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Played with it for a while but was extremely advanced and ott. It would be great f you use scom, sccm etc on a large scale but for just one school its not the hassle in my opinion

PRTG for the win

Any update for the bookmarks? Need to get this working

I would recommend removing offline files completely if i was you as we have so many issues from it. Sounds like your issue is network or permission related. Can you confirm that permissions are correct on the start menu share and they have propagated to child? Try a free trial of PRTG running of a computer and then set a ping to some random computers. You can then see a log from throughout the day and see if there are any network drop outs

There are a couple of fixes you can do that help with GPP Printers. I had to carry out these tasks as we too rolled out GPP printers over the summer. The first fix is a reg hack that removes shared printers on logoff, this will then force the next logon to re-evaluate the printer setup and default. The second was a hotfix from Microsoft. We have one GPP that has all the printers in. It will go through and add then delete if you are not in the ILT. Works great now with the hotfix, but without it would get stuck on the first printer and then give up

We use app locker here as we use windows 7 workstations. We used to use SRP but found it very difficult to get exactly what you want. App Locker takes some setting up but I'd very powerful. Just create a security group, add the users and allow We also use FSRM on our file servers that blocks the files you don't want in user areas based on the extension. You also have it alert you when someone tries to put files like exe in their areas. For those users you wish to allow, and just create the exception

Same thing here for me! All rooms and trolleys on different channels. ICT staff are given the access to switch channels so they can monitor classes with substitute teachers. They have no problem connecting and monitoring 60+ workstations. Few things to note are: Turn off key logger in setup as its a security risk Ensure staff are aware that first staff member logged on will control LAN school. If they switch user, the second user will not be able to run LAN school because it is already running. Make sure they log off Issues with connecting to multiple workstations may be down to your switch config not allowing.multi casting

TBH if it was me in your position, I would backup the printers and drivers using Microsoft's PrintMig tool and then rebuild the server/migrate to new server. There are a number of different variables that could give you symptoms you state and one could be the way in which somebody has configured the server or printer. At least by starting again, you can ensure setup is done correctly and the way you want.

Have you tried Microsoft's Exchange Connectivity Analyzer website

How are imaging your machines? I would not recommend WSUS for driver delivery in NY opinion. We use mdt and inject drivers during the build process.

We have the exact same policy as you.describe and encountered a few issues similar to you. I forgot to check the public files so will test that tomorrow. To help fault find the issue, have you.checked the event viewer to see what applocker is doing? Logs can be found in Microsoft/windows/applocker

@ChrisMiles Any chance of some help with setting up what you mention in your post

+1 for printmig

I have a script that i'm looking at for copying a start menu locally and then removing the items that dont exist. The script works if you specify each item at the bottom, but i think this can be simplified by using the ForEach command so that i don't have to specify each shortcut. Can anybody help # Creates 'StartMenu' folder on C: Drive if it doesn't already exist. if(!(Test-Path "C:\StartMenu\Staff")){ New-Item "C:\StartMenu\Staff" -ItemType directory } # Removes contents of 'StartMenu' folder and then replaces with fresh copies off of the Server. Remove-Item C:\StartMenu\Staff -recurse -force Copy-Item \\servername\_StartMenu\x64\Staff C:\StartMenu\Staff -recurse -force # At this point the StartMenu folder on the C Drive is full of all shortcuts from corresponding Remote StartMenu. # Creates a varialbe called $SM that will hold C:\StartMenu path. $SM = "C:\StartMenu\Staff" # Function which will test path and then delete folder/lnk as instructed. Syntax should be; # StartMenu %path to test% %folder to delete%. # e.g. StartMenu "C:\Program Files\WinRAR" "WinRAR" Function StartMenu { param ($TestPath,$Directory) if(!(Test-Path $TestPath)){ Remove-Item $SM\$Directory -recurse -force } } # Function that will delete any empty folders that cannot be deleted via StartMenu due to containing # different programs. Function StartMenuDelete { param ($folderpath) if(!(Get-ChildItem $folderpath -recurse)){ Remove-Item "$folderpath" } } #StartMenu "C:\Program Files (x86)\TechSoft Design Tools\2D Design V2" "2D Design"

Can you not disable the UAC, i find it causes lots of issues in lots of programs. Also, have you added this to the trusted site list in IE as this is an internal website?

