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Just spun up a VM with it, less junk in the Start Menu but they still put Xbox as a default app /facepalm

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Azure AD Premium makes me laugh, instead of nice FTE licensing you get to pay per user and once you get to college level of users that's over £10k a year on its own (!) At the moment we're sitting on the happy middle ground, taking advantage of the "free" offerings (Office 365 Education, Azure Rights Management, Azure AD Basic) to offload the basic services to cloud but keeping kit on-premise to run legacy apps, whilst evaluating SaaS each time a platform refresh occurs to see if it works in our favour. Thus far that's not been the case every time as some per user \ per month charges are horrific once they scale up to full head count.

Sounds promising, wonder if it means removal of the unwanted apps as well...

Was just about to buy one of these after phone shop made a mess of repairing my One M8 but just been told it's iPhone 6+ sized, is that correct? If so it's out for me as that's too big to keep comfortably in a pocket etc

Just running a few more tests before I start putting the live environment in, just looking to verify the permissions side of things. Will probably go for a namespace of \\domain.fqdn\shared for the shared drive data then do something else for homes later on. Server-wise I have a couple of servers up and running which will host the namespace (domain namespace), which will also be hosting the data shares. Because we're migrating multiple servers I've spread the shares over two new servers. Permissions-wise I have this, which is where I start wondering: > default Windows SYSTEM, Administrators etc. with Full Control, plus some "Supervisors" AD groups I'm adding for Helpdesk etc. to be able to browse through the file system without needing Domain Admin level rights. > at the top level folder i.e. the one that's shared I grant Authenticated Users read rights (This Folder Only) so users have rights to read the subfolders beneath > on each subfolder I add a particular AD group for the department in question with Modify (This folder, subfolders and files) so users can do whatever they need within the folder > on the subfolder add a Deny (This Folder Only) for the Delete right to prevent users accidentally deleting the subfolder and everything within it (!) Obviously within DFS world users can't delete subfolders as they're governed by the DFS namespace rights but just in case someone, somehow navigates to the share target wanted to make sure there's no chance of any accidents occurring. On the DFS Management console I've also done: > on creation of namespace use the "Users can view" option i.e. grant read-only permissions to the DFS Root for users > Enable Access Based Enumeration for namespace > on each Folder added to the namespace change permissions to Set explicit view permissions and added the security group for the department in each case (ensures staff can only see folders they have access to) In testing all seems to work but any other suggestions to the above would be much appreciated

Was along the lines that LTSB is built for critical infrastructure not general purpose machines, also that as new features come along that we may want LTSB deployments will be lagging behind. I guess it's the Office 365 approach with being continuously updated vs. the "old school" thinking of deploying a particular version and sticking to it. I did once again moan about the Candy Crush etc. being in the build and even the MS people themselves can't defend that, decisions made in other parts of the business much higher up. At the moment I'm waiting on 1608 when it gets released, running the junk apps removal scripts then deploying with policies etc. to disable the rest of the unwanted stuff. Oddly when I talk to vendors about projects they all sound either a) surprised or b) dismissive of how bad I think the logon times are with Win10. Perhaps they don't do many new profile logins but since when did a minute-and-a-half become acceptable performance to set up a profile?

Had a call with Microsoft the other day and their Win10 specialist again said not to use LTSB on classroom machines

Finally a Windows 10 native app that could prove to be a must-have. Was thinking OneNote + Win10 inking would almost be there but this is even better potentially.

I think it seems to be aimed at the low-end Cloudbook stuff they're trying to sell to compete with Chromebooks, putting that kind of hardware on a domain will be a pretty painful user experience (and deployment through lack of RJ45 port etc.) My thought is to chuck these kind of low-end devices in their own VLAN and deploy them as web-first devices in Azure AD and leave them to it. Legacy apps etc. will be a bit more challenging but there's ways around those too. That said compared to a Chromebook it's still a Windows OS that still has fairly hefty updates compared to the Google method and needs AV etc. to stay secure so Chromebook still has the edge technically. The decision then comes down to which ecosystem the organisation has adopted; in our case it's Office 365 but I do like the ChromeOS model over Windows 10 on the low-end kit... hmm decisions

Looks like MS have finally recognised that the junk needs to be removed for Education, slow progress... https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edu/windows/set-up-school-pcs-technical Uninstalled apps 3D Builder (Microsoft.3DBuilder_8wekyb3d8bbwe) Weather (Microsoft.BingWeather_8wekyb3d8bbwe) Get Started (Microsoft.Getstarted_8wekyb3d8bbwe) Get Office (Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_8wekyb3d8bbwe) Microsoft Solitaire Collection (Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollection_8wekyb3d8bbwe) Paid Wi-Fi & Cellular (Microsoft.OneConnect_8wekyb3d8bbwe) Feedback Hub (Microsoft.WindowsFeedbackHub_8wekyb3d8bbwe) Xbox (Microsoft.XboxApp_8wekyb3d8bbwe) Groove Music (Microsoft.ZuneMusic_8wekyb3d8bbwe) Movies & TV (Microsoft.ZuneVideo_8wekyb3d8bbwe) Mail/Calendar (microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe)

Just realised the other day I've had my Antec 900 for 8 years now. Original build was a Core2Duo then upgraded to Core i5 2500k about 5 years ago. Still runs the games I want to play at decent quality so haven't felt the need to upgrade it again yet. It's had a few SSDs added over time but otherwise just keeps rolling on. Hardest thing last time round was finding an air CPU cooler that fitted depth-wise, Xigmatek Aegir was the one I went for in the end and very happy with it

