Katy

Not got an answer but this was the most disappointing thing when we went windows phone for work mobiles... thought “great we can just use the 365 accounts” but nooo that would have been too easy/useful I would also be interested to know if this is possible, and how well you can integrate Microsoft accounts with a domain environment.

Bit fiddly to put together (we did originally have them pre-assembled but that resulted in 30% damages in transit and going back for new cases on our first batch of 10 - following that we had to put the bracket/feet on ourselves but the failure rate dropped to 0% for the remaining 45 PCs) but once you get the hang of it then fairly quick to do. Cases seem sturdy enough for us, look really neat with the cable cover with custom branding (school logo). Bit of a struggle to fit all the IWB cables in, but we have that with every "all-in-one" style case we've tried, think these are the easier out of the other four we've used (Dell Optiplex 755 USFF, Viglen Omnino 3+4, Viglen Integra, Zoostorm Micro Elite) as there's a bit more room in the side. We also have far too many IWB cables (HDMI, VGA which we don't use, that yellow one nobody here uses, USB->Cat5 adapter, sound). Ours don't get that much abuse though as we're an Independent so very little PC smashing/vandalism going on. The hardware is just an ASUS board, can't remember what brand RAM/SSD they put into mine but from what I can remember there were no nasty surprises when I opened one up. If I were to magically get handed lots more money it'd probably go on replacing the rest of the old kit with the Very PC Flex. (@VeryPC_Colin_M any chance of some free chocolate for the recommendation? )

As far as I'm aware you won't really be able to do anything on the server to control them, you'll have to investigate and set up an MDM. We don't have any android tablets so can't recommend one, we use Meraki for our iPads although we have the free for 100 devices licence which they don't do any more, generally I think they have fewer settings for locking down compared to iOS devices though.

We're mostly HP 1910 edge switches, occasionally we'd get a PC just not doing anything on the network, fix is to move it to another port. But then if we moved a different PC into the "faulty" port, it works. Very odd.

We had a load of those orange Sanyo projectors that went purple (...not quite as bad as your Sonys), the "fix" was we had to strip every projector down and clean all the internal mirrors etc every summer. So glad they've all been skipped.

The power cable thing must just depend on your supplier. I ordered 21 x AC Pros a few months ago (four 5 packs and a single) and got a UK power lead turn up in the brown outer box of the single AP. (there's no PoE injectors in the 5 packs as they assume you've got PoE switches)

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall will give you the list of the GUIDs vs what they are, although it'd be a manual task to look through it you can at least confirm if it's right or not.

Can't really remember as it's been so long, all I can remember is that you can only see global and universal groups from the "other" domain. Although now I've written this I've realised how obvious that is (as domain local groups are called...domain local). I seem to remember there being a few different types of trust between domains, again not much help as it's been a long time since I did trusts which weren't just parent-child. Edit: Oh wait, just looked on here (where we have forest trusts, but they're done by the trust IT guys not me), you need to add them the other way round: Edit a group, on the Members tab you can only add things from your current domain, on the Member Of tab you can select another location.

Oh forgot to say, they also came in to talk us through everything then we took them round all the facilities we wanted to list and they took measurements, photos etc, so there was very little for us to do to get it set up.

Not 100% sure as I was only involved from a technical point (i.e. how to get data from our old system into schoolhire) but I believe there are no charges besides the commission they take on each booking (I think it was about 3%), we thought it was worth the cost compared to us having to do all the invoicing and payment processing manually before.

We use School Hire (https://schoolhire.co.uk/) Online booking and they handle the payment (although they take a small % of each booking) - previously we were invoicing then waiting for bank transfer or banking cheques so an improvement for us. You get a sub domain with your list of facilities on, prices etc and availability.

You need to remove the inherited permissions for the Users group (bottom of the screenshot), this is what is giving everyone access to everything

The first thing you need to do is ensure the NTFS permissions are set up correctly - there is no way students should be able to read or change other student's home directories. At a guess they have been set up with the default permissions being inherited from the root of the drive (giving the Users group access to everything).

Mine are usually along the lines of: if not exist "c:\program files\product\product.exe" setup.exe /silent /etc as they run every startup it just skips the installer if the program's exe is already on the C drive.

