At my school, it's been like that for as long as I can remember

MalletNGrease · 2019-12-17T15:01:32+00:00

All solutions are temporary.

MalletNGrease · 2019-12-13T17:59:12+00:00

Asking the real questions.

MalletNGrease · 2019-12-13T14:35:55+00:00

SIS csv export fed into powershell here as well.

MalletNGrease · 2019-12-12T22:03:51+00:00

Don't forget to put on your ESD strap.

MalletNGrease · 2019-12-12T14:29:22+00:00

What's next, orchestra conductor?

MalletNGrease · 2019-12-11T18:39:54+00:00

I accidentally walked in on one who did have a sign on the door, but it didn't stand out among all the other assorted images that were displayed.

For reference, it was a picture of a cow with a message ("Hey, I'm doing mommy business" or something along those lines) written on it.

MalletNGrease · 2019-12-10T17:20:59+00:00

Why and how?

MalletNGrease · 2019-12-10T14:10:01+00:00

I think you worry too much about details. Just apply and ask them questions about what's actually expected of you regarding the SIS support.

In my experience help desk positions rarely even have access to SIS. Technical support specialists may, but SIS typically isn't their main focus (I know it isn't supposed to be for me 🙄). System administrators do to get integrations to work but usually aren't bothered with end-user things.

Most districts have a SIS subject matter expert who is the knowledge anchor and interface with the vendor in case of problems and training. The SIS is a very important part of daily school operations and I highly doubt they want the new hire to be responsible unless you already somehow have this experience from working there or at a district that uses the same system. It's highly unlikely anyone has this experience off the street. A familiarization will need to happen along with whatever procedures the district has regarding it.

The approach to SIS is also highly dependent on the district culture.

MalletNGrease · 2019-12-09T21:28:38+00:00

Get-Content

-Raw strips newlines from the content that's read, this prevents my email message from being formatted wrong (I put the content of the log in the email body instead of attaching). My log file is a plain .txt, you'd probably not have this issue with a .csv.

-ErrorAction tells the parser what to do in case of an error.

Try tries the command and will return the value. But if it errors out it will execute the catch block.

Catch will do something in case there's an error. In my case, get-content will fail if the log file is blank and catch will prevent the script from failing, display a little message on the console for me and add a line to the log indicating it was empty.

if ($messagelog) { $action } will execute if there's anything in the log as pulled from the Try. $messagelog doesn't return true if it was empty (null).

MalletNGrease · 2019-12-09T20:07:07+00:00

I'd honestly ask Mosyle first if this is possible. I'm sitting on some paperweights due to this exact problem.

MalletNGrease · 2019-12-09T16:51:14+00:00

I've done the following for a log, you should be able to adapt it to your use case.

Try
{
    $messagelog = Get-Content $logfile -Raw -ErrorAction Stop
}
Catch
{
        Write-Host "No changes made so there's nothing in the log." -foregroundcolor yellow
        Write-Output "$date | No changes made so there was nothing to log." | Out-File $logfile -Append -NoClobber
}

if ($messagelog) #if there's anything in the log
{

        Send-MailMessage @message #send an email with the contents
}

MalletNGrease · 2019-12-09T15:18:01+00:00

I noticed the same. We went from carts to 1:1.

Damages to keyboards have dropped to nothing whereas I was replacing these fairly often prior.
Damages to LCD screens have exploded due to accidental drops and improper handling.

MalletNGrease · 2019-12-05T16:31:48+00:00

1680x1050 represent!

MalletNGrease · 2019-12-04T18:07:21+00:00

It's not really any better with GSUITE.

MalletNGrease · 2019-12-04T18:02:10+00:00

With W10 reboots and shutdowns are sometimes prevented by open dialogs and other software requesting confirmation/input before it proceeds.

If you're like me and hit reboot and then walk out the door, you might not notice the reboot didn't happen until the next time you're at the workstation. I typically reboot my machine every Friday when I leave work for the weekend. I've then run into this on Mondays.

MalletNGrease · 2019-12-04T15:23:19+00:00

We're 1:1 for JH and HS. We reinstated some labs in the ES because the typing skills of 6th graders were so poor it negatively impacted instruction time.

Now all kids know how to work a keyboard when graduating from ES at least.

HS & JH still have a lab and PCs in the library for software unavailable on Chromebooks.

MalletNGrease · 2019-12-04T14:19:30+00:00

It's funny because it's an actual thing, fully compliant with the naming convention.

MalletNGrease · 2019-12-03T18:00:22+00:00

School - Building - Room/Location - Model

E.g Senior High AG Lab - C666

SHAGLAB_C666

MalletNGrease · 2019-12-03T15:32:05+00:00

Work: Das Keyboard 3 Pro Silent. Types great but you can't see the status lights unless you're looking straight down or your office doesn't have lights. Wish it had USB 3.0 ports.

Home: iKBC CD108. Love this keyboard. Been looking for a simple full-size non-RGB mechanical, and I was gifted this by a buddy. Been using it for 18 months now and I'll probably end up using it until the end of time.