mbedford

Do your future self a favour and fork out for the 240GB over the 120GB. We did a similar operation a few years back and have spent a lot of time since doing it again for 240's. 120GB is just too close for comfort for our usage nowadays.

Another +1 for Veeam, great solution. We also use "Previous Versions" on the file shares to go back about 60 days of twice daily copies, obviously, there is a storage hit to doing this but this is managed quite well by Windows Server. It allows the end-users (staff and students) quick access to file recovery. Very rarely do we get asked to recover files from file shares now.

Take a look at AB Tutor or LanSchool. They are both paid for solutions but are very capable. LanSchool is probably a more feature-rich solution. Teachers can control the target PC or Tablet and lock them down, force view of there screen or another screen. Our teaching staff swear by it.

Sit with the customer for 20 - 30 minutes, monitor there activity doing day to day tasks. When the machine is slow to take a look at the resource utilisation (CPU\RAM\Disk Queue\Network Bandwidth). I wouldn't up the RAM to 16GB unless there was a clear demand for 16GB of RAM, IMO that's just a waste of money. We have an estate of 3500 devices and less than 30 have more than 8GB, probably 50% have only 4GB. We are SSD throughout which has made a huge difference but you have already gone down that route. What speed network from client to core do you have, 1Gbps really is the target nowadays, on a bigger site I would expect to see multiples of 10Gbps between your servers and storage. I would also look at where the files are being accessed from and the size of the files, a badly optimised PPT presentation can be quite chunky and no matter how beefy your PC is if you are trying to access a couple of hundred MB PPT file over a 100Mbps link, it's going to feel sluggish. Remember whilst doing these checks that you trying to resolve someone's perception of a problem. Don't treat the number, treat the patient. Throwing resources at the problem is not always the best solution.

I had a similar problem, fixed it by removing all APPX packages, this may\may not result in windows app store apps not working, but we don't use those so that doesn't matter Boot back into audit mode and run this command in powershell before rerunning sysprep, this will generate plenty of errors in the powershell console, but they appear to be because a lot of the apps aren't already provisioned. Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -Online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online Hope this helps Mike

Thanks fordea, I actually got to the same conclusion myself about an hour ago, its all working now. Thaks for replying.

Hello, I am using PowerShell to interrogate WMI Class Win32_ReliabilityStabilityMetrics. The "TimeGenerated" field is being returned in a format that I cannot get my head around, the MS documentation suggests it should be DateTime but the result i am getting is "20200211090000.000000-000", any ideas how I can convert to something readable? Thanks

Hi, We are finding that any browser within our network accessing the internet via ja.net are having traffic redirected when visiting https://www.lpportal.slc.co.uk/lppweb/login/enterusername.jsf redirects to https://www.gov.uk/ Can anyone on a ja.net connection confirm this behaviour? From my home connection and mobile network it directs to the expected login portal. Thanks

Similar setup here, 6 node S2D 2019 setup, all NVME storage (around 90TB). Works a treat. Also using Veeam for backup and a bit of replication.

Well, our update was a complete disastor. Both the Controller and the AP's accepted the firmware. Then the AP's just rebooted every 2 - 3 minutes. Ended up having to roll back to original firmware version. This is the second time this has happened, does anyone know if I am doing something wrong?

Thanks both, yes my last upgrade was a whole lot of fun, but I need to do something as we are a good number of years out of date now. Given things like the recent exploit KRACK, I cant really afford to leave this hardware\software out of date.

Yeah, I noticed a slow down in the transfer probably another 50% after the workaround. In general, we routinely WDS 40+ machines at once and do notice a slight slow down with that volume but nothing that causes us to change what we are doing. I think the .WIM file takes about 10 - 15 seconds to transfer normally, add perhaps 10 more seconds when under load. So in the grand scheme of things, its barely noticeable. Compared to my previous solution of sticking a CD in the machines or at best, using Ghost on 3 or 4 at once, It will take a huge slowdown to make me worry :-)

We are using UTM9, no issues for us. On a Ja.Net connection.

