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I thought FOI requests were only for personal information, requested by the individual in question?

I'm approaching the fourth year of some Casio's (think they were XJ-M130's) that I installed in my first year, so I can't complain as of yet! We're currently installing V10X or V10XJs, depending on the throw distance.

We've gone down the Casio LED projector route. 5 year warranty and they cost around £500. Generally cheaper than buying a new bulb/projector every 12-24 months. We did consider going down the TV route, but the cost offset is just too large. If we build a new classroom or get a portacabin, then yeah, we'd get a TV. But when the mount and smartboard are already in the room, the Casio is the cheaper alternative.

Has there been any release date for Office 365 2019? I'm thinking to deploy that over the 2019 Professional Plus release.

I was shown that generic error message when I was configuring mine. Turns out I was missing a quotation mark from one of the paths in the XML file. Once the XML file was amended, it worked.

We don't do any form of caching or syncronising. We just create a local user on the laptop and they can access that at home. If they need to access their school drives, they can connect in either via RDS or Home Access Plus+. The laptop is also using BitLocker encryption, in case of loss or theft and they've saved sensitive data on it.

Thanks for the responses. Turns out I've managed to crack this with quite a simple solution. I created a new collection in SCCM with the following query: This collection will pick up all devices with the same UUID/SMBIOS GUID. I then deployed the specific Task Sequence to this collection and only made it available to media/PXE (so it won't appear in Software Centre). When I booted the device, it picked up this TS and started imaging. Great start to the morning!

We have about 100 Ergo Hybrid 101 "B25" tablets (which use a "B25_MB_VD" motherboard). These tablets don't have Ethernet and only have 1x USB 3.0 port. Over the past couple of years we have been imaging these via SCCM with an offline/bootable USB Task Sequence. This method is infuriating because these devices will often corrupt the USB drive at a random point during the imaging process, requiring me to have to recreate the offline media and start the imaging process again from scratch. Not ideal, given that these devices are very slow. So I've recently purchased a USB 3.0 hub with Gigabit Ethernet adapter, with the idea to simply have SCCM boot media and use the network to then connect to SCCM. I have gotten this to work (after days of painstaking tinkering)...but ran into the last stumbling block...the UUID/BIOS GUID! It turns out that all of our Ergo devices have the same serial number (1234567890) and UUID/BIOS GUID (12345678-1234-5678-90AB-CDDEEFAABBCC) hardcoded into the BIOS. This means that when WinPE boots and connects to SCCM, it checks the UUID against it's database to see if it exists. If it does exist, it won't issue it with a TS and show the error: "There are no task sequences available for this computer.". If the UUID does not exist, it will be presented with the TS selection list. This is driving me mad because I have approximately 100 of these, so of course that UUID is going to appear in SCCM's database. Is there a way to change the UUID or serial number in the very limited BIOS of these devices? I've contacted Ergo to see if there's a BIOS update or something for these devices that may solve the issue, but been bounced around their hardware team, infrastructure support team, CMS/Zoostorm support and now back to Ergo and waiting for a response.

Thanks for the update. I need to clarify, we have multiple VLANs that are either /21 or /22 (not /29 or /30 as I put in my original post!). I ended up creating a new reverse DNS zone for each segment of the /21 and /22 VLANs. I was hoping for an automatic way or something similar. Never mind!

Same as the others, been using SCEP since 2015.

It's hard to tell if they've been updated because they state that they're for both 2016 and 2019. The ADMX files are still called 2016, which surprised me when I copied them over and opened a GPO and could only see the likes of Word 2016.

I emailed [email protected] and that was the automated reply I got. I've just emailed [email protected] and received the same reply you did.

I just emailed that address and received the following response:

Ahh, turns out I downloaded the ARM64 version then! Doh! (It's been a long morning!)

You can get it by downloading the "Windows 10 Enterprise" version, that has the English Internation version available. The ISO contains all the versions of Windows 10, including Education. Edit: As pointed out by @DJ-1701, the 64-bit version isn't available yet.

I downloaded the ARM64 version of 1809 by mistake and ran the script to remove built-in apps and it returned the following list of apps: Features on Demand V2 Remember, this is from the ARM64 version. I will need to double check this when the 64-bit version is released.

