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Apologies if already posted but this cracked me up... Microsoft Windows 8 copies AOL 1996 Design | Obama Pacman http://obamapacman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/AOL-1996-vs.-Microsoft-Windows-8.jpg

Yup sounds like a good plan, if you can get the physical DC it's nice to have something running outside the virtual bubble

Just looking through the new power options for 7 and a bit uncertain of how Windows defines these settings... Specify System Sleep Timeout Specify the Unattended Sleep Timeout How does it define Unattended? Is it just a case of no input within a certain time? In which case how does it then define System Sleep as surely that would have to be after a period of inactivity as well?

Nice, shame they're all in desktop form as I need towers for the rooms we're doing at the moment. Anyone using Fujitsu kit? Never really heard much about them in for use in education, build quality and warranty response are the bits I'm interested in (and importantly whether they use Intel NICs as pretty much any other network card manufacturer tends to have awful drivers)

We use Group Policy Preferences, which replaced our previous VBScript mapping method. Apply the GPP as a User Logon Script but use the targeting options to map printers by the Computer's OU so users get the correct printer as they roam around the building

Whichever you choose I wouldn't have less than 2 hosts... bad enough if a single server dies but with all your eggs in one basket it seems a rather risky strategy. VMWare + Veeam is a nice combo and will serve you well (no pun intended!)

1) try installation manually as per above, also test without your TRANSFORMS and PATCH lines 2) are the .msp and .mst files in the source folder along with the MSI? 3) has your SCCM package been set to use source files and pointing to the correct folder on the site server? 4) have you added a distribution point for the package? 5) have you checked package status to make sure all files were sent to the distribution point?

RAID0 and SATA hard drives are leaving you in a dangerous place... if one HDD packs up you lose the ability to be able to restore anyone's work from the past couple of weeks (ouch) Surely there's enough £££ for 2 extra drives for RAID5 + hot spare?

When you login to the server right click My Computer and check the OEM support info on System Properties. I've got a hazy memory of a bit of malware that changed the computer name and OEMInfo a few years ago, might not be the case for you but worth double checking...

Just skipping around the video (hate Youtube!) but was wondering what apps you find don't work with App-V? One of the prime candidates for me would be Photoshop, Lightroom etc but wonder if that might be one of the badly behaved ones...

With Windows 7 a single image is all you need Driver Packages = win!

Nightly Veeam backups to disk (5x2TB in RAID5 inc hot spare) then weekly Veeam archive to LTO-5 tape... best of both worlds (Using Reverse Incremental mode so the current backup job is always the main Veeam VBK file, makes it easy to archive as a point-in-time copy) Ideally would be sending the Veeam backups online but ongoing cost \ hammering Internet connection for the amount of data I want uploaded doesn't make it viable at the moment.

At least they don't have to worry about the white cases going yellow now

It's not just about Pirate Bay... look deeper and it's the start of Internet censorship via the lawbook. Along with the "clean feed" calls it's a worrying precedent...

Difficult one to call as many people are thinking the same thing right now. VDI does have its benefits from a management perspective but also has higher upfront costs, I guess a lot of it depends on how much budget you have to play with once all the other expenses are out the way.

3 MagicInfo screens here... software can be a pain when first figuring it out as some bits of the interface aren't exactly what you'd call user friendly... however it is very powerful and the new LED screens are awesome Also comes with the option of the embedded PC so you can order, set and forget.

Yup the idea of having the individual storage has appealed to me since SkyDrive first appeared; however I'm not so sure about going straight up to the web storage as it's often rather laggy when using the save feature in Office 2010 and that's only with fairly basic Word files. Dread to wonder how it would cope with Photoshop etc, hence the local sync quandary...

From a future design point of view it begs an interesting question of how this (and SkyDrive etc) will work across networks once Microsoft & Google sort out proper business-level clients for their cloud storage. As I see it you have a couple of options... a) keep the local sync option for each user on each PC they logon to, which if roaming with multiple users means biiiig local sync caches and needing workstations with large HDDs b) keep a local synced copy on a central file server but isn't that the very thing the cloud storage is meant to get rid of? c) use everything in the cloud in "online" mode but then that defies the point of a fast local cache and the need for always-on Internet d) some sort of clever partial caching system based on file usage (similar to the Office on demand download that gets the program as you use certain features) Seems like a matter of choosing the least bad option rather than any of them being particularly great? Or again maybe the idea of Microsoft and Google is that they keep the 1:1 consumerist model as that's where they want corporate machines to be going? That doesn't seem like a great idea from point of view of security either unless you're using Chromebooks or some other sort of managed encrypted device, which goes against the grain of BYOD anyway...

Ah see I'm trying to be very frugal right now so I'm getting the hump with £40 extra for an SSD over HDD on custom builds! Adds up quite quick... £40 a unit over 10 units is nearly the cost of the monitors for those units... money that could be better used elsewhere. With the SSDs most of the decent quality ones start at smallest 64GB (false economy buying anything other than Intel \ Crucial imo) Our images are only about 20GB so yes it seems a huge waste with PCs specced for 250 \ 500GB HDDs that are meant to be costing the earth... yet the manufacturers' suppliers are putting a premium on SSDs while retail can sell them significantly cheaper... someone must be getting palms greased somewhere to keep HDDs lingering on I reckon Feels bizarre that PC prices were driven right down not so long ago yet gone flying back up when the only component that's hit a price increase is the one we all want to remove from the equation anyway!

All very well saying that but you find me a manufacturer who isn't making you pay through the nose for an SSD compared to an HDD... as per my other thread I'm feeling pretty narked about this at the moment when retail price is effectively the same (250GB HD vs 64GB SSD) (not criticizing your suggestion, it's 100% the right way to go but the PC makers really aren't helping right now)

Is it the same even on 7? In theory the locallow folder was meant to sort that but I wouldn't be surprised if poor app coding (cough Adobe cough) hasn't used it correctly...

I was the other way around, didn't want to run any Windows 7 machines in anger until 2008 R2 running on the DCs. Always feel that it's a good idea to have your server OS running at the same level as the clients (i.e. 2003 \ XP, 2008 R2 \ 7)

Got our test machines running nicely at the moment after a painless imaging test with SCCM, currently using most of our current Windows GPO settings (apart from redirection) and all seems to be working pretty well and looks for the most part identical to our current XP setup For reference what have you found to be the most useful \ important 7-specific GPOs you've enabled since migrating over?

For our teaching machines... Desktop - redirected to a read-only folder in Sysvol Start Menu - redirected to a read-only folder in Sysvol My Documents - redirected to a standard share on file server My Pictures etc - each redirected to a specified path on file server Profile - mandatory created on a VM that I sysprep and revert each time with snapshots so I can keep making changes throughout the year. Stick with the MS-supported method imo, it works and not too much hassle if you do it with virtual machines. I also copy it a slightly odd way in the last step, going to the C: drive instead of straight up to the network share so I can keep the mandatory profile machine away from the domain so no chance of accidental GPO contamination For admin staff I think it will be a structure like this... \\fileserver\userdata$\%username%\Documents \\fileserver\userdata$\%username%\Desktop \\fileserver\userdata$\%username%\Pictures \\fileserver\userdata$\%username%\AppData (?) etc then \\fileserver\profile$\%username% for the Roaming Profiles Haven't decided on AppData yet but chances are we'll try and redirect it first as a lot of settings still sit in there and staff will lose their user state moving between machines.

It's pre-populating the domain bit that's the killer, wouldn't work for toffee in RDWeb but thought you could add it to .rdp files?