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I've tried that too. So why do they remain for a few minutes? Opening and closing the preference several times, they remain there, then suddenly they disappear?

I am. It turns green, I add the settings. When I re-open it, they are missing and the lie has reverted to red.

Good Morning, Here's an interesting one. In GPP, when I set an Internet Settings preference for any version of I.E., all the settings disappear after a few minutes. You re-open the preference and everything is removed. When viewing the XML in \\domain\sysvol\domain\policies\{guid}\Users\Preferences\InternetSetings - over time the entries slowly disappear, leaving only the targeting groups (with no settings) in the XML. I have tried with several GPOs, both old and new - it keeps happening. No other GPPs have any issues at all - just the internet ones. Every time I search Google, the only results are about people who can't find the old IE Maintenance policy, not this specific issue. Cheers for your help. Paul.

If you're using Windows Server DHCP, you can enable DNS Name protection on the scope. This creates an entry for the first device with that name, the IP DHCP has given, plus another record matching some other info. You'll then only get the host and 1 IP. The only time it can be a headache is if there are two, say phones, with the same name. It just means they're not registered in DNS

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Yep, As strange as it may sound, this had happened to the original 3 VMs, I replaced them with 2 new VM installs, added to the domain, restarted and the same problem. Ensured there was no software installed, working. Applied the GPOs one by one, working. Added all the GPOs I've just mentioned - black screen. It just doesn't make sense

School won't pay for it. 'It's my job to fix it.'

I thought you needed a support contract? If not, I'll give it a go.

Latest Hyper-V Integration Tools are installed. I already have seen the page in the link and tried everything, which is frustrating as their problems appear to be exactly the same.

I transferred one of the VHDs to my PC as a test and it still had the issue so I know it's not the physical host.

Good luck

VMs starting up to a black screen occasionally when they're rebooted: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-server-2012/157235-black-logon-screen.html#post1350942

I'm sure on a full version you can run: get-appxpackage | remove-appxpackage (or similar) in PowerShell

I wonder if you can install Edge, or another modern app on LTSB from a full version DVD where the source files are. LTSB is the way to go. It's basically Server 2016 without the server bits. (Like 2012R2 without all the Win8.1 bits)

As I say, it's a problem now on 3, the only thing in common is they're in the same OU and have the same GPOs. The rest are fine as they're in different groups etc. I find sometimes restarting them, it doesn't work - sometimes it does. Like I say, sometimes j can RDP in after about 10 attempts. Once you're in, they're OK - I just try to keep it running as long as possible to avoid it.

I find now if I try to connect directly via RDP as .\administrator, it kicks me out each time until I've tried about 20 times. Once it lets you in, the normal login page appears. That's weird.

I dropped Microsoft an E-Mail this afternoon with the subscription ID. Within 15 minutes they replied saying they'd generated the key. Indeed it was there.

I'm glad I could help. Have a good weekend.

I'm not sure whether anybody's interested, however I have a few problematic VMs which I don't want to rebuild. Every now and then Windows gets messed up and I have to restore it from a checkpoint. I've created a powershell script which runs on the Hyper-V host as a scheduled task to backup the VMs every morning. This will run whether the VM is powered on or off, but not suspended. function backup([string]$virtualMachine) { # Assemble VM Details $virtualMachineDetails= Get-VM -ComputerName $HyperVHost -Name $VirtualMachine Write-Host "Creating snapshot of $virtualMachine" $dateDisplayFormat = Get-Date -Format yyyy.MM.dd $timeDisplayFormat = Get-Date -Format HH.mm.ss $snapshotName = $virtualMachineDetails.Name + ": " + $dateDisplayFormat + " " + $timeDisplayFormat CheckPoint-VM -ComputerName $HyperVHost -Name $virtualMachine -Snapshotname $snapshotName Write-Host "Snapshot of $virtualMachine complete" } $HyperVHost = "hostname.domain.loc" backup -virtualMachine "VirtualMachineName1" backup -virtualMachine "Some Other Virtual Machine" backup -virtualMachine "And maybe a third" Obviously replace the bottom 4 lines with your own details. Save it as c:\createCheckpoints.ps1 In task scheduler, create a task to run "powershell.exe" and in the arguments add "-File c:\createCheckpoints.ps1". Make sure the task is set to run whether there's a user logged on or not. This will create a checkpoint every time the script runs so I don't forget to. I'm going to add a bit in to get rid of snapshots over * days old, but will stick with manually deleting the, for now.

I like it because it obviously hasn't got all the useless apps on which you'd have to take off. I wonder if it's possible to 'pinch' the Edge .appx package from another version of Win10, or a Win10 DVD then use powershell to add it? Lack of Edge is the only downside as interested staff at the school like it, but I'd rather roll out the LTSB as opposed to manually stripping down a different version. You should have the opportunity to have the full version where you can start with everything and strip it down, or you should be able to add bits to LTSB, starting with nothing and building it up.

Are you behind a proxy, that may be blocking it. Windows doesn't come with the files present if it's not installed, they're either on the installation disk or downloaded from the Internet as part of the wizard You could insert the installation DVD or mount an ISO, then at a command prompt type: DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /All /source:d:\sources\sxs (where d: is the letter of the source disk). That will install it and use the files on the media as opposed to downloading them. Paul.

Beaten me to it :-)

Ok you'll still have the issue in your link, but Microsoft have released a MSI containing all the ADMX files for all languages etc.: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48257 It'll extract them to your program files directory then you can copy and paste to the policydefinitions store. I've installed them and used Microsoft's 'workaround' too and they're working properly. Paul.

I have the MAK keys now for all versions of 10, however it's only showing only 250 activations. There are still no KMS keys. I E-Mailed our supplier and they replied: "MS are in the process of rejigging customer’s accounts with the new Win10 OS keys – they are likely to see some changes. If the school has any concerns then they can email MS here: [email protected]" If they're not on there by Monday I'm dropping them an E-Mail.

I've just created a clean install of Windows. Restarted about 20 times, no problem, joined to the domain, gpupdated, rebooted and have exactly the same problem? Couldn't be a phantom GPO? I'm stumped