KarlGoddard

I rarely post on job adverts, but I have to say that the salary for this post is rather disgusting. Shame on the institution for thinking they can pull this off. Rant over

I can't comment on NewLine kit, but I went down the Viewsonic route and I can't recommend them highly enough. I bought around 80+ Viewsonics of varying sizes over the past 9 months, - a few 65" in our smaller 6th form rooms, 75" in all of our senior school classrooms and a 98" for presentations. We had one dead out of the box but that was dealt with almost immediately. Apart from that all have been well received by staff. The built in ViewBoard software is decent, but we've directed staff down the MS Whiteboard route so we disable most of the built in apps / software. The screens are robust - no physical issues so far - and the screen quality and accuracy of the touch is excellent. Our models didn't come with wifi modules, so that may be an added expense if you want to network them for centralised management or use them as emergency notifications etc.

Action1 for us. Free for 100 endpoints, decent edu discount available. Support is top notch We use it in conjunction with Intune to manage all our cloud endpoints. It just works

An excellent opportunity has arisen to join the expanding IT Team at Stockport Grammar School. We're recruiting for a Network Manager to join us shaping the IT provision at SGS at a time of significant investment and ongoing whole school IT projects. Feel free to message me with any questions and I'll assist all I can! https://stockportgrammar.livevacancies.co.uk/#/job/details/65?target=frame

Been using Stonebooks here for many, many years. Never had any faults / hardware failures / warranty calls with them. Can't fault their build quality. They just work

Recently moved from Xibo to Trilby TV. Couldn't ask for anything more from Trilby. Super quick to setup and 'just works'

Bit of a trivial question... but can anyone point me in the direction of a supplier of Viewsonic panel spares - pens / erasers / remotes? Had a quick Google and only really come up with Viewsonic themselves. Any reseller / suppliers contacts would be appreciated. Thanks

Do your staff use Presenter View when running the presentation? Try switching presenter view off, then running the presentation....

Finally....!!! Our DT dept insist on students using it for their portfolio work.

Intune - we manage all our Android phones via Intune and will be moving our iPads from Meraki to Intune over the Summer break

I've been looking at RMM for a short period now... not wanting to get deluged with sales phone calls, I've not taken the plunge and touched base with any of the RMM companies recommend to me (Datto / N-Able mainly) What sort of pricing model do they tend to employ? Endpoint / per admin? Without asking for business ops information but what sort of figure is a ballpark figure for a secondary? (probably asking how long a piece of string is....)

On the infrequent times that all the IT staff are out of the office / away from the helpdesk, how do you attempt to stay contactable? Do you have call redirect to staff (or even personal) mobiles? Do you have radio / walkie talkie comms Just curious as a good way to remain contactable when out and about.

We got our Cambium kit via Stone, I think.

Looking into the Viewsonic screen / hub.... do you know if it's possible to connect a touch screen via the USB? Any issues / gotchas? These would be rather handy if they could! We currently have a few rooms kitted out with Dell USB C hubs for staff with Surface Pros, but if I could find a stable solution that incorporated the hub and desktop screen in a single device, that would be a game changer for me!

I'm currently looking into a bit of a puzzler... We have a few PCs that, after having Win11 deployed suffer from high disk utilisation, when I say high I mean 100%. The process causing causing the high disk writes is LSAS. After running procmon, LSAS is writing to C:\Windows\System32\Microsoft\Protect\S-1-5-18\User\Diagnostic.log continually. On some PCs the high disk util subsides after 10 mins, others it literally makes the PC unusable. We've done the usual checks for malware / nasties, disabled pretty much every service feasible, removed pretty much every bit of software we think may cause the issue. Removed pretty much all GPOs. Disabled Core Isolation, thinking it may be a TPM related issue - no joy. Reset profiles / appdata - no joy. Doesn't happen with Win10, only Win11 - a clean iso deployment via mdt. The high disk util happens on different makes/models of PC & hardware - HP Prodesks, Stone Desktops, HP Laptops, so it's not a driver issue. Clutching at straws, I remapped my home directory / profile etc to a temp share I created on a different server, not our usual staff/pupil file servers. The problem suddenly went away. Set the paths back to the original file servers, the problem re-appeared. This would lead you to think that it must be related to staff file server(s)... but it doesn't affect every user or pc. Any ideas where I should / could look at next? As any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks

