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What on Earth is that going to accomplish? How is having mobile data on during the school hours different than having mobile data on during non-school hours?

I also watched Brian Cox's Planets last week. I really enjoyed it and the CGI/imagery they used was impressive and really enhanced the programme in my opinion.

Yeah, I have that recorded on my SkyQ box. I miss listening to Absolute Radio and hearing his little snippets they'd play during the ad breaks.

What We Do In The Shadows This is a TV adaptation of the Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi film of the same name. I loved the film and the TV has the same sort of vibe. I've been enjoying it so far, though I'm only 3 episodes in of the 10.

I get you. Actually, I did watch some of the highlights of the festival, just to see what everyone has been talking about.

Isn't that the case for any gig that a band/performer does? In most cases they're promoting a new album and that's what the set will mostly contain, but it'll never sound as good as the studio recordings.

We are encountering these issues and using ADFS. I've just had a quick Google of Azure AD Pass-Through Authentication - and that looks like a massive undertaking, to switch from ADFS to AzureAD. I'm not sure if I currently have the skill-set to do that myself, so maybe if that's something we were going to do, we'd get a third party in to do it. Unless this is something we can use Microsoft's support for, given that we have A1 licenses and also one P1 license? Has anyone switched from AD FS to Azure AD Pass-Through Authentication? If so, how was it?

Yesterday Nice film with some great music. Was also really nice to see parts of my home city, it's been too long since I've been back.

So that effectively means that unless you're a school using 1:1 deployment, Office 365 ProPlus won't work and can only use Office Professional Plus 2019?

Since 5G is so close to the frequencies used by meteorological equipment (which also made the news not too long ago), should we stop using those too? THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

I decided to use MBAM for BitLocker instead of storing the keys in AD. MBAM uses a SQL database to store the keys, integration into SCCM and also has a web-portal to easily recover keys. You can also browse the database manually for keys if necessary. The reason I chose MBAM over storing them in AD was in-case a computer or user account was deleted and the key lost with it.

So it has created a _Device_ user but has not assigned any licenses to it. A1 Plus still isn't appearing in the list of available licenses. [ATTACH=CONFIG]54006[/ATTACH]

So that's different to "Office 365 A1 for students"? (Isn't that the licence for the mailbox and stuff?) I've gone through that link provided from the other thread as a student account that has never had any licenses assigned to it. After going through it, it's been automatically assigned the "Office 365 A1 for Students", which is the same as all of our other students have, except all of our other student accounts also have "Office 365 ProPlus for students" assigned to them for the Office 365 suite. No extra options have appeared in the available licenses to assign.

Strange. I have amended the post with the correct attachment, but I'll put it here too: [ATTACH=CONFIG]53999[/ATTACH] We did specify our onmicrosoft.com URL and that error was being produced.

Cheers. I'm looking I'm looking into that now. Edit: @Arthur Does that require any pre-requisites? We're having issues with it getting stuck on provisioning and errors out saying it can't. [ATTACH=CONFIG]53999[/ATTACH] Apparently one of the possible solutions is to create a service principal for our AD FS domain and other configurations, including creating certificates. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure-stack/operator/azure-stack-create-service-principals#manage-service-principal-for-azure-ad

We have been using Office Professional Plus 2016 for years and earlier this year we trialled Office 365 ProPlus across a couple of IT suites and it was an absolute nightmare. The issue was with activation, specifically 'Shared computer activation' - I had configured 365 using the Office 365 Client Management Dashboard in SCCM, which uses the Office Deployment Tool to configure the suite settings. I specifically toggled 'Shared computer activation' to 'On' and our users are all correctly licensed with 'Office 365 A1' for students and 'Office 365 ProPlus' licenses. Office 365 worked perfectly for a short while, with it activating for users and they could use it. However a little later most users started having issues where Office 365 was complaining about not being able to activate. This appears to be caused by the user using six or more computers that have Office 365. Presumably it's linked with the fact that students can license up to five devices and when they go onto a sixth, it won't allow them to use it. If multiple users use Office 365 on one computer - it works fine, however it's when one user activates Office on a number of computers that's causing the issue. When we raised this with Office 365 support, they said that Office 365 is meant for 1:1 deployment, not for shared devices. When he checked one of the user's licenses, they saw 10 activation on the account (despite the 'limit' being 5) and he was confused as to why that many had been allowed. Has anyone else experienced this or managed to get it working? Or is 365 just not the right version?

