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I'm wondering if anybody else has had the following issue with HP 250 G7 laptops, specifically gen10 intel models.At random times the keyboard and mousepad completely lock up and will not respond to input. The capslock light will not respond, staying lit or staying off. The system itself is still functioning fine I can plug an external keyboard and mouse in and work perfectly ok. A sleep/wake cycle or restart returns the system to normal operation.I first noticed this issue after imaging a number of these laptops with our master win10 ltsc 1809 image, which works fine on any other computer we have installed it on to whether that be a laptop or desktop. This would normally lead me to drivers or an issue with another piece of software installed as part of the image. However it has also happened on a clean media install of ltsc 1809, 20h1, and Windows 11, none of which had been updated before the issue occurred. It has also happened on a boot into Windows PE as part of wds deployment, which only has system and HDC drivers in the boot WIM. I have also gone down the bios flashing route and it occurrs on two different bios versions (includes most recent). I cannot reliably reproduce the fault which is frustrating and makes it much more difficult to diagnose. Im not convinced its a hardware fault as the keyboard and mousepad work fine until the point of lockup and after sleep/wake. I have ten of this model of laptop which according to the users were working fine until we started to reimage them, out of the 4 i have imaged so far they have all exhibited the issue.. They originally had win 10 pro 20h1 on them. We have had 30 of the 250G7 with older processors and none of them have done thisHas anyone else experienced this issue before or can suggest any other avenues i may not have thought of. Any advice is welcome!ThanksJames

Greetings, After deploying a win10 20h2 master image (created from a VM) I've noticed that on imaged clients a number of HYPER-V specific devices, drives etc seem to be listed in device manager. They are ghosted to suggest they are not physically there and I've not noticed this happen in any previous masters I have created on previous versions of Win10. I have not changed the way i create my masters from a VM nor the way I sysprep them. This is the only version of Win10 I have noticed this behaviour. Is there a change with the way device manager shows devices, is sysprep not clearing them as it used to ? Please advise. Thanks

Hi Ovek, sorry its been a while. Ive managed to get it mostly working, but I get a > prompt when using the line of code dscl /Active\ Directory/All\ Domains -read /Users/$CURRENTUSER OriginalHomeDirectory | awk '{ print $2 }' | sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g'\ I can get the correct string returned using just dscl /Active\ Directory/DOMAINNAME/All\ Domains -read /Users/$CURRENTUSER SMBHome | grep \\\\\\\\.* -o but I just need to turn the \ to the accepted / . I believe thats what the awk and the sed commands do but I'm getting the prompt every time I call them. Cant work out which one is causing it though. I hope that makes sense. James

Greetings.I'm trying in vain to stop adobe reader dc showing the eula and welcome screen every time a network user runs the program. I've used profile manager to set manual plist changes (com.adobe.Reader.plist) under the DC branch however nothing I seem to do works. I've even tried running the program,setting it up, copying the created plist, uploading it into profile manager and using those settings, still no joy. Please can anyone help as to where I am going wrong. THanks

found it http://www.edugeek.net/forums/mac/63495-mac-os-x-mapped-home-drives.html It uses grep to save the info to a variable then I can just add it to your script and we should be away Sweet

Just had a quick look through and I have a feeling our home drive location will cause a problem. We have a homes$ windows share inside which is staff and student folder, which contains users. So for example, server\homes$\staff\username or server\homes$\students\2018\username is there a way to get that path into the script as I dont know how to construct that part of it. I saw a script long ago which had the command to get the path to store as a variable but cant find it for looking anymore. Thanks

You are a legend! Thank you for this @ovek! When I get some time to myself I will get this all set up and let you know how it goes. Thanks for taking your time to help!

Thanks for your replies I know its not recommended but we've ended up with so many users having trouble accessing their documents where they have been stored on the local user account instead of their home network drive. I want a user to be able to open their documents folder and it goes to their network drive. At the moment i use sudo rm -rf /Users/$USER/Documents etc to remove the local folder and then sudo ln -s /Volumes/$USER/Documents /Users/$USER to create the link. It works but the user first has to open their network home to make the connection before the script runs. Its a crap way of doing it but does anyone know how to do it without spending on expensive management software for just 30 clients....

Hi all, I've written a small script which removes the logged on users documents\downloads\movies\music\pictures folders and creates a symbolic link to their networked home drive equivalent. This works fine until I run it as a user which will not have the required sudo rights to remove system folders. Is there anything I can add to the script to force it to run as a user with sudo privilege or am i going about it the wrong way? Has anyone else managed to do this and get it working? Thanks

Wierd, Im getting a large number of clients ignoring the 2018-03 update despite having the correct reg key. Ive got a few hundred clients with sophos on, the key is there yet only a handfull have installed the update.

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Hi, I need some advice as to whether wsus is mis-reporting or if I have a different problem. I have the 2018-01/2018-02/2018-03 security monthly quality rollup updates approved for my 2008r2 servers, however the last one that installed was the 2017-12 update. All said servers are reporting in to the console and claim to be up to date and say the more recent update(s) are not applicable. I've just manually downloaded and installed the 2018-03 security monthly quality rollup to one of the servers so I'm not sure as to why it would be reporting not applicable. Have I missed something that needed to be done after the 2017-12 update? Any ideas please? Thanks

Thanks for your advice guys. I also read a few articles on checkpoints and thinking it may not be what I need, but seeming as I'll only be running it for the purposes of sysprep I think it'll be fine too. After I have checkpointed, sysprepped and uploaded my master I may revert and export anyway as I think my pc is about to be pushing up the daisies. Thanks again everyone!

