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    Its seems our supported teachers and students like to eat SMART board pens… The pens for our SMART boards are always going missing! We have a mix of 6000 series and MX boards. The replacement pens from SMART are quite pricey! Anyone out there using any functional cheaper alternatives with their SMART boards?
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    Hi Everyone, Have an issue where I am unable to send Profile Manager commands over the internet. For example, I can send Profile Manager commands over the LAN normally. I can enable lost mode, update device info etc.. But when it comes to doing it to a managed device that's been taken off site or tethered to my iPhone, when sending a command from the profile manage console it just sticks in the job queue and nothing happens. When I check the php.log I can see the jobs I requested when the iPad was on the LAN but I am not able to see the jobs that I requested when the iPad was taken off site or tethered to my iPhone. I've spoken to our ISP who manages the ports and they have assured me that all necessary ones for Profile Manager have been opened up. I've tried my best to troubleshoot why this may not be working but i'm at a loose end. Anyone out there who is able to lend a hand?
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    Hi Guys, Have a weird issue, I've got three users at a school with Windows 10 LTSB 2016 laptops and SB480's SMART Boards. SMART Notebook 17.1 gets installed via GPO. For some reason, the drivers for the SB480 boards keep uninstalling/corrupting on these laptops. Re-installing the drivers from the SMART website fixes the issue but within a week, the users boards interactivity has ceased working again. When the board becomes un-interactive, looking in device manager I can see a "Touchscreen" device with a yellow windows bang on it. I am presuming this is where the SB480 driver has uninstalled/corrupted? Has anybody else had this issue? Has anyone found a fix?
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    Fixed this! After a lot of head scratching... Decided just to download the .msi again for the .admx files and try reinstalling it on the server. This worked! Now able to see this. Hope this helps someone!
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    Hi Guys, I've done some 1709 Windows 10 images that I would like to stop upgrading to the latest feature update released by MS. I've looked online and found that admins have done this via the "Defer Windows Updates" found under Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update. I've updated the GPO central store to the latest Windows 10 1709 .admx and .adml files but I am unable to see this option! The server GP is running from is Windows Server 2012 R2. Please find the attached picture of what I am seeing in gpmc.msc. Anyone out there know why this is or knows how I can fix this?
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    Sorry for not replying sooner! You may have figured this out already... To resolve this I just turned this setting off via the policy control on the BitDefender console and the policies then applied. I didn't have chance to properly look into it but I am sure there will be a way to whitelist local network addresses via the policy control!
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    Quick update on this, I have a contact at SMART which I have asked about this issue. He got back to me with the following: its not looking good...
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    Thanks for your reply. Can you confirm if the fonts you create using the websites you suggested join up in SMART Notebook 17.1?
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    Hello, I am looking for a working cursive writing font that will join up in SMART Notebook 17.1. The school I support uses LetterJoin, which works on SMART Notebook 11.4 but will not join up in 17.1. I've contacted SMART and they said that they don't support the font. LetterJoin say that they keep asking SMART to support it, SMART say they will in the next update but then they don't add the support for it in said update. Is anyone out there using a cursive writing font that works in SMART Notebook 17.1?
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    Is the policy applied to the computer configuration or to the user configuration? If it's printer mapping I always apply it to the user configuration.
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    I've really enjoyed using MDT so far, it seems quite dynamic although it does require a bit of troubleshooting to get going!
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    How long have you had them for? I've noticed they've got a 5 year warranty so they must be pretty reliable?
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    I had this issue with a school we took on with Lenovo Flex 10 machines. I've started to use MDT to create custom offline installation (USB) media. I'd advise looking into this as you can created base images from HyperV VMs to apply to multiple machines and all you need to do is change the selection profile driver packs!
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    Are you having issues getting the printers mapped or just managing print settings? If its mapping them id say look at your print drivers and make sure that they match the machine OS that you are applying it to. If its managing them might want to check your antivirus\windows firewall settings? I had it before where after Bitdefender installed it stopped all GPOs being applied from the DC.
