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What are the vendor and device ID strings for the NIC? You can find them here:

I've never used audit mode in the creation or maintenance of my images. Copy Profile works for me, but I do things differently. On the base machine I enabled the local administrator account, and created a second local admin account to work out of. The only time I go into the built-in administrator account is to make changes I want to show up in the default user profile. Use this key in your answer profile: 33PXH-7Y6KF-2VJC9-XBBR8-HVTHH Now as far as Office is concerned, do you have any Office installs that activate properly outside of your image? If you haven't met the requirement for unique requests on the KMS server it won't activate, and unless you rearm Office every time you capture the image the KMS server will not see every Office install as unique. See this thread: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-7/104202-office-2010-re-arm-duplicate-cmid.html

If this is 2008 R2 then all you need to do is add the driver to the WDS console. I haven't had to modify a WIM for a couple of years now.

Yeah, you can drop an IP in a separate line and it'll work just like a domain name.

Yeah, exact same thing here. We operated like that for over a year and never saw anything adverse happen. Clients activated happily and never complained. I did however change the sysprep answer file in my image to force Office to rearm and activate after imaging. All future imaged machines will now have a unique CMID. The following was placed in the FirstLogonCommands in the oobeSystem pass: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\OSPPREARM.EXE cscript "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /act

I just stumbled upon this thread and realized this is something I don't do. Checking the logs on the KMS tells me all the clients have the same CMID. It hasn't been a problem though because the activation threshold on the KMS was reached while testing Office on various staff machines before it was incorporated into the image. So, is this even a problem? Office activates normally on every machine we deploy.

I probably should have looked for upgrades sooner, but v7.9 has been running without issue since I installed it over a year ago. All that it is being used for is remote home folder access. Is there any benefits to upgrading if we're only using the the one feature? Would it be possible to standup the new version on the same box as the old side by side, or would it be more practical to spin up a new VM? Thanks guys! This piece of software has certainly made my staff's lives easier, and by extension, mine too!

Did you check to see if the plugin was inadvertently disabled? It's easy to do. IE does ask a lot of useless questions including disabling plugins.

Broke in what manner? The plugin not working? Get any errors?

Seems to work fine for me with IE10 built into the image. Windows 7 x64 Enterprise / IE 10.0.9200.16576 / Flash 11.8.800.94

Though WPAD? No, there isn't. That is something you're going to have to do at the proxy. Is this for a guest network setup where you don't admin the devices using it?

I've never had to test fiber beyond using a laser pointer, but I have used some of the Fluke tools for copper and can say I don't particularly care for them. The tester is expensive and requires licensing to unlock all of its features. Imagine having a multimeter that requires licensing to measure resistance.

I see this periodically with student wireless devices here too. Do you have your wireless policy setup to use both computer and user credentials for wireless authentication? If so, I do this: 1) Jack system in with a patch cord 2) Login as local admin 3) Verify wireless connected (it should be using user authentication at this point) 4) Unplug the patch cord 5) Drop it from the domain (don't reboot) 6) Join to domain again 7) Reboot I still don't what causes this to happen, but it's only once in a while for me.

@sippo: Here, this one is a bit easier to digest. I use this in my district. function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { //Declare proxy strings as variables var studentproxy = "PROXY studentproxy:3128"; // IP not to use proxy if (shExpMatch(url, "http://10.*")) { return "DIRECT"; } if (shExpMatch(url, "http://192.168.*")) { return "DIRECT"; } if (isPlainHostName(host)) { return "DIRECT"; } // URLS not to use proxy server if (shExpMatch(url, "*somesite.edu*")) { return "DIRECT"; } if (shExpMatch(url, "*somesite.edu*")) { return "DIRECT"; } if (shExpMatch(url, "*somesite.edu*")) { return "DIRECT"; } // Apply proxy if machine is on internal network if (isInNet(myIpAddress(), "10.0.0.0", "255.0.0.0")) { return studentproxy; } if (isInNet(myIpAddress(), "10.0.0.0", "/8")) { return studentproxy; } else return "DIRECT"; }

I wonder if WDS attempts to cache large portions of the image in RAM when running multicast. How much RAM is in the box? File size limit for NTFS (regardless of x32 or x64) is like 16TB or something.

You sure can; I've had to expand the boot volume with diskpart on a couple of servers this year alone. The only trick is to boot up with WinPE first - just like @SYNACK has already stated.

It's probably a pooched printer driver. Deleting the printers directory doesn't remove the driver package itself. If you can't get the spool service to stay up long enough to gracefully remove driver packages using the Print Management snap-in, then delete all the driver out of the appropriate folder. C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers

I can't speak for MDT as I only use WDS, but this is what I do to get Windows to set the default user profile: create a second local admin account to work out of, enable the stock local admin account and only use this for setting options I want to be present in default user, and set the appropriate option in sysprep. true true xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx * The CopyProfile option is what tells it to copy the stock local admin account over top of default user.

I used to make a fair amount of money re-capping those things for local businesses. Thanks Dell! Windows 7 should run just fine on them with 2GB of RAM; they're really just an overgrown netbook and those run it OK. I wouldn't waste money buying licenses for 280s though. Only do it if you subscribe to EES. Other than that and it really isn't worth it.

I'm going to assume you've got your shares on a separate volume from the OS drive. File level permissions will stay intact and you can export all of the shares from the registry and re-import them once you have 2008 R2 up and running. I had to do this a number of years ago when a Windows NAS took a dump. Saving and restoring existing Windows shares

Wasn't marketing also an issue for the RT? Putting Windows in the name would give the false impression that it could do what the actual desktop OS can do. It would be like if Ford started a line of go-carts and named them after their popular car models.

Block all outgoing traffic from that network segment unless it is going to your content filter.

Sure is, a Windows 8 Enterprise install with RSAT. It is a completely separate policy and I haven't touched it with anything besides said laptop. It does work though, but only when IE is initially fired up on the client.

From the article: Seeing first hand how bad students can be I can certainly understand the union's plight. I wouldn't want my financial stability tied to the success of someone who doesn't want to learn either.

There is a HUGE difference. LEA hosted email is for government business; it is no different than a private company's internally hosted Exchange server. That service is provided to perform a job function. Outlook, GMail, Yahoo, etc are all communication mediums used for private correspondence that can be likened to a personal phone number. An expectation of privacy exists where if eyes do need access to your correspondence then there is a system in place to prevent abuse, and this handled by means of obtaining warrants and the 4th amendment. What is even worse is it's not as if my government is asking access to individuals, but they're taking huge swaths data at a time and sifting through it looking for keywords and patterns; it's no different than playing Go Fish and can be likened to the authorities systematically searching homes for evidence to a crime without so much as even asking, "May I come in?" Now, I don't know British law and my entire rant was written from an American's perspective, but if I were you I'd be seriously questioning why a foreign government should have unfettered access to my life. I guess that is my two cents...