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I've only had issues with Acrobat pro not deploying via the MSI and needing the setup.exe --silent to install, with all the other apps the msi works eg msiexec /i "AdobeAfterEffects.msi" /qn REBOOT=REALLYSUPPRESS /L*V %temp%\AdobeAfterEffectsInstall.log 👍

We have this when we renew the cert on our Papercut server, this is with Ricoh copiers. While it is a pain it can be done via the remote operations panel for the copiers so we don't have to visit each one in person. Neil

The Sysinternals tool from MS automates the registry settings and encrypts the password in the registry

I've used the tool from Sys Internals in the past to set auto login - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autologon

Is the user account you are testing with in the same OU structure (assuming AD joined machines) and getting the same set of policies applied as the users reporting the slow log on times?

It's not something related to this is it? https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/onedrive-shared-folders-are-only-available-via/6a309530-2ac2-40e8-b38e-5710bc6a1aa4

Recover IT are based in the NW and take away anything IT related for free

Not sure if this helps but we run sharp and anyone that needs access runs a server side copy of the software from a shortcut so no client actually installed, we have Sharp Accounts and Epos Manager shared out this way \\\SharpSoft\SPosStockManager\SPosSmartPay2Manager.exe We've restricted this via groups etc

Either get in touch with an in house Aruba education account manager or approach a HP partner and get special bid pricing, we've just bought Aruba 6300 series switches and 6405's and the pricing provided by an in house Aruba education account specialist was considerably cheaper than initial channel prices. He will also have access to specialists that can assist on sanity checking the equipment you are looking at is suitable for needs.

Broadcom have made Workstation Pro and Fusion pro free for home use, no functionality difference between the free version and commercial version https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/17.5.2/rn/vmware-workstation-1752-pro-release-notes/index.html#:~:text=Workstation%20Pro%20and%20Fusion%20Pro,use%20in%20any%20commercial%20setting. Maybe of use to some folks

Has their password expired, have seen this with outlook when it has in the past

How does the current phone line enter the building? If it's underground it will be ducted, as far as I'm aware BT didn't do direct bury cables.

And now it's back again, had to re-sync permissions and then reopen the admin center but seems to have fixed the issue

There is something going on, I am global admin for our tenant and I can see the VL tab and access the contract info but not the section to download media and keys

F2 for BIOS and F12 for boot options including network boot etc. you will need to enable PXE boot in the bios first to boot to network.

All editions now come with VCenter bundled in at no extra cost, if you are running essentials you can't manage that in the same VCenter as any Standard or Foundation licensed hosts but if you license the Essentials as standard you can, this is handy if you have multiple sites running VMWare as you have the single pane of glass for managing them. Basic level support no longer exists, you get production support with the subscription licenses now. Moving from Ent plus to Standard licensing our costs are roughly what we were paying previously, the main differences as far as we are concerned is loss of Storage DRS and distributed switching. We provision our VM switches on each host via PowerShell so the switching isn't a problem, the only thing we'd lose is the storage DRS which isn't a real issue either. Ask about pricing for a 3 year commitment as well, there were some savings there too.

I had a call with Pugh Computers this afternoon and we spoke about VMWare pricing amongst other things, I was told they had just done a renewal for a customer and the vSphere price was £154 per core for the Foundation version which matches the prices posted by pablo007 above, he also thought that there wasn't currently a three year option but he was going to check on that. I've reached out to Phoenix regarding pricing info and I think we'll be able to use standard from the PDF linked earlier.

Hi, I realise that most folks here are school based and need to block the majority of Meta sites but incase you need to access them and are having the issue with Chrome returning an ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE error and you use Fortigate firewalls this might help. The error is related to new features released with Chrome v119 that enables the use of "zstd" in the Accept-Encoding request header, and support for decompressing zstd-compressed web content. Fortigate firewalls do not currently support this method according to the community post below. Strangely this error does not currently manifest itself in Edge browser. Disabling the feature in Chrome and restarting the browser does fix the issue, this can be done via GPO or in the registry for one or two machines - you will need the policy files from 119 or later in your repository for the GPO method. Fortinet community post Google Policy documentation The GPO setting to disable is located under User Config \ Policies \ Administrative Templates \ Google \ Google Chrome \ Network Settings \ Enable zstd content-encoding support HTH someone Neil

Another thing to consider for the file share is previous versions (shadow copies), this will allow the users to restore files themselves if they accidentally delete or overwrite a file.

Does the user have emails on a personal device with a stored password that is locking the account?

If that's what the cabling you can see looks like I'd be checking on the parts out of sight too, not something we'd accept as it should be in proper containment as previously said.

JPR in Stoke are worth a shout https://jprgroup.co.uk/data-telecoms/ - they do a lot of work at Staffs Uni, local colleges and schools including all our data work.

Lehmann's in Stoke are worth a call, they are a registered service center but may be able to advise over the phone too Web Site

We copy ours into the default profile via a PowerShell script during build so that any new users get the layout applied, you have to create the folder structure as it isn't present by default. $startmenuTemplate = "\start2.bin" # Default profile path $defaultProfile = "C:\Users\default\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState" # Create folder if it doesn't exist if(-not(Test-Path $defaultProfile)) { new-item $defaultProfile -ItemType Directory -Force } # Copy file Copy-Item -Path $startmenuTemplate -Destination $defaultProfile -Force