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Thanks Dave, I get the feeling this is going to be the solution for a while yet looking at the MS Answers forums...

Morning! We're in the process of moving our Staff documents into OneDrive & have run into the problem of Data Files for Mail Merges not playing nicely with OneDrive. If you start a mail merge using a data source that is synched in OneDrive, the error message " is open in another application. Please close it and try again." In this case, the file is a .docx word file within the users documents. So far, work-arounds include pausing OneDrive sync while working on the mail merge, or copying the data file to a location not synched to OneDrive but neither of these are exactly seamless for the user. Has anyone else found a way to resolve this or a better work-around? Thanks in advance!

My understanding is mostly file sharing only, to mark work etc but collaboration would likely be helpful.

Thanks for that, I'll pass it along. I don't suppose you have any suggestions about sharing other file types via iCloud?

Hi Brimstone, Thanks for that. I'll pass that on to my Music team, I'm sure they'll find it useful. I think their ultimate goal though is for students to share their files with the teacher over iCloud in a similar way to how they would using OneDrive for example. This is where things seem to fall down... Thanks again for spending the time to try & help me out!

Yeah, both users signed in with Apple IDs managed by ASM & devices all managed via Mosyle...

Hi Brimstone, They are looking to share GarageBand tracks but also some Sibelius files & some media files as well. This is mainly from iMacs running Ventura but also from iPads (iPadOS 16.5.1). They've also tried to share files stored in iCloud via the web interface through a browser on a windows laptop without much success.

Afternoon everyone! Our Music department are looking to set up file sharing within iCloud between students & staff but this option appears to be non-existent. They have tried sharing via link but only receive a 'Shared files/photos not available'. I have ensured that sharing within the organisation is enabled in Apple School Manager but this doesn't make a difference. Any thoughts would be appreciated!

Hi All, I'm looking for an app that will help our SLT arrange duty cover in different areas around the school at break & lunch time. Currently this is done via a spreadsheet & several all staff emails every day. There has to be a better way of doing this, right? I'm about to head off down the Google mines but thought I'd check in with you guys to see if anyone has nay recommendations! Thanks as always!

Hi Guys, We recently upgraded our Moodle installation to V4.0.1+ & since then, all files are displaying with the default icon rather than one that shows the file-type as they did before. I've dug through the menus but can't find a way to get back to the File Type icons as they were before. Moodle is aware of the file types & the icons appear under Site Administration>Server>File Types. Has anyone else run into this & found an option to turn these back on? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi All, Has anyone else noticed an issue with the Teams Windows app (currently v1.4.00.289) where the Activate banner does not appear for class teams awaiting activation but if you open the same team in the Mobile app or Web interface, the banner appears? For me, the issue resolved itself after signing out of my app & back in again but doesn't appear to work for my users. I suspect there's a temporary file buried away somewhere that's causing the issue. Just wondering if anyone else has run into this little quirk lately! Cheers!

That's a really good point, & not one that had occurred to me. Yes, everything is being wiped down & there are a few varieties of wipes in the wild so I wonder if some are being a bit *too* thorough Something to check. Thanks for nudging the obvious to the surface on a Friday!

Hi All, We've had a couple of examples of the touchpad on these laptops becoming completely unresponsive & wondering if anyone else had seen this? The touchpad stops responding all together while in Windows & even in the pre-boot diagnostics. The first one came down to replacing the touchpad (& palmrest by extension) after bios/chipset updates made no difference. Seems a bit odd to have 2 in such short succession. Any thoughts or observations welcome! TIA

Thanks for this, for some reason it hadn't crossed my mind! I'll give it a go. If only it were that simple! Cheers guys!

Hi all, We've recently created Office 365 groups via Salamander with the aim of creating Teams from these. However, as soon as these were created, students in a year group started to Reply to the welcome mail, causing an email storm to all members of the year group & teachers associated with it. We have unticked the "Send copies of group conversations and events..." option in group settings but the emails have continued. Does anyone know of a way to stop students being able to send messages to the O365 group mailbox or if there is a Powershell command to unsubscribe students' inboxes so they only receive event/meeting invitations? Thanks!

