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Cloud backup services?

For years, I have recommended Spanning Backup as a cloud backup service.  Since Spanning was assimilated by the Kaseya collective, the product and our service from them has suffered. We're now looking for non-Kaseya cloud backup services. (Backupify ...

BrianGray by New Contributor II
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Google Print Preview locks up Chrome

Anyone else see this now or in the past? So far I've only had one student and one staff member see this issue, but both this week. One is on a Chromebook and one on a Windows laptop. When they go to print preview it hangs at loading preview then all ...

kcalderw by Contributor
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Context Aware Access - know issue with some ISPs

Just flagging an know issue with Context Aware access. We restrict access to the UK using context aware access. Some ISP issue what presents as a UK IP - but does not validate as being definitely UK in the Google backend and therefore get flagged and...

rdnixon by Contributor
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Dynamic groups

So I created my first dynamic group in workspace.  I set the "who can post" access setting to nobody (unchecked every box) thinking that would prevent sending messages to the group.I then sent a message to the group from my email and it got delivered...

Jamboard No More

Giveth with extended Chromebook life. Taketh away with the end of Jamboard  I am very sad as we use this extensively. Dear Edu Administrator,We’re writing to let you know that we will wind down the Jamboard application next year. From now until Octob...

dochxp by Contributor
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Resolved! YouTube Premium- purchase page not loading

I have a staff member who wants to purchase YT Premium with her school account.... but anytime she goes to the purchases and membership page, it is blank. The page itself loads, but the purchase interface does not. YouTube is turned on for staff; wha...

Windows Endpoint Management - Applocker policies fail to push

I am working with Google on this, but wanted to check here and see if anyone has some insight to my problem.I am attempting to push some Applocker policies to devices, but it fails every time, based on which type I send (MSI, EXE, Script).The script ...

hanker by New Contributor III
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Share Drive Permission Structure

Hey everyone...I started a Feature Requests a while back that's gotten little traction - although a Google insider was the first to respond...and someone recently upvote it as wellI would appreciate you guys upvoting it IF you would find this useful ...

jstaime by New Contributor III
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Extended life for Chromebooks.

I read a very interesting article about longer lives for Chromebooks. Ithought this was the most interesting part. Does anyone had any insider info to this?"The change is to take effect in 2024. Chromebooks released in 2021 and thereafter will automa...

Gmail Redirect Notices

Good Morning All,  has anyone else noticed that we now get sent to a redirect notice page sometimes when clicking links in Gmail.  I haven't pinned down what exactly is the criteria to get the notice but I have heard of it happening mostly with the l...

K12 Sysadmin Discord

Just FYI, I know that since the other community was closed down the original post was lost. Lance has approved the posting of the original message but if that has changed please let me know. For those that enjoy a realtime discussion I had set up a D...

kcalderw by Contributor
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Strange DNS error

We've been having a random issue on chromebooks in our district. People will say the internet is not working. What it seems it is on those the DNS servers are gone. A reboot fixes it but we know they were there at logon because the users were in and ...

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[Rant] Really annoying phishing attempts

I'm not sure what it means overall (probably that these entities have a compromised account) but it's rather annoying when external schools send Google Docs to some of our users like "Document shared with you 'Employee Form.docx'"How do you normally ...

Rejected emails

Is there a way to view a list of rejected emails?  Other than the message delivery graph for a generic number of emails that are rejected, is there any way to look at a list of them to have better troubleshooting of issues receiving emails?

dhalvorsen by New Contributor II
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Google Translate API key

Our SIS apparently doesn't translate parent documents and they've told us we can use either Google or Microsoft API keys for this. From what I'm seeing it's a rather expensive service. Does the Eduaction Plus level of licensing allow for the basic le...

kcalderw by Contributor
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FOIA Request?

I've been aqsked to do a FOIA requets through all of our Google docs for a specific set of keywords. Is there any way to do this? I've tried Google Vault but since I don't have a limiter like a name I have to select all and it errors out with "Can’t ...

GCPW - Login screen doesnt pop up when clicking button?

Trying GCPW for the first time as standalone. Configured some registry keys. Chrome is installed and has an enrollment token.I see the icon at the login screen of Windows, but clicking the button doesn't do anything.Just wondering if someone ran into...

hanker by New Contributor III
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Resolved! "Sharing is turned off" message in Google Photos

I have one student who is trying to receive photos in Google Photos on her school account from her coach.  The coach does not have any issues sharing photos with anyone except this one student.  The coach tries to share and it says: When I open Googl...

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Is there a way on a chromebook to "clear the ssl State"

We're having an issue for some app and they say thats the solution. The problem is I cannot find this setting on a chromebook. On a windows comuter there is a tab for it. Can this even be done on a chromebook?Error they are gettinggetting an error "E...

Spoofed Email - Phishing reports\Investigation tool

Hello I know I need to get my DMARC setup finished, but in the meantime I have something that has been bothering me. We had someone spoof on our principals email address.  It came through with a warning from Google to be wary of this email, but if yo...

E8419 by New Contributor III
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