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Group membership is a nice idea, it seems to remove the reg entry but leaves an (empty) folder in C:\users called 'username'.

Thanks Chris I get: Exception calling "Delete" with "0" argument(s): "" At line:1 char:304 + ... _.LocalPath -ine "C:\Users\Default"} | ForEach-Object { $_.Delete() } + ~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: ( [], MethodInvocationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DotNetMethodException when running that command in the code block of your message.

same here, UAC is off and for 50% of users builtin apps work.

Hi, I got this profiles delete script from EduGeek to run at startup, and it works but it sometimes seems to hang deleting some profiles, reboot and those left over profiles disappear. It's all a bit wrong, lots of red Powershell warnings. can someone please advise: $profiles = $null $profiles = Get-WMIObject -class Win32_UserProfile | Where {((!$_.Special) -and ($_.LocalPath -ne "C:\Users\Administrator") -and ($_.LocalPath -ne "C:\Users\Public") -and ($_.LocalPath -ne "C:\Users\Default"))} if ($profiles -ne $null) { $profiles | Remove-WmiObject } Exit powershell error attached that appears many many times at startup..

I have approved to install (on a few test computers) the 'feature update to 1809' WSUS 2016 server update. This update has a status in WSUS of 'downloading' and has been like this for a week or more. WSUS syncs everyday. On the WSUS homepage the server has: Updates needing files - 257 Downloaded - 17000 of 342000MB which doesn't ever seem to change.. Any ideas?

OK, do I want them to run apps in admin mode? they are definitely not admins of the computers. It is strange if it was a permissions/gpo error then all users would be affected. at every reboot student user profiles (C:\users folders and profiles reg key) are deleted, so they are all identical users...

I am finding some (of course only some) users when they open Photos, calculator etc the apps open and then immediately close. Event ID 1000 gets logged. error: Windows Photos file system error (-2147219196) A different student (same OU, access rights etc) this doesn't happen. I've tried re-imaging the computer to a new 1089 image. I don't do anything to the apps when creating the image, (its just windows captured in MDT) I've tried reinstalling the apps using powershell: Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.Windows.Photos | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"} I do have the Windows Store disabled (using GPO) and UAC disabled which has been suggested a being a possible place to look at, but changing these has no effect. Ideas??

Thanks for the replies, so to conclude I was thinking of the following setup. As you cant have multiple schedules on the same job I will need to setup multiple jobs (which is crazy). DAILY Everyday 7 restore points 1 full initial backup, no further full or synthetic backups MONTHLY First of the month 12 restore points 1 full initial backup, no further full or synthetic backups Then as the uplink to the backup server from the virtual network is 10G and its a high spec server i was thinking of the reverse incremental backup (as recommended above) BTW we already have 30 days worth of network folder backups via DPM, so this would be for VM restore (using the daily backup) or further back in time user file restore (using the month backup). I am totally up for changing the plan if there's any ideas?

1. I am finding my Veeam B&R incremental backups are very large. e.g. VM File server = 2000GB daily change in Windows disk size = 1GB approx Veeam daily Incremental backup size = 25GB VM Ubuntu = 11GB Veeam some of the daily incremental backups = 2 or 3GB nothing much changes on this server, a few logs.. Veeam support say this is 'expected' but why? 2. If I drastically change the schedules to multiple shorter term jobs, am I expecting a month incremental file to be 30 x the current daily incremental backup size? 3. Should I take some full backups too? On the 2000GB file server this obviously has a massive disk cost. Veeam support say forever forward incremental is not recommended. --- can you please advise?

Hello, can anyone recommend all in one computers with hard glass screens (for IT Rooms and a bit of abuse)? reputable suppliers, 5Y NBD warranties etc. Dell and HP do some v. slick looking AIO computers but I am concerned with a standard TFT screen, students may squeeze the screen (on purpose), this is not a warranty repair, we can’t replace the screen as its AIO, we ask for the cost of an out of warranty repair, it's £300+. Then it’s end of life.... Thanks for any ideas.

I have just setup Veeam structure and thought it was a good idea to have full backups running once a week (Synthetic Full or Active Full) but it is consuming all my backup space. Is it OK to not have any full backups and just have a tick in the 'Backup Mode - Incremental'. I assume that means if I backup every day for 6 months I will have 180 of these incremental files, will it full restore OK in an emergency?

