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Also Java Minecraft performance depends on the number of mods you are using, and what types. A tech heavy modpack may have 200 mods installed that are then interacting with each other. A fairly recent modpack for Java Minecraft version 1.12.2, which intricately links the various mods together so that players are forced to learn the features of each mod, is called FTB Interactions: https://www.feed-the-beast.com/projects/ftb-interactions , This ridiculous modpack loads the following mod list at the end of this post, and then uses the included ContentTweaker, CraftTweaker, LootTweaker, ModTweaker, to go through and change the default recipes for each of these mods, to interlink all of them together. The client startup for a modpack like this can easily take 5-10 minutes or more, between starting the modpack in the Twitch Minecraft launcher, and the actual game login screen finally appearing. To handle this modpack, your server hardware may need 8-12 gigabytes of memory just for this and the server operating system. The client systems also need probably 8-12 gig of memory for their OS and the modpack to fit properly. And even so, it may struggle to handle more than about 5-10 people using it at the same time. Modded Java Minecraft is just ridiculously more complex than the mod support for the Education / Windows Store version, which is why Microsoft knows they can't kill off Java Minecraft in favor of the restrictive Windows Store / Bedrock / Education editions. , FTB Interactions mod list:

Minecraft Java Edition has much more extensive modding support than the Education version. A Minecraft Java Edition account costs US$ 26.95 and has been the same price for years. This is a permanent account assigned to the player's email address. , Minecraft for Education licensing is NOT permanent. It costs US$ 5 per student and staff member, per year. This is part of why Microsoft bought Mojang for US$ 2 billion... they will easily make that back, and more, from the constant drip drip drip of rental licensing charges to schools where students are madly insane for the game. Just try to start using the "Education edition" licensing with a small pool of young students. Eventually the school will be buying it for everyone as the madness spreads. Cha-ching, says Microsoft.

The original Microsoft blog post URL from September 2017 has disappeared. However I have found two alternate copies of the blog post to keep this information available. https://argonsys.com/microsoft-cloud/library/mysteriously-disappearing-start-menu-tiles-and-roaming-user-profiles/ https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Core-Infrastructure-and-Security/Mysteriously-Disappearing-Start-Menu-Tiles-and-Roaming-User/ba-p/259048 The content of these are the same. In the future if one does not work, try the other.

Note, to anyone implementing this, you will want to adjust the Local exclusions for your environment. If you expand the exclusions string in the first post, it contains: "ExcludeProfileDirs"=" AppData\\Local\\Application Data; AppData\\Local\\ConnectedDevicesPlatform; AppData\\Local\\History; AppData\\Local\\Microsoft; AppData\\Local\\Microsoft Help; AppData\\Local\\Temp; AppData\\Local\\Publishers; AppData\\Local\\Packages; AppData\\Local\\Comms; AppData\\Local\\HP; AppData\\Local\\Temporary Internet Files; AppData\\Local\\VirtualStore; AppData\\Local\\Winternals; AppData\\LocalLow; $Recycle.Bin; OneDrive; Work Folders " Wow, you run a pretty barebone Windows environment. Nothing for Mozilla or Google? If you want to avoid gigs of cache data from web browsers in your roaming profile, then you need to exclude Chrome and Firefox also. May I suggest including: AppData\\Local\\Adobe; AppData\\Local\\Apple; AppData\\Local\\Apple Computer; AppData\\Local\\Autodesk; AppData\\Local\\Chromium; AppData\\Local\\CrashDumps; AppData\\Local\\Fusion 360 CAM; AppData\\Local\\gegl-0.2; AppData\\Local\\Google; AppData\\Local\\gtk-2.0; AppData\\Local\\Mozilla; AppData\\Local\\NVIDIA; AppData\\Local\\NVIDIA Corporation; AppData\\Local\\Skype; AppData\\Local\\WebEx; (Also the first post includes an extra semicolon in the exclusion list... "AppData\\Local\\Publishers;;....." fortunately Windows doesn't treat that as exclude everything.)

