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The new keyboards are rubbish, we have sent back every single one of our new MacBook pro's (over 30 of them) for new keyboards. I have had my new 13" MacBook pro a week and the caps lock key is dodgy already!

Mosyle should served your needs well and its cheap too

You can do everything that Jamf can do with a collection of open source tools such as Munki and Puppet (puppet isn't necessary for most people but may be in your situation) which will give you most of the benefits (you would have to pay for an MDM such as Mosyle or simpleMDM) that you can host on side

In reality each mac should need no more than 10 mins physical involvement, the best way to achieve this is with an MDM and munki (for software deployment) Also there is a Mac subforum and a great slack called MacAdmins with loads of people that will help you out if you need it!

^it also goes against apples recommendations, What are the reasons for them being signed into an apple ID? as I expect that there are alternative ways to achieve that solution!

I would say a place like the Mac Admins slack would be the best place to ask about what MDM's to use, I am in the process of purchasing Mosyle Buisness for my company, their support is better than Microsoft will ever be and its a product 100% designed to work with the apple ecosystem. As a general rule of thumb that some other Mac Admins I have spoken to is, if it claims to support more than 1 platform, don't use it! (there will obviously be exceptions to this.)

What was the outcome of your demo @FN-GM? looking to get a helpdesk system in place here but we are mac based and only have linux based web servers and we don't really want to set up a windows one (which spiceworks requires)

We use GlobalProtect which is made by Palo Alto networks, They use the VPN to connect to any internal web apps such as purchasing systems and other internal apps (they can not be accessed without it on) its as simple for the user to enter their AD Credentials (as the portal is put in during installation) and they are connected. In terms of remote desktop, we don't provide a solution for it and just install the software on the laptops them selfs.

Anyone know how to easily apply the same BIOS settings to lots of laptops, the specific mode that I want to do it on is a dell Latitude 5290. I know that with the older modes you could set up a device with all of the settings then run a dell tool which would give you a .exe to run on the other devices which would then apply those settings to the other devices. I hope someone knows how to do it

We paid a company to build it for us, we then host it on our onsite web server.

We are told to use their initials and tutor group.

We haven't had any issues getting in contact with them, however we have been waiting for the broadcast feature to be released (I think its in testing or just been released) before we purchase it.

ours works without a hitch on 1709, couldn't tell you how its set up though as I didnt do it. perhaps @MicrodidgitUK could help

I assume that they keep the key and the remotes live in the box the whole time.

@Fazza I saw some of them referenced on a different forum that I came across but I could not find anywhere to purchase them. Where do you get yours from?

the trouble with that @hardtailstar is that the rooms are shared and its people from different rooms taking the remotes so there is no way for us to work out who to bill. We do that for other parts of the school where the rooms are not shared though.

That seems like a good solution, it's usually the teachers that move them around the rooms rather than pupils as it's in our 6thform block. Then if it comes unstuck then I can glue/epoxy the pad back on

We have the issue with projector remotes going missing from rooms, we have tried engraving them with the room numbers but they still disappear into other rooms. My thought is to chain them to the board so that they physically cannot be moved but I am not sure how I would go about this without drilling a hole in the remote. Has anyone else encountered any similar problems, if so what did you do to prevent it?

I was thinking if we are able to do it on mass for them, but I guess it’s not possible.

We have a daily bulletin that is emailed round to staff (just in the body of the email) and a weekly headlines that is on the website for all to see, for which a link is emailed to staff, students and parents if they opt in.

Does anyone know a way to import users bookmarks into chrome from favourites folder? We have moved to 1709 and a lot of users want to have their old bookmarks moved across.

Ill get back to you on that in a weeks time @ZeroHour, been out of the office for most of the afternoon!

here is @MicrodidgitUK with his keyboard!

Great, I have to listen to that clicking all day at work now @MicrodigitUK

Hi, Our maths department use hitachi starboard to teach their lessons, this works fine on Hitachi boards but we have some promethean ones and some tv's. The issue with this is that starboard does not detect there is a hitachi board connected to it so there is the watermark on the screen and some of the touch functionality does not work. Does anyone know if it is possible to install and licence Chameleon (it simulates the hardware ID of a hitachi board so the pc thinks one is connected) through SCCM or GPO's. Previously I have got it to install through GPO's but not licence (its a key that you have to enter). If this is not possible do people know of any other software that does the same thing.