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The clients weren't all upgraded yet. Thank you all for your help!

PowerShell 3.0 is installed on all computers in this collection. They have the same configuration because they were all deployed with the same task sequence. On the computers where the script ran, I can see the Script log file, but it's not present on the other computers where the script didn't run.

Since SCCM 1706, you can run PowerShell scripts on collections from the console. I ran a simple script on a collection with 25 computers and when I look in "Script Status" under "Monitoring", it shows that it ran successfully on 3 computers out of the 25. I validated that the script had made changes on the 3 computers being listed and it didn't for the other 22 computers. Any idea why my script would run only on 3 computers when the collection has 25 computers in it? Also, I noticed that if I run multiple scripts on that same collection, it's always only the same 3 computers that run them.

I was using gpp too before and was having problems with printers not installing sometimes. I converted everything to a powershell script and realised that the problem was still happening. So I did more research and unfortunately it seems to be something with the HP universal drivers. The solution was to still use the powershell script but send the command to install the printer 3 times in a row instead of just once. That fixed everything. When the printer is already installed, it doesn't matter if you send the command to install it again, it just skips it. It's not the cleanest solution but it works.

Hi, I'm trying to enable Hyper-V during a task sequence using powershell and this command: Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName:Microsoft-Hyper-V -All Can't get it to work, the task sequence just hangs on this step. has anyone done this already?

Looking to optimize my Windows 10 deployment and I came accross the subject of Visual C++ Redistributables. For Windows 7, we are installing 2008SP1, 2010SP1, 2012U4, 2013 and 2015 so far in both x86 and x64 versions. Regarding Windows 10, only 2015 and above seems to be officially supported. So I was wondering if you guys were still installing the older versions on Windows 10 anyway even though they aren't supported or if you only install 2015 and above. Thanks For reference: https://gist.github.com/mmozeiko/de5d9b756bd11b77db8bf4253bed8b3e

I tried that, it still opens a tab saying "Connection problem" instead of the Adobe message. I just want the extension to activate without opening the tab.

Couldn't find any appropriate forum to place this in so I apologize if it's not in the right section. I'm installing the Adobe Acrobat extension for Chrome by GPO and it works fine but it always opens a tab like this one when it's a new user opening Chrome: Any idea how I could stop this tab from opening when a new user opens Chrome and the Acrobat extension autoactivates itself?

Found the problem. I put all the configs in 1 file and it works. So, either my file for Chrome had a problem, or you can't have 2 file association xmls applying in different GPOs on the same computer. I'm voting for the later.

I'm trying to set Chrome as the default browser by GPO using the method described here: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7009292?hl=en Here's my .xml file: For some reason, it just doesn't work. I find it strange because I'm using the exact same technique to set Acrobat to open PDF files by default and it works flawlessly. Here's the .xml for Acrobat: I verified that the GPO applies correctly by doing a GPResults and everything seems fine. I'm using Windows 10 Enterprise 1607 fr-CA all patched up to the latest build. Has anyone experienced the same problems or does anyone have an idea why this wouldn't work as expected? Thanks

Did you read post #3? I posted a link explaining step by step how to do it. I know it works cause that's exactly what I did.

How is that an issue? Isn't that the beauty of SCCM? Might as well use Ghost so you don't have to deploy the drivers?

What's the issue with Office? We use it and I can't find any.

Honestly I wouldn't bother with all that crap. We used that mehod for a couple of years and it worked "fine" but we ran into some problems that made us question the way we did things. And that is how we found this simpler, safer and more efficient solution which also offers more flexibility: 1 - Download the Windows ISO 2 - Mount with explorer or whatever 3 - Extract the file Install.wim. That is your image. 4 - Plug that in SCCM and in your task sequence. You're done with the image. It's 100% Microsoft. 5 - Now you can focus on customizing your image by task sequence. It's gonna take a little work to do everything you want by script, but it'll be worth it in the end, believe me. Then when the next build of Windows comes out, you just repeat steps 1 to 4, it takes 30 minutes and you're done. We couldn't be happier with this new method and I would NEVER recommend going the "capturing" route ever again. If you need some help with how to customize stuff by task sequence, I can try to help you. For example, enabling .NET 3.5 is quite simple with the right PowerShell script: Enabling .NET Framework 3.5.1 in Windows 10 OSD using Configuration Manager - msitproblog Honestly it took me maybe 3 days to figure out how to apply all the changes I was doing manually by script and oh my gosh was it worth it. Cheers!

