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Hi All, I have just (tried) updated to V5.3.25 of impero. I've only just completed the server upgrade and already all of our saved settings have been deleted - i.e console access rights that have taken weeks to get right, SMTP and LDAP settings. Everything. Just to make things even better the list of recent backups to restore is also empty so I can't just restore the settings. The icing on the cake... no one is answering the phone at Impero Support so it looks like we're on our own. DON'T UPGRADE!
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Hi All, Thanks for the replies. We've spent the afternoon toying with GPP and conclude the same as many of you that this is unreliable. After only trying two laptops and two users some printers don't install, on occasion the default isn't set and we're getting weird and wonderful eventvwr messages about "printer name is invalid" or "the data area passed to a system call is too small". Just out of interest what are the recommendations for printer share names now? Are spaces and characters likes ( ) allowed? Is there a length restriction on name. I've found differing articles but most only reference Win XP and not 7. Thanks
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Hi All, I'm sure this is a common thread and I've read a few posts but I'm looking to spark a little debate if possible... What is the most reliable method of installing printers on your workstations? GPO, KIX, VBS, BAT, PS, etc? We currently use a Kix script that executes at login but this has proven to be less than reliable at times and we find we're needing to restart the print spooler on clients before the printer connections are visible and sometimes no printers are installed at all. I also find we're gaining between 20 and 40 seconds to login speed when installing printers via script which is clearly less than desirable - especially on laptops that are already slower. Have you come across any more reliable methods that don't result in increased login times, or at least don't considerable add to them? I've tried GPO but I didn't see much of an improvement and the ability to target a printer to a group of workstations without needing multiple policies / OUs was lacking. We're using Win 7 Enterprise x64. Any and all hotfixes I can find related to printer installs and SBSL has been applied but if you've found any others let me know. Thanks Ryan
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Hi All, We've been trying to use Impero (5.2.10) for our Prevent and Safeguarding strategies by enabling the keyword policies and viewing violations however there seems to be much functionality missing or incomplete that make it unsuited for our needs. For example applying any sort of filter to the reports returns zero results and you can't select a group or multiple policies to report on - instead we'd need to run a report for every keyword policy (about 10) and then manually combine the data. Oh and don't even get me started on the 'export' option when viewing a report in Log Viewer - the most pointless button I've ever seen. It all just seems very poorly thought through and cobbled together without much insight into how the end user may actually need to use it. Has anyone successfully implemented anything with Impero where the reports are of any tangible use and which doesn't involve hours of time compiling stats yourself? I have asked Impero but it's been a day since sending my email and I have still haven't received even an acknowledgment of my message so support are their usual speedy selves. Thanks Ryan
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Hi @Chuckster sorry for long reply - Microsoft provide good instructions for adding MX record information to your public DNS when you add the domain into O365. There's about 4 records you'll need to add (if you also want Skype for Business to work). If you need better instructions feel free to PM me.
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Hi Sagima, Are you using DirSync to sync your groups / users into O365 from local AD? If so the process is different to what @BigDes described. Regards Ryan
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Hi All, When OpenHive made the announcement last year about their restructuring we made the decision to ditch them and 'go it alone'. I could say we've never been happier. Our email, spam filtering and sharepoint costs are now £0 and reliability is extremely high. My only suggestion to migrate would be to register a new tenancy (as a new domain name) with O365 and set this up - you can use ADFS if you want true single sign on with AD. Dir Sync (which is called something like Azure Sync now) replaces OpenHive Bridge and is free (you can Salamander as described elsewhere in the forums if you need syncing of class lists to email groups etc). Once you have O365 set up and working you can then request Capita release your domain from their tenancy and you can then import this into your own one. Emails can be received on multiple domains. Our biggest problem in migration was moving mailboxes from Capita OH into O365. However you may find that simpler now that your emails are already on O365. I hope the above helps / makes sense. We're based in Nottingham if you'd like to come and see how we have things configured or need a look at Office 365 away from the Capita system of working. Feel free to PM for more info. Ryan
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Culprit identified. Autodesk Sketchbook 2016 overwrites the default mime types of GIF, PNG, JPG, JPEG, TIF and TIFF files in the registry. Script has been written to revert these to as they should be and message sent to Autodesk informing them.
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Hi All, I've discovered today that IE11 in our Windows 7 image is changing the mime type of jpg and png files from image/jpeg and image/png to application/jpg and application/png. Due to this websites that allow us to upload images are not working because the mime type validation is failing. IE11 on a couple of test windows 10 computers is working correctly. Windows 7 IE11 Windows 10 IE11 / Chrome on Win 7 or 10 I've tried disabling a few services that run on the PCs but at the moment to no avail. This seems to be a global issue on our standard image and is something that has appeared since summer. Our previous OS image doesn't have the same issue. I'm currently at a loss as to how and why the mime type is changing let alone how to go about fixing the issue. Chrome is unaffected and is providing the correct mime type. I.e. an image uploaded via chrome (image/jpeg) will work but the same image in IE (application/jpg) fails. Any suggestions for how to identify the culprit?
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THANK YOU THANK YOU. We've been scratching our heads with this error for the last hour or so. The KB you mentioned has resolved the problem for us too.
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Hi all ( @Sibrows especially) Link to an example PS script is here: http://1drv.ms/1NwVRc3 This scripts takes a CSV from SIMS (using command reporter) of teachers and the pastoral groups they belong to and their role. For example Year 7 tutor or Year 8 manager. The PS script has a table of year groups and roles that we're interested in and maps these to the name of an AD group to populate. Hopefully it's relatively self explanatory but feel free to ask any questions. Ryan
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There's a folder called winx somewhere in the local profile of each user (in the appdata directory, I think roaming/Microsoft/Windows if memory serves). There's a very good freeware tool for editing this menu: Win+X Menu Editor for Windows 8 - Google WinX editor - but I've not found a way yet of making sure this is the default options for new users (other than copying a template profile into the default users profile on each PC). Nor can we add/change shortcuts once the user profile has been created. We don't use roaming profiles and don't clear cached profiles - other than in annual maintenance periods.
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Yeah of course. Not got them with me on my home laptop but will post an example one tomorrow for you. Been working on other scripts to push AD user thumbnails into Office 365 and also staff lists into faculty/subject distribution groups. The office 365 ones are incredibly slow so I only run these on occasion if I notice kids have managed to get around the restrictions on uploading their own pictures to their profiles. I'll put some examples (or links to them) on in the morning for you.
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Thanks for the reply. That was roughly my thinking. I don't know enough about the internal workings of AD to be sure what would be affected and in what way if the group was cleared and fully repopulated at each run.
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Hi All I'm looking to write a few Powershell scripts for sychronising class and staff groups from SIMS reports exported as CSV into AD security groups. I have examples that seem to work well and are currently in use, however I'm wondering what the best practices are in this area. Especially around performance and identifying changes in group membership. Currently I create a list (array) of all users that should be in the groups based on CSV content, I then create a list of users that are currently in the AD groups and then perform a third pass to add users into the AD groups that aren't in there already. Although this works well I feel the solution isn't very elegant and could have performance issues once groups begin to reach large numbers of members. I'm wondering whether it's better to just delete all members from each AD group when the script runs and to then just add people back in if they're in the CSV. This eliminates the need of doing multiples passes of the data set as well as scraps needing to compare current and perspective group members. Would you recommend either of these approaches or is there another (more standardised) method of maintaining group membership based on a CSV export I haven't considered? Thanks in advance Ryan
