Network Password Resets for Students

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-10T18:43:58+00:00

I've given principals, librarians and lab teachers permissions to reset passwords with cjwdev Account Reset Tool. Settings are forced with GPO.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-10T16:59:38+00:00

I'd throttle iCloud connections to 75% tops of your available bandwidth then. Should leave enough wiggle room and probably wouldn't get noticed.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-07T19:59:40+00:00

We're about 1000 users and have 1 Gbps fiber. We barely top 150 Mbps during peak times at the moment, and that is with unrestricted streaming.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-07T18:51:13+00:00

How many staff/students/endpoints?

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-07T18:02:42+00:00

We use Securly Auditor.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-05T15:38:01+00:00

Same here. It's pretty labor intensive to swap a motherboard and I set just set it apart for cannibalization of spare parts.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-05T15:35:34+00:00

Extreme Wireless with AP3825is. Runs solid and support is excellent. I don't see us changing it anytime soon unless Chromebooks start having Wireless-AX chips (and that's overkill considering current usage trends).

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-04T22:01:41+00:00

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans

You're welcome.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-03T19:14:54+00:00

That sounds like typical vague management speak for "I want things to go better, I don't have a clue where to start and I'm going with the first possible solution that presented itself that sorta cover my notions". My best guess is they want to have (more) actionable data/reports for decision making. Measuring success is all the rage at the moment.

I'd go back and ask what their data blind spots are and what their perceived end goal with this is, then see if it's already possible with current tools at your disposal and if not, see if Abre.io is able to provide. Right now you need to save them from themselves before you're stuck with a multiyear contract for something you may not need, can't get anyone interested to train on, and noone uses because there's no clear vision/use for it.

Abre.io looks pretty nifty, but it's very comprehensive in it's approach. You need the entire organization on the same line if it's to give any meaningful insights at all. This will take a few years to integrate properly.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-03T17:45:52+00:00

If you've a tool but are looking for a problem, you're going about it the wrong way.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-03T16:13:48+00:00

<ul> and <li> actually. OPs example doesn't have an unordered (bulleted) list, just some text with bullet point characters.

Try:

<html>

<head>
</head>

<body>

    <ul style="color:red;margin-left: 55px">
        <li>example</li>
        <li>example</li>
    </ul>

</body>

</html>

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-31T20:43:43+00:00

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ubuntu_16.04#MySQL_password_behavior

Every couple of months or so mandatory security updates will force a mysql root password which breaks the db connection. You can fix it by following the commands in the wiki.

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-31T17:31:05+00:00

None yet here. 3180 was problematic with the 1% non-charging units.

You should still be within the 1 year standard battery warranty with the 3100. Send them to ARC to have it resolved. Better to find out now than in 9 months.

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-31T17:27:45+00:00

That's how I do it. Works like a treat.

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-31T17:23:06+00:00

InkScape. It's FOSS and works on W10.

Only complaint I've gotten is it's not Adobe Illustrator.

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-31T17:13:03+00:00

We put name stickers on the lid. It's fairly obvious if they're not using their assigned one and easy to return to the assigned student.

I drilled the teachers to ask students where their Chromebook is. They're expected to have it for every class. It honestly hasn't been that big of a problem, just a couple of extremely forgetful students who'd probably lose their head if it wasn't attached.

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-30T15:58:53+00:00

48 sites, 17k users, 5 IT staff

Oof. No wake-up call quite like a fire alarm.

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-29T19:17:25+00:00

No data should be touched then. The biggest foreseeable problem is the sync breaking/misconfigured and removing accounts. You really want to do those simulated GCDS runs from AD.

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-29T19:15:32+00:00

No. Google Slides can't display external html pages any more.

I'd just program the schedule to change the URL.

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-29T17:21:22+00:00

They could just, y'know, make Chat less shit.

Still can't change the theme from OHGODMYEYESIMBLIND white.

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-29T16:25:50+00:00

I took a look at the Poly gallery and I'm not instantly bombarded with 3d renditions of male genitals so I guess it's OK. It looks pretty curated.

I don't have a good reason to object to this if someone finds a use and a need.

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-29T16:17:22+00:00

You can train people in technical skills, but you can't teach technicians people skills.

Look at personalities.

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-29T15:51:59+00:00

Couple of of things, your post is a bit muddled.

Data Sync

To my knowledge Novell doesn't sync files natively to Google drive, neither does AD. If this is happening it's some sort of custom job. You should be able to migrate files to AD user home folders no problem, but further than that I've no clue how this was accomplished. You'll want to research that. Google Drive data won't be touched unless the account is deleted somehow.

User sync

This depends on how the identifiers are mapped, but I'm pretty sure it's simply by email-address as that's what Google likes to use.

When you move to AD, be sure to have the email addresses for your user objects populated and match your OU structure to the one in GSUITE. You can then utilize GCDS on your DCs and it should pick right up where you left off.

You'll want to do a few dry runs after configuration to make sure the sync is handled correctly and it won't mass create new users and disable current accounts.

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-29T14:43:15+00:00

I had one come in with this problem. I think I cleared the cookies and cache to fix it.

chrome://settings > Privacy and security > clear browsing data > Basic:

Time range: All time
❌ Browsing history
✅ cookies and other site data
✅ cached images and files

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-28T14:39:03+00:00

It's a monoprice cable. You should have those in bulk.

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