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We ordered some of them some time last year from IDNS. Think they we're about fiver each.

Right click your deployment - properties - rules. Set the rules that you want. These are the one's I use: OSInstall=Y SkipCapture=NO SkipAdminPassword=YES AdminPassword= SkipProductKey=YES SkipComputerBackup=YES SkipBitLocker=YES EventService=http://servername:9800 SkipDeploymentType= YESDeploymentType=NEWCOMPUTER SkipLocaleSelection=YES UserLocale=en-GB SystemLocale=en-GB UIlanguage=en-US KeyboardLocale=0809:00000809 TimeZoneName=GMT Standard TimeSkipTimeZone=YES SkipRoles=YES SkipUserData=YES SkipSummary=YES There are more and somethings to change in the CustomSettings.ini file

Thanks for the info, pricing seems competitive at least.

Do you happen to know where pricing is in comparison to MLS? We have the self hosted internal MLS and never updated due to cost (nevermind the bad press).

Sorry for the late reply, is the RDS server going to be accessed from the web or internally only? I would set it up with your own certificates first as in the link I followed, check it all works then look into getting registered certs and what you need to do. We already had an exteral facing web server setup and I did not need to go through that part of the process.

We already had this certificate for our external facing server so did not need to buy/set one up.

I just configured RDS for us here. I got this error when I had the RD Gateway server name entered wrongly and when certificates were not trusted. This is what I followed https://www.virtuallyboring.com/setup-rd-gateway-role-on-windows-server-2012-r2/

Hi, We previously had 2 of the same print devices/queues going to the same printer. Yesterday I deleted the 2nd queue and changed the other to default B&W. I haven't been able to print from any devices since. When I print a test page directly from the Copier's admin console it prints out fine, and I can copy fine. When I try to print a test page from Print Manager on the Server it goes through the queue, says "Printing" and leaves the queue, the copier revs up like it's going to print something but doesn't, there is then no trace of a document trying to be printed. It is being pushed out via GPO and when printing from a client Machine, it leaves a "Printer State Error". A popup box should appear asking users to enter a user number, after which it will then print. To try and resolve this I have reinstalled a new print device instance - no luck with default settings. There is no interim software, just a the MFD Sharp admin console and Print Manager on 2012. Restarted the Spooler and restarted the Server. Any ideas?

We have started deploying W10, I install core software such as office/chrome/antivirus on the image before capturing, so there's no need to add them to the task sequence. You can add all software if you want, I just do one basic image that gets installed on everything then different task sequences to install the different software groups (Staff, IT, etc) As mentioned above, you a can turn most options off with a line in your Deployment share rules/settings.ini.

We run windows defender, disabling the Action Center was a major part of stopping access, along with restrictions you'd normally have for control panel etc. I'd also recommend disabling Toast notifications.

I found this a little while ago, it has been useful when troubleshooting MDT issues, rather than messing around trying to get the log off the computer itself, you can set up to store them in your share https://scriptimus.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/mdt-2010-storing-log-files-centrally/

I can't say that SkipProductKey it isn't you're issue, as I'm no expert, but I set up MDT over a year ago with "SkipProductKey=Yes" set since day 1 and I haven't had any issue capturing. Have you got a log of a failed capture?

Hi, we have had an issue for sometime now where users will log in and not have a drive available (that they have permissions for) or the drive will be there for so long and they will then lose the drive. I have not seen the issue first hand, and I can't say if it is effecting everyone, but it is often reported by the regular users. Is there anything we can look in to?

Hi All, We are currently looking at filtering and would like to know peoples opinions and facts about Smoothwall and SafetyNet. Is the price difference between the two worth it? Considering both Secondary and Primary. Thanks for any advice.

I haven't had a chance to try what's here in the thread yet, so sorry if it's an obvious answer, but I'm guessing you disable the Taskbar Search and Window View in settings and that is copied with the start items? Or is there is a different way about it? Do you know if you can pin items for all users?

Have you got anything pinned (or unpinned) to the task bar for all users? Just started looking into Windows 10 LTSB and this would be useful if you know how! Thanks.

Same, only being a technician for a year now and never had a problem Imaging any of our machines using MDT, getting them to actually PXE boot though...

