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I had to set this up last year in a suite which contains 34 PC's.. PITA but got it working in the end. It does seem a bit dated for today's standards

Thanks for that will check it out. We are looking to migrate DC's to either 2016 or 2019 this summer, as those are the only remaining VM's we have, which are not at a minimum of 2016.

Hey all, At the moment, we have no way of doing a mass gpupdate /force. If a change has been made to a group of classroom PC's for example, we have to manually go and type this command in using admin creds, to ensure the change is made & not relying on the automatic refresh of GP. I have seen that you can force a gpupdate to an entire OU within GPMC, although when I try to do this I get errors stating connection blocked / RPC not available. This can be fixed via a simple starter GPO apparently named " Group Policy Remote Update Firewall Ports ". For some reason, this is not in my list of starter GPO's on any of my 3 DC's. Does anybody know how I can get this to appear? Or why it would be missing? DC's Windows Server 2012 R2 TIA

Would not want to be that guy/girl right now who authorized the change

No issues to report at my workplace as of yet.. Although I am unable to access the Volume Licensing Center which is a PITA

I'm finally moving our staff profiles away from roaming this next half term. Going for local profiles with folder redirection to their H:\ drive + Onedrive. Some of our staff have profiles as large as 8GB... dont ask.

problems (mo money mo problems!)

Sounds like it's worth a shot to re-image, if the sound test is ok on the BIOS then it could very well be some sort of windows issue.

Worth checking BIOS version of the laptops & seeing if there are any updates available. We had some issues with a DELL AIO not getting an IP via ethernet or wifi. After checking EVERYTHING else, i thought let me just check the BIOS version, and it was insanely out of date. Updated to a more recent one, unit now gets an IP no problem. Might be worth a try!!

We have a batch of Dell AIO's similar to that in my school. We did encounter some strange network issues on one specific unit which we just could not get to the bottom of.. Turned out that the BIOS firmware had not been updated since the release version which came with the board (2016!). We ran through the BIOS updates in order, and this fixed the issue we were having. Might be worth checking this on yours too?

Cheers, it does seem to work fine until I add the taskbar section, so something there can't be right causing it to fail to apply.. Made some adjustments but still not working with the taskbar code in there

Hey all, Hoping somebody can help me, really can't seem to get this XML to apply Start menu + Taskbar settings. The GPO itself is applying fine, just doesn't seem to be adjusting anything. Attached image of xml code

Hi all, First post on here, decided to make an account as I have found many helpful forum posts on here Is it possible to mass create folders within a team, with each folder belonging to an individual member (folder name being the members name) which only themselves and the team owner(s) will have access to? So for example, student Joe Bloggs would have a folder called "Joe Bloggs" and only Joe and the team owner(form teacher) would have access to the folder. Can't seem to find an answer for this anywhere TIA