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Possibilities; Cached credentials (check Credential Manager, rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr, restart machine to clear memory) Share/NTFS settings are incorrect - Access available to "Everyone" would allow access to non-domain users.

Axis if you want to spend money, big fan of their kit (have about 100~ cameras at our school). If it were my own home, I'd probably buy Ubiquiti cameras and use part of my homelab for storage. Hikvision/Trendnet are good cameras though, so you'll be good with those

We use CPOMS but as far as I'm aware, the CPOMS Authenticator app is only there for the two factor authentication over using a physical USB key. Our staff who need the elevated access install the CPOMS Authenticator app on their mobile phones, much like you would Google Authenticator. They then login to CPOMS on their school laptop/PC, add a security key, scan a QR code on the authenticator and name it. If they need to elevate access in CPOMS, the app on their phone generates a code for them to use. I don't see a need to buy them brand new tablets just to use the authenticator app when 99% of teachers will have an iOS or Android phone.

@Shadow_Walker, did you actually swap the SFP modules? From your posts, it seems like you only reinserted the module on both ends and haven't swapped them out.

Have you swapped the SFP module? Could be that has gone faulty. What do the logs say on the switch?

Actually looking at core switches as well... Not sure how I feel about Netgear but that looks pretty decent. Just in case you haven't found out yet, the FAQ's do say that the ports are all independent. Anyone got any experience with a recent core switch upgrade? I've always stuck with HP but... budgets.

Is this GPO setting specified perhaps? Policy - Remove "Map Network Drive" and "Disconnect Network Drive" Category Path - User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\File Explorer\ https://gpsearch.azurewebsites.net/#2657

Thanks for the responses guys (and the links to the Lindy extenders!) mhaddock has pretty much covered it. Running it under the floor isn't really a possibility due to the floor covering. However, drilling a 6mm hole through the floor into the ceiling below and then back up below the cupboard is a possibility. Problem with running HDMI and USB direct is also due to lengths, we might get away with a powered USB extension but drilling 20~mm holes in the floor isn't ideal.

Hello, We have a few science labs which have a less than desirable AV setup which I'd like to get sorted over summer. Currently, the rooms have a short-thrown projector on a wall onto a whiteboard, the room is a standard science lab layout with a fixed teacher desk at the front (with integrated sink, gas taps etc). The HDMI from the projector goes into trunking, into a rubber cable protector and then the HDMI gets plugged into the teachers laptop. Audio is controlled by a wall-mounted amp. Problem with the HDMI is that it looks untidy, it's a trip hazard and we regularly have to replace long, expensive HDMI cables due to damage. Wondering if anyone has solutions from their schools? I'm thinking using an HDMI over IP extender and run a cable down through to the floor below and then back up and mount a faceplate to the desk for just the HDMI, but then not sure what to do about the USB if anyone wants to use interactivity (a rarity).

Is the student account using a mandatory profile? If so, does it work without that mandatory profile specified?

We use SCCM here as we also use it for windows updates, software deployment etc. In a previous school I was fine having set up just WDS with MDT (having MDT is important). Process is basically as follows - New PC comes in, drivers get added to SCCM (or MDT) if not already. PC is PXE booted, password entered and task sequence chosen. Windows gets installed, updates done, domain bound, software installed etc. Super simple. With your licensing query, apparently you can get MDT to put in the OEM Product key with a powershell script (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/in-teaching-others-we-teach-ourselves/2016/12/13/how-to-deploy-windows-10-with-a-oem-product-key-from-the-bios-with-microsoft-deployment-toolkit/) [font=monospace]$key=(Get-WmiObject -Class SoftwareLicensingService).OA3xOriginalProductKey iex "cscript /b C:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /upk" iex "cscript /b C:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk $key" iex "cscript /b C:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ato"[/font]

We've just updated two suites to 1809 and have been having sporadic reports of students not getting mapped drives etc. Logging off and on again resolves the issue. I think the issue is down to how fast the PCs boot, so fast that the NIC doesn't initalise and the student logs in immediately. Looking at event viewer for one of the PCs, I can see that the OS started at 08:54:21 and at 08:54:28 there's a log that processing of GPO failed due to lack of network connectivity to a DC. Student then starts logging in at 08:54:45 and after logging in, doesn't get some of the GPOs. "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon" has always been enabled but I've just enabled "Specify startup policy processing wait time" and set it to 60 seconds (wasn't enabled before) so I'll see if that change makes any effect. HiberBoot has also been disabled as I know fast startup can cause some issues

Hey, we recently moved to EduLink from SLG. We trialled SIMS Parent and found it pretty rough, as well as all the issues reported with logins from other schools. EduLink offer a fully featured trial which we used with a focus group of parents, feedback has been really good, really simple to use for parents. From a technical side, install was simple and we haven't seen any real issues. Their development has been pretty rapid but my issue with that is there isn't an knowledgebase or notes about what has changed, they only send updates for big feature updates. So I've found a few "new" options in the admin side which I wasn't aware of, such as sending login details via email (with a password reset link, rather than giving a parent a username/temp password).

Currently I can login via gmail, it'll 404, I can then retype the URL as mail.google.com and it logs in fine.

Same issue here, but only for students accessing gmail or calendar. Currently chatting to G Suite support about it. edit: Just uploaded a HAR file to them so hopefully they'll be able to use that to track the cause

We opened a ticket with MLS in June and are still waiting for a response. Every now and again I ask my technician to chase... and he gets silence.

We run our SIMS server as a VM and while I can't give you times it took to add the new intake, I can say that it wasn't very long as it was done during the first period (so probably about 20-30mins for 200 new starters). Our VM is allocated 4 vCPU and has taken up 20GB of RAM. What I would consider you testing or looking at is the storage the SIMS server is using, SIMS will always devour RAM because SQL will happily take all the RAM allocated to it (double check you've not limited the SIMS SQL Instance to a low memory) but if your storage can't keep up, you might see it being bottlenecked there. Just two other things to check

Mandatory profiles Hmm.. would be difficult to try that as it happens randomly across OS's (although, I don't think I've seen it on any of our Windows 10 computers yet).

Hi, We're running a mixed Windows environment (7, 8.1, 10 client PCs) and we're often finding with some of the student PCs or tablets that group policy isn't applying correctly. Initially we looked at this in Event Viewer and there is error 1096 with "The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not apply the registry-based policy settings for the Group Policy object LocalGPO. Group Policy settings will not be resolved until this event is resolved. View the event details for more information on the file name and path that caused the failure." That's an easy fix (although annoying) and requires deleting %SystemRoot%\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Registry.pol, running gpupdate /force and rebooting. Now this is happening on both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 and I'm just wondering, why is it happening? How can I find and solve the root cause? We run SCCM in our school and use Endpoint Protection, I've double checked and the registry.pol file is set as an exclusion, one post I've ready said that could be one of the causes... Thanks for any help!

We've been using old damaged laptops, usually with hinge/case damage that isn't worth repairing. We're pairing those with Xibo. In the school I recently left we used a mixture of Intel NUCs and things like the Acer Revo, we specced them with 64GB SSDs, Pentium procs and 4GB of RAM, believe they cost about £150 each and again they were paired with Xibo. Worked well for our purposes!