johnhart96

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I am working on our windows 10 group policies and I have configured something that is causing a problem with the windows 10 start menu. When I click the start button or press the windows button on the keyboard nothing happens, it does not appear. I have narrowed it down to the attached policy. Does anyone know what is causing it? John SMS Windows 10 Policy.zip

Got it!, Thanks, Not it is disabling edge and I have set that to enable.

Hi, I am trying to use AppLocker to prevent access to some Windows 10 Apps. I have configured the AppLocker as per my screen case: App Locker - JHartSMS's library But it is still allowing me to access them. Any ideas ? John

Thank you that worked!

Hi All, I am working on our Windows 10 Group Policies at the moment and am currently having a problem with managed software deploying over group policy. I am using the same policy for Windows 7 as I know this works and it is all the same software to be deployed. But all packages fail to install, I get a "Network access is denied" message when I run a GP results wizard on the machine (see screen print). Does anyone know how I overcome this problem ? Thanks John

We use WSUS, I think I have got to the bottom of the problem now. We have recently been testing Adobe Acrobat Reader DC in this room. This package has been trying to update and causing this.

Hi, One of our classrooms is having machines randomly shutdown unannounced. They do shutdown correctly. I can see in the event logs that the error is from USER32 "The attempt by user DOMAIN\USER to restart/shutdown computer COMPUTERNAME failed" Has anyone ever had this before ? John EventLogs.zip

I have spoken to SMART and they have confirmed it is a problem with NetSupport School using the same ports.

Hi, If your budget allows for it, take a look at this software. We use this as our main pc power profilling system and it works a dream modus interactive - Powerwise John

Hi All, We have had some reports of SMART notebook 15.1 randomly crashing on us. Has anyone found a fix yet ? John

Hi All, I am a complete novice to this. But I have used dreamspark as a student. How do I go about setting the school up on this ? I think the only think we have that is remotely relevant is a volume licence agreement. Thanks John

Hello Fellow Edugeekers! I'm thinking of deploying one machine on our domain with Windows 10. just to see what it is like etc with our software such as Serif, Office 2013 and more crucial some old packages like ProDesktop. Does anyone know if our current windows 7 policy will work with Windows 10 ? We are running 100% server 2012 r2 and I think there will be compatibility problems Thanks John

Don't know if it is the same for everyone but. We have Windows 10 showing up in our VLSC but I don't have any keys for it. We are told to contact our licence authorities

Hi All, Just wanted to write a quick post to inform everyone about a unique piece of software that is quite hidden away. A small company called Modus Interactive develop a computer management system (they call it a framework) that allows for running of common tasks and scripts. I would say it is a bit like impero but I think it is a stronger platform because it is not aimed to education and is a very flexible solution. Its broken down into the following main componants. Management - Running of common tasks and scheduling of tasks. Reports - Gives detailed hardware reports. This is handy for us because it allows us to export our inventory. PXE - Use can use this to boot a Pre-OS (WinPE) environment to perform OS deployments or imaging. Power Profiling - I believe this is sold as an extra plugin but it has saved us thousands of pounds a year. See our case study PC Driver Management - Mainly for PC building but is really good for keeping all drivers up to date. Software Deployment - Best solution I have ever seen for running silent installs from them annoying EXE installers. It is a perfect solution for us because we are a school that can't really afford to go VDI and we have common tasks that we use such as profile deleting and remote takeover. The Modus team are also extremely helpful its like having the developer onsite with us. It's hard to explain how awesome and cheap this platform is but honestly I am in no way affected with them and I am promoting it. Checkout modus interactive - Home Screen prints:

Yeh, That sounds familiar to me too. But I think running the uninstall first at the top of the script will help. J

In regards to the uninstall this might work [color=#2A2A2A][font=Calibri]\\server\share\Office14\setup.exe /uninstall ProPlus [/font][/color]

Hi, We uses a startup script on the machines to query if Office 2013 is installed. setlocal REM ********************************************************************* REM Environment customization begins here. Modify variables below. REM ********************************************************************* REM Get ProductName from the Office product's core Setup.xml file, and then add "office15." as a prefix. set ProductName=Office15.PROPLUS REM Set DeployServer to a network-accessible location containing the Office source files. set DeployServer=\\server\share$\Office2013 REM Set ConfigFile to the configuration file to be used for deployment (required) set ConfigFile=\\server\share$\Office2013\ProPlus.WW\config.xml REM Set LogLocation to a central directory to collect log files. set LogLocation=\\server\share$\Office2013\Logs REM ********************************************************************* REM Deployment code begins here. Do not modify anything below this line. REM ********************************************************************* IF NOT "%ProgramFiles(x86)%"=="" (goto ARP64) else (goto ARP86) REM Operating system is X64. Check for 32 bit Office in emulated Wow6432 uninstall key :ARP64 reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432NODE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\%ProductName% if NOT %errorlevel%==1 (goto End) REM Check for 32 and 64 bit versions of Office 2013 in regular uninstall key.(Office 64bit would also appear here on a 64bit OS) :ARP86 reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\%ProductName% if %errorlevel%==1 (goto DeployOffice) else (goto End) REM If 1 returned, the product was not found. Run setup here. :DeployOffice start /wait %DeployServer%\setup.exe /adminfile %DeployServer%\Updates\Office2013.msp echo %date% %time% Setup ended with error code %errorlevel%. >> %LogLocation%\%computername%.txt REM If 0 or other was returned, the product was found or another error occurred. Do nothing. :End Endlocal

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Yeh, TASC asked me to do a table speed test and said they would look into it.

Hi, I am having the same problems. We have tried giving the SQL database more resources and that has helped. But overall still having a problem. John

I had this problem a few weeks ago with machines on 10.9. Reseting the Pram fixed the issue for me.

That sounds cool, If possible, can you upload the script and a blank CSV ?

Hi, We use a workstation management system that can schedule the redeployment of PCs. I do this a lot for out of hours rebuilds. Does anyone know a way of doing the same thing with SOLUS 3 installs ? John

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