Hi All, I wonder if any of you have come across this before. Our staff have started using MS Teams to deliver some lessons. Students are invited using channels within Teams. One of our teachers has reported that when she sent out a meeting invite to a group of students they already had a meeting scheduled with another teacher. This did not show when she scheduled her meeting. I've had a look & I can't see anywhere in the scheduling assistant that would show conflicts for channels. I'm not sure if this is even possible as the invite is going to a group as opposed to individual attendees. Just wondered if anyone had a solution for this, short of inviting individual students to see if they already have a meeting scheduled. Thanks in advance!

It's definitely a game that benefits from having friends to sail with as there really isn't a single player mode. You can sail alone but if you come up against someone who wants to grab your booty, there's not a huge amount you can do to stop them...Worth the time if you can get a few mates on the sea with you though!

So, spent a good few hours playing this last night (once I managed to get connected) & so far I'm really enjoying it! It's one of those games that you can lose hours in just sailing the seas with a few good crewmates. Anyone else given it a go since the Beta? Really looking forward to seeing what Rare implement next...

Thanks David, I'll give this a go & see what we get!

Hi All, Firstly; Not sure if this is the correct place for this so feel free to move if not. Secondly; I am, as the script will no doubt prove, an absolute novice with Powershell & have been cobbling this together over a few weeks when I have spare time from half baked ideas & google-fu. Right, with that out of the way. The problem. I have been writing a script to show me who is logged on to any computer in our domain, either individually or by AD group. What I have so far works if all computers are powered on & connected, however If one is offline, it throws an error & cuts out. In the version of the script below, I am using validatescript to check a computer is online but would ideally like to skip a computer if it's offline rather than just throw the error. Any pointers would be great. Cheers, AJ function Get-LoggedOnUser { [CmdletBinding()] param ( [Parameter()] [ValidateScript({If(Test-Connection -ComputerName $_ -Quiet -Count 1) {$true} else{throw "$_ offline"}})] #If no response from computer, throw error message 'Failed' [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] [string[]]$ComputerName = $env:ComputerName ) foreach ($comp in $ComputerName) { $output = @{ 'ComputerName' = $comp} $output.UserName = (Get-WmiObject -Class win32_computersystem -ComputerName $comp).UserName [PSCustomObject]$output } } $Choice = Read-Host -Prompt 'To query an Active Directory Group, Enter 1. To query individual machines, Enter 2' If ($Choice -eq '1') { $ADGroup = Read-Host "Which AD Group would you like to query?" #output text to console $ADCOMPNAMES = Get-ADGroupMember -Identity $ADGroup | select name #Gets members of specified AD group. Selects only name $ADCOMPNAMES = $ADCOMPNAMES -replace '@{name=','' #remove preceeding characters from variable $ADCOMPNAMES = $ADCOMPNAMES -replace '}','' #remove traling brace from variable Get-LoggedOnUser -ComputerName $ADCOMPNAMES } If ($Choice -eq '2') { $CompNames = Read-Host -Prompt 'Input Computer Names here separated by commas' $CompNames = $CompNames -replace ',', ' ' Get-LoggedOnUser -ComputerName $CompNames } Else { Write-Host "Done" }

That'd be cool! Cheers!

So I've been working my way through the Achievement Hunter Sky Factory videos & it's made me really want to get back into Minecraft. Specifically this Mod Pack. Has anyone found any good servers to play on, or interested in setting one up?

Hi all, Thanks for the pointers so far. Yes email is an optional extra so I'll take a look into those suggested. They currently use a radio system so I've been looking at ways to update this & join it to our VoIP setup but that's some blue-sky thinking right there!

Hi All, I've been asked to source 3 mobile phones for our site team. Ideally they need to be hard-wearing, access emails & be around £100 each. I'm thinking the best solution may be a standard Android smartphone with the mother of all cases on it. Any input would be great. What do your site teams use? For years they've had a radio set-up which is on it's last legs... Cheers, AJ

Thanks for that quote @Arthur. The hunt continues...