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Hello! So have a bit of an odd one here...not sure when, but it seemss like everyone in my Google Workforce domain had a change in the last couple months to their new tab page within Google Chrome. When a user opens up a new tab in Chrome, it opens up to the "normal" looking page...but they don't seem to be signed in! The user can click on the shortcut to Gmail, which does in fact take them to their mail...but the Google Waffle won't show anything specific to their account includding customized layout changes as well as apps that we have added to the waffle. In addition, if the user clicks on Search from the Google waffle, it'll take them to the search page and it'll give them the blue sign in button instead of keeping them already signed in... Now, once a person is in a "normal" Google app like Drive, Docs, etc., they can click on the wafffle and all is normal. To confirm it was related to the Workforce, everything looks normal on my home computer with a personal Google account...at home, I can click on a new tab and it shows my account picture in the top right of the web page as normal and I can click on the waffle like normal. But our work accounts seem to be different. I first noticed the change a month or two ago and didn't think much of it as though it was something just with me and I can work around it...but now that our schools are starting back up, I'm getting several users who have reported it to me. Does this make sense to anyone? Is a super weird issue and I've been trying to search Google and Reddit for this and I can't seem to find anyone else having this same issue... Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the replies! Sorry for late response as had another issue that popped up that pulled me away from this for last day or so... So a couple updates / notes: - I went ahead and tried removing all GPO settings I had related to updates, did a GPUPdate /force on my test VM and re-ran both Software Updates Deployment Evaluation Cycle and Software Updates Scan Cycle...no luck - In addition to the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool being installed correctly, I have also noticed that Windows Defender updates are installing normally even though I'm not actually pushing out those via SCCM, so I assume those are coming directly from Microsoft - I reimaged my test VM just to make sure it wasn't something in my VM as well as checked a few student desktops in one of our labs...still no updates deploying. - I did notice as well in UpdatesDeployment.log the following error: EnumerateUpdates for action (UpdateActionInstall) - Total actionable updates = 0 - From the way I read that, it is seeing the updates in SCCM, but is thinking, for some reason, that they aren't actually "actionable", meaning needing to be installed - Have noticed that when I got into my Search Criteria for All Software Updates, if I choose the "required" (set greater than or equal to 1), most of my updates show less than 20 machines requiring the update, but the MS Malicious tool being required by over 2000 machines (about the size of my network). Really is an odd issue and has to be something that I'm missing on this one...

Hello, Apologies if this is a repeat thread, but I haven't been able to find the correct info I'm looking for here or anywhere else on the web. Have been using SCCM for quite some time, but only recently started using the SUP portion of it. I have created a Software Update Group with 119 updates contained in it (Essentially all Windows 10 Updates) as a base line to push out to my machines to make sure that they are as up to date as possible. However, the only thing that appears in the Software Center is the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool. I have a few Windows 7 machines still in my network (I know I know...) and when I created the baseline SUG for that, it picked up all the updates and went exactly as expected. Seems to be specific to Windows 10 and, from what I can gather on the web, is likely related to Dual Scan. However, I have disabled DualScan via GPO, but just can't quite get it to work and am pretty confused as lots of sites seem to say different things from the setup. A few things to note... - I have "Do not allow update deferral policies to cause scans against Windows Update" enabled via GPO - I have "Specify intranet Microsoft update service location" enabled via GPO with the needed URL/Port settings - My UpdatesStore.log file shows as querying against 119 updates...but then only installs the Microsoft Tool mentioned above. - If I run a compliance report from SCCM, it shows the machines as being up to date. My theory on that though is that since they are only applying the Microsoft Tool and that is what is showing as needing to install, it "thinks" that it is compliant. - Have confirmed that updates are not installing as, if I click the "Check online for updates from Microsoft Update", it finds the needed updates. I'm sure I'm probably missing something obvious, but am about at my wits end trying to figure this out as was really proud of myself when saw my compliance numbers raise substantially when first deployed everything...then I started to notice that they weren't actually installing all of the updates.

Thanks Martin and Dave. Had a feeling that was what was happening, just wanted to make sure I was thinking along the right lines. We are running the CB version of SCCM, so Dave, I'll have to look more into the URL you listed to see how to really set this up so we can avoid this in the future. Many thanks!