Deploy the icons you need to the c:\ via a startup script or GPP. Then point the shortcut icon to that local folder

Have a look at the release of Server 2012 as it allows for live migration and high availalability by simply using a server/s with 3.0 SMB shares. No SAN required

Can you not upgrade to 2010? Or use keepvid.com and insert video file

Thanks, i will take a look and let you know how i get on!

Any luck with those scripts my friend?

Didn't RM do something similar for CC4 or did that not get pushed through from the beta testing?

Second MDT. Would recommend you take a look at MDT 2012 now as its the latest version that has been released. The guides related to 2010 will work just the same, its just some functionality and the GUI within PE that has changed.

Hi, I have posted this message several times and there are quite a few threads on here that cover the topic of redirected start menus based on what is installed. All of these threads have covered the use of scripts used at logon that would basically remove the icons that do not work. These scripts will work with some tweaking to your network setup, but the area that I wished to get working was through Group Policy Preferences. I know that there are some users on here that have successfully implemented a setup using GPP, but there doesent seem to be any documentation of this even through Google. So below are my steps required to get my method of dynamic start menus through GPP based on whats installed. Please feel free to improve my method if you see flaws, I only got it working 10 minutes before I left for home today 1. First step, we will be creating a local folder on the system drive of the workstation as this improves the speed of the start menu setup. You could use the start menu from a UNC path, but I found this to be very laggy whilst logging on. To do this step, I created a simple startup script. The script contains one line, and that is MD C:\StartMenu. This will create a folder on the C:\ of the workstation called StartMenu and will be used as the location for the dynamic start menu. 2. Now we need to create or amend the current GPO for folder redirection. Set the Start Menu redirection property to redirect all users to the following location, which is c:\startmenu. 3. Create a new GPO, which will be used for the GPP settings. Set this GPO in your user ou along with the folder redirection GPO 4. Now we need to add the settings to the GPO we have just created. Edit the GPO and go into User Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Shortcuts Within here you need to create a new shortcut with the following settings. (note. The shortcut I will be creating here is for Adobe Photoshop that will be within a folder in the startmenu called Adobe CS5. Also, I recommend that this GPO is edited on a workstation with RSAT installed so we can point it to the correct shortcut) Select the option to Create Enter the name as follows - C:\StartMenu\Programs\Adobe CS5\Adobe Photoshop CS5 Change the Target Type to Shell Object Leave the Location as the default () To set the target object, navigate to the exe that you wish to link to. Once you have found the exe, click OK. Now, you would normally set the option from the common tab for remove the item when no longer applied, hoping it will remove the icon when it cannot find the exe. Unlucky, it does not work like this, especially if you have roaming profiles. Leave this option off. Now you can set Item Level Targeting at this point if you wish to restrict access to a specific shortcut. For example, SIMS .net needs to hidden from students. Select ITL and then point to a security group etc. 5. Now you have your first shortcut setup, it will be to the particular OS architecture you set the shortcut up on. If you require different architectures, you will need to create a separate shortcut to each program for the two different OS types due to the Program Files (x86) 6. Now we need to resolve the issue of the shortcut remaining in the roaming profile. To do this, edit the GPP GPO you have just created and add another shortcut as above in step 4. This time we copy shortcut you have just created. Set the option to delete and select the item level targeting under the common tab. From here, select New Item > File Match. For the option, use the file path to the shortcut of photoshop exe. You will also need to change the Item Options and select Is Not. Now when the shortcut for Adobe cannot be found, it will delete it. That it, your start menu is created. It will be a manual process of creating all the shortcuts along with the delete shortcuts, but well worth it in the end! One thing to note is if you allow Switch User, as this will allow students to see staff shortcuts if the student allows the staff member to logon. To resolve this, I think the only way will be to create two folders. One will be for staff and one for students, we just need to amend the redirection policy. Hope you find this helpful and I will let you know if I find any more tweaks regarding this!

Set the computers in security groups for the room and then use ITL

that would be nice to see. We were about to embark on a manual process of this task ourselves over summer, but this would be great!