Hi all. This is my first time creating a master image using a vm (used hyperv). I have got to the point where i have installed windows and all the software in audit mode but i havent yet run any software, done any customizations or sysprepped. What is the best way forward from this point so that i can come back and add any additional software in future. Do i copy the entire vm to a holding location before i customize and sysprep? Or do i use checkpoints? Im not sure the best way to go. Any advice welcome

It usually asks for both. I just freshly imaged a mac, logged onto it fine with my "install" account (an AD account which has never had a password change) and yet after a reboot it brings up the keychain error the next time I log in with the same account. I cant just update the keychain as the password isnt accepted since it hasnt changed.

Hi all, I have just started getting keychain errors (the system was unable to lock your keychain) when logging on with a specific account. I understand that this normally means the users password has reset, I've dealt with that a number of times already. What concerns me is the account I am trying to log on with has not had the password reset, this I am certain of. If I try to carry on with the login I then get a number of windows from different programs asking to access the local keychain needing a password. I've tried the local admin password, the password of the user logged on, the root password, none work. I can't update the keychain password as it would require the "previous" password which does not exist since the account has always had the current password. Please can someone explain why this would have happened when the password has definitely not changed and whether I will get any problems if I say to create a new keychain. THanks JAmes

In addition to this, I have looked at another update (kb4015193) for 2008r2 which is showing as both superseding and superceded .It lists a number of the security monthly updates since said update was released as updates its been superceded by. This would suggest to me that those monthly updates are cumulative for 2008r2/win7 and I can decline them. I want to be sure before I start doing that.

Thanks Michael. That must be the case because looking through my list of approved updates I have the March17 security monthly quality rollup still approved. This update is showing both as a superseded update and as an update that supersedes another. Normally I would decline that update however since its one of these rollup updates should I need to keep it approved? If it was working as the win 10 updates do I should be able to decline that and only approve the most recent one in the chain but if the win7 updates dont work that way I should leave it? Am I just confusing myself here?

Hi everyone. Im a couple of the main quality rollups behind and want to know if its safe to skip the last few and only install the most recent one and still be covered. Normally I approve just the security monthly quality rollups as opposed to the security only updates. The way I understand it is I don't need to do this on a monthly basis and that each Security monthly quality rollup contains the most recent updates plus previous updates and fixes. There must however be a limit to how long that will work for? The reasoning behind this is our wireless struggles to cope when a class of students try use laptops while pulling through large updates (such as the rollups) which only seem to be getting bigger and bigger. I'm trying to mitigate this by only patching whats absolutely necessary, with the exception of anything major cropping up (spectre/meltdown). Can you please tell me if i've got this right or if you have suggestions on how I could change things to reduce the load. THanks JAmes

Greetings, For some reason I have lost the ability to access certain https websites that were previously available. Looking through the forefront log i see two result codes. 0x0 SUCCESS at least 3 or 4 times followed by 0xc0040038 FWX_E_TCP_NO_SERVER_REPLY. A connection was closed because no syn/ack reply was received by the server. I also have a software package that automatically gets an enabler key from the internet via https which has also started erroring saying it cant connect to the enabler server. I can however access other https sites with no problem whatsoever. I know the servers are there and working in both instances as I can access them from my home pc so there must be a mis-config in my firewall or another issue with it. I have checked to see if any updates were installed near the time it stopped accessing but there were none, nor were there any config changes. I have rebooted the server to no effect. Please could someone assist in helping me find the solution. Many thanks

I had a meeting with a company to get quotes to like for like upgrade my meru. They came back with not only the meru but a couple of other options which I would like your view on as to whether you have heard of/used before. One which I have noticed mentioned a lot is Ubiquity (which as suggested in this post am ordering an AP for) and the other is Huawei (yes the phone maker). Cost wise, Ubitquity is nothing in the grand scheme but the Huawei was not much further off and so its also interesting me somewhat. Anyone heard that Huawei were making wireless systems? Anyone have or used one of their systems? I'd be interested as to any feedback THanks

Greetings I need to upgrade my sql 2008r2 express instance to the advanced version. Is this possible without a reinstall or having to make any changes to my existing installation? Thanks

Greetings, I have set a gpo to disable the firewall on domain networks but enable it for home/public. When the policy is applied for some reason it activates the domain firewall too. I've read it may be because when first connecting to a network a box was ticked to treat all future networks as selected (which I assume would include domain) and I can only assume that work/public was chosen. Is there any way to reverse that so I can re-select the network location in order to rule that out as the reason why the domain firewall keeps activating. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks for your replies @Garacesh: One is set via domain policy and the other is set by a different policy @Roopert: the policy is definitely in the correct place with the correct config setting

Therein lies my problem, it seems to be a whatever works kind of thing. Surely there is only one correct way to configure it. Personally it makes sense to me to have each dns server to look at itself first then the other but I suppose if they both have forwarders then it doesnt matter if its the other way around. The only time I can think it would be an issue is if a dns server is set to look to itself first then it could cause a delay in starting the network on a reboot.