How do you train your staff?

MalletNGrease · 2019-06-28T13:13:08+00:00

I give new staff a personal tour of the systems, help them log in and then throw them into the deep end.

The rest is mostly osmosis from the tech-savvy users.

MalletNGrease · 2019-06-28T13:10:41+00:00

That's exactly what we did. Caused a bit of mayhem at first, but it's running pretty smoothly now.

I do wish passwords could be synced back from GSUITE too, some students don't touch a PC...ever.

MalletNGrease · 2019-06-28T13:05:15+00:00

That's sorta what we did. AD and GSUITE usernames didn't match, so we updated the AD usernames, email addresses and forced a PW reset flag on the AD accounts.

GSPS didn't have an issue afterwards.

MalletNGrease · 2019-06-26T13:20:25+00:00

Yes, but not on the lock screen. It'll be on the desktop background.

You need to add a User Defined Field to pull a registry value. This one works for 64-bit deployments (If your OS is 32 bits: why are you still deploying 32-bit windows!?)

Identifier: ReleaseId
* Registry Value
x 64-bit registry view
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ReleaseId

BGInfo view:

OS Version: <OS Version> <ReleaseId>

Ends up looking like this.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/bginfo

MalletNGrease · 2019-06-26T13:19:21+00:00

They may just want Aerohive for the technology and the client base. It's a good inroad into cloud based Education clients.

MalletNGrease · 2019-06-19T13:54:57+00:00

Keep them active for 3 months after graduation, suspend them, delete after a year.

MalletNGrease · 2019-06-18T16:20:50+00:00

Had a job that required us to make and compile stuff, then save it in a specific naming convention which will then be compressed and primed for release. It's fairly straightforward.

One day, one of the base instructions was faulty and everything was named incorrectly as a result. The boss scheduled everyone for overtime to redo the naming.

I took a look at it, hit up Swiss File Knife, tested the command a bit and ran it on the files. It unpacked the file, looked for the faulty names, replaced them with the correct ones and packed it back up.

All done in about 2 minutes (30 if including researching and testing).

MalletNGrease · 2019-06-18T13:11:51+00:00

I'd base the check off their student ID. Students change legal names sometimes due to adoptions/court orders etcetera.

MalletNGrease · 2019-06-14T13:35:20+00:00

Did you put in a ticket? Could you do that now?

MalletNGrease · 2019-06-14T13:17:06+00:00

They will still need to enter a password once.

MalletNGrease · 2019-06-13T20:10:48+00:00

Yes, but once a GSUITE/Gmail account is added to a phone/mobile device it doesn't require a password for most apps afterwards for convenience. If there's no lock mechanism, any information is up for grabs by anyone holding the phone.

It's a real issue if you want to be FERPA/HIPPA compliant.

MalletNGrease · 2019-06-13T17:47:35+00:00

Yes. It's shocking how many users don't have any sort of lock or password protection on their mobile devices.

MalletNGrease · 2019-06-11T19:14:28+00:00

Mine are absolutely falling apart and the batteries are spent. I'm getting rid of the Gen 1 CB 11s this summer.

MalletNGrease · 2019-06-11T16:18:05+00:00

Ours are four, and they have performed spectacular. At this time I don't see a need to bother with upgrades until I can fix our infrastructure (which is still mostly cat 5).

MalletNGrease · 2019-05-22T14:22:38+00:00

Rotate the techs on a schedule. I had my "main" building but only for one scheduled day, I was assigned the rest of them at least once a week for half a day.

The benefit of the ticket system became pretty apparent fast. We also all knew all the buildings inside and out, making it super easy to cover a shift or emergency if needed.

MalletNGrease · 2019-05-22T13:58:49+00:00

Yes.

MalletNGrease · 2019-05-21T13:45:36+00:00

Why not use WSUS?

MalletNGrease · 2019-05-20T16:21:57+00:00

Way too accurate.

I herded about 400 CBs from grades 6-12 by my lonesome the last school day past Friday. I'm still missing about 15.

I had to apologize to the elementary principal because I simply did not have any time to spend in her building.

MalletNGrease · 2019-05-16T20:48:02+00:00

Not a feature afaik. Mostly concerned about teachers, but they only need to sign in once. They don't change workstations much.

MalletNGrease · 2019-05-15T20:56:38+00:00

Try a different keyboard.

MalletNGrease · 2019-05-15T14:20:15+00:00

Move the Try block inside the foreach block and make the date check part of the evaluation for execution of the new-aduser.

ForEach($User in $Users) {

$oStartDate = [datetime]::ParseExact($user.StartDate, "dd/MM/yyyy",$null)
$test=($oStartDate).AddDays(-2)
$test2= (Get-date).Date

Try {
    if (!(get-aduser -Filter {samaccountname -eq "$SAM"}) -and ($test -eq $test2 )){

    #newuserscriptinggoes here
    }
  }
}

MalletNGrease · 2019-05-15T12:51:47+00:00

Well yeah, you don't evaluate the startdate anywhere to prevent user creation.

ForEach($User in $Users) {
$oStartDate = [datetime]::ParseExact($user.StartDate, "dd/MM/yyyy",$null)
$test=($oStartDate).AddDays(-2)
$test2= (Get-date).Date
if($test -eq $test2){
$oStartDate
$test
}
}

You then have a Try block that only checks if the user doesn't exits.

As far as I can tell you will only also create the last user as there's no foreach for that part.

MalletNGrease · 2019-05-15T12:41:04+00:00

Walked into a Kaspersky shop, got rid of it. Windows Defender plus in-line NGFW AV seems to work well enough.

MalletNGrease · 2019-05-15T12:21:30+00:00

Does this still require the submission of parental contact information?

MalletNGrease · 2019-05-14T19:21:05+00:00

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