We’re changing our backup plan from all cloud (£££) to local VM backup and just legal requirement stuff (sims, finance) to the cloud. Even though the on-site backup is in a second location we still need some offsite emergency backup storage for our 2TB user and curriculum folders. We have google drive education unlimited storage and we’re going to use Goodsync to send it up there for weekly single copy backup, but it errors, goes about 4K/sec and doesn’t look like it will ever work. Not really designed for all the small files and deep nested folders. So....what to do? I don’t want to bring a usb drive home every week like the olden days. We don’t have any partner schools.

I want to backup the file server VM and have restore points for daily up to 30 days, and monthly up to 12 months. The only way I can see to do this is to have 2 separate jobs Job 1 - Files - Daily - 00:00am - 30 copies to keep Job 2 - Files - Monthly on first Sunday of each month - 00:00am - 12 copies to keep This is OK but as Veeam doesn't support deduplication across jobs then I am keeping 2 copies of the same (huge) backup job in the repository? what is the recommended method for this?

Thanks, I found un-checking 'Application aware processing' and 'Guest file system indexing' on the backup job and the Linux VM's backed up OK. no root credentials entered in Veeam... I am concerned that although it completed the Smoothwall VM really needs 'Application aware processing' and this may not be a good process?

I’ve just setup VEEAM Backup and replication on a 2012 r2 backup server, backing up a 2012 r2 cluster. All the windows VMs backup ok but the Ubuntu and smoothwall vm fail with: Guest processing skipped (check guest OS VSS state and hypervisor integration components version). Is this to do with credentials or something? I need to add the Linux root credentials in veeam? Not really what the error implies. How can I backup these guest vm’s?

yes you're right, on some machines there's 100's of scheduled tasks!! what to do? Thanks

for some reason I have lots of those update tasks.....

Can anyone advise how to disable the Windows 10 'Microsoft OneDrive' app notifications (via GPO?). I think its installed as part of Windows, I don't feel like uninstalling it as I feel it may become a part of work/school life at some point whether we like it or not, but I don't want users to have 'Onedrive needs updating' messages when they login... Solution for lots of machines.. Thanks

Hello, as a disaster recovery option (all 3 onsite data locations have been stolen for example) we want to have about 5TB of storage space in the cloud just to sync a couple of network folders to once a week. Looked at OneDrive and Dropbox business at around £50\month which is actually unlimited storage, but can anyone think of alternatives. It would be nice if the solution had some kind of sync client. We don't have any partner schools to put storage in. Thanks

Thanks but we need to see in our current environment whether the 1G connection is currently maxing out.

Hello, we have a network setup of mostly 1G Netgear GSxxx switches connected by fibre. I feel there is a case for a 10G backbone upgrade, but 10G switches are expensive, and we need to add some hard evidence from monitoring the current traffic, maybe we don't get anywhere near even 1G... Is there any tool/method anyone can recommend? There doesn't seem to be anything on the switch interfaces... Thanks

it is DFS but not replicated anywhere..

Hello, some departments have these big spreadsheets (behaviour logs etc) that many people work on over the course of the day. Understandably staff try and access the spreadsheet when it is open by someone else. If the first person has only had it open for a short time the second person gets the message: 'this is lacked for editing...open read only?' which is what we want, but we are finding this lock seems to timeout and 2 people can open the file without any warning, work and then lose saved changes. Have tried enabling the key below on both file server and workstation to increase the share timeout to 6 hours, but this has not fixed it. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters any ideas? Thanks

Hey thanks for the detailed reply. I think to minimise systems I’ll try to cloud connect with a 3rd party. Last VEEAM Q, backing up whole VMs is great but what about a VM which contains folder shares that we want to backup more often. E.g. our finance server has databases we want to backup everyday. Do you just backup the whole VM everyday (seems wasteful of reousrces) or setup a VM backup job and somehow exclude things we don’t need, or buy a server agent license and setup a backup job of the databases within the VM itself? Thanks for ur help.

Thanks, its a shame VEEAM restore is so backwards. No other way then? we already have dpm setup and previous versions which works well, but that sadly does not work on 2016. You’re right will probably do for now. Will use VEEAM for VM backup locally, Do you do anything to connect VEEAM to cloud backup, I think they don’t have their own you need to buy a 3rd party cloud space, any recommendations? 1TB for DR.