Katy

Mine's 148GB, but the only Win 10 product I have ticked is "Windows 10" (and "Windows 10 LTSB"). If you remove all the products you don't use that should bring the size down when you next run the cleanup wizard.

I recently set up ADFS to stop people having to enter their credentials all the time whilst on site. While it worked fine for IE it didn't work in Chrome - turns out that ADFS won't allow that from Chrome/Edge user agents by default, you need to run this: [color=#000000][font=tahoma]Set-AdfsProperties –WIASupportedUserAgents @(“MSAuthHost/1.0/In-Domain”,”MSIE 6.0″,”MSIE 7.0″,”MSIE 8.0″,”MSIE 9.0″,”MSIE 10.0″,”Trident/7.0″, “MSIPC”,”Windows Rights Management Client”[/font][/color][color=red][font=tahoma],”Mozilla/5.0″,”Edge/12″[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=tahoma]) (You need to fix the quotes first when copy/pasting into powershell) [/font][/color]http://www.vspbreda.nl/nl/ms-office/office-365/solved-adfs-enable-single-sign-on-sso-for-edge-and-chrome-browser/ Then by visiting the "standard" links (outlook.office.com) you'd only need to enter the username, at which point it would redirect to ADFS and log you in automatically, or if using the "magic links" it'd not ask for anything.

Yeah, at least on the 1511 LTSB people were randomly just getting a plain black area instead of the actual start layout, fix being to delete their profile.

We had a split of x86 and x64 win7 (two schools merged, one was x86 the other x64). We rebuilt everything with the "new school image" as x64. Now we're on Win 10 Enterprise x64, the only 32bit stuff we have left is the digital signage PCs - they will run the 64bit OS but the graphics driver will only do 1920x1080 resolution if it's running on a 32bit system (and it doesn't work on anything newer than Win 7). They're ancient and only have 2GB RAM so no big deal having a separate win7x86 image for them. We used to be on the LTSB Win 10 branch but the crap with the start menu pushed me onto the enterprise 1609 build (where it was slightly less broke), and then moved onto 1703 (where it's a little bit better again). I've never looked at the Education version though. We remove all the crap with a powershell script near the end of the MDT task sequence, although doing so breaks calculator (we have installed "Old Calculator" and just pointed the shortcuts at that instead).

Quite amusing actually - I used to use SoftCat for loads of stuff but went elsewhere as I struggled to ever get replies to my requests for quotations. Seems they hassle "potential new customers" non stop, but don't want to keep existing ones! Used to use Bluepoint for things too years ago, I think our account was opened sometime in the 90s, but don't any more. Not sure why, probably a mix of better pricing and better relationship with another supplier.

Yeah I should add, all ours are in classrooms with max capacity 24 pupils, we're using an old 4000 lumens Sony projector in the hall.

We have 75 casio LED projectors (and 3 older non-casio projectors), they're mostly approaching 5 years old although about 10 we did get more recently. Mixture of the green slim ones, the short throw ones and the other ones (? forgot what they are called, ceiling mounted like the green slim but similar size to "normal" projectors). Loving the fact that we don't have to strip them down and clean mirrors etc like we did on our orange Sanyos, and loving not having to stock/change lamps. Had one failure in 5 years out of 75 projectors, luckily it was a couple of months before the 5 year warranty ran out, and service was good. Only down side is the colours on them - red appears more brown, especially noticeable on the short throw model (which they don't do any more) but once you get used to it, doesn't really cause any complaints. Especially with the green slim ones, the zoom is fantastic - when we did a swap out we didn't have to move any projector poles as they could just zoom.

I think you need an account as it saves directly to onedrive, same as the "word online" etc. If you only need to be able to read documents you can press skip on the sign in prompts to get it in read only mode, but no idea if there's a way to pre-set it or not.

We had powercycling looping on about 30% of a batch of 60 PCs, after replacing nearly every component on the first few it turned out it was usually RAM (the case design was poor meaning all the cables went up wedged between a stick of RAM and the side of the case), although I never tried them without the 4 pin CPU power being connected, what you said about the 8 pin makes it sound board or CPU related. Have you got access to another machine with the same CPU socket so you can try your CPU on a known good board (and a known good CPU on your board)?

This. We've turned 10 year old PCs which take 25 minutes to log on into something which feels reasonably new and logs on in 30 seconds purely by changing the hard drive for SSD.

The main server room has "S1" on the door, but unfortunately it has two tiny windows in the door so you can just look in and see all the flashing lights. It's inside the CCF store room (used to be our office but we moved to somewhere with daylight) which itself is secured, so you'd have to know it was there. Junior school server room door has nothing at all on it, the only way to tell it's different to the rest is the brand of the lock barrel differs to the rest of the (new build) building, and the cool air coming out from around the door, and the noise. Other comms rooms are unmarked, one looks like a cleaning cupboard and another is at the back of one of our stores which itself looks like an office. Edit: the one at the back of the store is obvious though as there's a huge section of trunking overflowing with purple cat5e cables which makes a very obvious 90 degree bend through the wall

Mine was in January, and we terminated* in May after no useful response. *technically the deputy head had already cancelled it but the subscription ran til May, and we had said that if we got it set up with the new librarian and she liked it we'd un-cancel.

