ColonelPanic

We've got 200-300 2nd gen i5s still in use (2300s, 2500s). They're more than capable for both classroom and office use (8GB memory for classrooms, 4GB for offices). The biggest speed difference we noticed was fitting them with SSDs, and that applies to all the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th gen intel PCs we have Edit: All running W10 1709/1803

All Windows 10 1709/1803. Most of our users use the Outlook desktop client, as they don't move between classrooms too much. We did put a workaround in place by changing our OWA desktop shortcut to open in IE

Hi Andy, Check the Office 365 Health Status. (EX151627 - Can't download attachments) OWA attachments in Chrome appear to be a systemic problem with the latest Chrome update (a number of teachers have reported it here too). CP

Hi, Which boards are you using? We're still using Notebook 11.4 (the horror ) and the 12.10 drivers work alright with our old SB580/560s Cheers, CP

We have it installed on a good number (>25) of our machines here, didn't require loading any other versions of .Net that I can remember. The only issue we've had previously, is SMART Ink causing issues with certain Office apps. The drivers that come with the installer seem to work fine, as do the updated drivers (v12.10 I believe) Running 1709/1803

Hi Jonny, Do you guys have SMART Notebook installed? Try uninstalling the Smart Ink software from the control panel, and see if it helps, we had a very similar issue back when we hosted exchange on-site. CP

- What speed is your network between core and edge switching(1gbps, 10gbps)? 10GB to high use areas (4 cabs), 1GB elsewhere (24 cabs) and a 100mb point-to-point wireless transmitter (over the car park) - From the size of your network, do you think that 10gbps is needed in your environment(between core and edge)? Yes, 1GB can be a little slow when imaging 30+ PCs through WDS - What kind of network speeds do you have between server and storage area network? N/A We had a 1GB SAN switch, but we now have direct attached storage to our cluster - Are all cabs fibred between core and edge? Not yet... We still have around 5 cabs running over 1GB Cat5 - Do you have redundant up-links between core and edge switches? Mostly, but not by design. Most of our fibre cable runs are at least 4 core, so there are 2 redundant cores to most of the cabs. - Are most cabs connected by spf or spf+ transceivers? Yes, the 1GB fibre runs are all connected via SFP into HP switches - Would you agree / disagree in how important it is to invest and maintain your fibre infrastructure? Invest? Yes definitely, networks are much easier to manage when communication between cabs is virtually guaranteed. Make sure they're well insulated, otherwise roofing contractors will run wheelbarrows over them, and break a core or two (thankfully we had redundant cores) - Do any schools in the area have a secondary server unit or cloud solution for vm replication, in case of hardware failure? I'm not sure where the area is, but our school use DPM for backing up to the cloud. We have a termly onsite backup (Windows Server backup) to a NAS as well.

We had something similar, it would get to 100% on the splash screen, and go no further. We solved the problem by uninstalling Smart Ink (through the Settings/Apps menu)

We're running a slightly-less-old Photoshop CS5, as we're site licensed for that. Adobe wanted ~£30k per year to license us for CC, so it went out the window fairly quickly. I think we've used the Serif suite in the past, although you'll have to check whether or not they still sell site licenses for Pageplus/Photoplus/Webplus etc.

Hi, I know it's not of much help, but Google (and most other email providers) like to block attachments with double file-extensions, and mark them as malicious. With the example in your screenshot, I know it's not a double extension, and you know it's not a double extension, but Google sees the "*.2.notebook" and blocks it. It's to prevent things like "*.pdf.exe" and other such atrocities being emailed around.

No, we've not found a way to disable it. In previous W10 builds you used to be able to disable Cortana from running (Cortana is now the search function), but disabling Cortana now renders the entire start menu/taskbar non-functional (it greys out and you can't click on it) If you type in UNC paths, they open up in Windows Explorer, so we wanted to disable it to stop our pupils from accessing it (some of our more enterprising pupils would also figure out how to run certain applications, mstsc, powershell etc.) Blue_Cookeh is right though, you can just start typing in the start menu and the search box comes up, we've learned to cope with its existence, and started locking more programs down through Applocker.