Katy

I've missed this last time but I only found out about VeryPC because they're skiving off posting all over edugeek well it worked as I'm halfway through installing a batch of 52 PCs from them.

The PCs look like this: The DVD bracket is the blue bit on this photo: And the cable covers are these: Edit: I'm not after the PCs just the cable covers and a couple of DVD brackets which would easily fit in a small box/jiffy bag, obviously willing to pay for P&P etc.

I'm sure I've seen a for sale/wanted section so mods feel free to move.... I can't find it. I'm after anyone who may be disposing of Viglen Integra PCs at the moment - I desperately need the side and back cable compartment covers (probably about 10 of each) plus a couple of the blue brackets attached to the slimline DVD drives. Background: I'm not just some mad Viglen hoarder, I'm replacing my IWB PCs and moving the old Viglen Integras into the library, as we had so many problems with HDMI staying in the integras a few teachers have taken the sides off and lost them. Also we threw a few faulty DVD drives out without noticing they had brackets on them I want to get the cable compartments secured when in the library to keep the hands out! Please please please if anyone is throwing any of these out, let me know. I'm struggling as they are only 5 years old so most still in service, and I really don't want to have to buy spares off XMA (if they even sell them).

We did it at mum's to replace paving slabs, didn't go for the most expensive and as long as you lay all the pieces in the same direction (if you have more than 1 piece) it will be fine, ours looks better from one end than the other but compared to proper lawn full of weeds needing cutting... so much better (and the cats love it). Hardest part was getting the 2 tons of sand we had delivered from the front of the house to the back garden, we ended up half loading one of the wheelie bins and doing about a thousand trips, inch of sand down on top of the slabs then the fake grass on top. I think we even had a go with the hoover once it was down (got to get the neighbours to think we're insane somehow).

We used to use NetSupport School, but we don't use anything now, if we need to remote onto a PC for tech support purposes we use VNC, otherwise it's just down to the teacher to control the class. The staff who used to use it (and asked for it) have left and to be honest if I re-installed it (We have enough V8 licences I think) I doubt it would even get opened. Saying that I may look at Veyon as already suggested....

Unfortunately youi're going to struggle unless there's someone high enough in the teaching staff to drive it forwards. My line manager is an assistant head (as well as being head of computing) and uses Class OneNote with all his classes, and has been trying hard to get other departments to have a go. Our aim is to get rid of our RDP server in a couple of years by getting rid of the things standing in the way - e.g. "you need to remote in to get at the shared drive" = we are thinking of moving this over to a sharepoint site, etc. Also I think it helps that all his classes (Y7 upwards) know that we have 365, know that onedrive actually exists and that they can just edit documents online from anywhere, hopefully pressure from the pupils as well as us towards other teachers will help sway them towards adopting it. I've just set up SSO and got Onedrive Mapper working, and we're trying to persuade SLT that they should be working collaboratively using 365, not emailing files around named things like "Staffing Rota v1 final v2 edit 3.xlsx" (although they're not the easiest to convince that a shared document is better.... we will get there eventually)

Wonder what completely unrelated feature KB4011140 will break.... (me? cynical? never)

I think I have managed to get my default printer to work properly, ended up doing a registry GPP entry with item level targetting for the computers wanting the global default (followme pin release system): HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows with a string key for Device which should be ,winspool, - however I found if you skip the port (which changes based on the random order it maps printers) it STILL WORKS Hooray I won. Me: 1, Win 10: 0

Ohhh duh, not sure how I forgot as this is how I moved to 365. If you're using a new enough exchange version (I think 2013+) you can use migration batches on 365. It will need a lot of work to set up (I didn't set ours up as it was a shared trust-wide exchange system, I think he said it needed ADFS) but I did do my own migration into my 365 tenancy, it took ages but basically went smoothly.

Forgot to say, that's already been done. I'm going to assume that this https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/2787598/group-policy-printer-preferences-fails-to-set-the-default-printer-when hasn't been fixed yet and just try a registry preference to create a keyt in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Devices with the printer details, it seems to map the 1st printer in the GPP order list as port "Ne00:" every time so that's okay. Hopefully it runs this before it tries to set the default, then actually succeeds. Unfortunately the 6pm auto shutdown means there's no classroom PCs for me to test it on from home so will have to give it a go in the morning.