I created something in similar in Powershell / Handbrake CLI to encode most media types to mp4 Not automated (but that can be done on a folder change etc) as I tend to do batch conversions re-actively / upon request. Keeps a copy of the original as well as the newly encoded media file. Not perfect or polished by any means, but happily chugs its way through a folder worth of files.... $filelist = Get-ChildItem D:\ToEncode\ -include ('*.mp4', '*.mts', '*.mov', '*.wmv', '*.avi', '*.mkv') -recurse $num = $filelist | measure $filecount = $num.count $i = 0; ForEach ($file in $filelist) { $i++; $oldfile = $file.DirectoryName + "" + $file.BaseName + $file.Extension; $newfile = $file.DirectoryName + "\Encoded" + $file.BaseName + ".mp4"; $originalFile = "D:\ToEncode\Original" $progress = ($i / $filecount) * 100 $progress = [Math]::Round($progress,2) Clear-Host Write-Host ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Write-Host Handbrake Batch Encoding Write-Host "Processing - $oldfile" Write-Host "File $i of $filecount - $progress%" Write-Host ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Try { Start-Process "C:\Program Files\HandBrake\HandBrakeCLI.exe" -ArgumentList "-i `"$oldfile`" -o `"$newfile`" -f mp4 --rate 29.97 --verbose=0 " -Wait -NoNewWindow Move-Item $oldfile -destination $originalFile -ea STOP } Catch { } }

I've not been involved with the remuneration details, just the job desc / spec. Personally speaking, I'm expecting a wide range of candidate abilities / skillsets so any salary levels will reflect the candidate. For the official line, you'd need to have a chat with HR for more details. They are quite approachable Any tech / operations questions, give me a shout. Thanks

Stockport Grammar School is looking for skilled technicians to support the IT Helpdesk team in providing effective ICT hardware and software structures that will ensure the effective running of the school. We are looking for candidates with strong communication and inter personal skills together with the ability to communicate technical information. A flexible, proactive and solution focused approach to work is essential. The salary will be subject to experience and qualifications. For further information and to apply for the role please visit the school website: www.stockportgrammar.co.uk Closing Date: 4pm on 25 August 2023 Application Link Any tech questions, feel free to DM me.

Have you ever had this issue with DP rather than HDMI? We get a similar issue on some older Fujitsu desktops with DP to VGA cables.... initially thought it was power settings on the DP port

+1 (for us anyway) had the same issue when connected a test device to our usual wifi ssid for staff devices. Put a bypass in for the device ip and it enrolled / setup fine

Morning all I've got a bit of a head scratcher... We have an on prem Exchange 2013 server. As of mid last week any external Outlook connection fails and the end user just repeatedly gets a credentials login box when opening Outlook. Internal clients work fine, just external clients using Outlook on any OS - Win10 / Win 11 / Mac fail. OWA works fine, putting a staff device that doesn't work externally onto the internal network works fine.. I've spoken to our NM and he's not pushed out any updates to the Exchange box, or any config changes to our Smoothwall... Totally puzzled. Any pointers as to where I should look next?

Afternoon! we've got a small number of Surface Pro's, managed by Intune... is there any way to disable auto screen rotation via a config profile? Had a quick look but couldn't find anything... any ideas?

we've moved from doing it in-house to bringing in a specialist contractor to do it for us. it saves us time and gives me one less headache of sourcing kit etc. Minor jobs I may get involved with - single internal dome camera etc - but generally I'd recommend getting in a good contractor. In larger, more complex installs, I separate the job into two - data/infrastructure install and the camera install and config. I wouldn't trust a CCTV installer to be a good cabler as much as I wouldn't expect a cable installer to be able to install and config a camera.

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Just a quick how do you do it question... Assemblies / Event setups.... do you / your team attend the start of assemblies to switch projectors on / switch laptops on / test mics etc or do you let the member(s) of staff to be more self contained? Over the past few years I've got pretty much all of our assembly areas to be literally be press 2 buttons and you're good to go. We do get staff who insist that someone is 'on hand' (teacher speak for pressing the on button a projector remote) during the assembly / event but this year I'm really going to endeavour to take a step back from having a member of the team just stood around for 10 mins to appease a member of staff. Is this unreasonable?? How do you guys do it?