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I noticed when looking at Microsoft's GPO spreadsheet for Windows 10 1809 that they have updated the settings to configure group policy extension processing, at Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\System\Group Policy. You now have the ability to disable background processing for individual extensions. As soon as I saw this, I wondered if this may have some impact on the disappearing printers issue? I.e. if you disable background processing for GPP printers using the 'Configure Printers preference extension policy processing' setting? This would effectively mean that GPP printer settings would only apply at logon. Is it possible that it is this refresh of settings that causes the printers to disappear? In our environment, I am 99% there with Win10 printer issues. I can get them to appear at logon 100% of the time using GPP by setting a scheduled task to refresh user policy at logon. This runs hidden via a .vbs script so is transparent to the user. However, we still have occasional issues with the printers disappearing. For some users this happens fairly frequently i.e. once or twice a day; for others it is rare or non-existent. I've disabled background refresh of the GPP printers this afternoon - will report any updates... Whilst on the topic of printers - yesterday we had a whole suite on Win10 computers that couldn't login - stuck at the applying printers stage. I knew there was an exam next door and that they turn off the shared printer in there to stop other rooms printing to it so suspected this was the cause. I restarted the print spooler on our print server which allowed the logons to progress and then tested later and indeed, if the printer is off it causes logons to wait indefinitely for the printer to be online again, which seems crazy. Has anyone else seen this issue?

This situation is entirely avoidable. All the best enterprise Wi-Fi APs and controllers have the ability to enable device segregation which means client devices can't see each other. Plus most controllers will allow you to filter traffic so clients can only talk to your proxy and any other IP you specify. Best to embrace BYOD; at least on your network your students browsing is logged. We've used device segregation for the last 7 or 8 years of offering BYOD and we've never had anything spread between devices; it's impossible for it to happen!

Hi, Just to update this thread with the solution @sonie The driver was a red herring. What was actually causing the issue was that I have previously set unmanaged add-ins to be blocked by the group policy setting at User Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Microsoft PowerPoint 2016\Miscellaneous\Block all unmanaged add-ins. At the same location, there is another group policy setting 'List of managed add-ins' which allows you to whitelist the Smart Ink add-in. In here, enter SMARTInk-PowerPoint-All as the add-in name, and 1 as the value (which whitelists it). Likewise, under the same group policy settings for Excel and Word the add-in names required are SMARTInk-Excel-All and SMARTInk-Word-All Just tested with these settings in place and it works perfectly, I am now able to annotate on PowerPoints without it advancing the slide Appreciate @jmak getting the old driver across to me yesterday but wasn't needed in this instance.

Hi All, Just wanted to post this here as although I found odd bits of advice online, I couldn't find a complete solution. Hopefully this helps someone! Deploying Sibelius using the packaged .exe and passing the command line parameters recommended by Avid does not work with SCCM under the local system account. It also fails if you specify an account which has local admin priviledges on the machine in question. This is what you need to do - these instructions focus on SCCM but the principles should work for any deployment system. 1. Firstly, clear out your %temp% folder so you can see the wood for the trees... 2. Run the installer on a temporary machine, allow it to extract in the background. The main MSI extracts before the installer starts asking questions, but the prerequisites don't extract until you've started the install off. 3. In %temp%, you will find a folder named with a GUID, inside this will be a Sibelius.msi file. Copy this entire folder to somewhere safe. 4. As this installer progresses, another folder named with a GUID appears in %temp%, containing 6 x VCRedist files. Copy this entire folder to somewhere safe. You have to be quick with this, as the installer mops them up once installed. There is also an AVID desktop link folder inside this, which isn't required. 5. Once Sibelius has installed, go into your c:\windows\installer folder, and search for msi files with todays date. The msi files in this folder are named randomly. You can right click and check the details to make sure you have the right one - you are looking for Sibelius OpenType Fonts. Copy this file and put it somewhere safe, rename it to Sibelius Fonts.msi or whatever. So you should now have a Sibelius.msi, Sibelius Fonts.msi, and 6 x VCRedist.exe files. 6. Put the various VCRedist exe files into a single folder, and inside this create a file and call it something like VCRedist.cmd, inside it paste the following... vcredist_2008_x64.exe /q /norestart vcredist_2008_x86.exe /q /norestart vcredist_2010_x64.exe /q /norestart vcredist_2010_x86.exe /q /norestart vcredist_2017_x64.exe /quiet /norestart vcredist_2017_x86.exe /quiet /norestart 7. Then build a package in SCCM for this and deploy/apply via task sequence 8. For Sibelius and fonts, these can be created as applications in SCCM and deployed / applied via task sequences in the usual way. Sibelius.msi needs additional command line paramaters to specify the license server and the log path, e.g. msiexec.exe /i Sibelius.msi /qn LSINFO=SERVERNAME /l*v %temp%\AvidSibeliusx64.log

