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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>EduGeek.net</title><link>https://www.edugeek.net/rss/1-edugeeknet.xml/</link><description>Whole site feed</description><language>en</language><item><title>IT and Print Services Technician - Bath - Kingswood School / Foundation - &#xA3;25,948.96</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226759-it-and-print-services-technician-bath-kingswood-school-foundation-%C2%A32594896/?do=findComment&comment=2030042]]></link><description>Kingswood School in Bath is looking for an IT and Print Services Technician to join our team.
 


	This is a hands-on role supporting both IT services and our recently refreshed print environment across the Foundation. It's a varied position with plenty of opportunities to get involved in projects as well as day-to-day support.
 


	 
 


	Having worked here for a number of years, I can genuinely say it's a lovely school with great colleagues and a supportive team. Bath is also a fantastic place to live and work, with easy access to Bristol, the countryside and the South West.
 


	 
 


	If you're looking for a role where no two days are the same and where technology is genuinely valued by the school, we'd love to hear from you.
 


	 
 


	Job Description: 
	IT and Print Services Technician Job Description
 


	Apply Here:
 


	Kingswood School Careers Page</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:36:02 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Social media ban for under-16s in UK and action on gaming services and live streaming platforms</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226758-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-in-uk-and-action-on-gaming-services-and-live-streaming-platforms/?do=findComment&comment=2030030]]></link><description>And : https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a2fbb99d95ffddb05d4b014/UAP1_2205_PR.pdf
 


	 
	I am curious to know the approach that will be taken regarding education especially regarding YouTube. 
	So as this develops further and becomes law, feel free to update this post with any bits of info you see. 
	Many thanks</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:50:04 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Anyone interested in working with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11, please take a look at my site.</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226757-anyone-interested-in-working-with-ms-dos-622-and-windows-311-please-take-a-look-at-my-site/?do=findComment&comment=2030027]]></link><description>Anyone interested in working with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11, please take a look at my site. It has everything you need to load an early MS-DOS computer, from software, to instructions, manuals, videos, and links..
 


	 
 


	Installing MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:39:05 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>How do you manage school holiday IT work across multiple sites?</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226756-how-do-you-manage-school-holiday-it-work-across-multiple-sites/?do=findComment&comment=2030012]]></link><description>For those who support more than one school, how do you usually organise onsite work during the holidays? 
	 
	We&#x2019;ve got the usual mix coming up: AP changes, switch and cabinet tidying, camera checks, a few small installs, and jobs that need someone physically onsite while the buildings are quieter. 
	 
	The technical work itself is usually straightforward. The harder part is access, keys, site contacts, evidence and sign-off. We also need to make sure our own safeguarding procedures are followed, especially when several schools need work done during the same period. 
	 
	We may use Kinettix for some of the onsite field work when our internal team can&#x2019;t cover every location, but I haven&#x2019;t settled on what should stay in-house and what can be handed over. 
	 
	How do others manage this across multiple schools? Do you rely mainly on internal technicians, local contractors, trust-approved suppliers, a field services partner, or a mix depending on the job?</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:47:19 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Zabbix and Sharp Printers</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226755-zabbix-and-sharp-printers/?do=findComment&comment=2030006]]></link><description>I've been on-again off-again for the last year or so trying to make a better Zabbix console for monitoring ink and paper levels in our sharp copiers than just throwing up a Top Items widget. Anyone managed to do this?
 


	 
 


	The main issue I keep coming up against is that the Sharp printer template we use uses a discovery item to create the paper tray items, so all the paper tray items get the same name. This means that the top hosts doesn't differentiate between the trays and just show the data for the "first one" in each column. Only options I see are making a dial (or similar) for each ink/paper level on each printer (7 dials * 28 printers - way more effort than it's worth), or trying to rewrite the printer template (probably beyond my skillset, and would end up being bespoke to this model/tray config so more work going forward to keep it up to date).</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Any Scuba Divers?</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226754-any-scuba-divers/?do=findComment&comment=2030000]]></link><description>Been thinking about doing a Scuba try dive / Open Water Course (i know someone who's soon to be an instructor as he has made it sound really good).
 


	 
 


	Whilst doing some research it made me think of asking if there was anyone here who does it
 


	And was looking for thoughts / experiences</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:42:15 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Bromcom - Removing Student Record that's attached to Staff Record? (Same person)</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226753-bromcom-removing-student-record-thats-attached-to-staff-record-same-person/?do=findComment&comment=2029991]]></link><description>Good Afternoon All,  
	 
	Odd question, but we have a problem with Edulink where it syncs "all" student records even for leavers from Bromcom which is then clashing with a Staff login because they have the same email address (being the same record within Bromcom) - Does anyone know if you can remove "just" the student record via Bromcom without deleting the active staff account? (Trying to change email etc on student record also updates the staff because it's the same user as such). As the staff member was a student more than 20 years ago there's no valid reason to have the student data and it's just causing issues with syncs currently 
	 
	Thanks, 
	Steve</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:54:49 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Smoothwall - old policies / numbers in Categories when reporting</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226752-smoothwall-old-policies-numbers-in-categories-when-reporting/?do=findComment&comment=2029979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there any way to see what policy the numbers refer to when running a real time report?
 