Who has the time to mess around every Patch Tuesday to review Microsoft's update releases? The most that I would really want out of WSUS is the ability to delay all updates by 2 weeks so when Microsoft releases a fatal upgrade wrecking millions of desktops, at least we won't get it until after the fallout and emergency revision is available. And it's not like WSUS is a very reliable release mechanism either. Does anyone recall the first release of Windows 7 SP1? The one that randomly killed large numbers of desktops? Windows 7 computer won’t start after installing Service Pack 1. - Microsoft Community I very nearly deployed that to an entire district overnight, but then thought eh, maybe I should wait. And then once the news hit about SP1 breaking machines, I was afraid to even attempt applying it. Ultimately I ended up deploying SP1 the old fashioned way, as a new image to each computer via WDS rather than risking using WSUS and breaking everything. So it became.... um..... why am I even bothering with WSUS? It just more make-work that doesn't really benefit me. And so WSUS went bye bye, and all machines in the domain are set to Automatic install all Windows and Microsoft updates. If Microsoft screws that up it's on their head, not mine.

LTSB will probably get something like service packs, but called something else other than the traditional meaning. For example they may call it an "Update rollup" which is a term I've seen used in the past. This mass-update will still encompass hundreds of KB's installed all at once to bring a new LTSB install up-to-date very rapidly.

Why should some schools IT Managers care whether other people use LTSB or not? How do the choices of other more conservative IT Managers have any effect on your choice to use the mainline Education branch? I do not believe that education should just leave itself open to willy-nilly upgrades for whatever Microsoft claims it may or may not be doing next. Their path and motives may change, and those changes may end up being detrimental to the educational environment, requiring a time consuming and costly rollback of hundreds of machines to the prior release. "In order to assist new students in hand-eye coordination skills, we've decided to make Candy Crush a core operating system component that cannot be removed or disabled!" But I'm also the type that believes in waiting for SP1 before even considering a new OS as a replacement for what we have now. For Microsoft's new release plans for Win 10, it looks like SP1 will never be arriving and it will constantly be changing and evolving according to their whims... no thanks.

Um, while you may be impressed as a consumer, this isn't really a forum for discussion of general consumer topics regarding Windows 10. You've go the whole Internet to talk about consumer-oriented Windows 10 usage. I could name dozens of other forums where you can talk about the consumer-oriented usage and installation of Windows 10. Finding a place to talk about Windows 10 IT deployments in an education environment is difficult enough, without off-topic stuff like this being posted in here. Not even Microsoft offers a dedicated forum for discussion of Academic Windows 10 deployment and usage. Which is why I am on this forum in the United Kingdom where I have to wade past mysterious things like GSCE's and A-levels, even though I'm researching using Windows 10 in a public school district in the USA where we don't have any of that...

I've been using roaming profiles, with folder redirection to the user's home directory path, and 1 gigabyte storage limit per user account. I've been doing this for years without any problems on Windows 7. I expect I will continue this with Windows 10.

Group policy can be slow to apply, due to something that Microsoft calls the Fast Logon Optimization. It does a background refresh of GPO that delays things that may be very important to your profile configurations. I do not know how this is actually useful for anything, by not applying GPO settings immediately. Generally I disable the Fast Logon Optimization on all desktops/laptops so it stops breaking things. Also I disable slow link detection, as that just means the stale local cached profile (if one exists) will be used, rather than waiting to download the stored roaming profile which is actually the most current version. I do not understand how it is useful to use the cached / stale profile that isn't current. Another "WTF Microsoft" moment. Computer Configuration - - Administrative Templates - - - - System - - - - - - Logon - - - - - - - - Always wait for the network - Enabled - - - - - - User Profiles - - - - - - - - Do not detect slow connections - Enabled More info: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg486839.aspx

Thank you, I will be looking into Windows 10 LTSB. The choice of whether school IT Managers "want" the features of a new release should be exclusively our decision on our own time and schedule, and not just willy-nilly whenever Microsoft feels like throwing it out to the world globally. I don't need Microsoft suddenly dumping an update on us out of the blue mid-year when classes are in session, and people are relying on the equipment to be stable and working, and Microsoft possibly causing massive disruption and downtime beyond my control.

