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Hi All I wanted to put a quick shout on here about our upcoming 'Google and the Classroom' event taking place in Sheffield late November. Following the hugely successful (as well as enjoyable) event we held @ The Streetly Academy earlier this year we're taking the message Northwards. The format will be similar to the last, the focus being on spending a few hours in a laid back interactive fashion exploring more of the G Suite Edu (nearly typed GaFE) offering. We're incredibly proud that once again Andrew Caffrey, Assistant Headteacher at The Streetly Academy will be present to give further insight on his journey to becoming a LightHouse site. Also present will be James Leonard, Google for Education Dean Stokes, a leading expert on Google for Education. As well as kindly hosting the event Graeme Hathaway, Assistant Principal Learning Improvement and Innovation, The Sheffield College will also be there to inform attendees about the College's journey thus far with Haptic and Google. Our Team will be on hand also, we're also delighted that we can showcase Google Expeditions and let you all have a play around with the kit during the session. Places (sadly) will be limited to around 40 delegates, we're hoping to have more events planned shortly across the UK. It would be great to see you there. News post and registration form can be found here Joe

Hi all, Just after some advice, we have a wireless network configured at user level for BYOD devices what I would like to do is block this wireless network for a certain OU Using the global network config i have added the SSID to the blocked SSID list and can see this being applied at device level to the chromebook, unfortunatley (I believe due to policy overrides) the user policy for the network is applied and the SSID can be connected to on a device in the OU where the blocked SSID is being applied. https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/9037717?hl=en details the order of policy settings being applied. I can see on the chromebook the policy for the blocked ssid is set as "Source = Cloud, Applies to = Device, Level = Mandatory" When the settings are exported as a JSON and viewed I can also see the user level network being applied as well. Source = Cloud, Applies to = User, Level = Mandatory. My order of policy application is set as default (which is Machine > machine cloud > OS user > Chrome profile) How can I make my device level SSID blocking over ride the user setting? From my understanding anything set at device level shouldn't be overwritten by the user policies? Just for testing purposes I added my mobile hotspot SSID to the blocked list and that worked but this was not a managed network set at user level. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Edit: Ive now tested my SSID connecting from the login screen where no user policies are being applied so only device level setting should be set at this level, it still lets me connect to the blacklisted SSID even though its no longer a "Managed" network, the blocking of SSID is done via string to Hex and ive reversed the hex i can see in the JSON and it converts back to the correct SSID. Oddly even though blocked SSID setting is device only it only applies once a user is logged in, my hotspot only gets blocked when a user logs in, my needed blocked SSID still does not get blocked.

Hi, We have a roaming set of Chromebooks which classes book out throughout the day. All students login with their own username and password. Whenever a student signs in they are presented with the ChromeOS 'Howdy' screen which invites them on the 'Tour' of the OS. Is there a way to disable this in Google Admin? Many thanks -Luke

Hi Everyone, Im having an issue where Google Password sync that is installed on my Domain Contollers is no longer working. When attempting to authorise a Google admin account the 'Continue' button after confirming the account password doesnt seem to work. I have checked that all the required URLS are whitelisted on the firewall and that there is no proxy set on the server. Running the sync tool on a different server works fine but oddly not on our DC's. Has anyone encounted this issue before. I have treid the following; -Checking no proxy is set - Checking the URLS recommended by Google are whitlisted - Changing what browswer is used for the password confirmination. I have attached a screenshot of where I get to when then stalls. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am looking to sign up our school to G Suite for Education. I have previously been a G Suite admin so am familiar on how it works / features / administration, however I have not set it up from scratch before so I'm looking for some advice on the setup procedure before I follow the sign up process. I would like to have a google account created for every AD account we currently have and every future account. We have a 100% windows environment at the moment and we use 365 for email. My understanding is that there is a sync tool to install on the DC which will create a google account for every windows account and sync any account/password changes. We already own a domain name that is only used for our website and is not linked to the domain or 365 and I would like to use this as the Google Domain. I've partly followed the signup process through and it gives me the option to use an existing domain, but I'm unsure how I would link the domain to G Suite. So my main concerns are: How to link the domain to G Suite - I assume some DNS settings will need changing? Is it possible to keep using this domain name for the website as well as G Suite? Does 365 need to be involved in any way? Many thanks in advance!

For every UK school purchasing Chromebooks for the first time and buying 30 or more Chrome Device Management Licenses by March 31, 2017, we're excited to include a free ClassBuddy Laptop 30 & 5 Google Educator Level 1 Certification Vouchers in your purchase*. *terms and conditions apply You can find out more about this offer by visiting our microsite, our website, or by giving us a call Thanks for reading, Darrell @ Haptic Networks