It picks it up by itself, see previous post about refresh interval. Typically though expect to have to give each machine 2 reboots to pick up the policy (as software install only processes at boot up) In a policy expand Computer ->Policies -> Software Settings -> Assigned Applications. Right click and you can then add a new package as either Assigned or Advanced. Advanced is for where you need to apply transforms etc, assigned is usually fine. All this does is run "msiexec /i /qn" at boot up with no prompts etc, plus if you have detailed startup messages turned on it will say "Installing managed software ". You can test if an MSI will work silently by running it /qn and seeing if it works. See above if the MSI is capable of running silently. Some which require things like product keys you can get to run silently by either modifying the MSI or creating a transform in something like orca to add the product key, how to do this varies from MSI to MSI. Nothing built in, Winstall LE used to come free on the 2003 Server CD. There are a few programs about although I don't really bother with this - for installers that are EXE based I tend to run a startup script that does a silent install. Alternatively there is a trick which sometimes works - install the EXE installer, then with the UAC prompts left at default try to remove it from the control panel programs/features screen - it will say "Do you want to allow this program to make changes?" and points you at a randomly named MSI somewhere in C:\windows\installer (somewhere like that, off the top of my head). You can then go and nick the MSI out of that folder and use it for deployment on the network. This doesn't always work if the EXE installer does things like configure the licence key though.

If your MDM supports it you can enable a setting "Global HTTP proxy" and point it at your filtering system, would mean making the filtering externally accessible and would also mean all data usage from the ipads will always use your connection (in and back out again if they are off site) but it's a possible solution if you have to provide filtering on them.

Just had a look on my ipad and you need internet connectivity to create/edit in the office apps (as it forces you to sign in), once signed in it will let you save to ipad but not sure how often it needs to be online to stay signed in. If you aren't signed in then you get the read only mode.

I managed to get hold of the slightly newer version and dropped the newer EXE into the existing install folder, and it worked again. My tech had already broken the news to the teacher so the follow up email saying "I think I have got it working again" should make me look amazing (although I did stress she needs to find something new as there isn't a slightly newer version for when this one breaks). Thanks everyone for helping

It used to work fine without running in admin mode, no idea why it suddenly stopped working. Doubt I'll get anything out of them as they went bust in 2011 and a new company started up using the same name but none of the old software, might still drop them an email just in case though.

I've got it to work as XP SP2 compatability mode... but that requires it to run as admin, and I'm not giving 4 year olds administrator level accounts so they can click "Yes" on the prompt without my password.

Must be a much newer version then, our tizzy.exe definitely states 1.0.2.0 (not 10.0). It's not even going to be a corrupt EXE as it's the same issue on all the PCs/laptops we tested as well as a PC that I just built, and it's installed locally on the C drive rather than a single EXE on a server share. - - - Updated - - - I've tried it as admin and tried giving full control permissions on the program files folder to everyone, also tried compatability modes. It used to work fine so the only thing that could have changed is a windows update (and I've tried removing all of the recent ones)

I never understand how they always say how much the syllabus changes frequently yet everyone seems to want to keep using ancient software, surely if the syllabus changes so should the software...

I've taken off all the updates that went on recently and it still doesn't work, gonna have to give up on it. Not sure how they expect me to fix 14 year old software where the company that made it no longer exists (well it still exists in name but it's after several buy-outs and they don't have anything to do with ancient software).

The EXE claims it is version 1.0.2.0 and dated October 2003. I don't feel it is unreasonable for the junior school to have to find a modern replacement 14 years after buying the software... bet they have a different opinion on it though.

Apparently this worked last week, but today we are getting this error when running tizzy.exe: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library --------------------------- Buffer overrun detected! Program: ...ogram Files (x86)\Tizzys First Tools\tizzy.exe A buffer overrun has been detected which has corrupted the program's internal state. The program cannot safely continue execution and must now be terminated. --------------------------- OK --------------------------- The only thing I can think that might have changed is a windows update (we automatically install critical and security updates) but there's nothing useful on Google and it appears the company (Sherston) went into administration in 2011 then was bought out and no longer has anything to do with the software. Is anyone else still using this? Is it working for you? I have a feeling the answer I'll have to give the junior school is "it's 14 year old software and not supported, you'll have to find something new to use instead". I've just built a PC from scratch so I can test it from my room and it's the same there, Win 10 Enterprise 1703.