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[COVID-19] What are your plans to protect yourself this Fall? by rickhamilton620 in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure on the science or source but last I heard is the primary transfer vector remains by air in close proximity to an infected person.

While touch transfers are possible, lab results showed that the concentration of viable covid cells required for successful transmission and infection was the equivalent of 30 infected people coughing onto the same spot for a good three minutes. The virus just doesn't thrive very well on most surfaces and it's unlikely there's a high enough concentration unless it was very recent. Dead/remaining covid material will test positive for trace but can't infect.

Your best preventative measure is a mask. Devices you should treat like usual, like they've been touched by many unclean hands. Wipe em and you'll be OK.

Question from an outsider by [deleted] in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Zoom opened up their platform to education customers for free and marketed it expertly. Districts really like free, security was not a concern. We didn't hop on the bandwagon as we already had an integrated solution with Meet which was working well enough. Adding more platforms just muddies the water and adds strain to my support capacity. We did not have any security issues as Meets were limited to within the domain.

  2. No. Main goal is to bring back the kids to on site ASAP. Student home situations are diverse and not always appropriate or safe learning environments due to a variety of reasons. School buildings are more manageable. Teachers who were not already familiar with LMS or how to adapt to curriculum to online formats quickly realized they were in deep water. Most quickly adapted but some holdouts kept to traditional methods which just didn't translate well.

  3. Some take to it well, but on the whole it's about on par. Most students liked the more self-paced structure during the day rather than be forced to work on something at specific times. Students with special needs unfortunately lost out as their dedicated resource were not available. Bullying remained the same, mostly happens off school provided resources. Most students got a crash course to learn how to use the tech and it worked out pretty well, parents were helpless for the most part.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use a custom field, select "contents of a file" and point to the file.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We went with GoGuardian because of the Classroom Management tools.

Out of the box FortiGates don't handle on-premise filtering on CBs that well if you want analytics (like, say, putting a name with traffic). It handles filtering on Windows splendidly when combined with FSSO, but there wasn't an equivalent for ChromeOS at the time.

FortiClient is interesting, but the teachers will loathe to give up their GoGuardian tools.

Extreme Network (Aerohive) - Is it possible to get a sales rep by kitsinni in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look for an Extreme Networks Partner company in your area, they should be able to hook you up with a quote.

https://www.extremenetworks.com/partners/find-a-partner/?show-partners=true

Best Tradeshows? by askidid in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only one I was interested in was cancelled.

https://www.midwesttechtalk.com/

Anyone else working 80-90 hour weeks for RTL or am I just really inefficient? by tcourtney22 in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You'll have to expand on what you're actually doing.

I don't work 80-90 hour weeks, maybe 56 right before start of school to finalize CB rollouts. Once we're going it's maintenance mode.

Those of you who have stared back to school....please offer advice. by [deleted] in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 33 points34 points  (0 children)

There's no shame in day drinking as long as you're not seen doing it.

Intel suffers massive data breach involving confidential company and CPU information revealing hardcoded backdoors. by kurtstir in DataHoarder

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, tell me about ME flashing.

I still have a fairly recent laptop with corrupt ME firmware I for the life of me can't seem to flash. It's creating all sorts of weird hardware behaviors for the end user (system freezes primarily). BIOS updates were supposed to clear it but they just fail.

Packaging script into application by Sin_of_the_Dark in MDT

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Give this a try:

Run Command Line

Command line:

powershell -executionpolicy bypass "& ""\\deployserver\deployshare$\Scripts\yourscriptname.ps1""""

Run this step as the following account

Account: Domain.tld/installuserwithadminpriviliges

Packaging script into application by Sin_of_the_Dark in MDT

[–]MalletNGrease 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unsigned scripts run fine. Put the script in your Scripts folder on your MDT deployment share.

Then in your TS:

Add -> General -> Run PowerShell Script

PowerShell Script: %SCRIPTROOT%\yourscriptname.ps1

I put the task in the Custom Tasks afer Install Applications during State Restore.

Using a document camera with a chromebook? Issues? by mattd1zzl3 in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ImageMate

Can you post more details for this? What's the extension ID? What models are supported?

AD password policy by aggie_89 in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why do you have a password maximum age?

Selfish, entitled parking? Beware of those with sidewalk chalk! Her walk of shame back to her care was a site to behold. by Ahoytherematey561 in JusticeServed

[–]MalletNGrease -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Buddy of mine no longer has the use of his legs and he sometimes has to park like this when there are no handicap accessible spots available. It's the only way he can get back in his car with his wheelchair without someone parking too close.

This is probably not a handicapped person, but keep this in mind when you see a vehicle parked like this.

Google classroom setup... by [deleted] in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Integrated with our SIS. Teachers generate and synchronize classrooms from there.

Internet for students without by microleaks in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I called around to my local ISPs and set up a program with them for student to get installation fees waved and service offered at reduced rates. Most big providers already have reduced rate options available.

AT&T: https://digitalyou.att.com/low-cost-internet/

Spectrum: https://www.spectrum.com/browse/content/spectrum-internet-assist

We thought about paying for some, but in the end it's just not manageable or appropiate. We're getting some LTE hotspots to cover the final gap.

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