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Nice, glad to hear you got there in the end. I've never worked with Cubase 10, so I don't know if the command lines for the e-Licenser are any different, but now that you've sussed out the certificate part, that's bit's universal.

Samsung drives are usually awesome. We've been buying Western Digital Green 240GB drives for the last 6 months or so, with a good track record so far, and we certainly can't fault the price. I'd stay well clear of Integral, as I've seen way too many of those drives fail. Double digit percentage failures within 9 months, and several dead on arrival does not give me any confidence in their quality control.

I wonder if it has something to do with the certificate import - perhaps the certificate store doesn't work the same way during the task sequence? Usually, if you're getting a prompt regarding trusting publishers, it's because the certificate isn't in the store. I wouldn't know how MDT would be affected, as I've only done the install using SCCM, and it's always been done in the background after the task sequence has already completed.

That's a no go - it's one of the ones our media department asked us to look into. The free version is only licensed for a single user on a single machine. The professional versions appear to require individual activation, and do not provide any means of transferring a licence from one computer to another. There's no way that'll fly in an environment like ours.

Thanks for all the suggestions so far. I'll have to check some of these out over the next few days. Yeah, I suspect that may be the way in which we end up handling this, at least if my current approach of seeing if there are any existing rooms where I can free up MoviePlus if it's no longer required doesn't pan out. It doesn't help that the school decided to put in a new IT suite over the summer, primarily for media, without any consideration for the fact that all of our MoviePlus licences are already allocated elsewhere on site. At the end of the day, I'm just trying to cover as many bases as possible here, so that if it comes down to the crunch, I can offer some options, each with pros and cons. If the bosses get involved, it's easy enough for me to explain the situation, lay a few viable options on the table and leave the choice to them. My intention is just to have some options that might work to help offset the fact that I've already shot down two suggestions that absolutely won't work due to technical limitations or licence restrictions. If some of the options are more limited in functionality, or come at significant expense to the school, that isn't really my problem - I didn't create this situation, so it's not my job to find some magical, perfect solution that probably doesn't exist.

I'm looking for a bit of advice regarding video editing software that's easily deployable and manageable across large numbers of PCs. Our media department have been using Serif MoviePlus for their video editing for a number of years. We currently have 200 licences, and are currently right on our limit for numbers. As our school has added an additional IT room over the summer, and has re-roomed some of the media classes for the 2018-2019 academic year, we're now in the position where the media department have requested MoviePlus on additional machines. As MoviePlus is a discontinued product, we can no longer purchase additional licences, so whilst we're currently in discussions to see if we can relocate some of our existing licences from elsewhere on our site, we may have to start looking at alternatives. We've had a couple of requests from one of the media teachers, along the lines of "commercial product X has a cut down, free version, can we install that?". On both occasions, said free version only allows individual use on one machine by one individual, and/or requires individual activation on each PC. In one case, even the commercial version had to be activated individually on each computer, and provided no way to transfer a licence around. Any video editing application that we use would have to be installed on at least 235 machines, so this isn't a feasible solution. My question is this: Does anyone have any recommendations for cost effective video editing software that can easily be deployed and managed across large numbers of computers? Full site licences would be ideal, fixed numbers of seats would also be feasible for us. Some sort of product activation via. some sort of licensing server wouldn't present a problem, but any sort of manual activation is a no-go - we need a solution where SCCM can put the software on an imaged computer and the software is good to go without any manual intervention.

I think it's in trusted publishers, but I'm a bit rusty on this. I haven't built a Cubase deployment for a few years, and it's not in our deployment system at my current place of work.

Looking at the status on Office 365 Admin, they're still working on this. Apparently their fix wasn't rolling out properly across the broken servers due to a "configuration issue" that they say is now fixed. My apps launcher is now showing all of the applications again, but I doubt it's fixed for everyone yet.

It seems it's my turn to be affected by this. It was fine this morning, but now I'm only getting the four icons. I guess everything must be load balanced behind the scenes, and whether or not you're affected is going to depend on whether you're directed to a server with the certificate problem or not.

It seems it's my turn to be affected by this. It was fine this morning, but now I'm only getting the four icons. I guess everything must be load balanced behind the scenes, and whether or not you're affected is going to depend on whether you're directed to a server with the certificate problem or not.

MS are apparently fixing it globally. There's an entry in the Exchange Online status page in Office 365 admin. Estimated resolution time is by 7pm tonight.

I just found this support thread exchange between MathsWatch and EduGeek. It's the most hilarious thing I've read all week: https://vimeo.com/forums/help/topic:285477 "Aaargh, schools are complaining that they can't access our content? How do we make it work without them unblocking all of Vimeo, including the NSFW parts? WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY CAN'T? AAAARGH!"

I've only done the e-Licenser as a scripted install (using System Center) for Cubase 7. Depending on the particular release of the e-Licenser, there should be a silent install command. For Cubase 7, the command was: eLicenserControlSetup.exe --mode unattended --unattendedmodeui none I believe older versions of the e-Licenser used the /S parameter. The main problem is that if you try this on most PCs, you'll be prompted to approve the installation of the driver, as Windows won't trust the certificate out of the box. To work around that, perform the install on one machine manually, grab the Steinberg certificate from the local certificate store, then use a command like the following to install the certificate: certutil -addstore "TrustedPublisher" Steinberg.cer If you silently install the certificate with certutil first, you can then perform a silent install from the e-Licenser EXE without running into the certificate prompt. Other than some sort of start up or shut down script (scheduled task?) to check for the presence of the e-Licenser and perform an installation if necessary, I don't know how you could do it with just a GPO unless you're enough of a wizard with MSI files to be able to create an MSI that just wraps around the existing EXE installer. I suppose you could potentially build the e-Licenser components into a base image or deploy them as part of a task sequence in MDT if that's an option.

I was playing around yesterday with a proxy port set to NTLM (via redirect), and found that the fast user switching didn't seem to track users accurately. I'm playing around at the moment using core authentication, and things look like they're better, although I've not had chance to really hammer on it. I'm wondering whether an application running under an inactive user (eg. a web browser) was submitting its own credentials via. NTLM and disrupting the user tracking. If so, we may need to think carefully before allowing any sort of fallback authentication method if we're using fast user switching. Just food for thought. I'll try to provide some more in-depth feedback after I've had chance to play with this a bit more.

Just watch yourself on the scheduled tasks when using asynchronous policy processing to create them. I've been playing with a scheduled task that should run for a user, using the "connection to user session" trigger. The first time I logged on as a user, switched away from the session and switched back, it didn't appear to trigger the task. Only after I logged off and back on did the scheduled task start triggering properly. Just something to watch out for.