TwistedHelixis

Will probably just create some disposable accounts then

Generally the teachers don't communicate with the parents the office do. I would imagine the want to keep it that way. BTW its the same in every primary school I have ever worked in.

Primary school needs to run a few Google Meetings with parents soon but have requested the parents don't know what the teachers email addresses are. Initially I thought we could just setup a few disposable Gmail accounts, but then remembered the teachers have enough issues switching between personal and work accounts. I am now thinking about aliases, but then think they will have the same issue as above. Are there any ways around this issue? Otherwise I'll just create some extra accounts.

Also.... My main worry was the keyboard but it is fine, all the letter keys are about the same size as my PC keyboard keys. It's actually really easy to type on.

OMG its much better than expected. It arrived about 40 minutes ago and I have just had a play. The build quality is amazing, even if it was more expensive. I have just installed a few Android apps and they are all running perfectly. So far very happy :0)

Just going to be my 'bung in bag' second device. I suspect we might see a few variations of this over the next few years with improved specs + cost.

Just ordered myself a Duet :0)

I believe I did, without needing to contact anyone. Wish I had taken some notes down at the time, sorry. I have just checked the G Suite domain page, and the lower domain does have the option to make it Primary, although I'm not going to click it to see if it still lets me switch them.

Been looking at getting a Samsung Tab A 8 inch. Found one on Amazon and one at John Lewis, both for the same price but they have different model numbers and I cant find out why. SM-T290NZKABTU SM-T290NZSABTU I assume the K / S differences must mean something, any ideas.

that might work as a way to get them logged in to chrome, I'll have a play

In addition..... The reason for this is, I'm looking at setting pupils up in G Suite and the domain name is a bit long EDIT I am also evaluating GCPW, but would like my original post as an option.

The staff use Google's G Suite dashboard https://gsuite.google.com/dashboard to access their G Suite apps. I have this link on our website. I think that in the past we had a bit of code added to the URL, that would complete the domain part of the email address for any new users. For example, a new teacher logs onto laptop, opens the schools website using chrome and clicks on the link to open G Suit dashboard, as they are not signed into Chrome or G Suite yet they are asked to sign in, but they only need to enter their username as the domain part was already filled in. perhaps this feature was coming from somewhere else (GPO????) Does anyone know how I go about getting chrome to pre populate the domain when signing into G Suite?

@localzuk how have you gone about the pupils naming convention?

Any advice in setting up the pupils OUs, Groups and names in G suite for a part split / mixed class system. This school has only 4 classes and the years are mixed in each class. Each year the pupils are moved to a class based on the past years ability, except for year 6, where everyone in that class (class 4) are the same age. I am not going to setup KS1 in G Suite at this time. I am thinking one of these options OU = Pupils > all pupils in this OU, save me having to move them around next year. Pupils names = DOB or Year started + firstname+lastname Or OU = Pupils > Class > Or OU = Pupils > Year Started > again I don't need to move them each year. Also, If I used GAM would this move the pupils automatically each year based from SIMS? EDITED a few items above

I do have an issue - Only users that are in G Suite and NOT associated with a domain account are able to login. If I try to login using a G Suite account that is associated with a domain account I get the following error - ‘no domain user could be found for your account’. I have no idea why I am getting this error as I believe everything is setup properly. EDIT The school have decided that KS1 will not have g Suite accounts and don't need access to it.

Apparently this is correct behaviour for GCPW :0(

I have been playing with GCPW with mixed results. When I tested it on a non domain laptop, I get a G icon under the 'Other users' text on the Windows login page. This was great as it gave me easy access to both MS and Google as an option to login to Windows with. I have just added the laptop to a domain but now all I seem to get is 'login with your work credentials', where the MS login box would have been, which when clicked opens the Google login box. It does this for all users including local users. The only way to access the Windows login box is to select 'sign-in options' under 'login with your work credentials' and then select the windows icon key, which then brings up the Windows login box. this is not great for a primary school where half the pupils will not be using a Google account. I am thinking that the GCPW software might have corrupted while joining the domain or something, so I might rebuild the PC. Are others seeing similar behaviour?

Just a little thought, but if I changed the IP of the DC server to that of my real network, disabled dhcp, and use an external vm adaptor, I assume this would help.

I have a really old spare server at a home for testing, with hyper v installed. Currently I have a test DC vm with AD, DHCP & DNS setup in a similar way to a school, so it has a 10.xx.xx.xx ip. Obviously I need to keep the vm DC hidden from the real network. I also have 1 windows 10 client that I will be connecting to the virtual DC server so I have a little virtual domain. Obviously I can connect an internal vm adapter to the Windows 10 vm so it can communicate with the server, but I also need it to communicate with the real world through my router which is on 192.168.xx.xx ip. Is it possible to connect the Win 10 vm to both systems at the same time??

Once its in My drive its just a case of drag n drop to a shared drive. I moved 90% of our server files doing this.

Just setting up a test server to try this out. Cheers :0)

In case I do need to setup individual pupil accounts in AD, is there an easy way of pulling the pupil data from SIMS, or will I need to do this manually typing in each pupils name?

SIMS :0)

Most of the primary school in our area were setup by the LA like this (loggin in as a year) and still are. A few years ago I took over a few schools but haven't had the need to change that yet. On a side note, almost everything else was needed to be re built but that's another story. admittedly I haven't pushed this as there were far more serious issues on the networks I took over and since then its been a case of everything is now working, breath. One of the questions I was planning to ask at some point was around setting up the pupils in AD, and syncing from another source. But that might be a moot point now, as one of the posts above mentions a new tool from Google for logging into Windows - https://support.google.com/a/answer/9541368?hl=en&ref_topic=9539498 I am just setting up a test laptop so I can test this new tool. If it works as expected I will not even need the pupils in active directory, which could be a massive game changer as far as i'm concerned. EDITED

That would be really helpful. I will PM you my email address at the school.