Checkmate1984

Hi All whats your policy to create a local administrator on a newly imaged workstation. Here i have seen some machines have no local admin accounts, one that do have a encrypted password that's generated by some back end software so users never login to a machine locally Had instance where a workstation had trust relationship issue. Simple fix is put in work group and back in domain but due to above they just re-image the machine which means 90 mins or so wasted I have not worked in schools for past 3 years so have lost touch on latest policies. In past i use to have local admin account created with one password. I know we can roll out local admin via GPO too should this be needed Is this still the norm or is now encrypted password the future??

hmm strange because thats issue i have no drop down, on any browsers and with a machine that has no GPO applied

https://schools.nationaltheatre.org.uk/app/os#!on_demand/home Then click on login link? does that work?

strange, works fine for me when i click on it.

https://frogfederation.com/module.php/frogdiscovery/organisation.php how about this link?

Wasnt sure where to post this We are having users unable to click on link to find school When they click on find school nothing happens. could it be GPO blocking it? i had look at GPO but unable to find anything. Anyone had similar issues at there school? https://frogfederation.com/module.php/frogdiscovery/organisation.php?entityID=https%3A%2F%2Ffrogfederation.com%2Fsaml2%2Fidp%2Fmetadata.php%2FFrogLearn&return=https%3A%2F%2Ffrogfederation.com%2Fmodule.php%2Fsaml%2Fsp%2Fdiscoresp.php%3FAuthID%3D_37c3b8e1e7abb53c9dc7a52fcbd0c931c355da8583%253Ahttps%253A%252F%252Ffrogfederation.com%252Fsaml2%252Fidp%252FSSOService.php%253Fspentityid%253Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fschools.nationaltheatre.org.uk%25252Fsaml%25252Fmodule.php%25252Fsaml%25252Fsp%25252Fmetadata.php%25252FFrogFederation%2526cookieTime%253D1519998713%2526RelayState%253Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fschools.nationaltheatre.org.uk%25252Fapp%25252Flogin&returnIDParam=idpentityid

This maybe in wrong forum if so apologies I joined this school this week and they use Acronis backup and recover advance 11.5 for vmware I can see agents installed on one server but no portal to run restore or backup Been told in past they used to run via putty. but no one has any information! anyone use same solution or can give pointers how i can access the acronis backup? kind of in deep end first week but pointers will help fast track than waste hours

Hi all I have a server for computer science Dept which i need to deploy. I need it for Microsoft small basics. I have been reading here and most seems to deploy via a virtual instance so it stays separate to network. How do you guys managed to do this? can class of 25 run the virtual machine in one time?Any guidance would be good thanks in advance