Hi, Over the summer have carried out a number upgrades/updates, but some problems have appeared with our new copier/print queue not being deployed to anyone, and multiple users not being able to access the shared network drives. A new print server has been set up, the old machine still has print management on it, but is currently empty. All of the printers have being installed in the new print manager on a different server and can be deployed manually fine, but when trying to deploy via GPO there is no sign of this working, the machines do not pick this up at all, and we have made sure that the policy is assigned correctly and in the correct group, even creating a new folder with no other policies applied. Is there anything we might not have done that could be blocking this? Something we have noted is that under GP Management Editor, under windows settings, there is no "Deployed Printers" section. The second issue of Network Shares appeared where there are a number of staff unable to access the internet or shared drives via wireless. Connecting through Ethernet seems to resolve the issue, but I have had much time to test this. The reason it is so odd is because if I log in to an affected laptop, my shares/connection might be perfectly fine, but when logging them in the problem persists. So thinking account issue, but again staff are also able to log in to other machines and they seem to be perfectly fine. On top of printing, other changes included wireless upgrade (new APs and Controller), moved network shares, moved network home drives (from 2008R2 to 2012R2) If anyone has any suggestions they'd be appreciated.

Resolved, we found the hapconfig.xml file and edited them directly.

Hi, We are having an issue with HAP+ renaming UNC Paths or deleting folders I'm hoping someone might be able to help with. The majority of folders we have been able to rename, but there are 5 or 6 that we can't. When trying to delete one of the folders, it will remove itself from the list, but after saving and going back to My Files, it will have re-appeared. When trying to change the UNC path or any other details, the error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" The event log is below. System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at HAP.Web.Configuration.DriveMappings.Update(Char Drive, String UNC, DriveMapping New) at HAP.Web.API.setup.UpdateMapping(String origdrive, String origunc, String drive, String name, String unc, String enablereadto, String enablewriteto, String usagemode) at SyncInvokeUpdateMapping(Object , Object[] , Object[] ) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.SyncMethodInvoker.Invoke(Object instance, Object[] inputs, Object[]& outputs) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.DispatchOperationRuntime.InvokeBegin(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage5(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage11(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.MessageRpc.Process(Boolean isOperationContextSet) at HAP.Web.Configuration.DriveMappings.Update(Char Drive, String UNC, DriveMapping New) at HAP.Web.API.setup.UpdateMapping(String origdrive, String origunc, String drive, String name, String unc, String enablereadto, String enablewriteto, String usagemode) at SyncInvokeUpdateMapping(Object , Object[] , Object[] ) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.SyncMethodInvoker.Invoke(Object instance, Object[] inputs, Object[]& outputs) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.DispatchOperationRuntime.InvokeBegin(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage5(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage11(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.MessageRpc.Process(Boolean isOperationContextSet) After saving we are also displayed with "If you have not already done so, please edit ~/web.config with notepad, etc..., changing: to " This change has been made, is there anyway we can remove this?

The only machines capable would be the IT PCs, but I'm not likely to get 2 of them taken out of use. I think I will just have to take the image using one of the old laptops and hope everything sticks.

As I left on Friday I updated the deployment share and set off the task sequence in one last hope, and to my surprise (because I don't think I changed anything) it got passed Sysprep, and looked like it was going to work. Coming in this morning, it had failed, but with a different error at least! Not enough space to create the WIM. After a bit of searching I am guessing what happened is that it tried to use one of the UEFI partitions while creating the WIM, instead of the C partition. I can't see a specific way around this anywhere, and unfortunatly no logs or error codes were saved, just that it was related to ZTIDiskpart.wsf. I could, but I don't have a machine with more than 4GB of RAM, which makes things a bit difficult. This could be it, but why would I be able to sysprep normally and not through a task sequence?

Hi, We have some new Lenovo B50s here, of which I've been trying to capture a Windows 8.1 Image on through my MDT sysprep and capture task sequence, but it keeps failing. The task sequence will run, it will get to step 16/23 (Execute Sysprep), Sysprep will pop up, get to the "Processing generalize phase" and hang there for hours until cancelled, Deployment workbench will display it as "unresponsive". The same task sequence works perfectly other machines, with the same OS, only difference being brand/hardware. Now, I can sysprep the machine manually, but after that I have no way of capturing the image. Is there some sort of capture only task sequence I can set up and run in Windows PE? I will post the BDD log on Monday when I can, but does anyone have any ideas why sysprep keeps going unresponsive this way? (I know that creating images is best done on a clean VM, but we don't have virtualization facility at the moment.)

Just using WDS at the minute to capture with all software, and deployed with an unattend file. I guess what I'm lacking at the minute is, how do I tell my unattend file to use my wirelessprofile.xml? The code I posted previously, you have to enter domain admin credentials to the unattend. When "netsh wlan add profile filename=\\network\server\share\Wirelessprofile.xml interface=Wi-Fi" is run, it needs domain authorisation to access the actual wirelessprofile.xml. Unless I am missing something?

I meant having to put an admin password in there for the domain the authorise the share access to use the wireless.xml