If it helps, the chap that helped me (via [email protected]) was called Ben Dylla. He was very efficient and knew what he was talking about. I have his direct e-mail address if anyone needs it - shoot me a PM.

Just realised I never followed up on this. Eventually I worked out that one of the underlying vcredist prerequisites did not like being installed from a network drive. Running the License Server installer from the C: drive worked with no issues.

Hi Sonie, I've not received it yet, jmak must be busy. I will keep you posted!

Hi, Who did you contact at Microsoft? I went through this process last year and e-mailed [email protected]. They were very quick, within 4 or 5 days they came back to say that our domain had been validated for A1 Plus, then I just had to take an unlicensed staff and student account via their sign up process and the licenses appeared immediately. Once the licenses were available, device based activation worked. You still need to keep the [free] ProPlus licenses on your OVS agreement though as apparently they use that to determine your eligibility, or so I was told. Hope this helps!

@jmak - thanks for this! I think this may well be our issue. I've been to Smart's website and looked at previous versions, however 12.2.xxx is no longer offered. I don't suppose you'd be able to send it to me? I'd be very grateful. Let me know if you can help and I'll send you a PM with my e-mail address. Apologies for the delay in responding, what with a bout of Flu and half term I've only just got around to looking at this again :-/

Thanks, I have tried the various options in here to no avail.

Hi All, We are running Office 365 ProPlus using DBA. I can't find a way to disable the 'Change License' and 'Manage Account' buttons on the Account menu. Does anyone know how to do this through group policy? I've looked through the Fluent User Interface Control Identifiers spreadsheet published online (albeit for Office 2016) and have been able to find the ID required to disable the Options menu and the Updates menu (using the 'Disable Items in User Interface' GPO) however I can't find any mention of the license buttons. Also, for some reason (at least in the ADMX templates I have) there is no corresponding 'Disable Items in User Interface' GPO for OneNote? There is a spreadsheet for OneNote in the Fluent UI CI download from MS listing all of the OneNote command IDs, but nowhere to input these into Group Policy? Thanks!

Hi All, For our Windows 10 deployment, we are using Smart Notebook 18 and the bundled drivers. The vast majority of our boards are SB680, and we have a small number of SB580. The issue we are having is that when using the inking tools to annotate a PowerPoint presentation, PowerPoint is advancing the slide when you are annotating. It is detecting pressure applied with the pen as a 'click'. If you write very lightly you can just about get away with it, but as soon as you do something like dot an 'i', it advances. I've tested on a few of our boards in school and they are all doing it. I've tried changing the settings in Smart so that it uses Smart Ink rather than Microsoft Ink, this makes no difference. Has anyone else experienced this issue? It seem worse on the SB580s than it does on the SB680s. The SB680s seem to be less sensitive to the issue, but it is still present. EDIT: Just to add this is with Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus Thanks!

Thanks to all for the responses! I've been in touch with Zoostorm and they are going to send me a tool to change them. Fingers crossed it works.... However, I ran a task sequence again yesterday (after having blocked the duplicate hardware ID in site hierarchy) and it went through fine. It asked me for OSDComputer name and joined to AD with that correct name (despite the duplicate hardware ID). Perhaps you have to wait a certain amount of time for this setting to become active?

