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Long shot - I've been tasked with trying to revive SuccessMaker 1.7.2. It's out of support, dependent on quicktime and a host of other reasons why I shouldn't, but I am. Server side installs fine, client side (with some tweaking) installs fine - but won't run in widescreen resolution. Well it will, but the username/password box aren't visible. Has anyone got any suggestions on how I can launch the SME shortcut (which points to a launch.txt file to fire up a JRE executable with all the necessaries added in via cmd parameters) to run in 1024 x 768? Or to change the resolution when the shortcut is run and revert back to widescreen after? Adding -height and -width after the target in the .ink or the .txt file it points to provides no joy. Cheers!

...Because we live in the real world instead of imaginationland/neverendingmoneypotland?

Another vote for the refurb'd Dell E6430s. i5 and SSD for around £225 I believe.

Hi Interested to get people's take on the part of the announcement regarding teams and classroom (sorry to steer the thread away from hardware/OS!). https://blogs.office.com/2017/05/02/modern-classroom-collaboration-with-office-365-for-education/ I'm reading this as 'we're merging classroom into Teams and sacking it off'. Which is slightly annoying personally as I've been trying to get people using Classroom since it was launched in january, but long term I can see teams being a more flexible and 'all in one box' solution.

Uuuuurgh Select Notebook, as above? Seems to do the whole thing for me. My concern would be that the sharing would be affected from a pupil's point of view - it may have to be shared again (tbc!).

Morning I haven't sat down with the teacher in question to do this yet - hoping to do so next week - planning to open it in Outlook 2016 and Export the entire notebook as a .onepkg which can then be opened by anyone. Have you tried this way?

Hi So has anyone requested their 365 tenancy be moved to the UK? If so - can I ask what the reasoning was? https://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn878163.aspx Ta!

Have only skim read this thread but the GPO .xml method seems to work straight away with version 1607 - I never got it working on 1511. I'm just using it for program shortcuts, This PC and docs folders at present, so shortcuts already on the device/user area. Ta

Agreed - and for SIMS especially the permissions ladder is more of a tangled web, but you'd expect any third party writing applications to sync data from SIMS to be have a basic understanding of what the roles do. As I say, we were only looking for a class list sync tool. I get that their application has other uses, but it can't be kosha to use only a small section of the data you take?

Hi Just my two cents on the matter. I've just cancelled a deployment that required the use of Wonde for the DPA reasons listed above. I was planning to use a third party company for setting up and syncing SDS. I didn't realise at the time they used a partner company (Wonde) to actually sync data. Wonde provided plenty of documentation stating they were in accordance with DP policies - but when I actually looked at what their reports were doing I was a little surprised considering we only needed to sync basic student data for class lists. The SIMS user they ask you to set up would have permissions to view/and edit pretty much any data in SIMS (req'd Personnel Officer and SMT roles, among others). It's basically every drop of staff and pupil data possible. It didn't sit comfortably with me at all.

I like the concept and would like to give it a try - though $15 per device per year doesn't sound like particularly good value.

Hi Thanks for the input all. My preference was to write this script over a third party tool - as well as budgets being tight I did feel as if I wasn't far away from getting something working, and I seem to have made progress. Hopefully this makes sense - I appreciate it doesn't look very pretty but this is the first powershell script of note I've written and a fair amount of trial and error has gone into the below! At present it creates all new accounts under the 'pupils' OU - which I'm going to look at next, along with some proper logging of account creation and hopefully then an email notification when a new account is created. AAD sync then creates our 365 accounts so it's starting to turn into a bit more of a seamless process! Any input appreciated as always. Ta MG! # Runs report that outputs new pupils since 31-01-17 to csv ("C:\Program Files (x86)\SIMS\SIMS .net\CommandReporter.exe"" /USER:reportgenerator"" /PASSWORD:******"" /REPORT:New-pupils-since-310117") # Imports raw CSV from of SIMS.net, generates SamAccountname, exports to csv 2 $CSV = Import-CSV 'c:\Scripts\all-pupils-auto-export.csv' | Select-Object * $i=0 $CSV | Foreach-Object {Add-Member -InputObject $CSV[$i] -name SamAccountName -Value ($_.Entry+$_.LastName+$_.Firstname.Substring(0,1)) -membertype NoteProperty; $i++} $CSV | Export-Csv "c:\Scripts\amended-pupils-auto-export.csv" # Imports CSV 2 to AD Import-Csv 'c:\scripts\amended-pupils-auto-export.csv' | foreach-object { New-ADUser -Name $_.DisplayName -SamAccountName $_.SamAccountName -UserPrincipalName (“{0}@{1}” -f $_.SamAccountName,”domain.org”) -DisplayName $_.Displayname -GivenName $_.FirstName -SurName $_.LastName -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString "Changeme!" -AsPlainText -force) -Enabled $True -ChangePasswordAtLogon $True -PassThru -Path 'OU=Pupils,OU=SIH-Users,DC=domain,DC=ORG'}

