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Last year I replaced all the edge devices onsite at our school to be Gigabit, but this shifts the bottleneck upstream If you are using MDT to deploy your computers you can use Multicast to deploy your image, i am not sure it helps much with the 10/100 bottleneck though.

So that was fun... 152 clients slowly dropping off SCCM. So I have upgraded the schema to allow group policy installation of SCCM and found that only the following script will work to get inactive clients back on SCCM net stop ccmexec net stop winmgmt c:\windows\system32\wbem\winmgmt.exe /resetrepository c:\windows\ccmsetup\ccmsetup.exe /uninstall "\\\SMS_SMR\Client\ccmsetup.exe" /mp: /logon /noservice SMSSITECODE= SMSCACHESIZE=30000" to reset the WMI repository this needs to run as an administrator

What is the best way to deal with inactive clients. I have just pushed out software to allsite and too many computers are inactive I have remotely restarted them and pushed out the client, is there anything I need to be doing or can do to get them back in to SCCM land

Thanks for your help! I have just setup remote powershell onsite to get to the root of this problem so I ran the following, which might explain why nothing is happening. Despite many printers deployed nothing there! C:\> winrs -r: powershell Get-WMIObject -Class Win32_Printer Location : Name : Send To OneNote 2010 PrinterState : 0 PrinterStatus : 3 ShareName : SystemName : Location : Name : Microsoft XPS Document Writer PrinterState : 0 PrinterStatus : 3 ShareName : SystemName : Location : Name : Fax PrinterState : 0 PrinterStatus : 3 ShareName : SystemName : C:\> winrs -r: powershell Get-CimInstance Win32_Printer Name ShareName SystemName PrinterState PrinterStat Location us ---- --------- ---------- ------------ ----------- -------- Send To OneNo... 0 3 Microsoft XPS... 0 3 Fax 0 3

Ok so my headache is persisting! What I was trying to achieve was to remove all the printer connections from the user profile that is from an old server. Is there a tried and tested method of doing this?

Sorry my bad, it is running as a startup script not a login script I tried calling it on a machine from powershell and it worked. Now it is hanging, I am stumped!

I am trying to get a powershell script (stolen) from Arthur on here and it takes ages to run and is not removing any printers when set as a script on login This is the script: [color=#333333]Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Printer -Namespace 'root\CIMV2' -Filter "SystemName='\\\\[/color][color=#FF0000]OLDSERVERNAMEHERE[/color][color=#333333]'" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | ForEach { $_.delete() }[/color] I tried diagnosing this by running and this is taking ages to run. [color=#333333]Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Printer[/color] Any ideas The powershell version is S C:\> $PSVersionTable Name Value ---- ----- PSVersion 4.0 WSManStackVersion 3.0 SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1 CLRVersion 4.0.30319.18063 BuildVersion 6.3.9600.16406 PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0} PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.2 and the restriction policy is unrestricted

The script is wusa.exe "Windows6.1-KB2819745-x86-MultiPkg.msu" /quiet /norestart so it should just work... and I unticked the boxes. I set the package to install after deployment. As I know there is no maintenance period.

Hi I released a application yesterday to the site. During testing I realised that the package forced an SCCM restart, so I unchecked the box below. Our clients are now restarting. The package was a windows management update, using wusa.exe. And testing with the norestart switch was ok. Could anyone clarify why a computer restart would occur.

Thanks! My afternoon googling skills improved dramatically!!!! You can put the package into SCCM and deploy it using scrip using the command line above? There is a registry key set at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\3\PowerShellEngine\Powershell Version (4) to show it is installed

I am looking at updating powershell on all our clients onsite. I know that there is a manual KB for Windows Management Framework v4 that will update powershell to version 4 on all clients. What i would like to know is how to push this out easily onsite. My google skills cannot answer this one! My initial thoughts were to use WSUS however I can't seem to find the update so my next delivery method is SCCM......... any advice greatly appreciated on how to do this.

Thanks that seemed to work however I am getting an error on the application logs. The document Print Document, owned by , failed to print on printer . Try to print the document again, or restart the print spooler. Data type: RAW. Size of the spool file in bytes: 1341424. Number of bytes printed: 1341424. Total number of pages in the document: 1. Number of pages printed: 0. Client computer: \\. Win32 error code returned by the print processor: 0. The operation completed successfully. The driver type is not set - ie is not set as Type 3/4 user mode. If I am right, the driver is not working in isolation mode?

