jugglerjoe

Hi there, This was a topic of arguing between me and my boss With windows 8 we do not deploy start menu redirection. This means, students get more customisation and happiness not being restricted. And new application installs automatically put icons on the main start screen (as long as your customisation files don't conflict with it). Then anything in the %programdata%\Microsoft\windows\Startmenu + Programs get somehow put on the start screen. anything we do not want to appear i do a file delete with GPP Hope that helps. but also 8.1 should adresss some of these things =]

@ChrisH That's exactly what i said >_< but with steps on the Task sequence Indeed a startup script should work, not tried it tho =]

As for @MordyT i believe HP/Dell Machines have this capability but i have not heard of any others. Unless you run a bois update with a bois file through a startup script maybe but i am unsure.

Right. I have just done this without SCCM for upgrade from 7 to 8. In the MDT Make a generic task sequence with minor changes. One that can do Replace\New Computer\Refresh Deployments. Now i need to warn that this is not best practice at all but i found it worked for me. In your Task Sequence for the upgrade in the State Capture part, inbetween the Capture Network Settings and the "Refresh Only" Folder add in a task sequence variable step. I named Mine upgrade and made it Equal to "YES". Then on Refresh Only folder Remove the DeploymentType variable filter and add your upgrade one. (Do that on both Refresh Only folders). In the Preinstall part i have disabled all 3 of the folders of "New Computer Only" + "Offline User State Capture" + "Refresh Only". then add whatever you want. I didn't find this way i did get a few boot errors on first boot and had to F12 some anyway but the majority seemed to work. then to launch it. Make a fully automated Customsetting.ini (but don't overwrite the one you use now). If you want to keep the current computer names in the CS.ini put OSDComputerName=%computername% and stuff like that (or use scripts if you really wanna) then to do it properly google for psexec and download it. then use the psexec program to execute this on remote computers. (alt u can use remote powershell etc etc) \\\\Scripts\LiteTouch.vbs /rulesfile:CustomSettingsWin7To8Upgrade.ini hope that helps =]

that would make sense... I dont think the apps are setup for folder redirection or anything because the music app doesnt get music from shared drives (or atleast didn't) a month or 2 ago. Sorry no ideas from me will keep you updated if i do find one tho.

just wondering. Are you only using firefox because you cannot get IE to do both? and also have you thought about trying chrome? If you could not get it going with IE youll want to look up .pac files and chrome has group policy ADMX files which you can use to customise this. Say in 6 months, something happens and the proxy settings need to be changed. Will this be viable the way you are currently trying? or is that something for future lovelldr to worry about?

ok. when you boot into PE I guess your network booting then pressing F8 to do it manually? If so might be worth disabling the "Install Operating System" step and putting in your own custom command line to apply the image using imagex generally the deployment share gets mapped to Z: so path would be Z:\Tools\Imagex (or something like that) then Z:\OperatingSystems\ for the wim file. could be worth a try?

now... this might be helpful it might not. we had this happen on a large scale before. tried EVERYTHING WE COULD. Boss restarted all our servers when I concluded I could not fix it and this solved the issue. So it could be worth a try restarting the file servers that the desktop redirection goes to. Really dunno about this but that was our experience xD

Cool glad to hear. netdom.exe resetpwd /s: /ud: /pd:* The * will prompt so if you want it as a login item for local admin account youll need to make sure you set permisssions on the script so that only local admin can see and no one else ass youd possibly need a clear text passwd. Alt you could use powershell credential object. idk but that's it. if it helps =]

at absolute worst you could boot to PE and manually apply the image. but I am unsure I have never syspreped most than updates. might be worth reading up on imagex command line switches. maybe theres a specific one in there that might help. Sorry I cannot help more than that.

Hi guys, I have read about this else where but have yet to implement it on my network due to being busy with helpdesk + windows 8. There is a command line utility called "NETDOM". There is a function within that to reset the computer account. What you can do to create a quick fix is to set it as a login item for a local admin account. that way its fixed after login then restart. Sorry if I have got the wrong jist of what is happening here but I believe I am right in thinking this.

ermmm why is your image 300gb?

Heya There, How we have ours set up is to on the "\\server\share\windows 8" Folder give them inherent permissions from there to do "Read & Execute" + "List Folder Contents" + "Read" + "Write". This should let profiles be created. and have it apply to "This Folder, Subfolders and files" That is the best way i found to set these up. the annoying thing is it doesnt let a local user login. Cannot wait for the full windows 8 roll out, 13-15 days! =D

oh for this. There is a place in the appdata folder called WINX or WIN X and that has folders in there called Group 1, Group 2 and so on. In our default profile i deleted these folders and believe that done the trick.

I would try using GP Preferences to apply a printer at login. Defo worth giving it a go