just_david

Found a solution in the end. We found that on a machine with the scheduled task still present we were able to export a XML file to deploy to all our machines. How are your GP's working? we can't ours to work for love nor money. same error every time, GP won't let us store a password when making a scheduled task

MS14-025 https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms14-025.aspx MS14-025: Vulnerability in Group Policy Preferences could allow elevation of privilege: May 13, 2014 It didn't effect existing group policies, unless you tried to modify the policy. It only became a problem for us last month when we had an open day and thus disabled the policy. When we tried to re enable the policy it wouldn't let us.

That appears to be how we're already doing it, and no longer works with the microsoft security update.

Would you be so kind as to share those gpo's? If i could make mine work again that would be great

I think thats what we used to have, but due to a Microsoft update in may it no longer works. CPassword attribute error - known security risk - ms14-025 being the cause of my misery

At this point I'm almost 100% sure there's no money available. We used to have a working GPO that did it but sadly this was killed off by Microsoft in an update. Which is why I'm aiming more for a script

HI, I'm looking for a script that can be run on a server every 5,6,7,8,9 pm that can run a user interruptable shutdown command to all our PC's At the moment I have a simple .bat file that'll live on the server that runs the following command for every PC: shutdown -s -m \\computername1 -t 30 -c "Shutdown in X" shutdown -s -m \\computername2 -t 30 -c "Shutdown in X" shutdown -s -m \\computername3 -t 30 -c "Shutdown in X" and so on. It's working great, except that it's not sending users the warning. Does anyone have any ideas? Both for resolving the issue and for expanding on the scripts functionality.

Is there a way to block a users access to the windows 7 public libraries? We've got a certain batch of users all of which can access the public documents on whichever computer they are working on. This is causing the obvious issue where they end up saving work locally by mistake, and then loosing the work. It only seems to be one batch of users, and mostly in 1 room They have their regular folder redirections, but the default especially for in office is pointing them at a public folder Has anyone encountered this befor?

I found the fix. Wierdly nither of the 2 methods worked alone, so i had to do both: user config > Pref > CPS > folder options and Computer configuration > Preferences > Control Panel Settings > Folder Options > New > File Type and point it at both the user and workstation OU

Okay I've managed to get vlc up on my computer and now the GPO has applied with your settings. However it still doesn't appear to be applying, I can't get it to overright MP11 assoc .mkv returns .mkv=WMP11.AssocFile.AVI Even though I've set MKV's to be associated with paint >.< although when i do try to run it it throws a paint error now. progress of sorts.

I see, I'm currently trying to do it via user config > Pref > CPS > folder options I'm trying your method however GP isn't giving me the option to select VLC media file in associated class, I'm going to re-install vlc and try it again and I'll let you know how it goes

I'm trying to make a gpo to make .mkv files automatically open on all our machines in VLC player. I've got this so far [ATTACH=CONFIG]27522[/ATTACH] But it doesn't seem to be working. Am I missing something?