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True, that's always been a bit of a sticking point. I wonder if it's possible to redirect desktops to a Sharepoint location? I guess in theory you could create an SMB share in Azure and point desktops to that, but it's not something I've seen done.

Is it a desktop that users have write access to, or just desktop redirection and your curated set of shortcuts? We do desktop and start menu redirection here, I've dropped our shortcuts into NETLOGON instead of having them on the file servers, that way they're automatically replicated to all other DCs.

Thinking back, I don't think there was one single GPO that disabled the welcome screen, I think it was a combination of setting the startup pages, and disabling all of the import settings options. An alternative option is to create the Preferences file with a line saying first run has already been done - - although I haven't tried that method myself.

If you look in the properties of the Numbershark shortcut on you client, are the Target and Start in locations what you'd expect? Target should be the Numbershark exe, which is usually locally installed. Start in should be your numbershark-shared folder, which is usually networked. Obviously these will vary depending on what options you've chosen.

Do you mean the "Welcome to Google Chrome" first run messages, or are you trying to customise what users are shown each time they open Chrome? It's all in the Chrome GPOs; if for some reason you can't use group policy, you could manually add the registry keys for the behaviour you want. There's also a bunch of behaviour you can control using the master_preferences file.

We don't backup Google Drives, but at the moment it's mostly only primary-age classwork and resources. We are looking at migrating our core data to Office 365 though, and for that I'm looking at either using Veeam (we have an existing license) or LGfL Gridstore (which is Redstor SE underneath).

I suppose if they don't offer to pay return until people ask, they save themselves an amount on their shipping bills. Seems a bit unprofessional to not offer it upfront though. If their product has failed, then they should be footing all the bills to get the situation resolved.

I can't say that I've paid for return carriage on anything we have here, usually they'll send over a courier label or something for collection, at their cost. I have had to pay to return consumer items at home though, so I don't think there are hard rules on it. Depends on the terms of your warranty, I suspect. If it costs more than ~£5 to return it though, I'd be inclined to kick up a stink.

OK - assuming that you're running a flat network with no VLANS, and no link aggregation, you have too many ethernet links between your switches. Can't tell you why the SFP link sets it off, but the loop looks to be in your switches. Each switch should only have one route to other switches, including any routes it may take through a switch. Eg, currently Netgear2 can reach Unify via a direct link, or pass through Netgear1 - a classic loop. Remove either the ethernet between Unify and Netgear2, or, ethernet between Netgear1 and Netgear2, and that should resolve the situation.

As someone else said above, if it's still serviceable, it's always worth dropping a list of what's available in the Classifieds section of the forum. It's always good if schools can help out schools Classified Adverts

It could be so many things tbh. I would start by unplugging everything bar one device on a static IP in each unifi switch, plug in the SFP port, and see if you can ping device to device over that fibre link, as that appears to be what's introducing the loop. If that works out fine, then re-connect switches and devices bit by bit until you find the one that causes the loop. Could there already be a link between the two Unifi switches or cabs, such as a copper link you don't know about? Just a personal preference, but I quit using daisychain to connect my switches long ago. I use star config with my best switch in each cab as the centre. It's a lot easier to troubleshoot as well when things like this kick off.

A while back we were suffering white-screen hangs on a lot of Microsoft Office 2016 applications. I read a few things that linked it to the new Exploit Protection Export Address Filtering (EAF) behaviour that a Windows Update had introduced. We turned this off using Known Issue Rollback, and things seem to be behaving a bit better recently. https://thewincentral.com/microsoft-rolls-back-windows-10-update-kb5005101-using-known-issue-rollback-for-resolving-multiple-issues/ May not apply to you on LTSC, may not even be what fixed it for us, but sharing in case it's any use.

Our main server room runs at about 21C. Our secondary comms room, and any kit in ancillary locations, runs at whatever the temperature of the room is that day! If it's an inhabited room, anything between 20-25C is probably fine, you've got to look after the human machines too. Most kit runs just fine up to at least 30C environments, in my experience.

Is there a particular functional reason why you'd want to update the NIC driver, like performance or features? Something like that I'd be inclined to leave alone, if it's working, and just use the new driver next time they're rebuilt. That said, if you still want to do it, the problem you'll have to be careful of is network disconnection whilst the driver updates. For that reason, I'd be inclined to use a startup script in group policy, rather than an SCCM package which might interrupt a user. Startup script would step as follows: IF condition to check whether the update is needed Copy installer files to Temp location Run silent install Delete temp files That way, any interruption in connection would be pre user experience, and should reconnect again by the time you hit login screen. EDIT - @Oaktech beat me to it, and more succinctly!

I don't think one is inherently better than the other, by the sounds of it you're returning a document with consent(s) granted on it either way. As far as I know with GDPR you need to record the consent, who gave it, how, and when. We record all of this in our MIS. We're moving more towards Google Forms for this kind of thing, as it records all of that with a few name fields and a tick box. We create the forms, email them to parents, and they fill them in, no paper copies required.

Using the setting "Enable favourites bar" under Admin Templates | Microsoft Edge in group policy, I can turn the favourites bar off here by choosing disabled. We apply all of our MS Edge settings by user, rather than computer, if that makes a difference.

The registry keys you need are in: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

If adding an alias is not an option, I would look into the user shell folders in registry, and force any changes you need through using group policy preferences.

We've used Academia (formerly Toucan) for our iPad needs in the past, they've always been very knowledgeable and helpful. I imagine they'll be able to handle the volumes you want, although you'll have to ask them about the portal side.

Yes.... and no..... on that one tbh. They are a known security risk, so I think giving them to the disadvantaged is probably a bit morally dubious. If someone chooses to buy them off us of course, then buyer beware!

Fair enough. Looks like it's worth asking though!

We ran into this just before the half term holiday. Turning on "erase local user data" does not work retrospectively, and Chrome OS is not managing user profiles adequately on it's own. The only way I could make these devices usable again was a full factory reset. All of our devices are trolley-based multi user devices, so I've put "erase local user data" on and will leave it on for the foreseeable future I think.

Ah, you've got a bit of room left in channel 6, you'll be fine That's pretty crazy though, you don't usually see so much congestion in channels 2-5 and 7-10. Someone mucking about, or a very congested area?

Oh, we work with them too sometimes! Was this for a discount off a larger purchase, or credit you could use for other kit? Would be great to trade these in and come out of it with something useful.

Only 8 years old our ones, so quite modern really And in fairness, they've kept going with very little input from me thus far. It does look like end of life on these, which I can agree with. It just feels a bit of a waste to be throwing away something that works, when I've got people asking for them.