TwistedHelixis

Ill probably go next time 👍

I think its called Endpoint Education Upgrade

Yes they did. Its a separate license for education.

Does that also include getting GCPW to work with Smoothwall cloud? Which was mentioned in a separate forum.

I use Action1 for updates and deploying scripts. I did have issues with the yearly feature updates, but they fixed that for me. Apart from that, its been rock solid and a massive help.

Not something I have come across, but definitely something the Police would use if they could. I guess it must be something like this. They will just have to check this emergency account directly, not the end of the World.

We have a special emergency email forwarding account, that the police asked us to create. I created the forwarding rule in Google Workspace, the same as all our other forwarding accounts. I can send an email from my personal account and it gets forwarded, All emails sent from our local authority get forwarded, but we have just noticed any emails the Police are sending do not get forwarded. I can see in the logs they arrive at our emergency account, but they don't get forwarded. Can anyone think of a logical reason for this? If you need any more info, please ask.

Chromebooks for pupils at all the schools I manage, I would never want to go back. On a side quest, I now have 2 server-less schools. Both have staff still using Windows devices, but they authenticate against Google accounts, not intune or Microsft. It so nice not to have to worry about server updates, domain migrations, or purchasing new servers etc

All the primary schools I look after, the pupils login from year 1 using their own account and password. The IT coordinator and the first school I know that did this, who is also a year 1 teacher said its probably the most important thing to teach the pupils at that age. If they can use a username and password they are set for everything that follows. This also means any websites they have logged into while logged into their own Chromebook account, will always have their own settings, which ends up making everything so much esiser in the long run for the teachers. No more having to log a pupil into MyMaths every lesson etc. The year 1 teacher, just keeps going over and over how they should log in, until they are all logging in.

Shared accounts have nearly all cloud apps disabled. We just have a supply shared drive and the staff drop stuff there if needed. We also have supply only laptops, so the 2 step has already been used on that device, so its not needed when the actual supply logs in.

Just had the following on the next client - Windows 11 Installation Assistant is not supported on Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Education. 😞 Ill give that client another go later

I do believe it might now be working 👍

Ohh thanks, ill give it a go today

I was thinking, even if you have a script that I can run, to push the feature updates out from Action1, that would be so helpful.

Is the reddit thread on the same topic you as well? Yes probably

Messaged you the case number and copy from the email. Thanks for looking into this 🙂

Thanks. It was in regards to the pro Education version of Windows 11. I guess all Education versions have this issue.

Hi, I managed to contact Action1 and was told schools will not be able to use Action1 to update the main Windows feature updates, which is a massive shame. The odd thing is, it used to work just fine.

I'm now wondering if after entering my password, rather than clicking 'try another way' and then picking the key as an option, if I had just inserted my fido key after typing in my password, would it have worked anyway.

I just setup a new device and it let me use my fido key to log in. After entering my password and picking to use my security key, it didn't display the normal 'enter your key to continue', the only option was to pick a different option, but I plugged the key in anyway, noticed it was flashing the LED, pressed the touch button and it logged me in. So its not perfect, as it looks like its not going to work, but does anyway.

It works. I am so useless with creating scripts, but now, lol <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <title>YouTube URL Modifier</title> <style> body { font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f4f4f9; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; height: 100vh; margin: 0; } .container { background: white; padding: 2rem; border-radius: 12px; box-shadow: 0 4px 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); width: 100%; max-width: 500px; text-align: center; } h2 { color: #333; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; } .input-group { margin-bottom: 1.5rem; text-align: left; } label { display: block; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; font-weight: bold; color: #555; font-size: 0.9rem; } input[type="text"] { width: 100%; padding: 12px; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-radius: 6px; font-size: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; /* Ensures padding doesn't affect width */ transition: border-color 0.2s; } input[type="text"]:focus { border-color: #007BFF; outline: none; } button { background-color: #007BFF; color: white; border: none; padding: 12px 24px; font-size: 1rem; border-radius: 6px; cursor: pointer; width: 100%; font-weight: 600; transition: background-color 0.2s; } button:hover { background-color: #0056b3; } .output-area { margin-top: 1.5rem; background: #f8f9fa; padding: 1rem; border-radius: 6px; border: 1px solid #e9ecef; display: none; /* Hidden by default */ } .output-area p { margin: 0 0 0.5rem 0; color: #666; font-size: 0.9rem; } .result-link { word-break: break-all; color: #007BFF; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; } .copy-btn { background-color: #28a745; margin-top: 10px; } .copy-btn:hover { background-color: #218838; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="container"> <h2>URL Modifier</h2> <div class="input-group"> <label for="urlInput">Paste YouTube URL:</label> <input type="text" id="urlInput" placeholder="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=..." autofocus> </div> <button onclick="convertUrl()">Convert URL</button> <div class="output-area" id="outputArea"> <p>Your new URL:</p> <a href="#" class="result-link" id="resultLink" target="_blank"></a> <input type="text" id="hiddenCopyInput" style="display:none;"> <button class="copy-btn" onclick="copyToClipboard()">Copy to Clipboard</button> </div> </div> <script> function convertUrl() { // 1. Get the input value const inputUrl = document.getElementById('urlInput').value; const outputArea = document.getElementById('outputArea'); const resultLink = document.getElementById('resultLink'); const hiddenInput = document.getElementById('hiddenCopyInput'); // 2. Simple validation to check if it looks like a YouTube link if (!inputUrl.includes('youtube.com')) { alert('Please paste a valid "youtube.com" URL.'); outputArea.style.display = 'none'; return; } // 3. The Logic: Replace 'youtube' with 'yout-ube' // This targets the first instance of 'youtube.com' const newUrl = inputUrl.replace('youtube.com', 'yout-ube.com'); // 4. Update the UI resultLink.textContent = newUrl; resultLink.href = newUrl; hiddenInput.value = newUrl; // Show the output area outputArea.style.display = 'block'; } function copyToClipboard() { const hiddenInput = document.getElementById('hiddenCopyInput'); // Use the modern clipboard API navigator.clipboard.writeText(hiddenInput.value).then(() => { alert("URL copied to clipboard!"); }).catch(err => { console.error('Failed to copy: ', err); }); } // Allow pressing "Enter" to trigger the conversion document.getElementById("urlInput").addEventListener("keypress", function(event) { if (event.key === "Enter") { convertUrl(); } }); </script> </body> </html>

I just asked Gemini to create me an app for teachers to enter a YouTube URL and the app would supply them with the new YouTube link but with the modified t-u url link. Its come back with a website script. not tested it yet.

Yes, there is finally a new version of Carmageddon due out in February. I used to play the original many many years ago. I hope it manages to match my epic level memories. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1712100/Carmageddon_Rogue_Shift/

This one connects to docs, slides and sheets, which makes me a bit worried.

Just been asked to enable an extension from the Chrome web Store. Its hard to know if something like this is safe to enable or not. They have the following How do you handle these sorts of requests?