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I've installed 1809 (17763.134) on my workstation and found an issue with default apps. VLC has taken my default app for .zip files and I'm unable to set it to 7-Zip. If I right click a zip file and try to change the default app, it will allow to find/browse for 7-Zip and select is as the default app, but it won't actually change the association. If I use the default apps settings applet, it won't let me find Win32 apps. Turns out it's a known bug in this new release of 1809 and a fix is expected late November. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4467708/windows-10-update-kb4467708. I've also found that when I log on, all my mapped drive appear disconnected. If I click through them, they will let me access and then appear online.

For some reason the combined Powershell command would bring up the error that others have posted. Running the two separately as you have posted worked. Strange.

Tried going down that route! They have more clout than us with SLT/Head and we started getting a lot of pressure from management because of it. We learnt just to live with the politics instead. Maybe not the greatest solution, but the one with the least hassle!

So I've been in this job now for nearly 4 years and inherited my workstation from my predecessor. Much like I inherited his desk and reputation (which I had to work hard to restore the faith in the school's IT support!). My workstation is a Dell XPS 8500, which has: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770 RAM: 8GB SSD: Intel 520 120GB HDD: 1TB Western Digital Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GT620 On paper that might look alright, but it is coming to the end of it's life, believe me! The fan bearings! They drive me up the wall. They start whining and I have to resort to, lets say, 'tapping the machine with my foot', to temporarily stop the whining. The SSD - 120GB is not enough for an OS partition any more, especially with the workloads that we undertake! I've found that my Windows folder now takes 60GB! Video conversion - This CPU/GPU combination are now dreadfully slow when I'm tasked with converting video files for staff. My audio jack will constantly stop the right channel audio working until I've crawled under the desk and wiggled the audio cable in the jack to get the right channel working (which doesn't always work first time and requires climbing under and back out of the desk several times to check whether it's working. This is much more annoying in the school holidays when I get a chance to stick Absolute Radio or Spotify on to help the workload and split the silence of nobody being in! I like to leave my PC on so I can remote to it from home if necessary, but if I leave it on overnight, it will crash the next morning without fail. It' so infuriating! I could get replacement parts for my machine, but that'd require forking out the cash myself as I can't get them passed our finance team!

So I know that Microsoft have split the server types into CB and LTSC, like they have with Windows 10. With the re-release of 1809/2019, I'm now looking at upgrading some of our servers and unsure which option would be best. Is there any benefit of moving to the CB for servers? As that obviously moves away from the extremely stable model of installing the server OS and leaving it for years (only receiving security/critical updates). I'm just thinking that if I move say our SIMS server to CB and an update like 1809 happens again, what damage could be caused by this and is it worth the risk? Microsoft have openly stated that Windows 10 LTSC is not recommended unless it's say, a production/factory machine that is mission critical and has to remain exactly as it is for current software to work. Do Microsoft hold Server 2019 LTSC in the same regard?

I've got it downloading now. Looks like everyone else is too, 1MB download speeds!

Thanks for the links. We're still a Server 2012 R2 house and looking to possible migrate some non essential servers to 2019. As I'm not up to speed on the server releases as I am with the desktop releases, have Microsoft taken the same approach to servers as they have with desktops? As in CB and LTSC? Obviously servers are meant to be much more stable, so would the CB version have two releases per year? What's the closest version to 2012 R2/2016 or is that method not recommended any more?

Why not actually use Windows Live Movie Maker? Given that's what you're comparing your features against.

We tried LTSB for a few months in 2016 with version 1511. I then tried 1603 CB when that came out and decided that for me to manage Windows deployments, whilst LTSB is easier as it's one deployment in x years, CB provides me with the flexibility to check out the new features and test stability on a new version every six months and deploy it if I chose to. This means that I don't have to wait x years to get a useful feature that has been implemented. I also remember reading somewhere that LTSB is only really designed for specific static-use cases, such as control systems, etc that really need the stability.

The role is installed, but it's completely managed by SCCM as part of SCCM's Software Update Point.

Unfortunately I'm out of further suggestions as that worked for me and I stopped looking into it after that!