Hey everyone! So, I'm dealing with an issue here and am hoping everyone may be able to help me figure out what happened as I work through it. Have been using SCCM for several years now for reimaging machines, both as bare-metal installs and refreshes of current machines. However, we purchased several hundred machines this past school year, which we ended up imaging via a flash drive created in SCCM via the bootable media tool along with a USB to Ethernet adapter. The flash drive didn't contain the actual image, but only served as a means to connect the machine back to the server via the USB to Ethernet adapter. No problem there...until this school year. We reimaged all of these machines this Summer and I'm finding that many are having trust related issues as many seem to have the wrong computer name (many a name that belongs to another machine). I've never run into this before I think I know the answer, but am just looking for confirmation. I use a variable within my SCCM task sequence that can pick up that computer name and, while imaging, give the technician the option to take the old name or enter a new one. Since these machines all are named already, we typically just skip this option and use the old name. So, my question...how exactly does SCCM remember the computer name when reimaging? My theory is that since we used the same USB Ethernet adapters between several machines, SCCM used the MAC address of the adapter itself instead of something on the machine to remember the computer name and that is why I'm running into the issue of the same computer name on multiple machines... I realized there isn't much I can do at this point other than wait for my student users to bring there computers to me (it's a 1 to 1 program we recently initiated) and unjoin them from the domain, correctly name the computer, and then rejoin the machine, but just looking for confirmation of the issue so I know what to avoid next time we reimage the laptops. Thoughts? Thanks in advance!

Thanks Clareq! Found them under the tools folder in the install path. Just put in the GPO, so we'll see how that works out. Thank again!

Clareq, You had mentioned that you used admin templates...is this something you downloaded to add into your GPO similar to how you can download Office ADMX files for templates? Or was it a setting already available in a normal GPO? I pretty well versed in GPOs, but never have used them to configure SCCM. I normally push out my client from the console using the automatic site wide push, so I typically don't use GPO to push out...or is that how you push out your client and you attach those extra properties to it?

So, it looks like my clients that are pointing to the old system won't automatically pick up the new one from wha tI have seen so far on a machine I am testing. In fact, when I got into "Site" tab on my test machine that didn't even have an entry for the "currently assigned site code", I tried hitting the Find Site button and it didn't seem to find my site automatically. Once I manually typed in my site code though and applied the settings, the correct information populated in the General tab. At least now it is pointing to the right site code and I can get access to the machine from within the config console. Does anyone know of a script or something I could use that would re-assign my client computers to insure they are pointing to the correct site code?

Clareq, Thanks for the reply! Actaully, I think we may have found the possible issue as I also posted this over on Windows Noob. One thing I didn't think of checking was my System Management container within ADSI on the server. When I setup the new server, I had forgotten to give the new server full permissions over the container. In fact, the container still had references to my old server, which likely explains why some of my clients were defaulting to that instead. I just now deleted all of the old references to the old server in the container and gave my new server full permissions over it, so we'll see if that does the trick.

Hello, Ok, I am trying to figure out a somewhat wierd issue that I've been having for sometime now that I think I finally have a handle on as to what is causing my issues. I'll try to be breif... Several months ago, we moved from SCCM 2012 to current branch (on 1710 now). During that move, I was also asked to migrate the server from one host to another with a new server name (old one was just "SCCM", new one is "WCSSCCMS01") along with a new IP address. I did a fresh install of Windows Server 2016 along with the CB of SCCM and migrated the data over from the old server using the Migration tool built into SCCM (under the Administration tab on left in the console). Since then though, I've seemed to have "odd" issues that I never could explain. Task sequences that worked flawlessly before now had issues sometimes finishing or taking much much longer than before. Some deployments of software would never seem to get to machines. Things of that nature. I had noticed that many of my migrated objects stilll had the Package ID of the old server as well and, thinking that may have been part of the problem, I proceeded to recreate my task sequnces entirely on the new server thinking it would help. However, I have noticed that, while a machine will finish imaging and boot to Windows, the client seems to be corrupt. In fact, when I go into the Control Panel, the Configuration Manager isn't even listed! My fix has been to reinstall the client from the SCCM console and force to uninstall/install the client with the option to specify the site checked. This does some to work 85-90% of the time. Now for the strange part...I had to image a fresh machine today out of the box and realizd that I hadn't given it the right name during imaging and, upon booting into Windows, I proceeded to change the name. Since the config client hadn't installed and I just renamed it, I knew it wouldn't show up in SCCM just yet to push the client to it, I thought I'd just go into the SCCM folder on teh server and install the client from there by double-clicking the ccmsetup.exe file as I had done before in my old setup. It went ahead and installed "some" of the client. It only listed 6 tabs at the top (General, Components, Actions, Site, Cache, and Network). Additonally, the only actions available were "Machine Policy Retreival" and "User Policy Reteival." Odd I know...but the oddest part was that, under the General tab, it shows my assigned management point as being my old server! It even shows the site code of the old setup as well. That old server doesn't even exist anymore and has been deleted from AD completly at this point as well as it's DNS entries. My guess is that when it goes to install the client during a task sequence, it is somehow trying to pull MP of the old server and that is likely causing my wierd issues with sequnces not finishing and software not depoying correctly as I likely have several corrup installs out there. Anyone out there have a clue on how I can fix this? I don't even know where to start looking on this one... Thanks in advance for anyone who can assist...

