FishCustard

Just a thought - if you can't get them talking to 365 again, how about having docs scanned to users' home folders (or, better, a folder within it). That's what we do now and users much prefer it to having to retrieve the thing from their email.

Don't raise the priority of anything to real-time. Very bad idea and a good way to lock up the machine. See here. Whatever this is, I'll eat a shoe if it's priority related.

I'm probably gonna shove 2019 in our Win 10 1809 image for deployment at Christmas - assuming you can still do that, and MS haven't made that impossible too.

Try saving the file as an XLSX (i.e. not the Excel 97-2003 format) and see what happens there.

We use Salto, which can, I believe, sync with AD. We don't do that because the LA didn't spring for that module when they spec'd the system for our new build. Tempted to order it myself though as it'd save a lot of time.

I remember reading somewhere that the 64-bit version was going to be the 'default'/main version from 2019, but I now can't seem to find that statement anywhere! Possibly just a fever dream.

One of ours lost hers on the very first day. When I asked what happened, she said "I must have put it down and forgotten it". Comforting, isn't it?

We had that before - I just tested on a VM that had a supported version of Office on it. If the same problem occurred, I just reported that one! If it didn't, I had a starting point to figure it out myself.

Bet it'll work just fine though - I can't imagine they've made breaking changes to VBA and the APIs SIMS uses.

takeown /r /f X:\Path\To\Folder\On\Server icacls X:\Path\To\Folder\On\Server /grant $adminuser:(F)(OI)(CI) mkdir c:\temp\empty robocopy /mir c:\temp\empty X:\Path\To\Folder\On\Server rmdir /s /q c:\temp\empty Kills long paths and other such nonsense that Win32 can create but Explorer can't handle...

Do you have NTFS compression enabled on the server drives? Also, a Process Monitor trace on a client PC and the server during an incident would help greatly.

Glad you've got a solution - curious as to why this would be needed though!

Ahh apologies, I thought it was the digital assistant bit that you were referring to. Yeah, the new Win 10 search thing is harder to squash. Ultimately though, if your ACLs and other GPOs (e.g. SRPs) are set correctly it doesn't really matter.

Check what speed you're likely to get if you can.

Yes, you can set ACLs on services to grant rights to do certain things to certain groups (exactly the same as with files and folders or registry keys), and some Office services are started on-demand by apps running as standard users, hence why you can start them. But good luck messing with, e.g., RPCSS or Netman as a standard user! Same goes for things like Impero or LanSchool, which will be running elevated. You know you can just turn Cortana off with GPO? Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search > Allow Cortana

Unless the user is a local admin, this doesn't matter - only admins can do anything to services. I agree that it should be restrict-able, but it's not a security hole.

You need to set your NTFS ACLs so students can't access those drives. As for the start menu, we use the reborn Classic Start program. I know, I know, I should get with the program and give users the 'proper' new wonderful Start Menu.... but I know they'd all hate it, so this is my solution. I've had zero complaints, and it's super easy to manage.

To which I say "Shoo! Sod off."

I don't share many of your other feelings about Windows 10, but this I can agree 100% on.

We use Win 10 1709 (soon to be 1809) and haven't had any real issues. Happy to demonstrate / bounce ideas with anyone who wants to come for a look; we're near Heathrow. We use roaming profiles but no roaming AppData. Then again, all our machines have SSDs and we have a 1 Gbps-to-the-device network.

As others have said, the LA domain names can get stupidly long and complex. We have a schoolname.uk.net address as well - didn't know you could get .school TLDs, but I'm skeptical of the usability of the new gTLDs - how many people will absent mindedly shove .uk or .com on the end because "domains have to end like that".

Cool, this goes on the list too. If anyone else is interested, I guess this is a starting point.

What's the benefit of doing it this way? Does it auto-update each month?

We asked the LGfL to split out 20 Mbps of our 200 Mbps pipe as an unfiltered ('Option 2') connection for VoIP. Took a bit of back and forth arguing with them that, yes, we do know what we're talking about and know what we're doing, but we got it. Definitely easier than about with MIPs and going cap-in-hand to them every time you need something changed.

I haven't deployed Office with an MSI in years, it just gets baked into our core image (just easier than pushing out such a large program over the wire, and every PC needs it anyway!). Easier to just update it when we reimage - which, with Win 10 is more frequently than in, say, the XP days. I guess Office 2019 can go into my Christmas project (1809 image)!