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    Have had a good offer on one of these recently for a school I support, anyone else using these at the moment? Are they any good?
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    Managed to get mine working by using the below .xml string to define how big the actual start menu was and then playing around with the size of the tiles. Thanks again for your help and guidance, there were so many forums and videos out there regarding this topic but none of them made it clear. This one does!
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    Thank you for that info, that has broke the back of the problem. I have now managed to get redirected start menus working in Windows 10 1709. I do still have a problem relating to the Start Menu Tile Layout. I can export the .xml normal, it gets applied by GP normally but the layout isn't correct. Please see the attached pictures, the Desired picture is what im exporting and the Current is what is being applied, any idea why this might be? Thanks again for your help on this. Desired Result (what i am exporting) Current Result (what gets applied via gp) startlayoutv2.txtstartlayoutv2.txtstartlayoutv2.txt
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    Thanks for the info and your reply. So am I right in think that if I setup a GPO to copy the IE shortcut to %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ , pin it to the start menu and the export the startlayout.xml, it would then show up? Or am I over thinking it? Also, thank you for the heads up regarding Applocker and the GPO path regarding stopping programs from running, this will be good to use if I am unable to get rid of the folders from the start menu All Programs list.
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    Hello, can someone please lend me a hand with this one? Feel like I am hitting my head against a brick wall aha... I want to set up a default start menu for all student users. I’ve made sure I’ve got the latest ADMX files for Windows 10 1709. Is it possible to redirect the start menu like you could in Windows 7? I’d like to setup a start menu where each student user has the same pinned tiles to quickly access programs and that stops them accessing such things as CMD from the start menu. I have attempted to get this working using the Powershell cmdlet export-startlayout and then applying this via GPO. It does apply to the user I was testing but the tiles/groups I arranged loaded in a different format than what I exported them as, it looked all disorganised and some apps (Such as IE) didn't show up at all. I will get screenshots when next on site but will attach the .xml. I am also struggling to find a way to restrict the user access to CMD, Powershell etc… How can I do this for Windows 10? I want to get rid of these folders (Windows Powershell, Administrative Tools etc..) for the student users start menus and just have some of the windows apps and all the installed programs appear in the all programs list. Users just have Local Profiles in this current setup. Please tell me there is a nice neat, group policy way of doing this? Why have Microsoft made this so difficult? startlayoutv1.txt
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    Has anyone had any luck with this? Need to implement this for standard school users.
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    Im new to using MDT and im not sure if its able to do what I want it to do. I have created a Windows 10 image and got it ready for capture. Normally, I would plug in a network cable and capture the image using WDS. The problem is, the laptop is a Lenovo Flex 10 which doesn't have a Ethernet port, this means no network boot. What I want to do is use MDT to create a USB stick which runs the sysprep and capture sequence offline so then I can capture the .wim to my external HDD. I then want to use MDT to create another USB stick which I can use to build the rest of the laptops with the image I captured. Please can someone help me with this? I've trawled the web for a guide on how to do this but haven't been able to find anything.
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    I'm looking into setting up Apple Classroom 2.0 for a school that has recently purchased some iPads. I was wondering if anyone has successfully set this up with Meraki MDM and is now using it? Looking online at supporting documents from Apple and Meraki it definitely looks do-able but all the forums I have read so far people seem to have struggled with the initial setup or gave up. So before I invest time in the setup, are there any success stories out there?..
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    Definitely have made that .cfg in the ProgramData with the code you supplied earlier. Verbose setup log for the MSI is below: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2qHQCd8esJcUXQwWnYtUlhUREk/view?usp=sharing
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    Thanks for you reply but unfortunately i'm still getting the error message when I try to install the either MSI. Picture of the install sequence attached if it helps. Did it just go all the way through for you and install the program?
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    Hello I've got a issue regarding the extraction of the Java MSI (8.101) from the .exe setup process. When I run the windows installer it crashes with the error: "There is a problem with this Windows Installer Package. A program required for this install to complete could not ben run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor." Has anyone else out there come across this and managed to get around it? Any and all help is appreciated.
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