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Our LDAP Search Rule for staff is the following: (&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))) Should only pick out the users that aren't disabled, any disabled users it won't find so will suspend.

We don't use many, but we just use Baofeng UV-5R's with a stubby dual band UHF/VHF radio antenna. Works fine for us.

We bought a business radio (simple UK) licence from Ofcom with absolutely no issue in 2019.

I've not used it myself yet but what you're describing sounds like the exact thing that Microsoft Power Automate is built for. It's included in 365 A1 licensing. https://emea.flow.microsoft.com/en-us/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/modern-approvals

Good enough for me! Thank you

Quick Q - does anyone have experience with cheap compatible SFP+ transceivers? Going to be getting some fibre run this summer and getting some of our edge switches connected up to the core with 10Gb links. Will need HPE J9150D modules but would prefer not spending £200~ per module if I can avoid it. Startech ones are like £100 per. This website seems to have them for £20~ https://www.fs.com/uk/products/92098.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-qGfzcS88QIVRJnVCh1GJgr-EAQYASABEgKeG_D_BwE Anyone used them or similar before?

So GDPR and licensing aside... Audio and video from an old samsung tablet is likely going to be pretty awful so I recommend a modern smartphone on a tripod with an external mic if you can. BUT with any video, you take the video, slice it up using some video editing software, even Windows 10's Video Editor would be fine for the basics. Export it. Run it through Handbrake (https://handbrake.fr/) to get the size down. Burn it via Windows (works fine on 10 from my experience). Put that DVD into a disc duplicator if you need to make 100s of copies. Apply printable labels. Put it in a case. Pretty grim. Wouldn't recommend. Who even uses DVDs nowadays anyway?

Molex to SATA, lose all your data. Pretty notorious for faults with those, specifically the moulded cables. The crimped molex to SATA in my experience are OK but the moulded cables are a gamble. I would just disconnect all of the CD drives, I mean, we do that anyway but definitely in your case.

I use a logon/logoff script which writes to a SQL Database, find it's a lot quicker and more reliable than accessing Impero logs. I then just use a powershell script to filter that DB to a username or computer name.

This is how I do it in my script if it helps; $ACL = Get-ACL "$homedir" $ACL.Access | ForEach { [Void]$ACL.RemoveAccessRule($_) } $ACL.AddAccessRule((New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule("DOMAIN\Staff","ReadAndExecute", "ContainerInherit, ObjectInherit", "None", "Allow"))) $ACL.AddAccessRule((New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule("DOMAIN\$samaccountname","Modify", "ContainerInherit, ObjectInherit", "None", "Allow"))) Set-ACL $homedir $ACL $ACL.Access | ForEach { [Void]$ACL.RemoveAccessRule($_) } Removes all permissions from the current ACL It'll then add the three access rules (as required, staff - read and user - modify) and then set it on the folder.

We just use stickers on the bottom near the serial number info etc. this allows us to use a barcode scanner for quickly scan them if necessary. We don't get too many picked off but it does happen, it's not the end of the world though as we can always just replace the sticker. We also register the asset ID/assigned student in the device admin, as well as in our asset management system. If you need the asset ID, you can also turn on the chromebook and press Alt+V on the login screen, it'll show you the ID in the top right corner. I personally hate the look of acid etched equipment so would never do it - but it shouldn't affect your warranty.

Microsoft Wireless Display Adapters are pretty decent - https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/microsoft-wireless-display-adapter/8vwdj9bd9xlz?activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab They don't actually connect to the Wi-Fi network (it uses WiFi Direct to connect) but they are inexpensive and work really well tbh. Super simple for a teacher to connect (Open Laptop > Action Center > Connect or press Win+K). The downsides I can think of are management - you will need to go around each room with a laptop and the app to update firmware, rename them etc and the fact it's Windows/Android.

We moved from a small suite (16) of ancient iMacs to Windows PCs with Cubase 10.5. Decent spec Dell machines with an "AIO" monitor mount. Our music teacher is happy with the change and it's a hell of lot speedier and budget friendly

We use Civica (used to be Nationwide Retail Systems). I cannot recommend them. The software works, but everything costs an arm and a leg. Need to install the software to manage the system on a new PC? That'll be £300 please, and no we won't give you the software to install yourself. Need a new till? That'll be a billion pounds and you need to pay for a engineer to come onsite to turn it on and confirm it works (aka change a few registry settings).