This is the kind of deployment method that could work for the low-cost "Cloudbooks" MS are selling to try and combat ChromeOS. Seems like there's two scenarios these days: 1) classic "Enterprise" network with high-spec machines, GPOs etc. 2) low-cost, cloud first devices that rely on Azure \ Google Apps Trying to use one of these Cloudbooks in method 1) would be painful so may give this Azure AD method a try with the Win10 devices we've been trialling. That said unless we start publishing legacy apps through RemoteApp I still wonder what we gain by using Win10 over a Chromebook as there's still AV and Windows Updates to contend with. Ironically if we enable SAML SSO with GApps the MS web apps work rather well on ChromeOS Interested to see how multi-user login works with these on Azure AD, thus far it seems to want a 1:1 relationship in the devices we've deployed so far.

Unless you delete the sync cache at logoff \ shutdown you can potentially run out of space pretty quickly if lots of users are logging into those machines. The only way around it is to use something like iamcloud CDM to live map OneDrive so there's no sync cache. Comes at a cost if you want something supported, otherwise this script is the next best alternative http://www.edugeek.net/forums/cloud-services/161915-onedrive-mapper-liebensraum.html Edit: re-reading your requirement with large files you may be a bit stuck there. If they're having to store the cached files on the network anyway why not just publish those online through Work Folders and save the OneDrive sync complication? Where we've been considering OneDrive the primary driver is to reduce on-prem storage requirements but it's a case of trying to square the circle of having fast access to storage but at the same time have the 1TB capacity.

Dell Chomebook 11, rock solid build quality (check out this teardown for comparison EdListen: Dell 11 vs Acer 720 Chromebook Disassembled: Choosing a 1:1 Chromebook ) but also nice and light. Last lot we got for around £160 ex. VAT, definitely shop around for these as the price varies quite a bit between suppliers and even Dell themselves. I'm considering a small-scale VDI deployment to sit behind the Chromebooks so we can get the best of both worlds: low cost, sturdy mobile device with good battery life use as native Chrome OS \ web apps for majority of the time when legacy Windows apps are needed fire up VDI session Seems a better way around the Windows problem than going with the Win10 "Cloudbooks" I've seen so far that are very basic spec-wise, still require AV etc. and nowhere near as well-built.

Yeah will have different ones for staff shared, curriculum shared etc. but within our staff and admin areas there's a lot of subfolders so just mulling over if to split it up a bit to get a nice balance between have some separation but not going mad with shares everywhere. How reliable has the replication been for you? General consensus seems to be it works well but having had to recover from a DFS replication issue between two DCs after a power cut the thought of doing that with potentially thousands of files and not knowing which is the correct version is making me think twice.

Kinda ironic that MS are responsible for more bloat in the image than OEMs these days...

Most of the suggested are completely irrelevant yet the sites we want to point users towards are now squirreled out the way in the corner. Looks very cluttered as well, has this design been done by the same person who came up with the awful 3-column Start Menu on Win10 Anniversary Edition?

We're planning a migration of a couple of TB of data from legacy file servers to 2012 R2 (considered SharePoint but data needs a lot more cleaning up before it'll sit nicely there) and currently thinking of doing something like this: domain-based DFS namespace multiple file servers for load balancing aiming for up to around 1TB per server so they're not too large for creating snapshots, migrations etc. no replication at present (all VMs stored on the same SAN anyway) Question is does anyone use multiple file shares on each file server for their shared areas or do you just use the one? Not sure if there's any benefit to making a couple of shares e.g. DATA1, DATA2 and spreading the subfolders between them (each subfolder will have individual NTFS permissions per AD group). One final question that will come out in testing anyway but saves some time: if an individual server hosting files goes down does the namespace still display the structure but gives errors (or timeout) on access or does the missing part of the namespace disappear from view?

Not happy about the promoted site tiles being hidden away at the bottom now

Is it just me or does this new 3 column layout look awful? Visual clutter everywhere... http://www.windowscentral.com/sites/wpcentral.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2016/06/start-menu-14361.jpg?itok=eEfMyV5F

Well done MS, successfully alienating your customer base product-by-product I guess all part of the plan to force people onto cloud by making on-prem ever more expensive to run. This comment on the Reg sums it up well....

I did Linux+ aka LPIC-1 a year or so back. Has proved very useful in terms of getting a solid foundation of Linux skills that I use to support our in-house servers. I deliberately ran those as CLI-only so no GUI cheating for configuration (working on a real server will help your study). The study guide is tough reading cover to cover and often the bits you need are the footnotes at the end rather than all the background! The exam itself you need to do as many practice questions as you can find and memorise lots of commands and switches. Live and breathe it for a few weeks and you should come out the other side with your certs

Are you on First Release? Been waiting for this for some time but no sign of it yet here

Has anyone from the Education team ever come out and given this advice to schools etc? If so they should also be explaining why Education is filled with junk that directly goes against the needs of the environment it's being deployed to, which is pretty much the sole reason half the users on this site (judging by responses on these threads) are deploying LTSB instead. Similarly it's the users that have been finding ways to strip the images back down to remove said junk rather than MS themselves. All these unnecessary issues aren't doing Microsoft any favours with capable competition getting better by the day.