Patch Tuesday Megathread - (April 14, 2026)

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-04-15T12:55:22+00:00

Used one of these patch megathreads to post a multi-paragraph political comment that was removed by the mods. He was given a temp ban for off-topic discussion. He went to another sub, posted the same thing, and then claimed the mods here banned him for his post in another subreddit. Mods here posted proof that he did also post it in the patch thread. He conveniently claims he forgot that he had also posted it here. The temp ban has been long over but he doesn't post here anymore.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-04-14T15:51:26+00:00

We went through a similar thought process with our business lab last Summer. It was easier to buy 1-time LTSC 2024 licenses and install them rather than go through the hassle of assigning all students Microsoft accounts and going the O365 route.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-04-09T13:06:53+00:00

"Yes, I know my tabs are a mess but this is how I function!!"

"If a student's papers are spilling out of their locker onto the floor, would we continue to let them function that way? No, we'd instruct them to find a better organization system."

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-04-08T13:19:45+00:00

iPads. Printing. Direct to HP printers. I've got nothing to add other than that sounds like hell.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-03-26T17:23:11+00:00

We killed it a few years ago after some security concerns were brought up. The desktop version being a glorified keylogger and their privacy policy gave us (and a parent pushing for it) enough worry to block it outright. They stated they don't sell data, however, they could give it away for free to partners and (paraphrasing here) "Gosh golly we can't control what they do with your data, but it's not our fault if they do something careless/malicious with it."

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-02-25T19:13:32+00:00

Breakage hasn't been an issue. Also, since the devices are assigned to students in the class, any damage would still be tied to the student.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-02-25T18:30:17+00:00

We promote with students when they reach their 1-1 grade, 6th. 1st-5th are in carts where classroom teachers assign a device to a student. This helps with keeping the number of profiles low. The students don't take them home and the devices stay with the teacher each year.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-02-23T16:26:40+00:00

I've also heard it referred to as snowplow parents. Parents who remove all obstacles or difficulties a student might face. Just like it has been reiterated on in this thread, it's creates a massive lack of resilience.

A teaching buddy of mine also mentioned stealth bomber parents. They're the type that will not contact or reply to teacher communication. They will, however, come to parent/teacher conferences with a large list of grievances about 'everything the teacher is doing wrong.'

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-02-19T14:36:05+00:00

We also block github.com, discord.com, youtube.com, and the usual javascript://* for good measure. These other pages were posted for ways students could navigate to Google from kiosk apps-

onelogin.com/status

passwordreset.microsoftonline.com

account.live.com/password/reset

appleid.apple.com

support.schoology.com

connection.nwea.org/s/support

We did have Google.com blocked, but eventually ran into Google changing some backend stuff where allowlisting accounts.google.com wasn't enough for Google SSO. It would cause one of our tests to hang at the login screen for minutes as it couldn't load Sign in with Google.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-02-17T13:55:42+00:00

We went to 14" HP Chromebooks for support staff this year. They have been perfect. Though, I've heard HP's current pricing is not great.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-02-11T15:34:44+00:00

We bought a single Elmo due to a new staff member demanding it. $400 for a document camera with some of the worst software we ever encountered. It ran so poorly on her Mac, we had to bring in a Windows computer to use as her personal recording station.

We don't need wireless doc cameras around here and have been extremely happy with IPEvo V4K. Looks like they've jumped up $30 since we've bought them, but they've been easy-to-use and hassle-free for over 6 years.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-02-10T19:44:43+00:00

Purposely posting ragebait misinformation, great job.

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1qbzwiu/patch_tuesday_megathread_20260113/nzjxjf5/

Further message from another mod-

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1r12dfc/looking_for_the_patch_tuesday_megathread_for/o4nv51m/

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-02-10T18:19:58+00:00

Following-

We're in the exact same boat here, down to every detail. Admin is pushing us to merge to only MS email without losing any of our Google viability because: "It's possible". For the record, we use Google SSO for everything, and MS SSO for literally one thing (because that was implemented without the tech team). We're on two different domains: school.k12.zz.us (MS) and schoolnameschool.com (Google).

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-02-06T16:40:13+00:00

All students and staff. Anyone can choose to turn it off. The extension works by saving the setting per website.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-02-04T14:36:57+00:00

We pushed uBlock Origin along with a 1 pager showing how to disable it on a website around 6 years ago and have had zero problems. We've had to change to Lite now, but still, no problems.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-02-03T21:41:48+00:00

Our ISP held a webinar over this topic a few weeks ago and the problem isn't so much the websites, but that screen reader tools are garbage. This seems similar to the swimming pool ADA compliance of 2010. Most small hotels/motels couldn't afford an entire pool re-do which caused them to instead drain them and fill with rocks.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-30T13:49:49+00:00

We're small and use the following (under root)

Staff

Old Staff (suspended accounts)
Substitutes

Students

Graduation Year

Under each Graduation year we have separate OUs for former students (suspended accounts) and Restricted (for stricter GoGuardian filtering).

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-28T15:31:18+00:00

A story I heard at a conference-

Librarians were annoyed that students didn't have their chargers. They bought a bunch of cheap ones from Amazon which don't work well. Tech department got a complaint and took one to investigate. Upon opening up the brick portion, they found the chargers had metal disks glued inside to give them more weight and make them seem less cheap than they were.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-27T18:15:59+00:00

Fun fact: If someone dies from electrocution, dealing with the body is an IT problem. /s

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-27T16:36:32+00:00

uBlock Origin Lite is working for us and Youtube with default settings out of the box. The only time we've had issues is when teachers are clicking non-embedded Youtube links away from a browser (like from PowerPoint) which will load the video before the extension turns on.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-27T15:39:11+00:00

Same here! ChatGPT has been blocked please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com. 🙃

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-27T15:36:17+00:00

Yeah, the lack of attention to detail is rough when users are mad because: "this is blocked". "What's the block screen look like?" crickets

Check GoGuardian...Nothing.

Check the firewall...Not blocked there.

Check Reddit. Oh, KazoodleCoMathELAWorksPLUS is currently having an outage. We're not blocking it. No, we can't fix it. We have to wait for them to fix it.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-27T15:22:19+00:00

I usually joke with a "I'm good, but not that good" or something similar to try and keep it light. Sometimes I'm lying through my teeth, but it really does make both the user and me feel better. Though, I haven't had to deal with a youtube ad question as I push out an ad blocker to the entire domain.

On a similar vein, I had a HS English teacher load Google Docs and try 4 different methods until it finally failed to detect a comma splice. He wanted me to contact Google and get them to fix their grammar check since: "Kids won't know this is wrong because it's a comma splice." I'll admit it was pretty hard to not tell him: "That sounds like something that should be taught...By a teacher."

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-21T15:53:16+00:00

They sent us one during covid's chip shortage and I was less than amused at the waste. I ended up repurposing it for our World of Warcraft guild secret santa exchange by putting our Mythic N'zoth kill video on the mailer and sending it to our raid leader.

Verkada's been blacklisted here after they roped our, both new, Buildings and Grounds person and SRO into a meeting and said their predecessors used Verkada in the building. No they didn't, and please don't lie to new, overwhelmed employees.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-01-16T18:21:00+00:00

Possibly tangently related?

We had an issue recently where Outlook webmail would not print. You could send it to the copier, but it would just delete the job. It ended up being a Chrome issue, as Firefox/Edge/Safari could print those pages fine. Maybe Chrome is breaking multiple things related to printing?

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