	 
 


	They seem to appear every now and then and I can't see any rhyme nor reason for it.
 


	Quick screenshot example:
 


	 
 


	
 


	 
 


	There is another which I'm specifically trying to track, but this provides the gist. Is there some sort of history somewhere which says that rule 1 used to be "Unblock Teams because it's needed" (or something more likely &amp; appropriate)
 


	I suspect it came about during a smoothwall update as every now and then categories get merged or updated, as I keep meticulous logs of every change I make.]]></description><enclosure url="https://www.edugeek.net/uploads/monthly_2026_06/image.png.d72b7c308d712a552d4129db2e327843.png" length="36202" type="image/png"/><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:23:38 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Vision Multi Academy Trust in Greater Manchester recruiting for **HEAD OF IT AND DIGITAL SERVICES**</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226751-vision-multi-academy-trust-in-greater-manchester-recruiting-for-head-of-it-and-digital-services/?do=findComment&comment=2029975]]></link><description>As Head of IT and Digital Services, you will lead and shape the Trust's digital strategy, ensuring our technology infrastructure, systems and services support both operational excellence and educational outcomes. This is a strategic leadership role with responsibility for cyber security, compliance, supplier management, digital innovation and driving value from technology investment across all Trust schools.
 


	We're looking for an experienced and forward-thinking leader who can think strategically while remaining hands-on when needed. You'll work closely with senior leaders and trustees, manage our IT teams, and help define how emerging technologies, including AI, can be adopted safely and effectively to support the Trust's long-term ambitions.
 


	For full details, please click on below.
 


	https://mynewterm.com/jobs/16728/EDV-2026-VMAT-93320
 

Recruitment Pack June 2026 V2.pdf</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:05:25 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Tucasi School Cash Office printing problem</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226750-tucasi-school-cash-office-printing-problem/?do=findComment&comment=2029957]]></link><description>Anyone getting this when trying to print today?</description><enclosure url="https://www.edugeek.net/uploads/monthly_2026_06/image.png.b560cfae6e509ecb83f108bfee218c76.png" length="120390" type="image/png"/><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:40:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Windows 98 SE</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226748-windows-98-se/?do=findComment&comment=2029937]]></link><description>If your intrested in working with Windows 98 SE on a vintage computer, my site has everthing you need.
 


	win98guide.com</description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:19:16 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Managing Apple devices with InTune</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226747-managing-apple-devices-with-intune/?do=findComment&comment=2029928]]></link><description>Does anyone have a definitive guide to setting up the link for Apple School Manager to InTune, and getting devices enrolled and configured etc?
 


	 
 


	I&#x2019;ve tried all sorts but just keep coming up with issues.   
	 
 


	If anyone can point me in the right direction to some thinking that starts right at the beginning, and ends with a fully enrolled/managed/configured device, then that would be amazing.
 


	 
 


	cheers</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:03:55 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Keyboard Crashes</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226746-keyboard-crashes/?do=findComment&comment=2029883]]></link><description>Keyboard Crashes
	 

	
		Has anyone experienced issues with keyboards crashing on computers recently?
	 

	
		Over the past two weeks, a few machines (Windows 11 23H2 and 25H2) have had keyboards suddenly stop working completely. The Num Lock light doesn&#x2019;t respond etc., and the keyboard becomes totally unresponsive.
	 

	
		However, as soon as the keyboard is plugged into a different USB port, it starts working again without any issues (apart from a couple of times)
	 

	
		 
	 

	
		Just checking if others have encountered something similar before I start investigating further.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:38:55 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>M365 Entra Tenant Governance</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226743-m365-entra-tenant-governance/?do=findComment&comment=2029841]]></link><description>Spotted a new widget in M365 admin centre about governed tenants and found these:
 


	 
 


	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/id-governance/tenant-governance/overview
 


	 
 


	https://michev.info/blog/post/7696/introduction-to-microsoft-tenant-governance-part-1-basics-and-establishing-relationships
 


	 
 


	I'm mostly interested in the configuration management side of it.  Being able to deploy a known-good baseline when onboarding new schools with interesting M365 configs would save days of work.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:52:17 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Taskmaster - Series 22</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226741-taskmaster-series-22/?do=findComment&comment=2029804]]></link><description/><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:06:06 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Google support contact for IP rate limiting</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226740-google-support-contact-for-ip-rate-limiting/?do=findComment&comment=2029780]]></link><description>Does anyone know or have a contact for Google that works with IP rate limiting.
 


	Basically our school has been getting random Google Captcha Robot when doing google searches and its because Google is putting a temporary ban on our public IP.
 


	We've tried load balancing acrossed a subnet of IP's but the problem continues.
 


	We are a Google Workspace school but when I've reached out to support for Workspace they won't help me.
 


