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Hi Nick, Do you run that script as the User logon script? or as the Computer startup script?

Gareth, I run the below script before provisioning the image to the user: Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | Where-Object {$_.PackageName –notlike '*store*' -and $_.PackageName –notlike '*Calc*' -and $_.PackageName –notlike '*Notes*'} | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage –Online The script above remove all Microsoft junk and 3rd party bloated apps but keeps the Microsoft Store, Calculator and Notes app.

What about executing the below user Logon script? Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "2414FC7A.Viber" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "41038Axilesoft.ACGMediaPlayer" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "46928bounde.EclipseManager" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "4DF9E0F8.Netflix" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "64885BlueEdge.OneCalendar" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "7EE7776C.LinkedInforWindows" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "828B5831.HiddenCityMysteryofShadows" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "89006A2E.AutodeskSketchBook" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "9E2F88E3.Twitter" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "A278AB0D.DisneyMagicKingdoms" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "A278AB0D.DragonManiaLegends" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "A278AB0D.MarchofEmpires" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "ActiproSoftwareLLC.562882FEEB491" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "AdobeSystemsIncorporated.AdobePhotoshopExpress" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "CAF9E577.Plex" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "D52A8D61.FarmVille2CountryEscape" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "D5EA27B7.Duolingo-LearnLanguagesforFree" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "DB6EA5DB.CyberLinkMediaSuiteEssentials" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "DolbyLaboratories.DolbyAccess" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "Drawboard.DrawboardPDF" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "E046963F.LenovoCompanion" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "Facebook.Facebook" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "Fitbit.FitbitCoach" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "GAMELOFTSA.Asphalt8Airborne" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "KeeperSecurityInc.Keeper" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "LenovoCorporation.LenovoID" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "LenovoCorporation.LenovoSettings" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollection" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "Microsoft.MinecraftUWP" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "Nordcurrent.CookingFever" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "PandoraMediaInc.29680B314EFC2" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "WinZipComputing.WinZipUniversal" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "XINGAG.XING" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "flaregamesGmbH.RoyalRevolt2" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "king.com.BubbleWitch3Saga" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "king.com.CandyCrushSaga" | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "king.com.CandyCrushSodaSaga" | Remove-AppxPackage Would that be possible to remove the Windows 10 non-work related ModernApps (AppX)?

Yes that's what I use daily to free up disk space. But somehow it doesn't fix this issue. The work around is to reboot the whole VM to release the username directory with username.domain.066 and so on numbering.

Hi All, I'm having some issue here when my terminal server users accessing TS-FARM1.domain.com from the Windows RDP application: The User Profile Service failed the logon. User Profile cannot be loaded. That's the error message they see when tried to login to one of the Windows Server 2008 R2 RDSH (TS) that is presented to them behind 3rd party Load Balancer (Brocade Steel App). It is affecting random people in random terminal servers. Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated to prevent this issue happening. Thanks in advance.

People, Can anyone here please assist me with the troubleshooting method of why some of the AD username in my Terminal Server farm duplicated with numbers at the end of it ? C:\Users\User1.domain C:\Users\User1.domain.001 C:\Users\User1.domain.002 C:\Users\User1.domain.003 ... C:\Users\User1.domain.028 C:\Users\User2.domain C:\Users\User2.domain.001 C:\Users\User2.domain.002 C:\Users\User2.domain.003 ... C:\Users\User2.domain.021 and so on ? This is happening in all of the nodes in the farm and for all user account.

So does the command above still works with folder that are deeply nested and longer than 255 characters long ?

OK, so what about the overall implementation maintenance over the long term ? I'm considering between Vmware View and Citrix Xen Desktop but not sure which path should I follow.

Hi Guys, assuming that only using MS Office and no multimedia features, does Citrix VDI solution cost cheaper for VDI deployment lesser than 400 users ?

Cool, thanks to all for the reply. Initially I was just thinking to ping them one by one but it is too much time to create the powershell script.

Hi People, I am having a problem with my MSCS cluster that I have just built on top of my physical RDM VM with VMXNet 3 NIC, it always failed in the error 1129 during network validation process of the heart beat network like in the following page (Content not found in each ESXi servers, I have created: vSwitch0 - Administration console, VMotion and HA vSwitch1 - VLAN with access to the entire LAN and internet vSwitch2 - no uplinks just dedicated network label for the MSCS heart beat network (in which the two VMs is in this VMnetwork label) I have assigned class A address in the heartbeat network according to Microsoft article into 10.10.10.10 and 10.10.10.11 no gateway, disabled NETBIOS, not registering it in the DNS and binding order#2 I can ping both nodes from each other end and also have disabled windows firewall entirely. So far the test failed only in this cluster heartbeat network configuration no matter what IP address I assign. Any kind of help and assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi, How do you check if a certain server object is no longer in used in the Active directory database ? because for some reason like: 1. the server has been decommissioned 2. the server has been renamed 3. something else As for me, I do the ping test, but wondering if there is another smarter way in doing it before you right click and DELETE the object. Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