Hey All! Have kind of a wierd one that I just can't quite seem to figure out and was hoping someone out there may have a solution. So it seems that ever since I have reimaged our Lenovo Yoga 11e laptops with the 1703 image of Windows 10, I can't seem to get the auto-rotate feature to work automatically. It worked fine in previous version of Windows 10. More specifically, the feature I am referring to is where you can fold the screen back (its a 2-in-1 device) and Windows asks you to go into tablet mode. You say yes and the screen changes accordingly. However, if you rotate the screen (to go into tent mode for example), the screen will not rotate with you. Have tried various pieces of software from Lenovo with no luck until just a little bit ago when I realized a big clue. It seems that if I just press "Ctrl + Alt + Arrow key" to flip the screen just one time and then take it back to the "standard" rotation, I can flip the computer around and it rotates on its own just as it should! Now, that is also with NO extra lenovo software and no other changes being made! Also, if you reboot the computer, it loses the setting until you manually adjust the rotation, in which it will then start to rotate automatically again just as it should. I have several hundred of these models and could really use some help with this if anyone has an idea as to the cause or, even better, a solution. Any ideas? Thanks, Scott

Ahh! Can't believe I didn't try "setup.exe -s"! Could have sworn that I did that one, but I think I did everything with a "/" instead of "-" Looks like the "setup.exe -s" worked! Now just gotta get it into SCCM... Thanks Mrwoberts!

Mrwoberts, thanks for the reply! Here is a link for the software: Product support Once there, it is under the Applications tab. Any help you can provide would be most appreciated as I just can't seem to figure this one out and I can usually get this kind of stuff working... Thanks!

Hey Everyone! I'm hoping someone out there can help me with a problem I'm trying to figure out. We recently purchased a large number of Acer TravelMate laptops for a 1:1 program we are piloting at our schools. However, there is one piece of software I have not been able to figure out how to deploy over the network. Does anyone know how to silently install the Acer Quick Access software via command line? I've tried all the normal /s /S /silent /qb /q type commands, but nothing seems to work. Any ideas out there? Here is a link for the software if you are unfamiliar with it: Acer Quick Access Thanks in advance! Scott

Hello, I'm running into an issue I just can't seem to get past. We are starting a 1:1 computer program here at my school and we just received roughly 500 laptops (Acer TravelMate B117-MP). Since they have no ethernet ports, I decided to just go ahead and image them with flash drives and then just join them to domain via wireless once they finish taking the image. We've gone through over a 100 machines so far and most have not have not had issues. However, I am running into a handful that just won't image. They boot up from the flash drive and then, once they get into the WinPE enironment, they simply restart back into the normal Windows. I did notice that if I brought up the command prompt just before it tried rebooting, it would stop rebooting so I was able to get a hold of the log file in the machine. Not sure why, but it has the error in it saying that "There are no task sequences available to this computer.. Please ensure you have at least one task sequence advertised to this computer. Unspecified error (Error: 80004005; Source: Windows)" However, it is the only task sequence on the flash drive and I am not using any type of WMI queries on the TS, so it should just image the machine, regardless of why kind it is. I've attached to this the readout of the SMSTS.log file that I pulled from the machine. Anyone have any ideas on this one as I am becoming baffled at this point?

Sorry for the late response. Had some personal things come up and have been a bit distracted. Thanks Arthur for the great idea about the Windows Store for Business as I had not heard of that before. I looked into it and it turns out we already have an account! However, I am running into an issue downloading the offline version of an app (think it may be something with our firewall...can't get past the actual download button). Do you (or anyone else for that matter) know if the "online" version "requires" the Windows Store to also be installed? I downloaded the appx bundle for the online version and could not get it deployed for the life of me. I even tried installing it manually using both the included PowerShell install file as well as the included BAT file (that really just runs the PowerShell in the end) and I couldn't get it to install either way. My guess is that it may require the Windows Store to also be installed since it is the "online" version... Anyone else run into that problem? Or have a different idea? For that matter, anyone else have an idea to deploy/install the Windows Store back onto a machine that has had the Store removed from an image and then sysprepped and deployed? Thanks again all! Scott

