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It certainly was interesting. It's impressive that they can match the performance and pricing of the 30xx series (at least in their cherry picked benchmarks). It looks like they're pulling the same moves on Nvidia that they did with Intel. I'd be tempted by the 6800XT, if it wasn't for my Dell S2417DG 165Hz G-Sync monitor. I can't seem to find anywhere that says it's FreeSync compatible or even if it is, what it's performance would be like compared to G-Sync. As for ray tracing, I think it's expected that they'd be lagging behind Nvidia in terms of performance. Don't forget, this is AMD's first foray into ray tracing and Nvidia's first attempt (RTX 20xx series) didn't offer amazing performance either. I think AMD are set up well for ray tracing in future games and certainly the 7xxx series of cards. With the new consoles also using AMD's ray tracing and the fact that they are basically PC architecture...I think there will be a lot more wide spread development as time goes on for non-Nvidia ray tracing.

We managed to get the correct username/password combo in the end, after a lengthy phone call with the council. Turns out the passwords were right, but they were telling us to use 'Administrator' as the login, when it should have been 'localadmin'. I didn't check USB boot, as I assumed the boot menu would have been password protected, as the BIOS was. That would have been our next step, using USB boot to reset the passwords.

I must admit, I haven't tried it, so I will later today. When I check he user's preferences in Edge, they show the options for syncing those items as enabled and greyed out, so they can't be disabled.

I thought the sync stuff mainly worked prior to v86? I think syncing addons and passwords already works. History doesn't, which is what I'm waiting for next.

A lot of the reviews seem to be a little disappointing. The common theme seems to be that it's only worth buying if you're on a 1070 or 9xx series card. The performance increase from a 1080 or 20xx series card isn't that much. Plus with AMD's announcement and upcoming release of the 6000 series, which the rumour mill is in full force in terms of performance scores, it's worth waiting to see how they stack up, especially in price.

I did see that and though you were just pre-empting the post for tomorrow! I wish it was the 28th today. 28th = pay day!

I haven't used a non-Nvidia GPU for such a long time; back then ATI Catalyst or whatever it was called was garbage. Are the AMD drivers/tools still bad, compared with what Nvidia offers? I'm currently in the market for a 4K-60FPS/2K 165FPS card and was planning on getting a 3080. If AMD can pull a Ryzen with these cards, I'm wondering if it's worth switching, or is Nvidia still the better bet for stability/driver support?

We've had a range of devices: - Second hand Lenovo Thinkpads running ChromeOS - Second hand HP ProDesk (monitor mounted) desktops running ChromeOS - Brand new low-spec HP 250 laptops running Windows 10 via Intune We're currently attempting to prep our latest batch of HP 250 laptops that the council delivered they won't give us the device hashes of the machines to migrate them to our Intune. Ok, fine, we can get them ourselves from the laptops with a Powershell script. They've supplied us with the wrong local admin passwords, so we can't log onto them to run the script to get the hashes. They're saying those are the passwords they were provided from DfE and we need to contact them directly.

When we had our network replaced in 2015, the contractor implemented 802.1x for both wired and wireless clients, based on machine domain group membership. The WiFi is still 802.1x, however we had to disable it for the wired clients. It technically worked fine, but there were issues with Impero. I can't remember exactly, but it either wouldn't broadcast across multiple VLANs or wake-on-LAN wasn't working. It's remained disabled ever since. I've wanted to try it again, though I'm reluctant to change settings as the system works the way it is and I don't want to risk borking that!

Similar to @synaesthesia for us. AOVPN has made working from home a much better experience and I'm extremely glad that I implemented it as a side project last year, because it's made working from home during lockdown a much easier experience. My main gripes with it is that the VPN connection will just stop working and get stuck on "Connecting...", or it will remove itself completely from a user's account, or the user certificate will randomly remove itself from the user's account. I'm pushing the VPN profile via a PowerShell script and configuration XML via SCCM. Because of this, I can't reinstall it without the device being connected to our domain, as Software Centre won't load with a connection to SCCM and the certificates are installed automatically by the domain.

Does the user have their home folder/drive mapped? I've seen that error message when the drive mapping for the home folder hasn't applied for whatever reason. Usually it's when the user has plugged in a USB drive before logging in, and it takes the drive letter that we use for drive mapping and thus can't be mapped when the user logs on. If this is the case, then something like USBDLM would prevent that from happening.