Hi All, We're in the process of rolling out Windows 10 across our estate. I've come across a batch of computers that have an identical SMBIOS GUID. The GUID is 03000200-0400-0500-0006-000700080009. I think this is essentially a 'default' GUID if the manufacturer hasn't set one themselves. They are mainly all the same make and model (Zoostorm AIO) - plus two further random machines. This basically means when you PXE boot the machine, SCCM thinks it is already in the database. I've added the GUID as duplicate hardware identifier in the site hierarchy settings - this gets past the initial issue and SCCM recognises the computer by it's MAC address instead. However, the task sequence then attempts to join the computer to the domain using the computer name belonging to one of the duplicates, rather than the one I specified via the OSDComputer variable. The task sequence progress but eventually fails. Can anyone advise how they got around this? I've seen a few options.....using AMIDEWIN to set a different SMBIOS GUID (that doesn't work for me)…altering the stored procedures in SCCM so that it only goes off the MAC address and not the SMBIOS GUID (not sure if that's a good idea, plus you have to remember to change the stored procedures each time you update SCCM). These are older machines and the chances of getting updated BIOSs with the SMBIOS GUID updated are slim! Thanks!

It's worth a shot - I will give them a try!

I've found a potential driver online via DriverMax - however it's one of these sites that tricks you into thinking you can download it directly from them but then just funnels you into downloading their driver scan utility. https://www.drivermax.com/driver-download/624090/323455381de09f81679af262ebc44c61/USB-CDC-Device-OpenStage-30-T-Unify-GmbH-Co_KG-Unify-GmbH-Co_KG-64-bits.exe I've downloaded the driver scan utility and it doesn't work behind a Proxy. Doh!

As I understand it this site is only available to partners? I have contacted Unify GMBH directly - they logged a case but I just got a generic reply to say they don't support end users. So it looks as though we are in the hands of our telephone company :-(

Yes, I have. Unfortunately it turns up nothing. Unify don't make the drivers available to the public, and the only site I can find some on you have to pay for.

Hi Pete, I don't know as that driver refuses to install, saying it's incompatible. I only have two drivers - the original (which worked fine on Win7) and the new one. I can't find anywhere online to download them without paying.

Further to my first post, I have temporarily disabled driver signing enforcement in Windows 10 and then the driver loads and the phone works perfectly. Obviously once you reboot [and driver signing is turned back on] the driver won't load again so this isn't a permanent solution. Anyone have any ideas or a link to a signed driver I can use?

Hi All, So, a few weeks ago I contacted our phone supplier to ask whether this phone was compatible with Windows 10 - ahead of us updating our receptionist's computer from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I was told yes, and on checking the versions of the software and driver for the phone, was told that these are the latest ones and they are Windows 10 compatible. I think you know where this is going.... So yesterday her computer was given a fresh Win10 Education x64 1809 deployment from SCCM. When it came to installing the telephone driver, it failed, saying it wasn't compatible. I contacted the telephone company again, they again insisted that it was compatible, that they have other customers running it, and then this morning have stumped up a new driver (October 2018 I think). Installed it, and although the telephone devices and USB Serial Port device appear correctly in device manager, there is a yellow-bang against the devices and the error is code 52 (Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the drivers required for this device). I've contacted Unify GMBH directly for support and they aren't interested. Our telephone company are next to useless. Has anyone successfully got this telephone working OK in Windows 10? Our receptionist has it connected to the OpenScape Attendant so she can control the phone from her computer. I guess I could look at bypassing the driver signing but isn't that a bit dodgy? Thanks!

Thanks! That's odd, I've looked at the default config in the zip file and mine too is also blank as per your screenshot. But it wasn't earlier. It had some spaces and a carriage return. Could it be the config file editor that added this somehow? As I ran it through that. All was fine once I removed the spaces.

Hi, Thanks for this, we've downloaded and installed. Just a couple of minor points I've seen. The password on exit feature - the default config file included with this version appears to have some spaces/carriage return and so it prompts for a password unless you remove this. Also, I noticed if you have the option set to allow long candidate numbers, the description next to the candidate number on the candidate information screen doesn't change to reflect the new character limit of 12 - still says 4. Top job as always, thanks :-)

Thanks all for your input. I've tried a compatible Fudan 12.56MHz card today and our Paxton door readers won't read it, but my desktop scanner will. Haven't tried the gate reader but if the doors don't read them it's a non starter anyway. Have sent off for a Hitag2 125Khz card to see if they are any better

Hi All, Just wondering if there was a conclusion to this, in terms of which unbranded cards are good candidates for Net2 compatibility? We normally buy from smartcardstore.co.uk and pay around £110 for 50 Paxton cards. Some of the unbranded cards are a quarter of this price so looking to make a saving! Thanks :-)