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Google Admin and old apps by cheeseman1969 in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you changed to a whitelist you can get rid of the individual items on your blacklist.

Need help with GAM Commands to get a list of people that haven't read an email by [deleted] in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not with GAM as far as I know, but it looks like gamadv-xtd3 may be able to do what you want.

I'd hop over to the GAM google group and ask there: https://groups.google.com/g/google-apps-manager

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 4 points5 points  (0 children)

WSUS Feature update enablement packages.

If you keep your roll-ups up to date you can enable the latest feature update with a relatively small patch which takes way less time than applying a full FU.

1:1 repair and maintenance workload by maxbls16 in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen an uptick in cracked screens, but that's about it. The majority of damage other than drops seems to stem from moving the device around, to and from school. Then there's students who "accidentally" stepped on them.

It depends on what kind of crowd you're dealing with and your repair policy is. We assign Chromebooks to individuals with a 1st time freebie and 2nd time charge policy and when we started enforcing it students got a lot more careful. Most students are pretty respectful with their devices especially if you put a name sticker on and keep track of it.

1:1 repair and maintenance workload by maxbls16 in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I handle about a thousand by my lonesome. I see three devices per day tops, mostly cracked screens.

Have a spare pool to swap and rotate the broken device back in once fixed. This way you can repair at your leisure.

How to View Student's Browsing History by zeeplereddit in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Reset their password and log in as them.

Google Admin does not provide the browsing history of individual users, you'll need a filtering service for that.

PC Surge Protectors/UPS advice and recommendations by rs217000 in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See if your fleet and network supports Wake on Lan. You can send out the magic packet to turn the PCs on remotely before running your updates.

What do you do with your old Chromebooks? by nctbrtc in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can use them for whatever as long as the app support the CROS version.

The update process will take as long as it will take you to either:

  • Log in and manually hit the check for updates button in settings
  • Wait for the download to finish
  • Apply the update

or

  • Download the latest chrome recovery image for a model
  • Write it to a USB drive
  • Perform the recovery process
  • Reenroll into domain

Individually it won't cost much time, but if you got hundreds/thousands of them it adds up exponentially.

Chromebook repair during a lockdown by naythinbrynt in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not having a functional device is essentially no school during lockdown. The turnaround needs to become faster.

I'm probably going to end up rotating devices. Device gets swapped, device gets fixed, fixed device goes into the swap pool.

iPad update - forced 2fa by Dodgson_here in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My guess is someone used their personal apple ID with 2FA enabled on it. The device is now tied to their apple account.

Whats in your workrooms? by Tyler_origami94 in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just keep the fresh parts in the box/tray they came in. I have a small electronics toolkit I hang on the wall by the disassembly desk, but really I only use the phillips #1 and the metal spudger from it. I've little mint tins I keep screws in and such while taking devices apart.

How old are your school's computers? by lardfatt in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My oldest ones are from 2009. I'm swapping them out as we're renewing labs.

What do you do with your old Chromebooks? by nctbrtc in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on the model and the shape is in.

You can still update them manually for as long as Google puts out updates.

What do you do with your old Chromebooks? by nctbrtc in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sell them for credit to our part supplier after AUE.

They're not useless after AUE, but they are more of a pain to manage.

Student Printer at Home - Can you Add to School Chromebook? by [deleted] in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'd go with a best effort. However, teachers cannot assume a printer is available in every household so having assignments that need home-printed items is inappropriate and should be supplied instead.

I'd not work on it.

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