Hi Eddy, Turns out for me, it was a GPO setting that was killing it. Because we use SCCM (also applies for those using WSUS) for our Windows Updates, we had the following GPO setting enabled: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > Do not connect to any Windows Update Internet locations = Enabled Setting this to 'Not Configured' and running GP Update on my machine instantly allowed the store to download the Netflix app from the store. I don't know what this would mean for our normal Windows Updates, as we only want updates to be obtained from SCCM. I posted this in a similar thread from the other day: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-10/200970-installing-app-store-try-again-later-something-happened-our-end.html

I've just deployed the Impero Edge Addon as an offline store app via SCCM and it appears to be deploying fine. I'm now writing the documentation on how to do this and come across a question that I'm unsure of. The Impero Addon only had a Appx file for x86, which works on both x86 and x64 clients, which is fine. However I'm repeating the process with the Microsoft Whiteboard app and it has two options (x86/x64 or x64). Normally with traditional apps, I would use the requirements tab to filter the x86 app to install on x86 clients and x64 app to install on x64 clients, but I don't know if the Store Apps work in the same way. Does it matter if an x86 appx package is installed on an x64 client? I know with normal x86 applications, the installation path would be different, but is that the same for store apps? Am I best using the same process and having two deployment types for Store Apps, just like I do with normal applications?

Turns out for me, it was a GPO setting that was killing it. Because we use SCCM for our Windows Updates, we had the following GPO setting enabled: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > Do not connect to any Windows Update Internet locations = Enabled Setting this to 'Not Configured' and running GP Update on my machine instantly allowed the store to download the Netflix app from the store. I don't know what this would mean for our normal Windows Updates, as we only want updates to be obtained from SCCM.

Yes, I'm getting that too. I thought it was something I'd done! I modified our WIMs to remove certain features (though did leave the relevant store bits in). Since we never use the store and today was the first time in months, I thought it was because I'd removed something I shouldn't have! Glad it's not just me.

Last I heard was that Microsoft released hotfixes for 1809 to the slow-ring for the various issues. I don't think they've announced anything since that.

You need Azure AD Premium for Hybrid Domain Join don't you?

Whilst not related to Microsoft Smartboard, I encountered that dialogue box a couple of weeks ago. I was testing the deployment of Office 365 to a test group, but configured the XML file incorrectly. I forgot to make the the product activation set as a shared PC, so when the user launched it, they were prompted to log into the Office application and that box came up, despite having AD FS set up. I found that actually pressing 'Yes' causing the box to crash/timeout and we had to press 'This app only' for the time being. After removing Office 365 and reinstalling it with the correct shared PC flag, the user it automatically logged in to the Office application. I haven't had experience with Appx packages, but do they have any kind of XML configuration files, or something similar?

Update: After some research, apparently there can be issues when the UPN suffix being incorrect. So I've just checked the AD properties of the user I was using and found that it was set to our domain suffix, rather than our Office 365 one. I changed that amended the machine back to shared activation and rebooted the laptop and performed a sync Office 365. I then logged in with the test account and Office was automatically signed in and activated. Update 2: I have two teachers that have the correct UPN suffix and it is asking them to sign in. When they sign in, it redirects to our ADFS login page, but says an error occurred when entering their passwords. Update 3: One of the teachers only had an A1 license assigned. I have assigned the ProPlus license and it's worked. I'm confused.

So as a test, I changed the following registry entry on one the machines: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\ClickToRun\Configuration = 0 I rebooted the machine and logged back into an account I have confirmed has Office 365 ProPlus for Students and Office 365 A1 licenses assigned to it. It still asked me to log in as that user. If I dismissed the login box, it did not show the shared computer license warning, but instead says it's running an unlicensed product that will expire on 28th October. We have AD FS enabled (have done for a few years) and it currently works if a user uses Internet Explorer and browses to Office 365. They aren't prompted to log in, and are logged straight in automatically using SSO. We are using Azure AD Sync to syncronise our users with AD. Does Office use this, or does it need something else specific to be configured?

We do have SSO configured, but I'm thinking I've used the wrong activation method. From what I'm gathering, Shared Activation is basically for RDS only.

I've just deployed Office 365 to a number of machines using Shared Computer Activation (configured in the XML) and Office 365 is asking users to log in to license the product. If the user closes this, they receive a message stating that "Most features are turned off because a shared computer license isn't available.". Have I used the wrong configuration in the XML? What is the best option to deploying Office 365 in classrooms/suites? All of our users have the correct licenses assigned to them in Office 365.

No worries. As we only use them for licensing, we usually just email our account manager and get it sorted that way.

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Not yet, or at least it's not on mine either. Neither is Server 2019.