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OK, that's great. We'll have a word with some of these and see what happens. Thanks for the help everyone

Sorry, I realise that I'm not offering up much information for you to work with. I've been asked to do a quick bit of investigation with not a lot of information myself! A couple of the schools use G Suite for Education, and would probably just want day to day support and perhaps some help with future hardware purchases. The other schools I'm not sure about yet. There's a possibility of other schools being added over time, and they'll probably have different requirements, so I guess having a company that's fairly flexible would help.

Ideally, across the whole of the UK. At the moment, we're talking about a couple of schools in the Yorkshire area, and a couple in the London area.

Sorry, UK.

Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this! I used to work in a school IT department, but recently moved on to a different sector. The place that I'm now working at is trying to help out a few schools across the country with their IT needs, so we're trying to find them a managed service provider. Does anybody have some good recommendations (outside of RM ) for companies that deal with IT services in schools? Thanks in advance!

Got a bit of an interesting one. Not particularly important in the grand scheme of things, just something that's nagging me a little. I recently wrote a Powershell script for cleaning up people's roaming profiles. I've got it to remove various things, including cookies, recent items, Flash and Java cached files, older than a certain amount of days. This looks to have helped a fair amount with the speed of people's logons, but I've noticed that it has removed a number of people's wallpaper. People who have saved images and then set them as their wallpaper haven't been affected, it looks like it's just affected people who set their wallpaper using an image opened in IE. I've checked against these users, and found that the 'Internet Explorer Wallpaper.bmp' located in AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer is still present. So, I'm guessing that there is another file elsewhere that is linked to this, but I'm not entirely sure where that file would be. My best guess would be either from the Cookies or Recent/Recent Items folders, I can't see the other folders included in my script having anything to do with this.

Yea, they're all set to bypass. It looks like it's the way that the WPAD is configured. To be honest, it's an area that I'm not overly familiar with, someone else here looks after ISA. ISA will be going very soon, so I may just come back to this at a later date.

The reason I'm thinking it's ISA is from the errors that I've been seeing in the WUAHandler.log files. OnSearchComplete - Failed to end search job. Error = 0x80244021. WUAHandler 16/06/2015 15:06:48 4972 (0x136C) Scan failed with error = 0x80244021. WUAHandler 16/06/2015 15:06:48 4972 (0x136C) Here's what I get from running an error lookup: Same as HTTP status 502 - the server, while acting as a gateway or proxy, received an invalid response from the upstream server it accessed in attempting to fulfill the request. Source: Windows Update Agent From what I could find about this, it seems to be a proxy-related problem, and I've seen a few threads elsewhere that have mentioned changing entries from upper-case to lower-case. Are there any other log files that I can check out?

I've recently been given the task of starting up a standalone ConfigMgr site where I work. We have just over 900 systems here, and everything up to this point has gone reasonably smoothly. One of the last roles that I've configured is the Software Update Point. I've installed WSUS and the ConfigMgr role, and been able to synchronise updates. The only problem I'm now facing is actually deploying these updates. So far, I've been able to get the ConfigMgr client installed on ~720 of our machines, but when I look through the All Software Updates section, barely any of these machines are reporting that they need these updates, or that they are installed. To test, I deployed a set of Windows Defender updates, and only about 15 machines have reported back as compliant. The othes just sit in the "Client check passed/Active" section. After doing a little bit of research, it would seem that the issue is being caused by ISA. We currently use ISA 2006 here, and from what I can understand, the WPAD file generated by that changes all entries into lower-case. While the name of the server I created isn't in all caps, the SMS Provider name for the ConfigMgr server is. I've read that it's possible to go into the SQL tables and change some entries from upper-case to lower-case. It's not that I'm not comfortable doing something like that, just more whether or not that is actually advisable. Does anybody know if there's another way to resolve something like this? Or is fiddling with SQL table entries the only way? If so, does anybody know whereabouts the entries are that I would need to change?

Hi all, I've recently been playing around with our task sequences for OS deployments. I had initially integrated MDT into SCCM, so that I could use the MDT Tools and set the computer name as the machine's serial number. Due to our requirements here, I ended up just doubling the amount of task sequences. While this does work, it meant that every time I updated an application (Adobe's lovely Flash Player, for example), I would have to spend more time updating the task sequences. Perhaps an argument for learning how to set up dynamic variable lists, but that's for another day.. I then recently came across PowerShell script, that brings up a prompt towards the beginning of the sequence, so that we can manually enter the machine name. This has meant that I can reduce the number of task sequences back down to a more easily manageable number. However, I was wondering if anybody would be able to help me out with the following.. I would like to add an additional prompt before having to enter a computer name manually. Something along the lines of a "Would you like to rename this computer?", with "Yes" and "No" options. If you press "Yes", you're then given the prompt to enter a machine name. If you press "No", then the task for renaming the computer is skipped, and it will go ahead with the rest of the sequence. I would love to be able to whip up a script like this myself, but I'm not exactly a PowerShell wizard. One day, maybe! Anyway, any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks