SkreeM1980

Hi, I'm trying to get DFE provided laptops rolled out for deployment with intune, which is all good so far, i've got a script to get hardware hash and get the computer named to match our asset stickers, it joins quite well. but the HP laptops we recieved are full of bloat ware, VPN clients, netflix links, all sorts. I really don't want to have to fully wipe these to get a clean install of windows. does anyone have any neat/useful scripts (powershell/bat or tools that can clear this stuff off? Thanks In advance

Thanks for the note on correct GPO settings for redirect to a single Read only folder. Just set-up and tested with multiple student accounts and rolled live in total 30 mins :-)

Honestly, you can never win over this. the teacher sees that it saves all the files and clutters their life in chrome, and in IE it's wonderful, but the rest of life sucks. We have the total reverse issue with students, clicking links on their personal email to open their homework, working on it for hours and clicking save, only to log off and the file be gone because it was in a temporary folder. Why can't IE be more like chrome? If it's one user with a problem, it's not the system that is the problem, its the user :-P

Option 1 cross 4? GPP On Machine OU's but loopback processed, so you can reduce printers in policy to a selection from 100 but not have to apply every policy to users in case they roam.

I know this is a little bit of an old post, but in the latest version of the Chrome ADMX policy templates the Disable Print Preview option is present. I've tested it and it works. I'm not sure when the option arrived, our previous ADMX were dated March and didn't have it. the new ones are dated 22/06 and do. There was some discussion on one of the chromeium bug tracks that the (Disable Print Preview) feature was being Un-Deprecated due to enterprise demand. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=374321 Skr

We have had that where machines are left in sleep too long, i always assumed it was kerberos ticket lifetimes or something. reboot cures all :-)

What is the event log saying about the logon/profile load? It sounds a bit like the first logon is actually using the machine's default profile not the mandatory one, and then the registry hives on the PC go all screwey.

We don't as such, but users can sign into chrome with their GAFE credentials and then their bookmarks etc are sync'd We did write a logon/logoff script combo, to store them, but the testing wasn't very positive.

Hi, I'm currently looking at our BYOD WiFi config as we currently use a captive portal (from firewall) to get students to enter AD credentials and then gain access(filtered) to the internet. I want to move away from the captive portal, as we are getting quite a few issues with it not popping up, or getting SSL errors as although i have a public certificate on the page, it is not google.com's one, the other problem is that i don't have the visibility of the user in my wifi system, so if i see a device that is behaving in an unwanted manner, or not experiencing a good connection, i have to go look up the user elsewhere. So i want to move to some form of radius authentication where the student/staff member put's their username/password in as part of the connection instead. My AD is 2012, WiFi is Aerohive and Firewalls are Fortinet (I also have Smoothwall Proxy's) Where do i do the radius/authentication? The AP has to be involved somewhere to secure the connection... but i also need the firewall to know who the user is. AD Exists... i also have 2 NPS server's doing the authentication for Domain Computers Very confused.

Depends on which bit of task sequences are slow? We found installing updates was very very slow, got as many as possible updated into image to speed that up. and some we had to exclude and install after (.Net Framework i'm looking at you) Multiple machine deployment should be faster if you configure multicasting

Many Thanks. No idea how i screwed that up... I mean you passed the first test LOL

A real varied role as part of a small IT Services team, supporting over 2000 devices, mix of PC's, Laptops, Thin Clients, You name it, if it can have an IP we look after even some fridges. Win7 Server 2008/2012 Vmware - Virtualisation & VDI Hp/Extreme Networking Smoothwall + Fortigate http://www.moulton.ac.uk/contact-us/work-for-us/job-vacancies/it-services-technician-%281%29]IT Services Technician - Moulton College

The tv is running using statseeker, I can put php on a webserver

I happen to have the data in csv and sql (csv was.step one in my powershell)

Hi, I've managed to use powershell to log some stats to SQL(every 5 minutes), and i really want to display the latest numbers from a certain table on a wallboard we have in the office. We have a piece of software that already lets me put content into zones on it. but i'm really struggling to write a working webpage that gets the info from SQL to display Can anyone point me in the right direction (i've tried using AODDB recordset, but it seems to error with no details, and i managed to confuse myself totally with VS2012)

Is yours the newer LinkRunner AT?? having found it i'm seriously considering getting one with the fiber ports as well, we have so much fibre

We've got a LinkRunner Pro which is a wonderful bit of kit, will tell you cable lengths, wiremaps, and loads of useful info when plugged into a switch (port, vlans, POE info) i've just had a look, and it's been discontinued, but there is a new model the Linkrunner AT, these are available in the reigon of £1000, which i know seems like a lot, but for a tester it really isn't and the info you get can be invaluable.

To find the device that is causing the traffic on HP switches... as others have said use show mac-address but for a logical process. Start at the core switch, show mac-addsess aabbcc-ddeeff this will give you a port number, then use show mac-address XX (port number) if multiple mac's are returned it is an uplink port, use show lldp info remote XX to find what switch is down that port, connect to that switch and start again, eventually you will get to a port with either only 1 mac, or a few macs but no LLDP info, goto that switch and find where the vcable from that goes, and somewhere in the vacinity of the end will be your device.

Papercut is pretty much the best thing since sliced bread, we've now got it on pretty much all our printers, and have had student charging after an initial balance for a couple of years. We tried restricting staff a couple of years ago, but it was laughed at by department heads who just authorised mroe credit left and right. as of this week staff are restricted again, any additional credit comes from department budgets, that will hopefully stop them. or at least stop my printing budget being ridiculously overspent. System Status System uptime 9d 12h Users 9,096 Printers 145 Devices 35 Recent errors 0 Recent warnings 13 Total pages 10,019,861 Pages today 7,684 Hold/release jobs 50 Active user clients 429

Max, Have you looked at the sample script within papercut itself, that does the same job? That does it's calculations straight on hours rather than resorting to minutes from midnight. Plus you seem to be missing the is job analysis complete bit; Your in discount days should probably read var inDiscountDays = (day >= SUNDAY && day <= THURSDAY) And the logic isn't there in your InDiscountTimes to say that sunday has different times, it will check the time of job versus both hour criteria i would break the logic down much further. If today is sunday and job in sundaydiscount times =true then apply discount if today is other discount day and job in discount times = true then apply discount Sorry i'm only just looking at papercut scripts myself so cant be of much more use.

How did you get on with this? is on my job list for next week

On my list of things to deploy this month. Will advise if it goes well. The way i understand it from this article How To Manage Active Directory Password Policies in Windows Server 2008/R2 -- Redmondmag.com If the domain password policy is stronger it would trump the FGPP settings, but that is quite an easy situation to avoid by monitoring the policies you put into place. You could also use this as a method for only having more complex requirements for certain groups e.g. System administrators If you put it in let us know how you get on.

From This Article Give users permission to install fonts under Windows 7 there is a solution which could be modified slightly to be done via GPO rather than manually. It's all about the permissions on c:\windows\fonts and fntcache.dll and somewhere in the registry. Skr

Massively old post i know... but i came across it while looking to do the same thing. I have found How to change the MSI file location in the Software Deployment GPO (Mutilple UNC paths for same package) which tells you how to do it in ADSI edit Skr

Isn't it just! Backup window of Forever down to 4 hours a night. nearly 10Tb of data