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Thanks Pete, I'm looking at doing something similar, and wondered if this is the still the same method your using 3 years on?

To answer my own question, one of the following seemed to help: CPU GPO - Disabled Sleep CPU & REG GPO - Disabled Fast Boot User GPO - Turned off fast link detection (All links are fast links) CPU GPO - Enabled Loop Back Processing It doesn't help that my network is a bit poorly at present, and Group Policy isn't updating everytime. But once these GPOs were applied, I went from a 50% success rate, to a 90% rate, and I'm hoping the stragglers are because GP hasn't applied yet.

Apologies for the necro thread raising, but I'm having the same issue with 1905. Student logins have a less than 50% chance of applying the User GPOs, which is causing some grief! I've tried turning off FastBoot, disabling slow link detection, and turning on 'Always wait for Network'. Appears to be random as to whether the GPOs are applied or not.

Did you get anywhere with this? Having the same issue with Scratch 3.5.0

Similar to this thread: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-10/208822-login-times-2.html#post1787028 But if there is something particular about 1903 that slows up logins I'd be interested!

Well, I've learned something new today. Didn't know you could set a default profile in NETLOGON and it would be the default across the domain! For anyone else startled by this revelation, this guide will point in the right direction. Now, if I can only get NETLOGON to replicate properly...

Failing at the last hurdle... I've created the default profile I've wanted, stripped it down and copied it to the NETLOGON folder. Two questions, how do I point student accounts to use the default profile? I've changed their AD profile to point to "\\\NETLOGON\Default User" is that correct? Secondly, when I try to login as a student, I get the Group Policy Client - Access Denied message. No doubt I'm missing something, most likely permissions based...

Because you can reduce the profile on the NETLOGON server to 4MB (or thereabouts) where as the local default profile can be well over 100mb in size on a 'vanilla' install on Windows 10. Of course, you can make the default profile on the image you roll out smaller, but if you've already rolled out the image, putting a slim line default profile on the network is the next best option.

Ah, I remember doing this for Windows 7. Now with added Powershell/Start menu shenanigans. Yay

To answer my own question, this chap has part of the answer: https://4sysops.com/archives/improving-windows-10-logon-time/

Sorry to jump into this thread, but I'm having the same issue with our 1905 build. Initial login with a local profile is around 3-4 minutes. Could you expand on what you mean by putting the default profile in netlogon? Ta

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This is probably more for my benefit than anyone else's, but who knows, it might help someone! So, it's been a little while since I rolled out Windows 10 to staff, and needed a new image, for both staff and students. I'll use this blog to note my successes and inevitable failures on the journey to getting a working, student safe Windows 10 image. Getting Windows 10 without inBuilt Apps First up, we need a Windows 10 image, and since the latest one seems to not delete My Documents on a whim, I plumped for Windows 1903, and duly grabbed the .ISO from VLSC and imported it into MDT. Previously I had mounted the .wim and stripped out the inbuilt apps that way, however I wanted to try something new, and so decided on a method that removed the apps as part of the MDT process. There are also scripts for earlier versions of Windows 10 as well. Following the guide was pretty straightforward, and on a test build the apps were removed. Success! Getting Office 2019 Next up, I wanted to get Office 2019 installed. At some point I should move to Office 365, but installing that for students PCs seems a bit more complicated, so for the time being I'll stick with Office 2019. That said, installing Office 2019 is no longer a simple process. First up, you'll need the Office Deployment Tool from Microsoft When prompted for an installation folder, make a new folder on your machine, say Office2019-Install You'll then need a config file that can be created using the Office Customization Tool Export and save into the folder created in the previous step. I've called mine StudentConfig2019.xml Then run a powershell session, and browse to the Office2019-Install folder and run: .\setup.exe /download .\StudentConfig2019.xml This will download Office 2019 using the parameters setup in the xml file created using the Office Customization Tool. Copy this folder to your MDT server. Installing Office 2019 as a MDT task - Adapted/Taken from this guide In your MDT Workbench, open your build deployment share and expand the Applications Folder. Create a new folder called Microsoft, then right click the Microsoft folder and choose New Application Choose Application with source files. click Next In the Application Name field enter Install - Microsoft Office 2019 Pro Plus click Next. Click the Browse button to navigate to the Install - Office2019-Install folder you copied over. Tick the box to Move the files to the deployment share. Click Next. Name the folder Install - Microsoft Office 2019 Pro Plus. Click Next. The Command Line to enter in the field is: setup.exe /configure configuration-Office2019Enterprise.xml - I should say that it didn't work using this, I had to put in the full path, including server name, for this to work. So I put in this, but YMMV: setup.exe /configure "\\<WDSSERVER>\deploymentshare$\applications\microsoft office 2019 Pro Plus\May2019.xml" Click Next. Click Next. Open the task sequence and add the application. With your build task sequence open, click Add -> General -> Install Application Choose Install a single application. Click Browse and choose your Install - Microsoft Office 2019 Pro Plus application. I like to move the install application tasks into a separate folder for Custom Tasks, before a Windows Update task to ensure the build has the latest office updates. Hopefully this helps and it's helped me realise I need a different Office 2019 config file for staff and students!

