and they tend to ban based on hardware IDs these days so you can't just go create an alt account.

Blocked for all students up to year 9. Year 10 and upwards are allowed it in restrictive mode.

Received an email this morning about a cloud based cctv system: https://info.verkada.com/video-storage/hybrid-cloud-video-storage/ Email came from [email protected] if you need a UK contact.

For Jamf Cloud Pro we are paying £6.37 ex vat per iOS license. Our initial quote with Jigsaw was quite high but we also checked quoting with Academia and it came in quit a bit cheaper.

I started using it at the begining of this year! Wonder if we can use it stand alone for free.

Windows machines will do an internet check when they sign in to determine if they have connection or not. If they can't reach msftconnecttest.com to download the text file then they will say they don't have internet although they actually do. There is a big thread here that has some suggestions to try: /forums/windows-10/216550-windows-10-random-no-internet-issue.html

For coding we use https://replit.com/ as it allows coding for most languages We have Godot and Unity installed for game design. One of the topics I'm teaching at the moment is Unity but it is quite difficult to teach as students are all at different stages. They are so use to apps these days. Using a Windows computer and software is foreign to them. If the software doesn't load instantly they try open it again and again so they end up opening 10 lots of Unity Hub. Some are interested in games and some have never played a game. I spend a lot of time trouble shooting something they didn't follow correctly. I think Unity is too much to learn in a short space of time. It should really be used on a computer game design course at college or university level where the students want to learn it. That's my opinion anyway.

Odd! Maybe check the version you are running and contact Google Support. They're usually pretty quick to help if you go via the Text Chat.

I think your syntax is still wrong and you need two rules. One for active users and one for disabled users. There are two filters that look almost identical. One with a "!" and extra brackets and one without: Active users: (&(&(objectclass=user)(objectcategory=person)(mail=*))(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))) disabled users: (&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(mail=*)(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2)) The disabled users rule should have the tick box applied to suspend users in Google. Again, I use seperate OUs for active and disabled accounts in AD so my rules point to these specific OUs. I'm not quite sure how this will work with if you point both rules to the whole domain but atleast there is a test button!

Have you checked to see what version you're on? You have slightly different options to me. Edit: You have an extra bracket "(" in your filter. It should be: (&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(mail=*)(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))

From what I understand: (!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2)) will only retrieve active users. Where as (userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2) will retrieve disabled users (not sure if it also gets active users?). As this was a while ago I will say use this at your own risk! We also have several rules that point at specific OUs rather than doing the whole domain as our disabled users go into a leavers area so we only point the disabled users search to the leavers ou. I believe this is what we added: (&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(mail=*)(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))

What do you have under User Accounts > User Attributes > Google Domain Users/Suspension Policy? I had a similar issue years ago and I contacted Google Support for help. I think it was resolved by creating a new rule to search for Suspended users and ticking the box to suspend these users in Google.

You will need to bind the Mac to AD. This can be done via config profile, policy or manually. There are also other services available which are paid for like Jamf connect. I bind Macs via a config profile. In the config profile will be a "Directory" option which you will need to fill in some options then scope it to the Mac.

We have been given physical papers today too.

We also have one student doing the ELAT test. They pressed launch and just got stuck loading. When our exams officer logged into the portal, the student didn't have a test assigned against them any more. Odd as the student wouldn't see the launch button if there was no test assigned to them.

Most of our students started okay. We had two students that got stuck on the loading screen and just would not let them start. After about 30-45 mins and locking/unlocking the test they got in. The admin portal is very slow.

We've been with FortiGate for years now and just updated to 400F also. We also blocked the unrated category and it rarely causes any issues. It's usually newer sites that get blocked becaus they haven't been categorised yet. As for dynamic filtering, we have recently setup our fortigate to block websites based on the contents of the page. For example, if it contains a bad word. This has worked well but we do get quite a few urls that need exempting from this. We have third party support that we sometimes use but not very often. Although, when we came to upgrade our fortigate, they did the config for us and it was smooth. I also see a lot of people asking about filtering options for off site devices. Most of the time it is suggested to use another service (securly for example) but this comes at an extra cost. We are able to filter our 1:1 devices off site by forcing the devices to login to our firewall portal. This means they get the same filtering at home as they do in school. They only have to login to the firewall portal when connecting from outside of network. This is done with a PHP proxy windows server and a PAC file. This is probably possible on Smoothwall also but thought I'd let people know.

I'm not sure when it changed in the last year but the exe now installs for all users. I currently have version "5.2.165.exe /ALLUSERS /S". Before the exe would only install it at user level.

Looking to see if any other schools are experiancing slowness/issues with ISAMS over the last couple of days. We're seeing intermittent issues where it will sometimes work and sometimes not. Sometimes it's just really slow. Our internet connection seems fine so I assume it's something their end. We've contacted them multiple times about it and they've even applied "fixes".

We use GISS-UK and also use them for 3rd party support: https://www.giss-uk.com/