We also use Salamander. I cannot praise it enough, given how much time and effort it has saved my department. It can manage both staff and students, provisioning AD users, Office 365 licenses (including mailboxes) and distribution groups based on classes and year groups. It does this dynamically, so as soon as something is changed in SIMS, it's modified in the next sync of Salamander. It also disable accounts/Office 365 should a student or member of staff leave and have an end date marked in SIMS's leaving date/employment section. Salamander has become one of those systems that I forget about because it just does its job but I'd sure as hell notice it's absence should it go.

I have one two TSs, though in a perfect world I'd only have one. The main TS services 99% of our Windows devices and will set the machine name via OSDComputerName and install drivers (based on WMI queries for make/model), core applications, customisations. It will also join the machine to the domain and place it in a holding Deployment OU. I just need to move the machine into the correct OU in ADUC and SCCM's collection rules will automatically add the machine into the correct collection based on machine name/OU and the rest of the applications for that room will be installed automatically. The other 1% are Windows tablets with 1x USB, WiFi and no Ethernet. This means I cannot PXE boot them, as they don't support it (even with a USB-Ethernet adaptor). I can't use reliably use USB offline TS media as the tablets tend to corrupt the USB drives and WinPE doesn't automatically detect the Ethernet port of the adapter. I had to resort to modifying the boot image to use devcon.exe to restart the USB controller before WinPE initialises. This then allows WinPE to see the USB Ethernet adapter, obtain an IP address and connect to SCCM. I don't want this modification to apply on the other 99% of devices and WinPE doesn't work if you use one boot image for booting and another specified in the TS - they both have to use the same boot image. So therefore I need two TS, one for 99% of my devices using the unmodified TS and another for the remaining 1% using the modified TS.

I've been deploying 'thin' images for almost five years now and I'll likely never go back to 'thick' images. My TS simply deploys the OS, installs essential applications that most people use (Office, 7-Zip, Adobe Reader, Chrome, etc) as well as further customisations and installs all necessary Windows Updates. Sure, the TS takes a fair amount of time to install per machine, especially on older/slower machines, but it's all zero touch. Just set it going and I don't need to re-visit the machine, especially good in IT suites. SCCM will automatically add the machine into a collection based on name or other specified criteria and the machines will install the rest of the software that has been deployed to that collection. As for the applications without MSIs, yes this can be a pain but it's not that frequent and not that difficult if you can find out the silent install switch and determine some detection method, such as a registry entry or file created/version number.

Like @synaesthesia said, if you don't have SCCM, MDT and PDQ deploy are your best friends. No need to faff around making a 'fat' image. Simply deploy the vanilla WIM to your clients via PXE boot. Then you can use PDQ to deploy the specific apps that you need and configure the GPOs accordingly. One thing to wrap your head around is the Start Menu. The actual list of applications redirects as it always has, however the tiles in the Start Menu are configured via an XML file, which can be very flaky.

This is the disclaimer section of the documentation PDF provided in the download: Whilst it doesn't specifically state that it is freeware or of that sort - it makes no mention whatsoever of requiring licensing or similar.

It's overcast and humid here in Birmingham. We were forecast thunderstorms over night and this morning. They never arrived. Every time I checked the BBC Weather app on my phone they kept moving the expected times of the thunderstorms until now there are none at all. With all this fuss over 5G possibly interfering with meteorological data and reducing the accuracy of forecasts - how can it be much worse than it is now? I swear the forecasts have been less accurate over the past couple of years than say 10 years ago.

I can confirm that the wrong InputLocale information was causing the issue. Changed that and first re-image saw the correct en-GB keyboard layout and date format. Cheers again.

Cheers, I think I may see what's causing my issue! It looks like I have incorrectly modified the InputLocale. Yours is: 0809:00000809 en-GB en-GB en-GB Mine was: en-GB en-GB en-GB en-GB I must have changed that by mistake when modifying the file. Now I've changed that, I will re-image the machine and what happens.

How are you setting the region settings? The only option in the default settings that I can see is to set the time zone, which I have done to London.