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Lately I've been trying my hand at CRPGs, but honestly, it feels like I'm in over my head. Pillars of Eternity II is fairly complex and I'm just stumbling around in it. Cyberpunk 2077: played through twice. Baulder's Gate 3: played through twice. Fallout 4: more time into it than I care to admit. Mods like the Fenns Sherrif's Department and Sim Settlements kept me coming back to it. Greedfall: ....it was ok? Once is enough. Divinity II: Played this right after completing BG3. You can certainly get a feel for Larian's formula. Had fun. Frostpunk: keep coming back to this to scratch the RTS itch. They are Billions: been a while, but both fun and nerve wracking. Nothing like a single zombie getting in and infecting your entire town ruining a six hour session. Expedition 33: played through twice. Need to go go back for the DLC that just dropped. Easily my favorite game going back for years. Looking forward to: The Expanse Exodus FF7: I'll wait until the third has dropped and I can play them all at once. All my gaming happens primarily in the winter when I go into hibernation. When summer hits I'm out in the garage turning wrenches.

It's going out fleetwide right now via WSUS (I know, I'm bashing rocks together over here). No issues whatsoever.

If you do need a newer boot WIM then the Server 2022 boot wim also works to deploy 11 through WDS without any complaints.

I'm not at all familiar with any of the services you listed, so if this doesn't apply to what your doing then just ignore it. We're a Google school as well and I've completely automated account provisioning from our SIS to AD to Google. Setup uses Power Shell scripts that I wrote in conjunction with Google Apps Directory Sync. Students are placed in org units according to their graduation year. I can share the scripts if you want. They're pretty involved though since I have it doing pretty much everything. I used to have another script that would create AD security groups based off of class lists for syncing to Google too. Never did end up using that in production, but I still have it laying around.

If your clients are activating properly I would leave it alone. I don't think I ever removed old keys from KMS when we were still running it. Might want to think moving over to Active Directory Based Activation instead if all your devices are domain joined.

OK, let me just start out and say I'm not a wireless engineer by any stretch of imagination. With that out of the way, here is my issue: I'm looking at the possibility of moving an entire lab to wireless. The current layout of the drops is horrible and more than a few are broken. The lab teacher would like to have the flexibility to move the lab around without having to worry about the data cabling. 35 machines with AX wireless adapters already installed (Dell Optiplex Micros that were ordered this way) Room is 30x35ft A Promethean board One teacher laptop Potentially a guest network and I would assume every kid has a smartphone Current access point is a Cisco 1852 Wi-Fi 5 (ac) 5Ghz channel width is set to 40Mhz I know, that's a lot of clients. Right now from practical experience I know that anything more than 30 clients on that model access point and performance falls off of a cliff. Here are my options: Replace the 1852 ac with a 9115 AX Install a second 1852 and move both to opposing corners of the room Toss the idea in the bin Both access point models are 4x4. I have both models of access points on hand and the drops are already in the ceiling. So only thing I'm out is time. I would rather not waste time though. Would either of these scenarios increase client density to around 65 clients for that room? Thanks.

Did you ever check the logs on the client? Power Shell > Get-WindowsUpdateLogs That command will dump the logs onto the desktop for inspection. Search for the hostname of your configured WSUS server. If it's attempting to contact it at all then you'll find it in there, and whatever errors that may result.

Also local profiles for all. Student computers have the GPO to remove profiles after 30 days of none use.

Opened...a what?!

Wait, I used to do that....... ....I feel old. :-/

The other side of this is local firewall policy. You didn't disable it, did you? It needs to be forced enabled in GPO and connections to RDP, inbound sharing and remote management relegated to your management subnet. Below is what I'm using for student machines.

OK, I think I know what is happening here: it's not the Intel chipset, it's the board. This is after hours of troubleshooting. The board is capable of 4k@60Hz - USB-C connections work at this resolution and refresh. Since the board is actually capable of this spec, EDID reports this to the laptop Properly reading the EDID, the laptop will select 4k@60 if the laptop supports it, and regardless of what interface is used to hook the board up ...this is the issue. Electrically the HDMI interface on the board is NOT capable of 4k@60. So the EDID is correct for the display, but not for the HDMI interface on the controller. This is the only conclusion that makes sense. I have never gotten anything higher than 4k@30 to work on HDMI on these things. Not even with powered optical HDMI cables. The older Dell Latitude 3490 laptops worked no problem because all they're capable of is 4k@30 on the their HDMI interfaces to begin with. We're going forward and replacing the HDMI cables on all 179 boards in the district with USB-C since all staff laptops have these ports. All that is left to see is if a 15ft USB-C cable will work. We know the 7ft cables work. God, what a headache this has been.

