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This is a known issue with version 2.24, it's been reported to Promethean, feel free to add your name to the thread - https://support.prometheanworld.com/s/question/0D56f00008Y8ApcCAF/when-typingediting-text-in-activinspire-the-cursor-jumps-to-elsewhere-on-the-page?language=en_US It's unlikely there will be a fix til the next version, so it's a case of either wait it out, or roll back to an older version.

Yeah, I wouldn't even bother with the appx package. I used to preload it into my Windows images, even then, it was pretty patchy. The MSI does the job perfectly.

Thanks for that, useful reading. For our purposes, I've found that just killing off the OneDrive HKCU key, then logging off and back on, is enough to remove the associations. It's a blunt method, but as far as I can tell it forces another setup from scratch - which is fine in our environment, as I've got that process running silently. The sticking point seems to be getting rid of the previously cached files, as it's reading these as several hundred GB, even though the reality is it's just a few KB of dehydrated OneDrive symbolic files. I guess I'll try and put a login script to run in the background to clear this up.

Ouch, bad luck. Yes, the ActivArena pens won't work with 1st Gen boards. To my knowledge, there is no current stock pen on the market for the 1st Gen boards now. Now might be a great time to make the case as to why these boards need to be replaced with interactive touch screens If you're desperately stuck though, DM me and I might be able to help you source some original pens.

I don't know if it's changed recently, but I've always found there's not much wiggle room in iPad pricing, different suppliers are usually within about a fiver of each other. It's the accessories and extras that tend to swing the deal. But yes, another +1 for Academia, they're our go-to for iPads. Last time we went out to quote though, they did get beaten by Highgate IT.

I was looking for it on the Promethean site, but they seem to have cleared out a lot of their old Activboard 1/2 help articles. Here is a guide I handily downloaded a few years back on identifying Activboards -What-Model-is-my-ActivBoard[1].pdf Fingers crossed you've got ABv2.

I can un-link the library OK in the client, if I do it manually. It's being able to do it globally via GPO that I'm stuck on.

My first thought would be, what's the POE budget like on that switch - has it got the power rating to run everything you need it to? If you disconnect the other devices and run just the problematic Paxton item, do you get the same result? My second thought would be, is it the Paxton unit. The switch is POE+, I assume the Paxton isn't something daft like POE++? Does that same unit run OK from another POE switch or power injectors?

Depends on whether you've got any budget at all for this one. Last time I looked at buying outright licenses, server standard was about £230. Although I suppose you could argue that is about half the price of a viable NAS box!

+1 for DHCP failover. We have it on Server 2022, the same scope across two DCs. Once it's set up, it's pretty straightforward, and deals with the loss of one DC just fine. Under the hood, it essentially behaves like a split scope, doing a 50/50 split of the address pool, but keeping a record of the whole scope on both boxes. If one partner is down for long enough, the other just assume full control.

I spent ages banging my head against WSUS when I built a new server over the summer, rebuilt it several times trying to work out why it wasn't handing out updates. Lost a whole day, maybe two. Users group from the local machine had to be added to the WSUS folder permission. For the life of me, I never remember having to do that before, but man, how I kicked myself after.

Depends on the spec of the box, really. If it's worthwhile, then I don't see a problem repurposing it as backup storage, I've done the same in the past. IMO though, you'd only be creating problems for yourself if you put 2008R2 back on it. If you don't have / can't get current server licensing, then I wouldn't put Windows on that box. Performance wise though, current versions of Windows Server will probably work on the old hardware. The only issue would be performance, but you're only after dumb storage so that's no biggie. Whether your current licensing covers upgrading that box to a current server version depends on your licensing scheme. If you're on OVS or similar and pay annually yes, if you buy individual licenses as required, almost certainly not. If it's an option, I would always go for local AND offsite backup. Local backup will get you back and running again far quicker than restoring from remote. It also means you can backup far more, and reserve that expensive offsite space for just the essentials.

Do your WEEE collection people take broken batteries? Ours are quite sniffy about touching damaged or otherwise compromised batteries. Or do you just not tell them..... FWIW I dropped my last expanded Li-on battery in the recycling at a our local big supermarket, as my conscience wouldn't have been too pricked had anything gone wrong.