We are experiencing a weird problem on our Windows 10 machines, would really appreciate some help. When trying to login, we occasionaly get this message, the login fails and we get taken back to the login screen. If we try again right after, it works. In the event viewer, we get this: At first we thought it might be related to the power management for the network card but we still get the error even after disabling it. We built a testbench and had 8 computers with autologins loop for a day (thats like 5000 logins) and we didn't get the problem once. But if we leave the same 8 computers at the login screen over the night, we get the error when we login in the morning on a couple of computers. Any idea?

Thank you all for your input. We decided to stick with the volume licence version for labs but we'll be installing O365 for everybody else. You can deploy O365 with SCCM in the same manner as the volume licence version, with a configuration file. You don't actually have to "click-install" it from the web page. The O365 version auto-updates itself and it includes the latest Office features that you cannot get with the volume licence version. We will use the Current channel for ppl of the IT department and the Deferred channel for everybody else so we'll get to test the new features before they are rolled out to everyone and foresee possible problems. Users will have to activate one of their 5 licences on their work computer but we don't have any issue with that. They are still left with 4 activations they can use at home or wherever they like. They can also manage their 5 licences themselves from the Office 365 website which is pretty convenient. For shared computers where ppl rotate alot, we will simply use the SharedComputerLicensing option enabled by GPO. Here are a couple of links that helped me decide which version to use: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt455210.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 https://www.msoutlook.info/question/office-update-channels https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219426(v=office.15) https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn708063#BKMK_Prepare https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/educloud/2015/03/20/how-to-setup-shared-computer-activation-step-by-step-for-your-education-environment/ https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219423.aspx

Found something interesting: https://www.msoutlook.info/question/office-update-channels So basically, with 2016 you don't get the new features at all and with 365 you do, that's a huge difference.

Yeah I had seen this but it doesn't give much detailed information. We are already migrated to Office 365 but we don't use ADFS for Office 365 and we don't plan to and so there's a nasty activation box that pops up for every user and there doesn't seem to be any way to remove that besides going the ADFS route which is out of the question. I'd like to find a page that lists on a technical level all the differences between the 2 versions. For example, it seems the update process is completely different in each case and Office 365 would offer newer versions of its applications compared to Office 2016. I need to dig more into that but just looking at Skype from Office 365 and Skype from 2016, there is a difference.

Hi, I'm trying to figure out if there's any difference between using Office 365 and Office 2016 for an organisation. Office 365's activation seems to be user based while Office 2016's activation is machine based, but besides that, is there anything else that would make you choose one over the other? I heard Office 365 has other advantages like better integration with online features like OneDrive and such but I can't find any information to confirm this. Thanks

Anyone successfully emptied the tile area via a GPO forcing a Layout.xml? My Layout.xml only seems to work as long as I have at least 1 tile. If I remove all the tiles, it just doesn't load the xml at all. Here's the code that works and shows only 1 tile: xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/LayoutModification" xmlns:defaultlayout="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout" xmlns:start="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/StartLayout" xmlns:taskbar="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/TaskbarLayout" Version="1"> This is the code that doesn't work and is supposed to show an empty tile area: xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/LayoutModification" xmlns:defaultlayout="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout" xmlns:start="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/StartLayout" xmlns:taskbar="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/TaskbarLayout" Version="1"> Anyone? Thanks!

My region settings are set to "Français (Canada)" under the Formats tab and Canada under the Localisation tab and "Français (Canada)" under regional settings in the administration tab. (Win 10) Where else should I set regional settings? When I delete the file, it gets recreated and A4 is the default paper format.

Everything is working perfectly fine with other Office applications like Word, Excel etc because those applications actually pull the settings from the printer. But Outlook 2016 is different. There is this new concept of the "Memo Style" that stores the printing preferences and it is the source of the problem in this case. Outlook 2016 is the only application that causes this problem and it is the only application that uses the memo style for printing.

We have a problem with Outlook 2016. We installed the french version because we are a french school in Quebec, Canada. Unfortunately when we print from Outlook 2016 with the default settings (Memo style), it tries to use A4 as the paper format and the printers will always give an error because it expects US Letter and not A4. Anyone came around this problem and has a solution? It is really annoying for users. The only "solution" I found was to overwrite the OutlPrnt file in every user profile but it is not really a solution we want to apply as it causes other problems. There doesn't seem to be a french canadian version of Office 2016 Pro...

Can't do this as it's not the same settings in all GPOs.

Hey, I need to replace a specific string in every GPO we have. Does anyone know a way to do this efficiently? We have hundreds of them and I'd rather not have to open them all 1 by 1. Thanks!