I wouldn't put them out in anything other than a lockable charging cabinet to be honest, our insurers wouldn't pay out for any stolen kit if it wasn't securely locked away. As well as the security, you've got to think about the movement between classes and the charging at the end of it. The trolley or charging station comes as part of the cost of the entire solution imo. We use LockNCharge cabinets, they're pricy but built like tanks and the cable management is pretty decent. Zioxi trolleys are cheaper, cable management is a bit naff in my opinion but a 32 bay chromebook trolley works out at around £900~.

Our staff wouldn't ever fully utilise the full functionality of Promethean/SMART interactive screens so we go with BenQs. Simple to use, simple to mount, integrated soundbar. Overall very happy with them

I would always prefer a 2-in-1 design over just a tablet for Classroom devices, the majority of the time (maybe not so much in maths), department leads think they want tablets to be able to use certain apps but then the teachers mostly just use them for class research etc. We bought about 40 Lenovo 300e's last year via the LGfL, they've been going strong and there are a couple of Android apps that we've allowed them to install for devices in their department. If they specifically want tablets, there are Chrome OS tablets, you can also install Android apps on most Chromebooks now too.

90's Neon is a vibe

I've recently bought a few of the Aruba Instant On 1930 48G PoE Switches. I just manage them locally rather than using the InstantOn cloud management, but for the price point I can't complain, it does exactly what we need.

Depends what kind of teaming mode you set up. Switch independent teaming will mean you don't need to configure the switches. Switch dependent means you need to configure your switches, this would be something like setting up LACP on the ports to create a trunk (HP terminology) More details here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/technologies/nic-teaming/nic-teaming-settings

I am 98% certain that you would have to stop the share and recreate it with the new name. Your NTFS permissions will remain intact, but you can't rename shares themselves. A folder can be shared multiple times under different names though so to prevent disruption you could create a new share for the same folder called "name$", change all your GPO drive mapping etc to point the new hidden share and then after a couple days/week, remove the old share. While you're at it, I would go through the permissions and make sure to migrate anyone that is added individually on a folder away and put them in a group. If you do this all beforehand, you can then wait a couple days then remove the individual permissions and no one will lose access as group memberships would've updated etc. The way I do it is have a few groups called "HR-Read" or "HR-Modify" and then give those group permissions, and for users then put them in the correct group.

Definitely. We use a Ruckus wireless system and have multiple SSIDs which map to different VLANs (which in turn, are different subnets entirely). Iirc on the SSID you would just change the "Access VLAN" on the SSID configuration which will then tag the traffic.

If the image starts OK and then slowly fades to white, it's usually not an issue with the LCD itself but rather the connection between the LCD and the mobo or even a graphic driver issue, although in my experience it's the former. I've seen it due to liquid damage corroding the connector for example. Have you disassembled the laptop and tried reseating the LCD video cable at both ends? The end on the LCD is usually taped down but the end on the mobo might have become loose or damaged. The cable itself can also have damage internally which is usually evidenced by the screen flickering/coming back to life if you move the screen on its hinges etc. You might then be able to order just the video cable to try that on eBay (will usually have a sticker with part no. on) One other thing is to plug it into an external display, go into device manager and uninstall the graphics driver and allow windows to reinstall, just in case. Otherwise, I've bought LCD panels direct from eBay, laptopsandspares.com and laptop-lcd-screen.co.uk before.

If you really need to, use PowerShell imo. https://sid-500.com/2018/10/15/restart-all-computers-in-a-specific-ou/ Amend line 1 to fit your environment/OU structure. Change line 6 for the Stop-Computer cmdlet You can also do this by using a text file of the computer names $s = Get-Content -Path ./Domain01.txt$c = Get-Credential -Credential Domain01\Admin01Stop-Computer -ComputerName $s -Force -Credential $c

From what I have in my docs, you would want to do the following: 1) Stop the SOLUS3 Service 2) Delete the SIMS.net and SOLUS3 folders from Program Files 3) Delete the Capita and SOLUS 3 folders from ProgramData Should be fairly straightforward to set up a batch file to do that, think the following would do it for our site net stop Solus3Agent rmdir /s /q "C:\Program Files\SIMS" rmdir /s /q "C:\Program Files\SOLUS3" rmdir /s /q "C:\ProgramData\Capita" rmdir /s /q "C:\ProgramData\Solus 3"