Forgive me if I am wrong you are trying to migrate users folders.... Have you checked the tick box, move the contents. I had to root for it but you should be able to find it !

In migrating our print server I have found that the printer HP1606dn printer does not have compatible drivers for server 2012. We have a number on site so I have tried a number of workarounds to include the PCL6 universal driver and server 2008 x64 driver no no avail I have raised a ticket with HP but don't hold much hope there! Is there any other workaround people could suggest to get the HP LJ1606dn to work with server 2012

I agree some staff find it difficult and some get nervous adding devices ! That would be great I can have a look at the script and see which SLT like the look of. I have finally got the powershell script to work by updating powershell and .net to 4.5.1 tweaking a child object to 64 bit too. It is a little unstable but definitely worth putting though testing!

Hi! I am looking for a solution to allow users with laptop to be able to select and install a printer from a list of printers available on the server. This powershell script is great with 64 bit and I have tweaked it to work with 32 bit system however it still needs tweating to work on a 32 bit system. See here Felipe Binotto's Blog: Add Printer Tool Does anyone have any other suggestions for an app to allow users to choose and install printers from a network print server (that is papercut friendly!) THanks Darren

Excellent! I was trying to get my head around this this afternoon. So I set a redirected folder and then manage and apply shortcuts this way. Now I can see how! Thanks LiamH, I have a redirected folder set up.... having spent days reading the best method to do this, I haven't read about mandatory profiles. Google in the morning! Interesting LeMarchand. Do you host your icon files on the network and copy them down to all the machines or can you host an icon share on a server.

Thanks a lot everyone. It looks like I am going to be busy with 400 different shortcuts to reconstruct. MS definitely need to get some management of shortcuts and icons for IT administrators ! There is a piece of software called shortcut.exe that does allow you to change the target but it runs from command prompt and has a lot of parameters to specify. I think I need to collect the icons and deploy them to a folder on all machines onsite I am interested in possibly looking at using GPO shortcuts to administer this however can I ask how I create a shortcut within a folder within the programs folder

Thanks for that. I was under the impression it is not possible.

90 views and 0 answers :0 I have a redirected start menu setup with a folder in the programs folder called subjects. The conclusion is moving shortcuts from a client machine to a redirected folder does not work if the target is not on the server. As the icons are lost as well as the shortcuts work through shell32.dll How do you present manage and shortcuts on site? Using the above method looks unprofessional without icons and it clunky to manage

Hi We have a central start menu administered by group policy and I wanted to expand this by adding extra folders in programs and shortcuts Is there a solution to create shortcuts on a server to deploy folders to clients where the software is not installed on the local server? I have always figured the workaround for this is to create the shortcut on a machine where the software is installed and administer the icon to an administrative share to the server ie . \\server\c$\shortcutfolder I can copy the shortcut from a machine that has the software icon installed and create and copy a shortcut from the c drive but the icon points to that machine ( and runs the sw from that machine) Removing the machine name \\\c:\program files\.... to c:\program files\...... the same error occurs stating that the target is not valid (as it isn't stored on the local machine) I am trying to setup a central start menu and with 400 programs to administer this could be a tall order I hope that makes sense! Thanks Darren

Thanks for that. I have enquired about this product but for 850 concurrent licences for the bronze version (which has support) is 25-30k which was disappointing. I was hoping a cost reduction for a non-profit education purposes. What is the cost of the gold version?

I gather from the lack of response the use of a workspace package is not a common thing. Has anyone replaced CSE Workspace Explorer with another product? Now I have looked at our needs I can manage application shortcuts and printer deployment using scripts and group policy. I can script user creation too. I was quoted 25k for the RES workspace bronze package so patching all the bits together looks like the only way forward! Any one else retired CSE Workspace Explorer? What did you do?

Have you tried using RSOP to see if the GPO is applying? What does it say?

Hi I am looking at an all in one solution for printer and workspace assignments to users as a replacement to CSE Workspace Explorer. I wanted a product with good support, updates and reliability. We have a project that has RES Workspace Manager in its infancy however I would love to know whether people use a workspace manager or use group policies to assign users a desktop. Many thanks, Darren