TwistedHelixis

So I have found two areas in Solus3 that seem to be what I need. I assume the first one uninstalles the agent and second one removes it from the database. Or does the second one actually uninstall eveything? Enviroment > Agent > uninstall Agent Targets > Client > Remove

Hi everyone, we are moving over to Arbor soon but I will keep Sims running on the server for a while longer. Just wondered what's the best way of removing Sims from all the clients? Obviously I'll remove the S drive but is it possible to uninstall Sims from all clients using Solus3? Cheers

Come back in today and SIMS has installed :0) I did a lot of tweeks last night so not 100% sure what fixed the issue, but I did find 1 duplicate IP in DNS and I also deployed my 'disable firewall' policy along with other changes. Thanks to all that helped. I will get back to my firewall policy in another post next week.

I have just found this which seems to suggest the opersite What is the order of precedence in an OU hierarchy?GPOs linked to an organizational unit at the highest level in Active Directory are processed first, followed by GPOs that are linked to its child organizational unit, and so on. This means GPOs that are linked directly to an OU that contains user or computer objects are processed last, hence has the highest precedence. In the example below the “Add Local Admins” GPO will have precedence over the “Enable SCCM Ports” GPO since it will be processed last and thus potentially overriding the settings in the GPO higher up in the hierarchy. https://emeneye.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/group-policy-order-of-precedence-faq/ EDIT - Do you mean the link order?

It's this sentance that has now confused me. Do I not choose where in the list the gpo is by putting it in an OU, or is there another ordering system I have completely missed?

Oh is that how it works with the firewall, I assumed it would just over write the previouse firewall settings. - - - Updated - - - So if I had a firewall with allow all first and my next firewall rule was locked down it would still be the allow all rule that worked?

Worked out the issue, but not worked out a fix. So it turns out it's not good enough to simple replace my staff firewall gpo with another policy where the firewall is tuned off, I had to completly remove my firewall policy and then on the actual client disable the firewall manually, SIMS then worked fine and deployed the agent. Going to create a new post asking for help setting up a staff based firewall gpo, as I cant seem to get this right.

get a different error now :-( When deploying to my Win10 VM I get 'unable to get an IP address for this agent'

Just found a duplicat IP in DNS (third time I looked). It was actually the WiFi IP which is static also had some laptop IP which was the same. Almost setup my test VM, fingers crossed

Im not at the school now but going to build up a new Windows 10 VM remotely, and see if I can deploy SIMS to that tonight

Getting things ready for when I go back tomorrow.... Would that be on the DNS server or the SIMS server These are my Allow SIMS firewall settings, although it also had issues when I disabled the firewall. TCP ports 52965, 52966, 8739, 139 UDP ports 137 and 138, 139 windows management instrumentation (wmi) Windows Remote Management File and Printer Sharing On the SIMS server SQL Server Browser SQL Server (SIMS) SIMS .net Document Server SIMS Services Manager

I'll need to double check tomorrow but don't think so.

So getting the message 'The remote machine connot be contacted' displayed in Solus when trying to deploy to a new laptop. I have recently been setting up the Windows firewall on all clients so thought it was this. Same issue after disabling the firewall. Next I thought DNS, but that all looks look, there are no duplicate IP's etc. Any ideas as its starting to drive me nuts.

I have not got over that, it's been over a month now. [emoji17]

I am not sold on the idea of M365 licencing due to the staff needing a 365 account, although I do like the fact 365 local office will get all the updates. Do you mind explaining what the issues were for you?

So just looking at upgrading our office software at a primary school and have the options of OVS or M365. Although we use Google for most things cloud based most of the staff still like to use Office. We do have a 365 domain setup but that is more for me to keep my finger in the ever changing world of MS. I do have a few users setup in MS for teams etc, but not many. Currently we have an Office licence key installed per device, as most of the pupils login to the laptops as a year group not as themselves, so having someting similare is important. Both OVS & M365 offer free pupil accounts based on staff amounts and both seem to offer the option to install onto pupil machines withouit the need for the pupils to actually need an account for themselves. Which version of Office would you suggest we purchase, OVS or M365? Or are there any other options?

One of the primary schools I look after has 1 to 1 Chromebooks in KS2, years 5 & 6. It's been a great success and some were even taken home during lockdown.

Is it possible to print from a Chrombook to our Windows print server? I don't know anything about CUPS, does the printer need to be a CUPS printer? How are others printing from Chromebooks?

Have you checked you have enough IP addresses left in DHCP? Are there any duplicate IP's in DNS? Although it does sound like an AP issue I would rule out the above

Is it just an issue with your Chromebooks or do other devices have the same issue?

Do you have any of the Windows built in virus or threat systems enabled. Simply having these enabled caused issues with some windows updates on a new server I was setting up recently. The same server was also experiencing odd slow down issues etc until I disabled these.

There were a few posts recently on Edugeek with similar issues, so I would read through those. I had a similar issue which seems to have fixed itself after updating Chrome OS, the AP firmware. Something else that may have helped but I have no way of knowing, I created a new SID with 5ghz disabled, all the Chromebooks that were not working seemed to connect fine, I then switched those Chromebooks back over to our main SID and they all worked OK.

When I opened Chrome everything was just in Russian also, but after a minute it went back to GB, hmmm Google glitch or more sinister?