Hi I'm interested to hear if anyone is doing something similar to this: I'd like to automate our user creation process. This means pupil AD accounts are created (probably on a nightly schedule) as they're added to SIMS, in the correct OU for their year group. At the moment I have a powershell script to create users in a specific OU from a csv, including setting a password. The CSV from SIMS requires some work - concatenating usernames from surname/firstname columns and adding the year of entry, and checking for duplicates. I modify the script to point at the newly-created 'Year of entry OU' and run it. This takes an hour or two over the summer. For students that join after this day, we're relying on discover updates and emails from data manager. I've made a start on writing this - commandreporter dumps the first name, surname, year, UPN etc of pupils who've joined since today's date to a csv. As above, I already have a powershell script to bring everything into AD. We then use AAD connect to create 365 accounts - so the manual process of editing the CSV before it is imported into our local AD is missing, and I would ideally like the new accounts to be sorted into the right OU for their year group. I realise you can buy products to sort this and things like class lists to AD group, but I don't feel like I'm a million miles away from getting it running. 1. Any ideas on how I automate the concatenation of names/year of entry into usernames? 2. How do I go about selecting an OU in our local AD based on year of entry (from CSV)? 3. How can I get some sort of prompt (via email if poss - O365 user here, no local exchange) to tell us/staff when a new user is created? All input/ideas welcome! Many Thanks

Hi there, Sorry in advance that I can't help with your powerapps issue! I have been thinking about doing a sharepoint based helpdesk for a while, and now the time has come to mock one up before making a decision on whether to renew our current web-based helpdesk. Can I ask how you've created your sharepoint helpdesk? Ta!

Old thread I know, but thought better post here than start a new thread. Been talking to our Bursar about this and I've just worked out that our ICT budget stretches to approx £21 per student per year. This has to include everything - repairs to existing kit, licensing, new hardware including staff laptops and infrastructure. Printing costs mostly come out of departmental budgets but where new printers are concerned, we have to foot the bill. We're a medium sized secondary in Wales. I'm finding that most of the budget is eaten by licenses and keeping older kit running, so that by the time comes to refresh hardware I'm left with less than 50% of what I started with to buy new shinies. Is that price per pupil what it should be in relation to other school's ICT budgets? Should I be demanding more? Thanks in advance.

Hi Are you still having issues with this? There's a strong possibility we may acquire some of these in the very near future and they want a quick turnaround on kit. Planning on putting Win 10 edu on them. I've got other HP kit that took some faffing in WDS to build properly but I got it working in the end, just a question of getting the right drivers. Cheers!

The people who make RoomBookingSystem also make a ParentsEveningSystem which is handy - and we find SIMS TeacherApp good on IOS, Windows 10 and Android. We also have SLG which does provide a portal for parents to check their sprog's attendance/behaviour/assessment but we aren't using it just yet. Envisioning a deluge of confused parents needing credentials reset on a very regular basis does make me wince somewhat.

Morning, We started running a similar scheme here but using them to set up for lessons using ICT ie running and fetching tablets & laptops and some very basic troubleshooting. When we set up the scheme towards the end of last term we had quite a few ideas knocking around, though seeing as it's now just me and my increasingly-busy schedule organising them we'll see how many make it past concept! • Editing/adding to some areas of the intranet ie blog posts for their class and comment on other blogs across the school. • Reset/change password for other pupils • Update digital signage • Support teachers across the school when they teach ICT and use new hardware or software, Trialling new hardware and software. • Organise competitions e.g. design desktop wallpaper/screensavers. • Attend events and other schools to share ICT learning – ie primaries, BETT • Attend after-school training for staff and parents (SLG/O365) I think the idea of having something like this formalised is great, getting it off the ground is the difficult bit. Good luck!

Nice video! How did you make the 8-bit 'jingle' section? I've started putting training videos together using Powerpoint/Office Mix and I'm in the process of making a 'training' site in 365 using sharepoint. The idea being staff complete the 'quizzes' at the end of the video and this goes against their professional development. How well-adopted this will be remains to be seen, but I've had positive feedback from those who have seen it so far.

We're currently getting microsoft to merge our Student.school 365 domain with our staff.school 365 domain, so that both staff and pupils share the same space. I think it has potential, but exactly how we'll be using it and what for remains to be seen!

Hi there, thanks for the reply, and I've got 'Enable all Macros' checked unfortunately! I've been through all of the Trust Centre settings and can't see anything that remotely looks like what the error message might be referring to:

Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately the 'Let Office connect to Online Services...' box is already checked. We don't have the Office 2016 admx templates configured across the site yet as there's only a few of us using Office 2016, so I can't see how it would be a GPO. Specifically which setting do you mean?

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Check the registry hive below and change the value of SignInOptions. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\SignIn https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/jj715259.aspx

Haha you have no idea how apt this is - big thanks!