Has anybody experienced this problem (and found a solution)? We have a printers GPO which sets up shared printer connections based on item level targeting (computer group membership). In the library it's supposed to get four printers, let's say A (Default), B, C and D. They all map every time however Windows is randomly selecting one of A-D to be the default printer. If I do a gpresult it shows the error 0x80070709 for mapping printer A ("The printer name is invalid") however the printer still maps, just not as default. A google brings up some old posts about it trying to set the default printer before the registry keys for the printer connections have actually happened, although these were from about 2014 so hopefully that had been fixed (I don't remember having the problem with 1607 or 1511). Any ideas on how to make it pick the default printer it's been told to pick? Don't want to have to revert back to logon scripts and the like The GPPs are set as Update, does anyone know if it should be one of the others to be more reliable (Create/Update/Replace, obviously not Delete)?

There used to be a tool you could run to export PSTs out of Exchange - just had to have Outlook installed (but not opened, think it just hooked into some of the DLLs) and permission to the mailboxes... unfortunately can't remember its name or how long ago (I think I used it when I moved from exchange 2003 to exchange 2007 so it probably doesn't exist any more

Haha yeah, and actually it was the fact the time didn't show seconds (and the font it was in) that made me think it was fake more than the camera angle/position etc, more attention to detail needed next time! I've seen white flashes before but it's usually something flying very close to the camera when the IR is turned on.

Maybe if I move all my CCTV cameras to shoulder height in the middle of the corridor I'll get more ghost footage....

We use Albion, only had 29 ipads from them (although another 21 soon to go on order) but the pricing and service was good.

I can only echo this. Our MIS is iSAMS which itself uses SSRS for all report generation, and even after doing all their courses on "SSRS with iSAMS" it's a very complex task working out which table is what, currently only myself and my line manager ("Assistant Head i/c Digital Strategy", also head of computing) write SSRS reports as it's far too complicated to give the task to anyone else, definitely not secretarial staff. Even my senior tech struggles with SSRS linked to the MIS.

Wonder how easy it would be to get the school to move to somewhere with decent fibre....

We don't require photo ID for anyone, however we do have "student cards" which basically look like ID cards (photo and name) which are used for the catering and library systems. We just extract the photos out of our MIS, either taken by a professional company or if the pupil missed the photo day or joined later in the year we have our own photographer do it. Edit: Our 6th form aren't in "school uniform" in the usual sense but it's not "non-uniform" either, it's "business dress" i.e. smart suit, the boys have a school branded 6th form tie, so harder to mistake random people off the street with the actual 6th formers.

Ah no that's the Flex Micro, I've got the Flex. Just by accident whilst checking through them all I got the lid off - slide towards the front of the PC, not towards the back like 99% of cases. Hooray. Thanks anyway though

It may be that by pure luck the one I've unboxed so far is broke, got some instructions off Colin at Very PC and they don't work (it should just be common sense anyway surely, pull the blue catch and slide the back off). Going to go try another one now

This is going to sound like a really stupid question but... how do you open a Very PC Flex case? Never had these before and I want to have a look inside but I can't work out how to open the thing, there's a blue lever which I can hear click but doesn't allow the side to be either slid back or lifted off. Can anyone help please?

We had this when we had port 3389 open (the full RDS role on any recent OS just doesn't work on our domain for unknown reasons), even discovered someone from Ukraine had managed to log on with a generic junior school account, was quite interesting seeing their attempts to make executables run and bypass the software restriction policy (tons of the same file with slightly different names, all of which were blocked). We ended up sticking a free Sophos UTM in the way so we could just block by source IP country, and eventually got RDS Web to actually work well enough to just disable 3389.

We're about to roll out 20 APs in our junior school, to replace the patchy coverage with old HP MSM460s (it was fitted 1 per 2 rooms, so of course with it being new build with tin foil in all the walls it's hopeless). I've just set up a virtual machine running the controller rather than putting it in the cloud - it was very easy to set up. There are other schools in our trust which run Unifi throughout and have nothing but good things to say about them. (Bonus with this is the HP access points we take down are being re-deployed into the senior buildings which were also fitted 1-per-2-rooms to give 1-per-room across the whole site)

Or, they're so bad at support they actually believe their own lies.

Potentially risky but you could edit the XML of the target policy by browsing to \\domain\sysvol\domain\Policies\{GUID} and making the changes there, would think the worst damage you would do is to break the single policy you are working on. You can get the policy's GUID out of group policy management. Edit: That's assuming that the ILT is actually saved as XML in the first place.