CMiller

I'm trying to use the CommandReporter, but failing at the first hurdle. I can't get it to authorize against my hosted service. If I do not provide Server name and Database name, it instantly fails. If I provide these details (grabbed from connect.ini) - it times out looking for the server. I believe it is a formatting issue, as the instant fail returns an error like "Login failed for user School_Name_Here_SchoolCode_UserName" (which I believe to be an incorrect username), and the timeout error complains about not being able to find the server, though I can ping it so I believe it is to do with the formatting of including the port number. Here's the command i'm running so far. I'm testing so haven't specified an output file yet. Has anyone successfully used CommandReporter with the hosted service? Can you give me any hints? I've got a ticket open with Capita, but we all know what their "4 Hour" SLA is like... Any help would be massively appreciated.

Hi All, I've decided to deploy windows via a task sequence that installs the OS, then all the updates, followed by software. Using a default Win 8.1 disk image as a base, there's 200+ updates to get through for each deployment, taking total deployment time to 5.5 hours per client! This is just too slow... Is anyone aware of a way to bundle those updates into the image or another way of speeding up the process? My searches haven't turned up anything unfortunately. I'd prefer to stick with the base image if possible, though injecting the updates into it is fine (if possible). I'd like to avoid deploying, updating, and capturing a new base image. Thanks all!

You guys are my favourite!!!! After a few hours of banging my head against the desk, Offline Files is set up and seems to be working. We'll what the users says in the AM. Thanks all! C

Hi All, I've been playing with some GPOs and WMI filters to try and enable our users to access their PCs with admin privileges whilst away from the network. There's a few reasons for this but the primary reason being that we hide the C drive to prevent profiles/storage becoming fragmented between the local machine and the domain and they cant access their network shares when at home. My first attempt was to use a WMI filter to ping the DC, if there's a response, apply standard restrictions, if no response then go local admin. The result being that everyone on a laptop is an admin all of the time, regardless of ping return code. Not the desired result... Now I'm pulling my hair out, trying to find a solution. Any tips? Do any of you run admin laptops with restricted desktops? If so, how do you do it? Regards, C