I don't think you need to actually join it to the domain. All you really need to do is create a file share on the desktop of the student device. Map Network drive to drive letter. Path: \\server\share\path\to\student\home\directory Logon as user: Domain\username Reconnect at logon Put icon shortcut on the desktop. They now have access to their home directory, from their non-joined Windows device. Note, this does not work if you use a passwordless public/guest wifi that is firewalled off from your internal servers, and which only permits filtered Internet access. In that situation you would need a separate password-protected wifi SSID that permits file server access. MAC filtering would be a good idea so that only authorized devices have access to this privilege.

What the ****, IT managers will not be able to disable the Store now?? Wow, if that is the case, then Microsoft is trampling decades of policy that IT managers get the sole decision on how their hardware is configured. So we're just going to let anyone install app crap on Windows 10 now? And how are the users who don't have admin rights supposed to even be able to do that at all? By definition "Users" cannot add or remove software. I get the sinking feeling that if user-installed Apps roam with the users, they are going to install into their profile. Goodbye domain file server disk space. Apparently I need to do some testing with that ****ing Store as a limited User to understand how this works. But due to the inclusion of Candy Crush Saga in the exclusively separate Windows 10 Education branch (WTF Microsoft???) I am of the opinion that Microsoft really no longer gives the slightest **** about the "education sector" and now just sees schoolkids as a way to sell crap at them. And **** the whole idea of limiting distractions from schoolwork in an educational environment. I am quite upset about Windows 10 Education. Bunch of ******** at Microsoft right now in charge of it.

All the internal stuff that affects SSD life such as cell wearout and block erasure are basically hidden from view, so it's nearly impossible to find out how a SSD fails. The SSD manufacturers seem to want to keep all their internal operations secreted away from view. Clearly an SSD must do some sort of internal operational lifespan logging to keep track of cell failure rates and block erasures as the drive is used, but I know of no way to access that logging.

Don't know what you are asking exactly. User profiles are typically a combination of group policy user settings plus enabling a network share for roaming or mandatory profile storage. But otherwise the process used with Windows 7 / 8 is exactly the same as before. It would be pretty hard for anyone to give you a step by step do how when so much of it can be customized.

I am trying to decide if I should basically defer all automatic version upgrades so that they don't just automatically occur when Microsoft issues them. What happens when Windows 10 does a major release upgrade? Do you lose your custom-installed/removed programs and settings, or does it keep them? When I set up drive images, I don't use sysprep or WAIK very much, nor do I do scripted program installs. I just do things the way I've always done them, back in the days of Windows 95/98/2000/XP: - Install a base OS image on a computer that uses KMS client key - Install all available Windows Updates - Install Java, Firefox, Chrome, Office, etc etc etc. - basic Sysprep, generalize - Make image with WDS Capture - Enable auto-install for the image, get machine name from WDS during install - Install images on computers with WDS Discover For windows 10 I am expecting to make a few changes to the above: - Remove all installed Apps in Start as they are all basically useless, no better than a webpage. - Remove them also from the first-run install list for new users. So the question is, what happens to all the above OS customizations when Windows 10 does a major version upgrade? Does it reinstall all those apps in the Start Menu that I had previously removed? Are such changes to Windows 10 required to be scripted via sysprep.ini, for the changes to be retained across the major version upgrades?