Hello All! I hope someone out there can help me with the current issue I am facing as I have been unable to find a solution and need some help. In creating our Windows 10 image, I removed most of the built-in provisioned apps, including the Windows Store, as it was always more of a nuisance in Windows 8/8.1 than anything else and nobody used it and we officially didn't have a reason to use it. So, I removed the Apps (and Store), sysprepped the image, captured it and have been deploying it (rather smoothly I might add) since then. However, now that we are on Windows 10 and the school year is 2 weeks in, I've been asked to find a way to get the Minecraft EDU version from the Windows Store onto several machines. However, I have been unable to find a way to restore the Store on any machine that has been imaged with that sysprepped image (so, namely, ALL of my machines). I have tried the directions from the following sites without success: 1. Windows Store app missing in Windows 10 2. How to Uninstall Windows 10’s Built-in Apps (and How to Reinstall Them) 3. Run DISM to repair Windows System Image in Windows 10 I have also tried copying the C:\Program Files\WindowsApps folder from my machine (which was actually installed by hand with Windows 10 so I could test things initially) that still contains the Store to another machine and running the commands from the websites listed above thinking that may do the trick as well, but still haven't had any success. Other sites I have researched have suggested "upgrading" the machine from Windows 10 to Windows 10 using the Windows Media Creation Tool. However, that is not really an option as I may have to potentially do this to hundreds of machines. I would like to find a way that I can push this out either via SCCM or some kind of script whether it uses PowerShell or VBS if need be (PowerShell preferably though as I hate VBS!). Either way, I would just like to find some way to make this work even if just for a few machines to get me by without haveing to "upgrade" the machine over itself. I'm running out of options here and running out of ideas and could really use some help with this one. Anyone out there have any ideas? Thanks, Scott

Hello all! I've been trying to figure something out and I just can't seem to find the info I need, so was hoping someone here might have the answer. I currently have a Windows 8.1 image that has been deployed to both students and staff. While Office 2013 ProPlus is included in the image, we didn't realize that Windows 8.1 also comes with it's own personal version of the OneNote app (not making the same mistake in my Windows 10 image), which doesn't seem to work with our business version of Office 365. Therefore, I'm trying to figure out a way to set the desktop version of OneNote 2013 as the default note-taking app. Otherwise, we have many students and staff that try the "personal" app version (unknowingly) and can't get into their stuff and then get frustrated and give up. So, anyone out there know how to either set OneNote 2013 (desktop) as the default app or perhaps set the file association to point to the desktop version instead? Thanks so much in advance! Scott

Ok, another note that I just realized. I think it may have something to do with my Sync Partnerships. I am doing a full sync on my user's account in my VM and, while it was syncing, I was able to search. However, once it finished syncing, I again lost all of my results. I also noticed that when I go to view my Sync Partnerships, the entry for my home drive only shows up when I manually initiate a sync by right-clicking the home drive and selecting Sync. Once it finishes syncing, it disappears. Am I wrong, or should the entry always at least be listed in there? Normally, it should say "Last Sync at xxx date", correct? Also, oddly enough, I kept the Indexing Options windows open by chance and saw it suddenly drop from 1500+ items indexed to about 500! Once I continued on with the sync, it is starting to count up again. Man is this annoying...

Ok, I am about to pull my hair out (whats left anyway) on this one. Starting about a month or so ago, we started having random users report that they were having issues performing searches in Windows 7 (some also in Windows 8.1). I was able to narrow the problem down to something with Offline Files. If I disable a user's offline files, then they are able to search the files and folders on a network drive without issue. However, we use Folder Redirection for My Documents and then Offline Files for most staff. The nice thing about Offline Files is that it allows the local machine to use the Windows Search Index to actually index the files and their contents so that you can search much faster. However, that is no longer working. In fact, with Offline Files enabled, I do a search on a user's home drive and I get 0 results! I disable the Offline Files and I can at least get results back of their folders and filenames, but not the content. Unfortunately, I need to be able to search the content for certain users. It use to work and, from what I can tell, nothing really changed on the machines. After many hours of googling and testing, and I have noticed that if I remove the Windows Search feature, reboot, reinstall Windows Search with another reboot, I am able to search for the first couple minutes. Then, inexplicably, I can do the same search I just did and get no results whatsoever. I was working on a user's account last night and thought I had it solved after re-imaging her machine. I did a full sync of her files (which took about 3 hours) and watched as the index counted up her files. I performed a search and it successfully returned both files and content of file results. However, after trying it again this morning, i get 0 results and her index only shows as having indexed 400 files...last night I saw that same number in the thousands... Also, I logged in as the same user in my VM machine and was able to get results returned successfully while working with colleague on the phone just a little bit ago and then, after talking for 5 minutes, I did the same search and the results disappear again! I am at my wits end on this one and could really use some advice if anyone has any ideas out there. Thanks, Scott