Also, depending on your need, you may want to disable bitlocker as I think that's enabled on the standard task.

Just setting up this myself... I would take a look at adding this script to remove unwanted apps I've also looked into installing Office 2019, using a mixture of the config office website and this guide Just testing it all works now!

I was only interested in the Online version, as I'd hoped it was now part of the O365 subscription. But as @FishCustard says, it only allows you to edit/view projects created through the professional version So, anyone know of any decent project software?!

Login to the Admin Centre - Billing - Purchase Services - Project Online Essentials for faculty (There's a student option as well) £0.00 user/month

Whilst looking at deploying Office 2019 I noticed Projects as an option to install, and later found it as a 'free' licence to add to our Office 365 tenancy. However, having added the Faculty licences, and assigning myself a licence, I can't create a new project or timeline. I've no doubt missed a step (or cost) somewhere, so if someone has set this up, I'd be interested in a few pointers.

Just to add that Sophos are aware of the issue, see this kb article

Apologies for the necro thread raising, but I'm having the exact problem at a school today. Computers stuck on Applying Computer Settings. Login Safe Mode, disable Sophos, computers work perfectly again...

Just a quick blog post about an issue that has taken me 2-3 hours to research, and about 10 seconds to fix! In a nutshell, tried to rebuild some laptops using MDT/WDS. Kept failing to load the boot image, kicking to Boot manager with the error message: A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed. Tried rebuilding the deployment share - No dice. Deleted and readded the boot wims into WDS - No dice. Went through various drivers (we have FAR too many) and removed a great swathe - no dice. I was contemplating recreating the entire WDS server, when I came across this thread: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/cb267f4e-a704-44ad-a444-a8160c30e775/pxe-fails-each-time-with-0xc0000001-quota-required-device-isnt-connected-or-cant-be?forum=configmanagergeneral&prof=required The actual answer ticked mentioned boundaries, which I think is a SCCM issue. The actual answer for me came a few posts afterwards: I happened upon this error as well. The solution that fixed it for me was the "Variable Window Extension" Checkbox un TFTP on the Server properties in WDS. I would post a picture, but my account is too new. This box was CHECKED for us. Not sure how as I do not believe this was checked by default, but UNCHECKING this box solved the issue for us. Hope it's this simple for anyone else who stumbles across this thread and doesn't lead to needing to rebuild WDS. SUCCESS! Apparently it's a known Microsoft thing: "After installing this update, there may be issues using the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) to start a device from a Windows Deployment Services (WDS) server configured to use Variable Window Extension. This may cause the connection to the WDS server to terminate prematurely while downloading the image. This issue does not affect clients or devices that are not using Variable Window Extension." I just wanted to spread the word in case this causes as much confusion/aggravation to anyone else.

No worries No way of turning off Guided Access that I'm aware of using Lightspeed, but if there is a way, I'm all ears!

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