I have added it as KMS and here's the XML of the download file that I used. You don't need to specify the KMS/PID key. The installation XML file I used was: Note: You don't need to specify the Source Path if you're using the same location. For the download XML, if not source path is defined it will use the same directory as setup.exe and create a new directory called Office and download the files into there. The same goes for the installtion XML, if you don't specify the source destination, it will assume the Office folder exists in the same directory as setup.exe. I don't know about updates though unfortunately.

It's worth noting that Microsoft have removed WinPE from the ADK and it's now installable as an 'ADK add-on'. The download link for the WinPE add-on is on the same page as the ADK and has to be installed after the ADK has installed.

We have multiple VLANs and some of them have been subnetted with either /29 or /30. However we've noticed that only the first 255 IP addresses in the subnet are logged in reverse DNS. For example, we have a reverse lookup zone named "100.22.10.in-addr.arpa". This is for our subnetted VLAN100 at 10.22.100.0/30. This VLAN spans the IP ranges 10.22.100.1 to 10.22.103.255. Reverse DNS is only showing clients with IP addresses 10.22.100.1 to 10.22.100.254. Any ideas how I can make the reverse lookup zone also work with the rest of the subnet?

I have approximately 40 applications that I deploy using SCCM. I have two types of naming/grouping conventions for collections that I use to deploy applications. Firstly I have a collections based on the machine type/group. For example, I have a collection called 'For 64-bit workstations only' - As you can imagine - software deployed to this category is only 64-bit, such as 64-bit Chrome, etc. I have another collection called 'For 32-bit workstations only' and 'For Both 32-bit and 64-bit'. The reason I have the three is because when I deploy say, Adobe Reader, I can deploy is to 'For Both 32-bit and 64-bit' and it's just one deployment. Rather than deploying it to both '64-bit' and '32-bit'. These collections used query based membership based on their hardware. Secondly I create collections based on location, such as 'RM02', which is a 30 PC suite. That way can deploy software such as Adobe CC to just that suite. The query for this is for something along the lines 'Computername like 'RM02%'. I also have a collection called 'All Student Workstations' which uses a query to determine which OU the workstation is in. If it's in one of the student machine OUs, it will deploy the student software. The same goes for a collection for all teacher computers that has say the SMART software assigned to it. The important software that's needed such as Office, Visigo, Adobe Reader, Chrome, etc I have also included in the TS, so that at least once the machine has imaged it can be immediately used and the rest of the 'non-essential' software can install behind the scenes whilst the user is working. Note: SCCM is extremely poor at managing computer restarts. I've found that if a piece of software like Visigo is deployed that requires a device restart - even if you use the /norestart switch, it will mark the software as 'requires restart' in Software Centre and prompt the user to shutdown in 90 minutes. I have not figured out a way to stop, delay or cancel this shutdown (especially if it happens en mass across the site). The machine will then restart in 90 minutes and the user cannot stop it. So deploy software that needs a restart out of hours! Also for query based collections that may have new clients every now and again, use the 'Use incremental updates for this collection' checkbox in the Membership Rules tab of the collection properties. Note: I believe that SCCM has issues when processing more than 200 incremental updates. It doesn't prevent you from creating more than 200, but it takes too long to process the query. So it never completes all the queries.

Thanks for that. I've added the key in as an AD Activation and my copy of Office 2019 has now activated. That's despite the entry in VAMT Active Directory-Based Activation for Office 19 stating "The KMS host key (CSVLK) used to create this AD activation object does not support any products that are capable of AD activation.". Strange.

I'm having issues with my KMS. I called Microsoft yesterday and requested the KMS key, and they added it in immediately. Great. However when I add it into my VAMT instance, I'm getting the error: "The specified product key is invalid, or is unsupported by this version of VAMT. An update to support additional products may be available online." I've contacted Microsoft again and they said that is the correct key. I am using VAMT 3.1 and ADK 1803 on the server. I'm at a loss at the moment.

We have deployed Office 2016 Professional Plus on our Windows 10 1709 clients site wide. That may change soon though, as if Windows 10 1809 and Office 365 2019 are good to deploy, I'll be moving to them in the coming months.

Yeah, the penny dropped as soon as I pressed "Submit Reply"! I'm now working on the XML too.

I'm wondering how people have access to this already. The only thing I can see in VLSC is "Office Online Server 64 Bit English", whatever that is.