Katy

Looking at the code and the screenshot, it is the new Win10 app ones with the App ID that it doesn't like, all your old style shortcuts (except scratch) seem to appear.

I get the feeling when they introduced this "feature" the testing went like this: 1. Does it save to a XML file? Yes. 2. Does it load from the XML file? Yes. 3. Does it look the same as when it was saved? No... but it's sort of there, just a different layout with half the icons missing... close enough. Hooray for Microsoft.

I've done it myself, changing both first name and surname. Don't pay anyone pretending to be "UK Deed Poll Service" etc as there is no official service, a deed poll is literally a legal document relating to a single person (i.e. you). I used https://freedeedpoll.org.uk/ and just printed onto some fancy paper to satisfy people asking for "an original", and signed it in front of two witnesses (I think they just have to not be related to you). Make sure you do at least two originals so you can send them off to multiple places at the same time, speeds things up. The DVLA were perfectly happy with the deed poll I sent them, and once I had the driving licence issued in the new name that also sped up things like the bank. TSB just have a form you need to fill out for change of name and post it off with the deed poll, easy peasy. HSBC make you go into the branch and fill out a form with one of their staff, but again easy (so long as they don't mistype your name....) All it cost me was a couple of books of stamps, plus £20 for the DVLA as I had to change my photo at the same time (but it's free if you are just changing your name/address).

We currently allow for the art teacher only, again because they "need it to pass GCSEs" (they also apparently need a colour photocopier capable of printing onto 300gsm card in order to pass GCSEs, still waiting for them to show me an exam board spec which says "you must have access to pinterest and printing onto 300gsm card in order to pass this course"). Not quite sure how it works as half the images on it are still blocked, guessing they are just linked in from other domains. They also wanted "all images" unblocked which is obviously impossible without just bypassing the filter but we have some sensible people high up in the trust that put a stop to that one.

I bet it's something daft like it only refreshes that screen once every 30 seconds or minute, and they all hit that screen at a different time so it gives the appearance of "that one's a minute ahead" .

We also get this, they all get their time from one of the domain controllers, and they get their time from upstream DCs at the trust, and theirs get their time from some sort of internet clock source. Furthest out we see them is 1 minute though. Log in to two that were showing different times and get them to re-sync from the DC and you find they were both already identical to the DC..... odd

Hmm, we must be being ripped off by the reseller then. Luckily we don't have anything non-Promethean so aren't affected. Still even at £500 a go... I wouldn't pay 50p for that software, hate it.

Has Promethean told you this? We were told much closer to £1000 only a few months ago....

Yes, but you should be fine with moving images and even so it takes a long time to happen. Only one of ours with burn in so far is the IT office screen (which is a 10 year old LG I brought in from home) as it's just got a text list of helpdesk tickets on maroon background rather than slides playing through. Even then you only notice if you kill the Xibo client and go to Windows desktop.

We have ours set to turn off automatically after 8 hours, so they just get turned on at 8:30am and last the day, stops them being switched on burning the screen out 24/7. Average it out over the year with the fact they're off during holidays and you probably won't look like it's used too much to be domestic (I must have mine on 6 hours a day at home, more at weekends)

Nowhere near that screen size but we use domestic LG 42" screens for our digital signage with no problems, and at 1/8th the price even if you do have to swap one out you're still saving a fortune. (The model we use even has features to disable the button on the screen from doing anything but turning the display on)

Ooh will have to look at those settings, we just force them to use Wordpad which has no spell check and remove shortcuts to everything else and stop the EXEs running with the "Allowed Programs" setting

One problem with MoviePlus is the feature unlocking (try to do anything needing codecs and it has to get a "feature unlock" from the Serif servers), if you do too much re-imaging you will find you go over your maximum unlocks and need Serif support to reset the count/increase it. They did this a couple of weeks for me with no problem but who knows if they will still even run the unlock servers in a few years time? I was also about to add some more MoviePlus licences so we could roll it out in the library after the PCs have been replaced, not gonna happen now.

I'm not the OP, I was replying to "What do you use?", we are using 5 of the 6 slots and don't have any speed related problems on our network. Edit: We went 10GbE because the fibre that was installed was only 4 core (against my wishes but was out of my hands at the time) so biggest aggregated link we could do to a cab was 2 x 1Gbps. Also our SAN has 2 x 8Gb fibre channel into each VM host so it's quite fast.

You have to pay an insane licensing fee to use Smart (or Promethean) software on a non-Smart (Promethean) device. Not sure on the Smart cost but Promethean charge almost £1,000 per device.

HP 5406zl with 2 of the (20 x 1GB Copper/ 4 x 1Gb Fibre) modules, plus a wireless module, 24 port 1Gb fibre module and 8 port 10GbE module. Installed in 2012 and we added the 10GbE card in summer 2016. Main VMWare hosts are on 10GbE connection, main cabs have 10GbE uplink, everything else 1Gb.

You have to change the paths in AD to point to \\domain.local\share instead of \\dc01\share

Not sure how well it would work being on the DCs, as it needs DNS to query for which servers are running DFS in the first place - I've always had separate file servers. Unfortunately can't remember much about setting it up as I've not used it in the last decade...

2012 R2 supports proper DHCP redundancy (rather than just the old "80/20 split scope") so that's easy to sort. For file replication if you're feeling brave try setting up DFS, your shares are then sat at the domain level eg \\domain\students rather than on a specific server, and DFS will load balance the requests over the two servers (or send all requests to one server if one is down). Not used DFS since 2003 R2 where it wasn't the most reliable thing in the world but probably more due to the speed of the network and the amount of data we had back then.

I install TightVNC using a .bat script set as a Startup Script in group policy (as I couldn't get the huge list of property values to save correctly in an MST): @echo off if exist "c:\program files\TightVNC\tvnserver.exe" goto :END msiexec /i "tightvnc-2.7.10-setup-64bit.msi" /quiet /norestart ADDLOCAL="Server" VIEWER_ASSOCIATE_VNC_EXTENSION=1 SERVER_REGISTER_AS_SERVICE=1 SERVER_ADD_FIREWALL_EXCEPTION=1 VIEWER_ADD_FIREWALL_EXCEPTION=1 SERVER_ALLOW_SAS=1 SET_USEVNCAUTHENTICATION=1 VALUE_OF_USEVNCAUTHENTICATION=1 SET_PASSWORD=1 VALUE_OF_PASSWORD=******* SET_USECONTROLAUTHENTICATION=1 VALUE_OF_USECONTROLAUTHENTICATION=1 SET_CONTROLPASSWORD=1 VALUE_OF_CONTROLPASSWORD=******* :END exit That command should install the server only (no viewer), configure the firewall and set the passwords. There is also a section in Group Policy somewhere that you can set firewall rules, not sure if I also set it there or not.

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Another option to "blend in" with small villages etc is just use a different styling for the name Waterstones, the co-op store in Hawkshead used to (maybe still does) fit in well because it was really nice lettering rather than just a backlit vinyl covered plastic sign.

There is an option in the directory sync config tool (the awful java one that runs on your DC) telling it what to do with accounts that exist in google land but aren't found in ldap. I think the default is to suspend them, the other options being delete or ignore.

Interesting, wonder how much of the latest stamp price rises paid for that data collection/analysis though!

This. Otherwise if you have to have a turnstyle then you just need to find one that will take either normally open or normally closed relay output to tell it whether to allow them through, wire up to a Paxton controller, and give the kids cards.