	If anyone knows of anyone at Google that can help, could you please DM their details that would be greatly appreciated.
 


	It is a very intermittent issue that started back in February this year.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:40:07 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>AV Installer/Supplier - East Mids</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226739-av-installersupplier-east-mids/?do=findComment&comment=2029774]]></link><description>Any recommendations for an AV supplier/installer in the east midlands? Lincolnshire area</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:26:31 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Great Marlow School, Bucks  - Cyber Attack</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226738-great-marlow-school-bucks-cyber-attack/?do=findComment&comment=2029773]]></link><description>Another school suffering the stress of a cyber attack.
 


	 
 


	https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/security/cyberattack-forces-buckinghamshire-school-to-close-for-most-pupils</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:24:38 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Action1: Home Use?</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226737-action1-home-use/?do=findComment&comment=2029764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last weekend was "update weekend" at home when I make sure the five Windows machines in the house are patched and have up-to-date software. I got to thinking about whether it would save me time to set up Action1 for this. I can't see any licensing/T&amp;C type reason why not. Has anyone done this and was it useful in an environment that likely has a higher incidence of more esoteric software?]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:46:47 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Syncing Local Folder with OneDrive</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226736-syncing-local-folder-with-onedrive/?do=findComment&comment=2029763]]></link><description>Hi folks,
 


	 
 


	This is something I'm trying to do on my home computer, to sync a local folder with OneDrive.
 


	 
 


	Both ChatGPT and google say it can be done using the MKLINK /J command, but although the linked folder appears in OneDrive on the PC, it doesn't appear in OneDrive (having checked almost 24 hours later).
 


	 
 


	Anyone else got MKLINK to work, or know of an alternative way to get it working?
 


	 
 


	Thanks</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:46:12 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Intune with Google Workspace</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226735-intune-with-google-workspace/?do=findComment&comment=2029744]]></link><description>Our school primarily uses Google workspace but we have wanted to explore the idea of getting rid of our physical servers due to the rising costs and lack of budgets. We have A3 Microsoft Licenses which we use for PowerBI mainly but are planning on enrolling devices to intune which is included.
 


	 
 


	My question is has anyone sucessfully been able to setup intune to work alongside GCPW so that end users are able to login to the managed windows machines with their Google accounts? Or anyone ran into issues with this. Ideally, I'd like to not confuse staff having a seperate Microsoft login to logon to windows to etc.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:35:38 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Has anyone managed to block iPad updates for low storage iPads</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226734-has-anyone-managed-to-block-ipad-updates-for-low-storage-ipads/?do=findComment&comment=2029743]]></link><description>Currently trying to think my way around this -- we have quite a few older shared ipads with 32gb of storage.  Which - with all the will in the world - will not handle ios 26 plus all the apps we have on for student use.
 


	 
 


	i do have plans to sort them out and take some of the bigger apps (Garageband, iMovie) off to specialist iPads but they still try and update prompting messages about storage and updates.
 


	 
 


	Is there any way to block updates on these iPads - mosyle/jamf/ etc aren't clever enough to see the space available and decide that the ios update is too big for this machine.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:28:23 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>I am seeing a large variance in pricing for laptop batteries - would you go cheap?</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226733-i-am-seeing-a-large-variance-in-pricing-for-laptop-batteries-would-you-go-cheap/?do=findComment&comment=2029737]]></link><description>I'm after 32 of these models : 4588105-2S
 


	 
 


	I've seen them as cheap as just over &#xA3;30 and as expensive as &#xA3;70.
 


	 
 


	I'm guessing you just pays your money and takes your chance</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:12:13 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Chrome Sync Without User Intervention</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226732-chrome-sync-without-user-intervention/?do=findComment&comment=2029734]]></link><description>All I ever wanted was Chrome Sync to be automatic just how Edge works but sadly no.
 


	I wanted to know if anyone may have figured out the sign-in options without any user interventions?
 


	 
 


	I would not like like to use GCPW to sign in using the Google UI as that can be confusing for some.
 


	 
 


	Has anyone figured out a way?
 


	 
 


	So far i have 
 


	Staff Portal/Student Portal that opens on first use which is a Google Sites and then adjusted the URL to match my school domain which then SSOs into microsoft and then logs in
 


	next is the pop up box prompting to ask for sync.
 


	 
 


	this is so far the most efficient method and bypasses the 2-Step verification and forced sign in.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:03:34 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>It's too easy to disable a playback device in Windows</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/226730-its-too-easy-to-disable-a-playback-device-in-windows/?do=findComment&comment=2029716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wow! I had no idea that you could almost invisibly disable a playback device in Windows as a non-admin user!
 


	 
 


	Right click over speaker &gt; Sounds &gt; Playback tab
 


	 
 


	See all playback devices e.g. headphones and HDMI screen.
 


	 
 


	Disable HDMI device.
 


	 
 


	From that point onwards only the headphones will appear in the usual selector above the volume level and you would need to reverse the above procedure to fix.
 


	 
 


	No way to lock it down AFAIK.]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:27:27 +0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