OWA mailboxes also have the ability to configure rules. You can use a server's Task Scheduler and the Office 365 PowerShell modules to run a script to enable/disable that rule.

If it's a gaming PC for children, then you can definitely make one for £500. It won't have the performance of the new consoles, but children rarely care about looks until they're older, such as in their mid-teens. Linus of Linus Tech Tips did a video recently with a 90s Hot Wheels PC and his kids were engrossed in the games on it. 'Content is king' as he put it. If they're into Minecraft, Fortnite, etc and their friends play those, then PC is probably the way to go. If they're not into that, then console is probably the better option, unless you want to specifically get them into PC gaming (which is what you've said). PC Part Picker is an excellent website to build and track prices of individual components, keeping compatibility. Though by the sounds of it, you're after a pre-built system? Scan, PC Specialist, Cyberpower, Chillblast, Overclockers and Box all offer the ability to configure a PC that they build and ship to you.

Just watched The Boys Season 2. Really enjoyed it. Though when Mrs Patmore turned up and dropped a c-bomb, that took me out of it a little!

All of our edge switches are HP/Aruba 2530's and they've been great since they were installed in 2015. Although, they are running a firmware with a known bug, where if you make a change and save it, it crashes and restarts the switch. This was resolved in an updated firmware, but we haven't gotten round to updating them all yet.

Nice! Here's the screenshots: Server Manager [ATTACH=CONFIG]59426[/ATTACH] TreeSize [ATTACH=CONFIG]59425[/ATTACH]

I saw that and also saw the comment someone posted. The schedule tasks are there; for weekly garbage collection and scrubbing and they both ran successfully on 10/10/2020. Maybe it's just that we're using 1.7TB of the 2TB drive and the data is being stored in that dedeup folder?

We've noticed that on our staff file server, which has a 2TB drive, 1.7TB is taken up by the "E:\System Volume Information\Dedup\ChunkStore" folder. From information I've found so far (including this thread), dedup is on by default in Windows Server. We also have VSS running on that drive, which I believe also stores data in System Volume Information. My question is; without disabling dedup, is it possible to reclaim some of that space without causing issues anywhere else? After a few recent outages, I don't think our department reputation would do well if I performed a change and it killed a bunch more stuff.

I once used attempted a PowerShell script to add the printers and for all intents and purposes, the script worked. However it was encountering the same issues as GPP and even adding the same error code into Event Viewer.

We've never used roaming profiles and had all sorts of issues over the years. We use default profiles and found that a user's first logon to a machine was the most problematic in terms of not mapping the printer. Log off and back on usually sorted it.

It all started in Windows 8, as I painfully discovered in September 2015, on our (then) brand spanking new network. Almost all our IT systems were replaced by an IT solutions contractor that summer, which included a new AD infrastructure and new desktops running Windows 8. They spent considerable time trying to figure out why the printers weren't deploying and ended up blaming our leased printing supplier, claiming driver problems. The leasing company blamed our AD configuration and we resorted to having two other separate external IT support companies attempting to resolve the issue, with no success. With other reports online of printer deployment issues (including on here), we (the IT professional community) determined it was an issue with this new version of Windows. It's better now than it was back then though, where we were probably getting <20% successful printer deployments, regardless of whether we used GPP, PowerShell or the exact same VBS script that worked flawlessly on the old Windows 7 computers. Now, like you, we're probably around the 75% deployment. Though it could be less, as when they don't add automatically, users add them manually through the AD listing (which I'd rather not have) without informing us there was a problem.

Personally, I don't think a cloud-only solution for a constantly used file server is there yet. Office 365 has a hard limit of 1TB per account, so you'd probably need to purchase a subscription to their online storage, which is not included in your current plan. Have SLT considered the impact of Internet or provider downtime?

My red socks also arrived today! I'm hoping to replace all of my socks with Very PC ones...

Why didn't I know about this sooner?!

Absolutely not, we have a duty of care or whatever it's called to students when they're in school. We certainly need to keep medical details, emergency contacts, record of attendance and safeguarding. That's just a start of our legal obligation while a student is at school. In terms of requiring explicit consent for storing data outside of the school, such as in the cloud - I don't believe so. The onus is on us to ensure we're storing data in compliance with GDPR, regardless of where that data is physically stored.