Sheridan

Looks like Unifi devices are phoning home without your consent! https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/07/ubiquiti_networks_phone_home/

There's no devices or iCloud account on the device, it seems to have orphaned these photos. I 'didn't bother' to wipe it as the person who it belongs to needed to access these old videos for a while. The ipad was bought initially by the school but given to the user who used a now forgotten apple ID , and then was decided it was needed in school so this one was a bit of a compromise. So we simply configured it with AC and added it to an MDM, now they have they new videos on so we'll need to copy off both the new and old photos before resetting it completely. I just find it odd they still show up, yet aren't associated with any apple account on the ipad, and can't be removed either.

We've noticed an issue specifically with Adobe Catalyst CS5 on our 1809 image (although I think it may have been happening on the previous 1703 build) When a staff or student member tries to run this program (only this program in the entire CS5 suite seems to be affected) it crashes out after a delay, and pops up with an error telling you where the log file is. Odd thing is, the path to the log file is under the Desktop\Application Data\etc\etc - and both groups use redirected desktops (read only) so the log isn't generated. When I temporarily allowed RW access it did indeed generate a log file, and actually worked after that but that's not really a fix. Even though both staff and student have redirected desktops they don't have access to modify it. It seems very odd to me that Adobe decide to create an Application Data folder, on your desktop, and put various .dll's in there which are essential to the program running? Either that or very shoddy programming! Anyone else using CS5 on W10, with GP redirected desktops? Incidentally we don't redirect AppData, that still goes locally.

Got a bit of an odd problem with an ipad. Previously it was used without any MDM and had a personal AppleID on it, this was removed and the ipad joined to Meraki and policies applied. Now it seems that there are photos and videos from the previous apple ID, (shown in photos as 'From my Mac') which are seperate to the 'normal' photos and videos. You can't access them via a PC or Mac nor itunes on either, nor can you delete them directly on the device. I assuming they were synch'd from some personal account and therefore are seperate but is there anyway to delete them without wiping the entire ipad?

Sorry, when I said removed, I meant blocked with Applocker - and shortcuts etc removed in the image!

This is becoming a nuisance for me now - regularly users report than clicking a URL, or using a program that opens a website reports an error. This is because its somehow defaulting to Edge as the default browser even though the Default associations file (specifiying Chrome as the default browser ) is being deployed by machine GPO and also on startup script using DISM. We removed Edge from our image as its pants anyway, so I don't know where its randomly deciding that Edge is the default browser, we notice when the problem happens a reboot will often (but not always!) fix it, and the next stage is to clear their local profile The link in most cases is simply an https:// address - which is directly specified in the xml file to be opened with chrome. I don't want to start putting Edge back in as we've just finished rolling out the 1809 image without it!

Cheers for the ideas, looks like a third party app is the easiest fix!

Nothing from Google themselves though which is a shame

Is there such a thing as an administrator view of the G Suite classrooms created on our domain? it would be handy to be able to view classrooms and who they've been assigned to, but I can't see anything in the admin console

Hmm I might try that, at the moment I'm just using the openfiles to close an instances of that file, but it doesn't always close all of them

Got a weird thing happening with a server recently. We have a file that is copied over every night with a batch job - it deletes the old file in a shared folder and replaces it with a new one The shared folder is readable by users, and has r/w for admins and the user account that the jobs runs under. This has worked fine for years, but recently the job fails as it says the file is open somewhere else. When I check the open files list on the server I can see a few Read's all with 0 locks, which has always been the case. There's nothing that seems to have a lock on the file, so I'm puzzled as to why its become undeleteable (is that a word?!) recently.

Yup - that worked a treat thanks. I haven't installed it for years, I think the last version we used actually came on a CD (remember those!)

I've tried both ways: and also as that's what appears when I export using Powershell. It only seems to work if the user has no profile on the PC, ie their first login.

Hmm I thought I had this cracked but it seems random - unless I delete all user profiles from the PC. I still have the following in our default associations file This is pushed out by Computer GPO using the 'Set a default file associations configuration file' and also runs in a startup script using the DISM command. However I still find when users open a www link (from within Word, or PDF) and it opens IE instead of Chrome There isn't a way to set the default associations on a per user basis is there? I'm thinking that pushing this out as preferences is the only way to get it to work consistently.

V5 is .exe only now - however the /verysilent parameter seems to have done the trick!

Its this one https://completemaths.com/autograph I'll try the verysilent - at least I could script it them

Does anyone else use Autograph 5? Its free but the installer is an exe which I'm failing to package up! If anyone has managed to build an msi for it can I grab a copy?

Brilliant, that worked straight away thank you. Why didn't I think of that!?

Our 10.13.6 High Server Mac running Server 5.6.1 simply won't update the Server app - it appears in the Updates list in the App Store, but when you try to Update you simply see the spinning wheel in the top left, and nothing else happens. I can seem to download and update other apps but not the server one. I've done the usual clearing of the Cache and .plist files for the app store but its not made any difference. I've even created a new user account and tried to do it under there but the result is always the spinning! Is there anywhere I can download Server 5.6.3 from apart from the app store? I don't fancy having to rebuild my mac for something so trivial

Thanks, it makes sense. I'm just wary that someone will make something available offline, and then logoff before it can synch and then complain they've lost the file!

We're in the process of migrating local data to GSuite. As part of this we're using Drive File Stream which is working well, its giving users the chance to copy files across and get more used to the cloud 'mentality' However one thing I would like to do is disable the ability to make files available offline on the File Stream application, as it defeats the purpose and also will increase the chances of files being lost, or local drives filling up (small SSDs!) I can't see any way of doing this, and the G Suite options are basically File Stream 'on' or 'off' The only way I can possibly see is direct the local synch folder to an invalid path, but that seems a bit obscure?

We've noticed recently that windows authentication isn't working in Chrome. We have a local intranet which uses built in windows authentication and previously it was fine with Chrome. Our policies put the intranet site into Local Intranet and allow for automatic login. However this has now stopped working, and users are given the authentication prompt when opening the site with Chrome. Weirdly it works when you specify the FQDN of the intranet. So: https://intranet doesn't work https://intranet.org.uk does work But in our policies both the short and FQDN names are in the Sites to Zones assignment list as Local Intranet. This does seem to be a fairly recent problem, has anyone else seen this behaviour?

Ah spot on, thats working now! I'd missed the IE.AssocFile.URL and that seems to have fixed it - an existing user account logged in and the UserChoice regkey was set to ChromeHTML, which it wasn't doing before. Thanks for all the suggestions - it was doing my head in!

My XML seems OK -it does actually work but only once the user's profile has been deleted and recreated (simple local profiles here, no roaming) Can't get this to paste without wrapping though!

Yeah mine runs the DISM on machine startup, and the GPO is set to point to the same XML file. It only works if you manually remove all the local user profiles, which is why I was using the UserChoice reg key to try and force existing profiles to switch to Chrome. Looks like a wave of profile deletions is the next stage!