Manage Surface RT Devices

[fiza]

To those who have purchased Surface RT Tablets recently following the MS sell-off.

 

How are you setting your devices up? Are you mapping drives and printers? Are you removing any apps, tiles etc?

 

Just received some of these and looking to set them up but not sure of the best way to integrate them in out environment.

 

Just wondering what others are doing?

[sted]

i have a script that maps drives based on user name but i dont have any in my schools (other people where i work do and i borrowed one to get the script working as vbs is crippled had to restore to batch files :shudder:

 

i dont think on 8 they are designed to be intergrated 8.1 and sccvm iirc has some cool features for them but sccvm needs a server to itself (realistically it on testing slowed down my i7 laptop and that was with 1 client) which as most of my schools only have 1 server is quite an outlay for some "cheap" tablets

[Guest Guest]

Would intune be the solution?

[fiza]

@jstuttard - Dont really want to spend anymore on these so intune is out.

@sted - When mapping drives how are credentials passed over? Not members of the domain so must need credentials for mapped drives.

[sted]

@jstuttard - Dont really want to spend anymore on these so intune is out.

@sted - When mapping drives how are credentials passed over? Not members of the domain so must need credentials for mapped drives.

 

heres my script its faily simple if messy just alter to fit and imo best as a scheduled task that way if john leaves it logged on 30 mins later the first lines disconnect the drives

 

the usernames in my school all start with a number denoting year of entry so from that it can be worked out where a users home dir is and ive made the assumption that if its a non numeric 1st character its a member of staff. AS said its not elegant but works. Users get prompted to enter their username and then later on their password (which is never visible or stored in the script) then it does some "calculations" on who you are and mapps u: home drive v: everyones home drives (if you're a staff member) and resources. Theres also various remmed out bits that were from testing ive left in incase they are needed at a later date so mainly things like echo %mapu% so i can see if the codes wrong or the maths although now i look at it again i appear to of removed mapu anyway lol just left the echos

 

echo off
rem mapdrive prompt v3 20-09-13
net use r: /delete
net use u: /delete
net use v: /delete

set /p str=Enter Username: 
rem echo %str%
set str2=%str:~0,1%
rem echo %str2%
rem echo %stra%
rem decide what year group by first character
if  %str2%==1 goto equals1
if  %str2%==2 goto equals2
if  %str2%==3 goto equals3
if  %str2%==4 goto equals4
if  %str2%==5 goto equals5
if  %str2%==6 goto equals6
if  %str2%==7 goto equals7
if  %str2%==8 goto equals8
if  %str2%==9 goto equals9
if  %str2%==0 goto equals0

rem echo not 0-9 so presumably staff

net use u: \\server\users$\staff\%str% /user:%str% *
net use r: \\server\resources$
net use v: \\server\users$

rem echo %mapu%

goto end

:equals1
net use u: \\server\users$\2011\%str% /user:%str% *
net use r: \\server\resources$

goto end

:equals2
net use u: \\server\users$\2012\%str% /user:%str% *
net use r: \\server\resources$
goto end

:equals3
net use u: \\server\users$\2013\%str% /user:%str% *
net use r: \\server\resources$
goto end

:equals4
net use u: \\server\users$\2014\%str% /user:%str% *
net use r: \\server\resources$
goto end

:equals5
net use u: \\server\users$\2015\%str% /user:%str% *
net use r: \\server\resources$
goto end

:equals6
net use u: \\server\users$\2006\%str% /user:%str% *
net use r: \\server\resources$
goto end

:equals7
net use u: \\server\users$\2007\%str% /user:%str% *
net use r: \\server\resources$
goto end

:equals8
net use u: \\server\users$\2008\%str% /user:%str% *
net use r: \\server\resources$
goto end

:equals9
net use u: \\server\users$\2009\%str% /user:%str% *
net use r: \\server\resources$
goto end

:equals0
net use u: \\server\users$\2010\%str% /user:%str% *
net use r: \\server\resources$
goto end

:end

Edited September 23, 2013 by sted

[joe90bass]

@sted You are the man! Against my advice we have bought a load of the RTs, and I was scratching my head as to how to map drives for pupils via a batch file - you just made these things a whole lot more useful now!

 

Shame we don't have intune to manage them though.....

[sted]

@jstuttard - Dont really want to spend anymore on these so intune is out.

@sted - When mapping drives how are credentials passed over? Not members of the domain so must need credentials for mapped drives.

 

it asks for a username then later a password

[SHimmer45]

speaking of 8.1 are the RT's getting this?

[sted]

speaking of 8.1 are the RT's getting this?

 

yes same time as real windows

[jobejoe]

Sted, our student users usernames are 2 digits before the actual name for example 12woodj, 07nunnm

 

How do I modify the script so it decides the year group by the first 2 characters rather than just 1.

 

Any help appreciated.

[sted]

Sted, our student users usernames are 2 digits before the actual name for example 12woodj, 07nunnm

 

How do I modify the script so it decides the year group by the first 2 characters rather than just 1.

 

Any help appreciated.

 

change

set str2=%str:~0,1%

to

set str2=%str:~0,2%

 

should work iirc but when testing id put an echo str2 in so you can see what its pulled out

[jobejoe]

I'll give it a go, thanks for the quick response

[sted]

I'll give it a go, thanks for the quick response

 

just happened to be on and see it