Matt_Renato

The Microsoft Virtual Academy has a number of Powershell Courses When learning something like this I tend to decide on a simple task I want to achieve and then code the solution, learning along the way.

Thanks for the kind words Willott, it makes all the late nights getting everything ready to show at BETT worth it. Could I also say a big thank you to everyone else who took the time to stop by the stand and take a look at the product. We got some really good feedback which we will be acting on to make the software even better. We've also got lots of new and exciting stuff in the pipeline one of which is indeed an e-safety / safeguarding module.

Nice to see that they have decided not to implement region locking for the games.

Have you tried the "hard reset" trick? Unplug the PC hold the power button for 20 seconds and then plug back in and try and boot?

Personally I'd setup individual accounts for for everything that is currently using the domain admin account and then switch them over one at a time checking if anything breaks when you do it. It's also a good time to evaluate if anything is using the domain admin account which doesn't need that level of access and tweak the permissions on the individual account(s) accordingly.

If you know exactly what features you will need you can use the Azure Calculator to get a rough idea of the pricing. The alternative is to sign up for a trial and monitor the free credit you burn through in a month, this might give you a more accurate indication of the approximate monthly cost.

Follow the link in my previous post and create a new domain suffix of school.co.uk. Then if you go back to AD and open the properties for a user and click the account tab you should be able to select the new suffix from the drop down list. You can either multi-select users in AD and change the settings on bulk or use a Powershell script. You might just want to test the above on a single account to check everything works okay with Office 365 before doing any bulk changes.

Full instructions on how to do that here, it's nice and straightforward.

If you go down the M8S+ route make sure you get one with Android 5 or above installed. My experience in the past has been that trying to upgrade some of these Android boxes can be a real pain.

The big problem Nintendo have had in the previous couple of generations is the incredibly low attach rate of game sales. The Wii may have sold a bucket load but people bought very few games for it, I'd imagine the situation is even worse for the Wii U. Subsidising the hardware only makes business sense if you know you can generate profits on the game sales, I doubt Nintendo will want to risk selling the hardware at a loss.

The Fire TV box is more responsive than the stick and it can do 4K assuming you have a TV and content to support it. I got a Nvidia Shield TV last year and it's one of the best purchases I have made. It's about double the price of the Amazon box though.

I 100% agree with that, I'd probably pay £10 a month just for access to the SNES back catalogue.

If you've not used Powershell with Office 365 before here is an article to get you started. https://redmondmag.com/articles/2015/03/05/office-365-through-powershell.aspx

Have you tried a full sync rather than a delta sync? That will sometimes fix things when O365 isn't acting quite right.

In the proxyaddress settings in AD make sure that the SMTP for the primary email is in capitals, you can add secondary email addresses by having the SMPT in lower case. If you log into the admin portal and select the user what is their primary email address set as?

I wish they did a two player version of that.

Not necessarily, but you'd need to check with the software provider to see if it is something which would work and that they would be prepared to support.

Do you need a full blown SQL server? Azure has SaaS options for SQL, which could work out cheaper and will require less maintenance in the long run.

I'll second that. A few years ago the school I was working at replaced all the desktop printers with MFD's in key locations. It makes you think twice about printing something if you have to walk down the corridor to fetch it.

I just had a quick look the pricing calculator https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/calculator If I take a standard A0 VM it's priced at £9.09 hosted in West or North Europe and £10 hosted in the UK. If I log into my Azure subscription and try to spin up a VM in a UK region it currently doesn't display any prices when I get to select a machine size.

At the moment it's down to if Microsoft want to offer data migration. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn878163.aspx The prices for Azure seem to be more expensive in the UK compared to the European data centres.

I got the 404 error with IE 11, but I can get the login page to display if I add the site to compatibility view.

Open AD Users and Computers Click the view menu and check that there is a tick next to Advanced features Browse to the user, right click and select properties Select the Attribute Editor tab You're looking for the whenCreated attribute If it isn't showing click filter and check that show only writable attributes is not ticked and that optional is

The script below should work, give it a test with a couple of users and let me know if you run into any problems. ### Get Office 365 Login Credentials $Credential = Get-Credential ### Setup connection with entered Credentials $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $Credential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection ### Connect to Exchange Online Import-PSSession $Session ### Path to CSV file $CSVFile = "C:\Temp\ContactImport.csv" ### Import the users from the CSV file Import-Csv $CSVFile | ForEach {New-MailContact -Name $_.Name -DisplayName $_.Name -ExternalEmailAddress $_.ExternalEmailAddress -FirstName $_.FirstName -LastName $_.LastName} ### Disconnect the Exchange Online session Remove-PSSession $Session You need to connect to Exchange Online in order to create the contacts, as you can see it's slightly more complex than connecting to Azure Active Directory which is where your Office 365 users are located and can be accessed from Powershell using Connect-MsolService. You will need to set the $CSVFile variable to the path of the CSV file containing the users you wish to import. I prefer to do things this way as there is less risk of accidentally editing the main code if you need to make a change to the path in the future. Finally the columns in your CSV file will need to be named as follows Name, ExternalEmailAddress, FirstName, LastName If you have any further questions then feel free to ask away.

Could you post up the script you are using or let us know of any error messages you are getting?