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This uses the script linked to by HPlum78 but also accepts the param -CSV to supply the path to a .csv filled with host names. From my testing it works, but results may differ: WoL-HostName-CSV.ps1 Taking this further next I'd make it lookup an AD group for the Computer objects rather than using a CSV and then just make the computers i want to wake each day a member of that group bit of scheduling to make the script launch each day and you're done totally hands off after adding computers to the needed group

A quick look at this script - you could tweak it a little so you could load hostname from csv and then loop through them rather than it prompting for hostname as it does at the moment which would make it much better, or even tweak it further to point to straight to the csv file and have the script do all the lifting..

Is the %appdata% variable taking you to the location that you've redirected the Appdata? have you checked where the Appdata would be on the local machine? This seems weird...

my server list was here: %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\ServerManager\ServerList.xml And i'd make the assumption you have no space to save to file... as the error says - tried launching server manager as admin?

Sounds like what we are doing with it - I think without MFA support for salamander currently you're left with other means of securing the account. Having MFA on the accounts you actively use has to be a big plus towards security.

I remember there being no support for MFA with Salamander but they can tweak the software to make it run while you have MFA on the admin accounts - we have MFA for admins and Salamander working together in production it works one way or another, maybe you're using Salamander features we don't which is stopping the setup? :\ Salamander is setting up our Office 365 groups, licensing users etc. and when I'm off site I have to use MFA to access the tenancy... Maybe its's as simple as the account used by Salamander doesn't use MFA in our setup? Could you geofence the account so it can only login from your subnet, adding some security to the Salamander admin account?

Salamander can make this work and there are things like app password that you use with Outlook. We have MFA for admins and Salamander setup both working together happily - I'm certain Salamander support had to change the configuration but I don't recall why or what was changed. Might be worth throwing them a support request before enabling MFA?

In 365 head to the rule creation area, select add new rule - in the pop up windows you have to click the blue "More options..." text to be able to get the rule as granular as you want it:

I can see how not noticing the Add Hardware area would cause this confusion - sorted!

My screenshot is of a smoothwall virtual machine located on a hyper v host, here are the settings for the vm: All the vnics are connected to the same vswitch 'LAN' but each vnic has a setting to tag the traffic coming out of the vnic (as see in screenshot). traffic then hits the vswitch with a vlan ID attached, the vswitch on the hyper v host has physical connections to a physical switch - on the physical switch the port/s that connect to the vswitch's (via Physical Nics on the host) are configured to expect traffic tagged with vlan id and uses vlans to get the traffic to the correct destination. you said you have: NIC1 configured as 192.168.1.1, 255.255.255.0, (No Gateway) NIC2 configured as 192.168.0.2, 255.255.255.0, 192.168.0.25 (Gateway) Are those 2 networks physically separated, or using vlans or do they both sit in the same lan without any separation?

You should be able to do this on guests, just add the vnics and then apply the IP settings, are the subnets on different vlans? If so the vnics have a setting to tag the traffic with the correct vlan ID and go from there. This is a guest VM on a Hyper-V host and it has more vnics than shown here with different IPs on different vlans etc.: ~~~EDIT~~~ Default behaviour will be for the vnic to be untagged so when it hits your vswitch so the traffic will continue on its untagged path, if you start tagging traffic at the vnics and have the uplinks to the vswitch setup to expect tagged traffic at hardware switch level the vswitch should flow the traffic as expected to the correct vlans. Does what I said make sense? Does it help at all?

What's the end goal? What are you trying to achieve or why are you doing it this way. Vswitches are on the host - are you trying to create another abstracted layer of vswitches running on a virtual instances of hyper v?

Working for you as you need?

I second this, update PowerShell.

The try/catch is a much better way - the error control/trigger system I had in place is silly when there are built in mechanism - I totally agree. As far as checking user input,computer limiting, force/no force; ideally this would be a function and we could use parameters to set all this stuff and validate it etc. This is the latest version from my tweaking to use the try/catch and to record the correct errors in the array: gpupdate.ps1 From my testing this works as expected so now it's up to OP to refine and make a function, validation etc. I give up

forgot about this, sorry! Its not working how I wanted it too just yet, needs tweaking as it's not adding members to the object in the second half of the script. Here's what I have so far: gpupdate.ps1

What output do you want? anything to the powershell session or just write a csv with the info? Both maybe?

Do thes computer names need to be written to file like you're doing it etc? I'm off to lunch but when i get back i'm happy to have a crack at fixing it if no one else has helped

have you dumped all of a users AD attributes and searched for the offending email address just in case it's still in there somewhere? Something like this and then check the file: Get-ADUser -Filter {Name -eq "Username Here"} -Properties * | Out-File 'path to output .txt' e.g Get-ADUser -Filter {Name -eq "bobross"} -Properties * | Out-File 'C:\temp\ADUser.txt'

PS Financials marketed as a cloud application when it's not. The PS Financials App is just installed on remote desktops which might be cloud hosted - user need to RDP into remote windows PC, this is not a cloud application!

Looking at the DLL and its repository I've read and seen mentioned that you have to ensure that the "Passwords must meet complexity requirements" policy setting must be enabled - without it enabled does the DLL just get ignored? If so you could just enable this for staff users letting Student use any stupid password they wish?

Under 30 - I automatically associated SS with the nazis.

Do you mean the HTML 5 web front end where you can connect from within a browser? If so then yes I believe you need Server 2016 onward - that being said if you have RDS in-place already can't you just use the normal remote desktop method and download an .rdp file to connect to the servers? Does it have to be done in a web browser? I'm rather a fan of the HTML 5 front end though I must say, for our Apple users this should be a must smoother way for them to access SIMS... when I finally finish the setup and get all the software installed. Doesn't team viewer need to be licensed for this sort of use too?

I agree with this - here creative course students receive a starting point of a 30GB quota with increases possible where needed most of the time.

If you can get away with it - saving without backwards comparability made files much smaller from my experience with Photoshop. Requesting students do this may help?