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I have the following enabled using the above ADMX. Disable First Run Movie - Enabled. Disable Office First Run on application host - Enabled Suppress Recommended settings dialogue - Enabled Rob.

Massively. We went from 2 minutes to 30 seconds tops on our slowest machines (Core2Duo, 4GB Mem, Non-SSD).

I didn't notice it at first until I watched one of our students logging in with mandatory profile and it took over 2 minutes, most of which was 'preparing desktop'. I changed the group policy setting for Document redirection to create the folder and then added in the appropriate share path.

Just in relation to the above, we had massive logon slow downs when blocking the desktop.ini We were redirecting to the users home drive root and I changed it to create a folder called 'Documents' within the root instead to negate the name change and need to block desktop.ini

Ours is only advertised to staff but could theoretically be used by pupils if they had the link to it. They just email our support address. What do those who allow parents access tend to use it for? password resets?

Hi all, A member of staff asked me to restore a file that had been deleted by someone from our 'Common' share (accidentally or otherwise). They then asked whether I could tell them who it was who deleted the file. Since I knew I didn't have auditing enabled I said it wasn't possible. After looking into auditing and such I enabled it and subsequently saw the event log on the file server logging stuff almost every second! Is there anyway to specify that I only want it to log file deletions? What do other people do in regards to this? We are running Storage Server 2012 on this machine. Thanks in advance.

For those interested I was sent this of a recorded session. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNJbGsgm8bU&feature=youtu.be

I did yes.

I have some IOS 8 devices and they work seemingly fine.

We have Ricoh (direct) and the devices for the most part have been very good. The eService portal however is pants. Luckily we very rarely use it other than to log issues thanks to the @ Remote toner ordering.

We did exactly as the link you posted suggests. Works like a charm.

First day back after a weeks holiday and it's not looking too bad!

I had the same problem as above. There were some registry entries still pointing to SIMS2008 after our 2012 migration. Did a search in the registry for SIMS2008 and changed them to SIMS2012 instead and the install went fine after.

This is a pretty big deal for us. Our sponsor uses Google Apps and want us to do the same, however I've resisted due to the inability to directly edit Office documents and pursued Office 365 (at extra cost) for our mobile devices and such. Excellent news!

Could always test it on a virtual machine instead.

Get it OK'd first. We often get asked to do things like this and it takes all of 5 minutes to get a higher up to just say it's OK. Not worth shouldering the blame yourself.

Network Manager at an Academy and i'm suited and booted minus the jacket. Have got some scruffs under the desk for when I need to get down and dirty though.

We use WebHelpDesk too. It's very good. Tried a number of others before settling on it.

We generally recharge the department that the equipment is located in. It's their responsibility in the end to ensure it's looked after. There are a few exceptions to this, rooms with no 'owner' for example which we (IT Support) foot the bill for, but we make sure these are looked after. Since we cable tied the mice and keyboards we've noticed a drop in the amount 'moving'. The kids also seemed to have some sort of 'thing' with moving the mice and keyboards to the front USB ports, which has since stopped.

Hi, .v2 is a roaming profile. By default you won't have permissions to edit or delete these, even as a domain admin. Unless you enable the policy 'Add the Administrators security group to roaming user profiles'. Even then this will only take place on newly created profile folders. To delete the current ones you'll need to take ownership of them first.

We have a main Twitter account for the Academy which is run by the Principal. We then have various departmental Twitter pages that are run by teachers. Some teachers have their own 'personal' teacher accounts that they use also. All passwords are known to the school so can be accessed by appropriate people if need be. We've had a few issues in the past with younger members of staff doing daft things via social media, but nothing too bad. It's a useful tool, when monitored correctly.

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Commun icator\[email protected]\GalContacts.db C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Commun icator\[email protected]\GalContacts.db.idx" However, i'm not sure how you will target the specific sip account folder. How are you SIP account names formatted? Ours are username based and the following - C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Communicator\sip_%username%@mycompany.com\GalContacts.db.idx works OK for me.

It's an alleged plot by extremists to take over Birmingham schools.

Just to update you all seems what I had was probably correct, but I was still trying to deploy an older version of the script that had the ApplicationSupport and QuickTime MSI's the other way round. Once i'd realised this and updated my distribution points, it's working fine with the below. @echo off msiexec /i "%~dp0AppleApplicationSupport.msi" /qn msiexec /i "%~dp0QuickTime.msi" /qn DESKTOP_SHORTCUTS=NO SCHEDULE_ASUW=0 ASUWINSTALLED=0 REM Removes Auto Launch from registry reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" /v "QuickTime Task" /f REM Return exit code to SCCM exit /B %EXIT_CODE%