Friday next year? We discovered we had not been using our subscription for a few years when we changed librarians so I tried to get it set up again, gave up after waiting 2 months for someone to help me with importing users from AD and cancelled.

We have something similar, although it's a 1 speaker set and doesn't have a CD drive, and we find it fine for random events all over the place requiring what is vaguely called "sound", and also use it out on the fields for sports day, so I would imagine something like that would be ideal.

Cool thing, we've got the window open and there's loads of kids sat eating lunch outside as it's now blue sky and sunny, basically like a slightly breezy mid summer day (Bet it's raining sideways in less than an hour)

Not sure if that's a typo into here or actually in your code but I would expect: [color=#333333]If (recordsetname.Fields.Item("FieldName".Value) = "HOT" to read [/color][color=#333333]If recordsetname.Fields.Item("FieldName").Value = "HOT" then Although it's been yeeeears since I did ASP so it might be something else wrong. Or (assuming that's how to access a field inside a recordset in ASP land) then as @ReadTheNetwork said, "> and define a css class for each option[/color]

Ah I wondered why it was yellow outside. We can see the "hurricane sun" (bright red) when the clouds thin a bit. Definitely odd, never seen anything like this before. Add to the noise of a delivery van that's been sat outside the window for nearly half an hour it's very eerie. Edit: We've also got the "hot asphalt" burning smell here, makes a change from the kitchen smell

I did this recently, but struggled to make it lengthy. We were just after a connection (as we do the filtering separately) so I just made sure it included all the details such as: Connection type (e.g. leased line) and bandwidth/grade Backup connection details (if required) plus any details about if you want automated failover etc Routed IPs (if required) - on ours we require the routed IPs presented over both primary and backup connections with automated failover, so that things such as our ADFS don't break. Contract length Latest install date (don't forget if it's leased line they need about 4 months lead time) Another thing to put would be payment frequency - I forgot to do this with our last connection which meant we were stuck with an annual payment, always loved taking that £11k invoice down to accounts. I ended up just preparing a paragraph or two which got dropped into an email to the potential suppliers, rather than some cumbersome document, but we're independent so don't have the same rules over tenders etc.

You need to either buy the "Cloud Key" (small controller hardware, the name is misleading) or install the free controller software on a spare server/virtual machine. As we've got a 3 node VMware cluster I just set up a new VM to run the controller here, nice and free.

At least with the MX80 we have, if the licence isn't renewed we get this automated email: which implies it's expensive paperweight rather than "works but you can't change the config", perhaps it's just worded this way to scare you into paying them the money...

We didn't do anything and lost some RAM from mini tower Dell Optiplex cases in a couple of rooms (the side comes off with a catch) so we ended up just putting a padlock through the hole, now we have the more all-in-one style cases where it'd be a lot more obvious they were going inside so would hope the teacher noticed (! not sure how they didn't notice with the mini towers), and the newer PCs have a screw locking the cable cover on which also hides the case release catch, other areas with slightly less new PCs they're unusual Viglen cases so again not obvious how to get in them without being noticed, and the remaining "easy to open" cases have such ancient components they'd have to be insane to want to nick a 1GB DDR2 stick.

With Unifi, you set up wireless network groups on the controller and then plug your new AP into the network and it appears in the console, you just then click "adopt" and it will automatically apply whatever settings you picked as the default, so it's really easy to do and you don't have to manually do anything on each AP besides rename it and drag it onto the map really.

Yeah that sounds like standard practise as far as I've experienced for any school building project, they fit the fire etc in before deciding what goes in each room (or just don't bother asking IT). I'd say no way should a sprinkler system be in a room full of powered on electronics unless they want to make the fire worse. We don't have any sprinkler systems or fire suppression (besides the standard hand held extinguishers). I'd say some sort of CO2/gas based suppression system would be best, second best would be just nothing at all, and worst would be sprinkler system. (Obviously I'm not a fire expert so all the usual disclaimers here)

Some of the APs support the standard 802.3af, some want the 802.3at version, and the cheaper ones are labelled something odd which looks like their own made up version of it

I've just bought 21 x AC Pro ones, they come as singles (with PoE injector) or 5 packs (no injectors but you're expected to be using PoE switches). Got pricing from Comms Express, XMA and Complete IT so they're easy to get hold of. We just installed the controller software on a fresh Debian virtual machine but you can use the "cloud key" (poor name for something that physically sits on site) for smaller installations.