I experienced this problem this morning on WDS Server 2012. Can confirm the workaround provided allows the process to continue.

Ok, DISCLAIMER - I am self taught VBS, bear with me ;-) Firstly change the line LaunchDir = WSHShell.CurrentDirectory to LaunchDir = "C:\Path\to\Tri-BGInfo-Students.bgi" - Basically your bgi file path C:\something\something\bgifile.bgi then change WSHShell.Run "%windir%\System32\bginfo.exe " & LaunchDir & "\Tri-BGInfo-Students.bgi" & " /timer:0 /nolicprompt /silent" to WSHShell.Run "%windir%\System32\bginfo.exe " & LaunchDir & " /timer:0 /nolicprompt /silent" I am presuming this runs at logon, if so, make sure the BGI file path is accessible for the logged in user and not in a folder which they dont have access to. You could do a bit of housekeeping and change your variable name from "LaunchDir" to "bgiFilePath" at the DIM line at the top and anywhere else LaunchDir is referenced, but this isnt essential to functionality, just makes it easier to read and make sense of a year from now when you have forgotten why you re wrote this :-). Give that a try and let me know. If you want to do a screenshare on your copy of the file, PM me and we can do something over Skype. Mike Edits: Having lived in the UK since birth has not helped with me being too good at English and things

I agree completely with the pricing concerns. See this article from a few years back https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/24/microsoft_price_rises/ Yes, staying on prem also means you are facing an increase (13% vs 22%) at least that is more in your control (you can choose cheaper hardware, not refresh, decrease offering....) Mike

Hi I can probably help you with this, is the file path going to be the same on every machine, every time? Mike

Hi, I need to upgrade an MC3200-VE (Virtual controller) with 85 AP's connected to it. Last time I did this, it was a nightmare. This time I would like to do the following. Disable the auto upgrade function on all of the AP's Upgrade the Controller Upgrade 1 AP to test functionality Roll back the controller to a pre upgraded backup Enable auto upgrade on all of the AP's Upgrade controller and allow the AP's to auto upgrade Note: I am rolling back the controller as I dont know if the AP's on the old firmware version will be accessible from the newer firmware, if they are, then I can skip the rollback. My question is, is there anyway I can disable the auto upgrade feature on all my AP's at once, or do I need to connect to the CLI on each one ? Thanks Mike

We haven't chosen the device yet, but I was hoping to have a single cable (other than charger) to plug into the device to provide keyboard, mouse and video. Basically a docking station, but without the additional cost. (Need to get 80 of these) Thanks

Not quite that bad, yet!

Hello, I am looking at purchasing some tablet PC's. I need them to be able to connect to a VGA monitor so I was going to buy a USB 3.0 to VGA adapter. I also want to provide the users with more USB ports so was going to get a USB 3 hub. Does anyone know if I can plug the VGA adapter into the hub and hub into the tablet? Thanks Mike

I dont suppose any of you guys are free for a chat over Skype or Hangouts to guide me on this are you? I am pretty confident that I am missing a tick box somewhere but cant for the life of me work it out

Thanks for the replies guys. I am signed into both Google and Chrome (via the settings page) with my managed account. Still just get presented with the black video screen saying "This video is restricted, try signing in" I feel like I am missing something on the Verified Teachers side of things. I have activated Google Groups for Business and given myself the status of a verified member in the Classroom teachers group, am I missing something?

We have implemented the DNS method of forcing all of our devices to use the strict or restricted mode for YouTube. I am led to believe that you can now setup a system to allow selected users to override this for specific videos. We are then using this method to allow specific videos https://support.google.com/a/answer/6208224 Problem is, it doesnt work!!! The teachers who are allowed to override videos do not ever get the blue bar appear on a video to override it. Any ideas? BTW, G Suite support were useless on this one, apparently YouTube is not there problem, I guess thats what you get from a free service.

Try this, i have used it many many times, works like a charm. Best of all its free. https://www.5nine.com/vmware-hyper-v-v2v-conversion-free.aspx#compare