This is what I observed too. In clone mode instead of matching the resolution of the laptop's display of 1080, the signal is sent to the board at 4k and the desktop is scaled down to 1080. Nuts. Even if this still worked the old way of matching the resolution of the primary display though, I'd still have the problem if the teacher used extended mode.

Having the exact same issue right now with Promethean Titanium boards. Old Dell Latitude 3490 laptops (7th gen Intel) work without an issue as they only support 30Hz at 4k on the HDMI. The new HP ProBook 430 G8 laptops (11th gen Intel) don't work unless you drop the refresh to 30Hz. This is with a myriad of different brand HDMI 2.0 spec cables, including the supplied cable with the board. In addition to different cables we've used Windows 10 LTSC, Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 11. Four different version of the Intel display drivers as well. This is driving me nuts. I can't expect my teachers to know how to drop the refresh when they plug one of these in.

I wouldn't touch that with a 10m pole for a 1:1 program. You need something that sits on the device between the student and the Internet. I recently setup the cloud version of Lightspeed for our 1:1 Chromebook rollout this fall. The filter is great and with a couple weeks time on it looks to be doing it's job extremely well. Deployed the app through the Google console and had it all configured in under an hour. There is quite a lot of room to negotiate on price as well.

It was recommended earlier, but I don't think you did it. Move the VM to local storage and give it another run. Preferably on an isolated hypervisor with local storage. I know you moved it to another SAN, but this might have something to do with the underlying storage tech. Is it iSCSI?

Are you allowing the laptops to pull driver updates from Windows Update? Might be worth rolling the driver back to a previous version if it's been updated recently.

Are you using Group Policy Preferences to deploy your proxy settings?

Do the machines have card readers in them? Windows will assign a drive letter to each media slot in the reader even if it's empty. If there is a confliction the drive won't map.

I'm using WSUS to auto install updates on public facing and lower priority servers. The critical stuff like domain controllers get their updates installed manually. These group policies work on 2012R2, 2016 and 2019 servers.

Do you have anything monitoring the links that can show you traffic utilization? @Michael touched on this in a previous post. Broadcast storms will do exactly what you're experiencing. These cheapy little unmanaged switches can introduce loops into the network when two ports are connected to themselves on the mini switch itself. The managed switch upstream has no ability to recognize this loop and will happily blow the broadcast traffic everywhere. Even if the managed switch is all 1Gb links and the mini is a 10/100, the ensuing broadcast storm will only ramp up to 100Mb, but it will still be enough to severely disrupt traffic. I had this exact scenario happen in our largest building a few years ago. The broadcast storm was limited to 100Mb total utilization due to the mini switch with the loop only being 100Mb. The backbone was comprised of 1Gb links, so it didn't trip any utilization alarms I had setup. Caused enough havoc to disrupt lots of things though. The monitoring application I have draws graphs for the trunk links. Finding the closet that was closest to the loop was easy enough just checking which direction the traffic was flowing.

Windows does not hold onto an address after a reboot. Are machines that are simply rebooted have no issues getting an address? If this is true then I would think it's something switch side. Next time this happens query the switch to see if it has the afflicted machine's MAC address in its table.

I prefer copper connections as well, but the state of some of these labs are horrible. They're disassembled once to twice a year for the cleaning crew to wax the floors and they don't handle the desks or anything else for that matter with kid gloves. The wall plates and RJ-45 jacks are in bad shape. Doesn't matter how many times I come through and fix them either. Just keeps happening again and again. I did consider losing WOL and imaging would be harder. Windows 10 can wake itself up from sleep for updates, so I'm not too concerned about WOL. Imaging only occurs every couple of years here unless the machine fails. We don't use roaming profiles either. The AX access point I have has two 1Gb copper uplinks. Maybe I'll just try it out and see what happens. Worst case scenario is I have to hook it back up.

Anyone have any experience running desktop labs with current generation wireless? Last time I saw this tried was with 802.11b and two access points and it went down like a lead filled balloon (dating myself with this). We're refreshing the fleet of computer lab equipment with Dell 3090 micros that have onboard AX wireless in them. The computer labs currently have Cisco AC access points backed up with 9200 series POE+ switches (one AP per lab). I have a few spare Cisco 9115AX access points that I could swap into the labs. Labs can have anywhere between 30 and 36 computers. We also have a guest wireless network, so it's safe to say all the kids will have smartphones on that network. Does this seem doable? Labs are only used to general computing, so pretty much just web browsing. With the condition of the wiring in the labs and the oddball furniture layouts being able to do away with the miles of patch cords would be wonderful. Thanks.

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