Although I keep telling people that the touch tablet market is not mature, and it's the wild west right now, the 1980s microcomputer revolution all over again, and we don't really even know what we're supposed to be doing with tablets yet, they are mostly toys... we have a few dozen iPads now this year, against all my advice. A cart was purchased, and I did manage to find an older 2ghz iMac on which I've installed Lion and the Apple Configurator, so this won't be so ridiculously painful. Oh and we aren't going to spend any money on apps. Free or web, that is it. So anyway, I would like students to be able to logon, access their documents on a central file server, and log off when done. Oh, wait, there's no such thing as a master user-logon screen on an iPad? User profiles are a foreign concept? Apple wants everyone to have a "personal" device? Oh that is sure good for Apple's diamond-encrusted pockets I am sure but we are not wealthy around here. Sharing is the only way this is going to work. And there's no established methods to access file shares on a server, whether Mac or Windows? In fact, although these iPads have gigabytes of flash... um, there does not appear to be ANY native way for an ipad user to actually see what is in that flash memory? There's no native file save or open methods to access that storage? Apple wants all user data in the "cloud"??? Oh, yippee, lets all access data through a limited capacity Internet connection, and if it goes down, then nothing works. Looking in the App store, yes there are many free apps, and there do appear to be some free education software. However typically the free software has very little depth. If you want depth or longevity of use, you will have to cough up some cash. So, to deal with this lack of depth, I need many apps. Possibly a few hundred. Maybe a few thousand. I can organize these into categories by area of educational application such as Math, Reading, Spelling, and so forth. WHO IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE TIME FOR THIS? So every school has to basically "roll their own" trying to figure out which of these thousands of Apps to preload onto iPads for staff and students? And even so, the iPad is going to fight you every step of the way if you want to pre-install a few hundred free shallow educational apps on every iPad. The home screen App list categories are extremely limited in size. While there may be 200 some interactive books on the App store ..... you can only have 20 app icons in a category. This apparently CAN NOT be exceeded. Also the app icon takes precedence over the app name, which for style and clarity is squished down to about 12 characters so we don't have any evil and ugly 2-line app names. Gasp, can't have any useful descriptive long app names, that would upset the iPad's sleek lines. What I really want, is for the app list to become a scrolling list of items, with the icon to the left of the textual app name, and the text as tall as the icon. You know, sort of like how Windows and Macs show programs in List view? For the last 25 years? And is it really so hard for there to be no limit on the number of apps in each category? For Apple, apparently, yes. Well, since these are "personal" devices forced into a shared use environment it appears I'll have to be regularly wiping them. The free Apple Configurator is helpful in that regard at least. Except you can't charge the iPads at the maximum charge rate, AND have them plugged into a standard USB hub at the same time. Standard USB hubs don't have the charging power needed and can only charge an iPad in "sleep mode" and even then only very slowly. Apple violated the USB spec which says devices can only pull up to 0.5 amps at 5 volts per port, and instead an iPad sucks 2.1 amps at maximum. Only Apple's power brick included with the iPad can charge at this high rate. If you want to fast-charge the ipads and then wipe them every day, you have to use Apple's charger brick then swap the iPad USB cord to a regular USB hub, for every iPad in the cart. Swap, swap, swap, swap, swap, swap. How many insertions are USB connectors supposed to last? Also someone has to do this cable swapping for 40 charger bays every day. Oh I suppose we could spring for a specially designed iPad-rated "charge and sync" USB hub. DataMation makes one, it's merely US$ 1000 for a 16 port hub. Since our cart has 40 iPad bays, then we'll just need three of those. Cheap! (Exception here. I do see that Apple does allow "enterprises" to do whatever they want with their "in-house" iPads. You want to totally redesign it to suit your needs? Great, go for it! ... developer.apple.com/programs/ios/enterprise/ ) Except that I am supposed to completely redesign the iPad's base user interface by myself, to add multi-user support? Again, what school network admin has time for this? (Also, some of my complaints about the Apps list are sort of addressed by something called "infinifolders", but I'd have to "jailbreak" the iPads apparently. As a mainstream educational end-user I am not interested in having to do that.) I just want it to WORK in a multi-user shared school environment and not be a management nightmare. Is this really so much to ask for?