jbutlin

Hi folks, I know some of this should be basic stuff but it's been years since I've looked at this... We've got an influx of Windows 10 Pro laptops - they are HP and I've noticed that they don't have Product Code stickers, apparently it's hard coded onto the motherboard! I'm trying to set up WDS on our now rather ancient 2008 R2 servers. My concerns are these: Should I be using MDT or something else instead? I'm planning on capturing the image from one of the HP laptops, the pre-installed Windows 10 Pro. I have made my tweaks and installed some of our software on it - if I try to install the sysprepped image onto another one of the HP laptops, will it automatically re-activate WIndows with the hard-coded product key or am I screwed with that?? Please help if you can.... thanks!

Hi folks, I know some of this should be basic stuff but it's been years since I've looked at this... We've got an influx of Windows 10 Pro laptops - they are HP and I've noticed that they don't have Product Code stickers, apparently it's hard coded onto the motherboard! I'm trying to set up WDS on our now rather ancient 2008 R2 servers. My concerns are these: Should I be using MDT or something else instead? I'm planning on capturing the image from one of the HP laptops, the pre-installed Windows 10 Pro. I have made my tweaks and installed some of our software on it - if I try to install the sysprepped image onto another one of the HP laptops, will it automatically re-activate WIndows with the hard-coded product key or am I screwed with that?? Please help if you can.... thanks!

Is anyone using this in their school?

I'll have to get back to you on that one, although I don't think it is a Microsoft Precision trackpad. I actually suspect it is a glue issue - some of these trackpads are really unresponsive, you practically have to thump them to get them to do what you want!

Hi folks, this is not a technical query for once- I just wanted to vent my frustration with a particular well-known maker of laptops and PCs! I always try to approach kit with an open mind, after all you hear so many conflicting pieces of advice about who to use and who to avoid. Anyway, lately I've found Asus products to be especially poor, with a much higher failure rate than other manufacturers! At our infant school, we bought 16 Asus laptops for children to use, of those at least 3 (but potentially more) have terrible trackpads which are really unresponsive and extremely difficult for the children to use. Asus' advice in every case I've logged with them has been to reinstall/update drivers, although this does not fix the issue. At our junior school, we've leased Asus Transformer books: of the 90 we leased, at least 6 have problems turning on, in fact they just won't come on at all, and others that worked in the first week have stopped working. They are being investigated currently. One of the ones I sent off to Asus which won't turn on has been replaced by another unit, however this came back to me in a really dirty condition, covered in other people's sticky fingerprints everywhere! Also, this new unit won't turn on either. Another Asus transformer book I sent off last week has come back with a reinstall of Windows which will not activate! Pretty poor service as well as poor products I would say. Maybe I'm being unduly harsh, but maybe not.

Are there many people from the UK that go to this show - it does look amazing! Must have cost a pretty penny to get there

That is really odd, I've just started having the same issues with some users (but not others). We don't use a proxy server. Getting Error 10. The users that are affected are using Outlook 2010, and our Exchange server is also 2010. The SSL certificate isn't due to expire until October 2018, so I'm a bit stumped!

Well, so much for that - installing a new splitter has worked for one teacher, but for another with an identical HP ZBook Studio it only lasted 3 days and then reverted back to the same old problems as before. Back to HP with a request to re-open the case...

Well, i spoke to Microsoft for over 2 hours and they came back with `the attachments must contain malware' and left it at that. I've since spoken to SMART, who have thoroughly scanned the files and not found any malware, neither have any of the scanners I've used. Not really sure where to go from here, I'm wondering if I need to speak to someone specific at Microsoft...

Sorry it took so long to get back to you on this thread - it's been insane this half term!! I managed to fix this in the end by buying a more expensive splitter which was also an HDMI amplifier! As soon as I put the new splitter in place, it worked just fine in this teacher's classroom. We were using old, cheap Lindy ones - looks like I will have to replace them all. This is the new replacement: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01EH6XTM8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Brill, thanks a lot Steve. I've added a few spam rules and so on, so we'll see what happens next!

Thanks again Steve - what's the most efficient way to do that? I've set something up in spam filters, but I'm still concerned that files with a .notebook attachment will get blocked randomly

Thank you!! Looks as though some of these messages are being deleted as Office 365 thinks they contain malware. Instead, they contain SMART notebook files!

I am just trying to find the Office 365 mail flow tester which I've seen before! There is no exchange server - with the infant school it is all hosted in Office 365.

Hi folks, apologies if there is already a thread for this somewhere. At the infant school I support, they are having some odd issues with Office 365 email. Teacher A sends an email to Teacher B, with an attachment - Teacher B sometimes never receives the email, but occasionally they do suddenly drop into her inbox days later. Teacher B can send all emails to Teacher A and they all get through. All teachers are part of the same organisation. Teacher A is now using a totally different laptop, different version of Outlook etc, but the problems persist. Anyone had issues like this before?