Until recently, we've been syncing our SharePoint shared areas in the OneDrive client. These have been deployed using the GPO setting Configure team site libraries to sync automatically. These have been causing us problems, mainly due to sync conflicts causing people to be missing their file changes, so we want to remove these now. I've removed the site libraries from our group policies, but I've not been able to find any way to remove these libraries from individual users OneDrive clients. If I clear out the registry settings in HKCU, they just come back after closing and reopening OneDrive client. OneDrive.exe /reset resets quite a bit of stuff, but restarts with all the same team libraries still sync'd. Deleting %APPDATA%\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\settings and restarting OneDrive client sort of works, but chucks a lot of errors and the member of staff has to sign in again manually. And then there's the issue of the files left in the user profile, that were previously sync'd. These need to be removed to avoid confusion, but how to do that, without accidentally deleting the files in SharePoint.... Has anyone successfully achieved this via script or policy, or do I need to wait until the next time I rebuild PCs and wipe the user profiles?

Great news - problem solved, and welcome to the EduGeek community!

I was about to say the same, but the other way round - can you block the students' regular user accounts group from logon using policy? We do this with certain workstations to stop anyone in the Students AD group logging on.

As @dobbyit says above, you can use the ActivArena pens to replace the old grey and orange ones. A couple of caveats, though: They require a firmware upgrade on the board This method only works for 2nd Gen Activboards, 1st Gen are toast these days Don't get tricked into paying a fortune for original grey and orange pens if you don't need them, there have been some unscrupulous people online selling them at a ridiculous premium.

If you're going to use a redirected folder as a user's home share, best practice is that the user should always have full control of the folder, however you choose to work the redirection. Best of luck Alex

We use Folder Redirection to redirect our files to One Drive similar to as described here. I seem to recall reading somewhere the extra OneDrive variable isn't necessary any more, but went with it just in case. We then have SSO and automatic OneDrive config set up in policy. We're also running IAM Cloud Cloud Drive Mapper to provide mapped drives, and this creates a H:\ drive for us mapped to the users OneDrive. That's purely for user access though, we're not putting any folder redirection through that route. A couple of points to be aware of: For OneDrive to configure silently using SSO, devices need to be AAD or hybrid AD-joined I found that the user OneDrive site needed to be provisioned manually in O365 for new users for the redirection to work (if they haven't logged on to provision OneDrive, then at first logon, there's nothing to redirect to). Some useful discussion on folder redirection in this thread - http://www.edugeek.net/forums/cloud-services/226083-migration-network-user-folders-onedrive.html

In this scenario, wouldn't you have the share set as user's home drive in Active Directory? When you set the share eg \\examshare\user1 in AD per user, this should grant the specific AD user account full control over the \\examshare\user1 folder. With this in place, I'd expect any files you drop in \\examshare\user1 to pick up the correct perms to allow the user account access.

I've found the won't charge and ChromeOS missing faults have both been symptoms of motherboard failure. My sympathies. We've got a batch of Dell 3189 Chromebooks still going strong, that have only needed the odd keyboard or battery replacement. Credit where it's due, Dell's laptop gear has been pretty good these last few years.

XLR to phono jack cables almost always cause a heck of a buzzing sound, because of the ground issue, that's fundamental I'm afraid. Thinking out loud, if an XLR line is the only route from projector side to sound desk side, could you make up a couple of adapter cables? Phono L to one XLR pin, phone R to another XLR pin, and then mirror at the other end? Assuming your sounds desk take phono inputs of course. That would, in theory, change a balanced XLR mono, to an unbalanced stereo phono. Others smarter than I might tell you why that won't work, though....

I thought I'd just update this thread, now that we're out of the extended warranty period that we'd bought on these Lenovo 300e devices. I say update, I think I mean howl into the void. Since September, I've had three of these, out of a stock of 31, fail with the 0x26 storage error. My usual supplier has the replacement motherboards on their books at £152 each plus p&p, but, currently can't get stock. So it looks like I'll be scrapping and replacing these now, as and when they die. According to my records, we're now at a 52% failure rate over three years on this batch of devices (excluding accidental damage).

Best of luck with Promethean support. This issue was discussed at length with them with previous versions, but no-one ever came out with much of an answer. There was a long thread on their support forum about it, but that seems to have been archived now. Here's some background reading of last time we tried to get this fixed - http://www.edugeek.net/forums/promethean-direct-support/221002-activeinspire-closing-crashing.html.

We're currently using Redstor Pro to backup our Office 365 data and one onsite DC, all in one account. In our case we're taking a system system state backup of a virtualised DC, but, the same software that does that will happily also do file and folder backups, and Windows Image Backups, to cloud.