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We are currently using TEAMS for exams, using the Large Gallery view. There are normally 30-40 students on at anyone time however for some reasong the grid is missing 10 or so and not displaying the specified 7*7 grid. Try looking at settings etc and can't figure it out. Any ideas?

As a school we are starting student Surface Go devices in September. The intention is to hybrid join through InTune which on a few practice machines has had varying results. We have manged to successfully create an Autopilot configuration, with devices connected to InTune and on-site AD, also moving to the correct organisational unit. The problems seems to be group policies as policies from both Intune and GPO AD are being applied. This is ok for devices on site however when students are off-site all sorts of errors appear as of course the same "onsite" policies are being applied. Is there something I am missing?? For the last week of so this has caused me much stress as the system seems to function nothing like instructed on the Microsoft help sites. When any configuration changes are made I have to do a windows reset which takes 10 to 20 minutes!

IT Support Engineer We are looking for an IT support engineer to help us deliver IT across the school.Working with our partner RM solutions the right candidate will have strongcustomer facing skills and the ability to react well to pressure, responding toincidents and issues logged by staff, students and visitors. They will alsoneed to be able to carry out routine network management tasks and with thesupport of RM manage the IT infra-structure. £25.000– £30.000 depending on experience Start Date : July 2019 Please contact: [email protected]

We have now been with RM solutions since last summer and have just signed a one year extension. Anybody have a view on this company? Hasn't been great so far.

We intend to enforced students to have devices but unfortunately as they are the first phase group (after Easter), it wasn't possible to insist on the same device - although some have gone through the purchase portal. In September when we roll out to the whole school, this will be enforced. At the moment I am unsure how to use InTune to setup different devices and what to lock down. Probablyu will be going through BYOD unless you haven't any better suggestions. Any help would be much appreciated.

We tried to push the purchase of devices through school portal. This means devices would be "out of the box", so could configure using Autopilot and complete device management. However, many have refused to purchase insisting on using already existing laptops etc. So, kind of forced to go down the route of BYOD / MDM due to the complexities of having to configure the whole array of possible devices.

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As a school we are rolling on student devices in September. We have purchased Azure Prem 1 and InTune. Does anybody have any good strategies or ideas for how we may go about enrolling devices and implementing appropriate safeguarding? Do we use BYOD with InTune?

IT Support Engineer We are looking for an IT support engineer to help us deliver IT across the school. Working with our partner RM solutions the right candidate will have strong customer facing skills and the ability to react well to pressure, responding to incidents and issues logged by staff, students and visitors. They will also need to be able to carry out routine network management tasks and with the support of RM manage the IT infra-structure. Please contact the school for more information on 01240 82070 or email [email protected]. £25.000 – £30.000 - depending on experience. Based in Alton. https://www.altonschool.co.uk/about/community/careers/

IT Support Engineer We are looking for an IT support engineer to help us deliver IT across the school. Working with our partner RM solutions the right candidate will have strong customer facing skills and the ability to react well to pressure, responding to incidents and issues logged by staff, students and visitors. They will also need to be able to carry out routine network management tasks and with the support of RM manage the IT infra-structure. Please contact the school for more information on 01240 82070 or email [email protected]. £25.000 – £30.000 depending on experience Start date: April 2019

Does anybody know of a reputable company who could setup a purchase portal for the Surface Go dedicated to you our school?

Has anybody had major issues with OneDrive? Sometimes syncs and sometimes doesn't with client and also very slow. Random users can't upload to shared files in Teams and i can't figure it out!

Yes, we will be integrating with our network via Active Directory (we don't have the full Azure package as of yet). However, as the parents are purchasing the device they wish to have their own "profile" on the machine. Do we just add a profile with all the necessary settings or create a fresh IMAGE which will effectively wipe the existing install on the Surface Go. Excuse my ignorance but never managed mobile devices in this context before. We have yet to purchase mobile admin management software.

We are looking into the route of getting parents to Pay for Surface Go to use in school. To manage this we are looking at InTune to install apps and controls. Has anybody had experience of this? Do we wipe all applications on it and install ours and lock down? This has implications.

My school are considering going down the virtual desktops route via a cloud service. Anybody got experience of this?