I would also be interested in learning how to do this. I just recently (as in last week) made our first Windows 8.1 images and, while I have the default profile and Start Screen configured the way I like, I still can not get around the fact that it tries to "install" apps every single time a new user logs into the computer. Any help getting past this would be most appreciated. We are upgrading from Server 2003 to Server 2012 R2 this Summer, so maybe there are some group policies that might help with this?

So, just wanted to update this in case anyone else is having similar issue. After updating to MDT 2013 (twice), my issue still persisted. Therefore, I took my same WIM file that I was having problems with and have now switched over to SCCM for my deployments. Had been wanting to switch over anyway, just wasn't planning on doing it right now. Anyway, I have pretty much given up on the issue and am delving full force into SCCM (finally!).

I was thinking about the same thing with the possiblitity of the drivers. So, I downloaded fresh drivers from Lenovo's website (it's a Lenovo X130e Netbook) and used the DISM tools to inject the driver directly into the image. I have rebooted the server several times as well as changing the WDS multicast speeds around, but no luck. As far as I know, no changes have been made to our switches in quite some time and, as I stated earlier, I am still able to image a physical machine (on Multicast) without issue using the old image. But if I image a X130e with the new image on multicast, it drops out. Change it to unicast and it works just fine. Just upgraded to MDT 2013 a few minutes ago and am regenerating my boot images now. Hopefully, that will make a difference... A damn strange problem...

A couple more notes that I have found out (some new as of this morning). 1. Yes, I can still image a different physical machine with an older image. No issues there. Therefore, Multicast across our network should be working correctly. 2. If I start deploying my new image via multicast, then tell it to “bypass” multicast from the WDS server (hence, changing it over to unicast mid-download), it works. a. If I let that same session continue with the multicast, it fails. 3. As of this morning, I am not longer able to multicast into my copy of VMWare Workstation. Before, my tests would fail (with the same errors I get on the physical machines), but they would at least connect to the multicast session and download the image. Now, both my vms are stuck at “Attempting multicast transfer”. If I tell it to bypass the multicast (again, from the WDS server), the connection works right away and things work just fine. One thing to note though is that when I look at my multicast transmissions, it shows my VM status as waiting until I tell it to bypass…then it goes through as normal. 4. I have also tried manually injecting my network drivers into my main image WIM file using DISM, but same results. Am about to try upgrading my copy of MDT 2012 Update 1 to MDT 2013 here in a few minutes (making a backup now) to see if that has any effect, but I have to admit I have my doubts that will actually fix anything, but here’s hoping! Thanks for the advice so far! Scott

Hey Everyone! Hopefully someone will be able to help me on this as I have been tearing my hair out the last few days trying to nail down what is causing my issues. OK, so I have had an MDT 2012 Update 1 server (Server 2008 R2 with WDS) up and running for quite some time now with (usually) no issues. I have gone ahead and started making my new image for my school system (Windows 7 x64 w/SP1) and am using a thick image approach so that everything is in the image and we can hopefully get things deployed faster. However, when I go to deploy my new image, the client makes the connection and goes through the process of downloading the image, restarts (as part of the normal standard task sequence) and then presents the attached error shown below in PrimaryImageError2.PNG. After click OK on that error, I am then presented with the deployment summary screen with a listing of errors (as shown in PrimaryImageError.PNG). The odd thing is that if I go into my Deployment Workbench, right-click on my Deployment Share and turn off multicasting, the image loads perfectly every time. Seeing as how I am trying to apply this to several hundred machines this Summer, using unicast sessions is far from ideal. I have Googled up and down the internet for possible fixes. I have re-captured my image (made in VMWare Workstation) several times with different options in sysprep thinking that may have caused issues, but no luck. We were hoping to start imaging machines almost 2 full days ago now and I can only stay up till 1-2AM so many times in a row trying to figure this out. Anybody out there have any ideas or advise? Was debating upgrading to MDT 2013 to see if that fixes any issues, but I'm trying not to cause other problems/conflicts as well this close to my deployment time . However, if anyone thinks that might work, I'll definitely try it... Thanks in advance for any suggestions and your time Scott