yes that's what I'm talking about, the Enterprise Administrator account. I agree, what I should do is to securely keep and manage the usage of that account, we have rename it to something else but of course the SID stays the same -500 which means that this is still the super admin account if the attacker knows it. log shipping into dedicated syslog server ? how can we do that on the desktop and Windows server 2003/2008 ? for Linux and CISCO devices yes, we've been using that and I know how to set it up.

Hi People, I'd like to know what's your suggestion or the practice in your organization about the usage of DOMAIN\Administrator account ? At the moment my Windows servers in the domain can all be accessed by this domain administrator and do everything, however this is not the best practice according to the Security Auditor and my Risk manager. Please share your experience and thoughts here. Thanks.

Hi All, I'm looking for Fax sottware for replacing my departmental server, ideally this software should be able to receive and send a fax just like email (integration with MS Exchange Server would be a plus). Any idea please ? Thanks, AWT

Ok, now i decided to re-think and draw again from scratch as previously it was my idea at 1 AM, so it seems that Failover clustering on top of VMware HA is too complex and slight downtime ~ 5 mins during the failback/server restart is acceptable for me, therefore I have now decided to go with SQL Server 2008 Mirroring HA (see the attached). the only single point of failure is the Witness VM (which runs SQL Server 2008 Express) if you can suggest any other placement then that'd be great.

Hi All, I'd like to build highly redundant SQL Server 2008 database and Infrastructure monitoring software for both my production and DR environment, I wonder if this design below is make sense and can provide me with sufficient redundancy at any level ? http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/4241/redundancydiagram.jpg My goal is that when the Production site is having a problem, the user can use the monitoring application from DR site as automated fall back plan. Any kind help and suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi All, We are trying to work out whether or not to purchase SCCM 2012 or some other technology to assist with desktop/server fleet management. Today have many disparate systems that all do a subset of what we need. In addition to that we have Windows 7 upcoming and need to deploy it and hundreds of application packages. The new technology MUST: Deploy Windows 7 to any bare bones machine (including driver insertion) Deploy Windows 2008 to any bare bones machine regardless (including driver insertion) Deploy Software from MSI Deploy Software from Non-MSI (flat file, single registry key, third party installer) Deploy Software based on Active Directory Group Membership Deploy Software with ‘pre-requisites and supersedes’ smarts built in Deploy Windows Security Patches Deploy Windows Security Patches with respect to groups (ie node A is patched fully before node B is patched) Ability to Permanently exclude Security Patches that are irrelevant to a system Ability to Disapprove a Security Patches Report on Windows Security Patch Gaps Report on software deployments for licensing compliance Support a replicated Multi-tiered infrastructure deployments (Internal, DMZ-I, DMZ-E info all in the same Microsoft SQL database) Be supported by the supplying vendor on a vmware platform Provide a configuration management database that lets you put manual descriptions hardware, asset and IP addressing information in The new technology SHOULD: Allow you to Add/Remove things from an SOE without having to recreate SOE from scratch. Deploy user based software that installs on first run instead of installing all your apps upon first log in Allow administrative removal of an application from a machine when you’re out of a group Automatically associate users to machines based on the last log on Report on hardware inventory Report on software inventory Report on user to machine inventory Not require the user to have local administrative privileges Any kinds of suggestion and input will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

wow, many thanks for the article.

Thanks for The reply and suggestion mate, the user will need to upload and download files bothway. This is so that they have access to particular directory inside the fileservers.

Externally to the users in remote office or their home PC, I was just thinking to publish it through WebDAV but i heard that it is going to be obsolete soon ?

Hi All, I wonder what could be the possibilities for sharing files securely on Windows server environment if you are not allowed to use any free services (Drop box, rapidshare.com, etccc) and must be securely published to the Windows Client users ? FYI: at the moment I'm using Juniper SSL VPN to access terminal server environment.

LOL, so pass the ball to hem :-)

Hi, How to identify the server age (from the warranty) so that i know which one needs to be replaced / upgraded, it is all HP and SUN servers and I wonder what is the easiest way to get the server age / warranty status ? apart from Spiceworks (if anyone know other option) I'm looking for the automated way because I got hundreds of servers in my current datacenter :-) Thanks

yes, that's true, many thanks guys for the reply and suggestion.