ColonelPanic

I'm not a Mosyle user (we use Intune as our MDM), but the URL is linked to the profile that we want to apply from our MDM. I believe yours should start with join.mosyle.com/xxxxxx

Hi Everyone, Just putting out feelers to determine whether there's an issue we can fix here, but our Hosted instance of SIMS is brutally unresponsive today. Our data team seem to think it's a bandwidth issue, but their machines aren't restricted on our 1Gb up/down connection. ESS/Capita are equally as unresponsive as their platform. Anyone else having performance issues?

We used to do it with the manual profile enrollment, but now they're in Apple School Manager, we use that to enroll them into Intune.

A big +1 for this, we use it here too. Got 50 iMacs all MDMed with Intune. We do use Munki to push out the apps (the ones that aren't VPP), like Adobe CC, Impero, and our PaperCut client.

Me please!

Hi, I've found a script (below) to change the setting in Big Sur to enable the right mouse click on our 'magic' mice (the ones that you can't charge and use at the same time). It runs perfectly fine, and changes the tick box in the system settings menu, but unless I toggle it manually, it doesn't take effect. (new users and existing users). Is there anything else that I can add to make it work? Many Thanks, CP #!/bin/sh# Turn on right-click for mouse and trackpadfor USER_TEMPLATE in "/Library/User Template"/* do if [ ! "${USER_TEMPLATE}" = "/Library/User Template/__permissions.plist" ] then /usr/bin/defaults write "${USER_TEMPLATE}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleHIDMouse.plist Button2 -int 2 /usr/bin/defaults write "${USER_TEMPLATE}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleMultitouchMouse.plist MouseButtonMode -string TwoButton /usr/bin/defaults write "${USER_TEMPLATE}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad.plist TrackpadRightClick -int 1 /usr/bin/defaults write "${USER_TEMPLATE}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist TrackpadRightClick -int 1 fi donefor USER_HOME in /Users/* do USER_UID=`basename "${USER_HOME}"` if [ ! "${USER_UID}" = "Shared" ] then if [ ! -d "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences ] then mkdir -p "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences chown "${USER_UID}" "${USER_HOME}"/Library chown "${USER_UID}" "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences fi if [ -d "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences ] then killall -u $USER_UID cfprefsd /usr/bin/defaults write "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleHIDMouse.plist Button2 -int 2 /usr/bin/defaults write "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleMultitouchMouse.plist MouseButtonMode -string TwoButton /usr/bin/defaults write "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad.plist TrackpadRightClick -int 1 chown "${USER_UID}" "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleMultitouchMouse.plist chown "${USER_UID}" "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad.plist chown "${USER_UID}" "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleHIDMouse.plist chown "${USER_UID}" "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist fi fidone

Love it!! Thank you to everyone at @VeryPC

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Big MFPs are okay, but as has been said already, not without issues. The desktop printers that they gave us were underpowered, very noisy, and only take 300 sheets in the main paper tray, but I guess that's what we asked for. Support is generally excellent.

I do use a powershell script to remove some of the annoying appx packages. It's the State Deployment service that I have to turn off to get it to capture with SCCM.

Not sure if it's relevant, but I've had ours failing the sysprep stage since 20H2 If you have a look at the C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\Panther\setuperr.txt file, it might shed some light on it. I've had to stop one of the running services, but I can't remember which one it was. Related to AppX deployment

Hi, Has anybody here had any experience using Codecademy for schools over here in the UK? We're looking to license around 300 pupils at the moment, and the closest thing I can get to a price, is their website that says TIA, CP

Do you have the task sequence deployed to the 'Unknown Computers' group(s) still? I can look at the smspxe.log file if you want to DM it to me? Cheers, CP

Civica want the customary £350+VAT callout fee to upgrade/update ours

We got round this by displaying "Filename" as a column. If you right-click on the column headers and then tick the box next to Filename, is should appear as normal. A bit of a pain, but we manage with it.

Simple (and possibly silly) question. In the deployment properties, is the deployment purpose set to "Required" rather than "Available"? Cheers, CP

Yes, we do this through group policy. Each room/location has its own OU, each OU has its own group policy for whichever printer is in the room. Group policy is set up as User Config, but has loopback processing enabled. We point the default printer to \\print-server.domain.local\printer-share

Hi Trenton, In your task sequence, in the "Apply Operating System" step, do you specify the logical drive letter that you want to apply the OS to? Thanks, CP

Thanks guys!! The problem has been fixed, no more snarky emails. Setting the download directory as a computer policy was breaking something. Several furious "gpupdate /force"s later, and the new user-level policy now works.

Hi, Is anybody else having problems downloading files to mapped network drives since the latest Chrome update this week (v75.0.3770.80)? Same user account, permissions, download directory set via GPO, v74.0.3729.169 works perfectly, but v75.x gives the "Failed - Download Error" message every time we download a file. I've added a GPO to stop Chrome from auto-updating Thanks, CP

What issue are you having with the 2nd gen processors Pete? We've got a couple of hundred i5 2500s that run okay. SSD all the way, 4GB of memory is plenty for normal workstation use

Yes, we have SSO working with the web apps, but when we tried mapping Sharepoint as a network drive, it prompted for credentials.

Hi Andy, We have a desktop shortcut to Office 365 that we encourage all members of staff to use (to access OneDrive). Our teaching staff have started using it to store personalised lesson resources (the kind of stuff they used to carry around on USB sticks), there's a small handful that have migrated their entire shared drive there too. We have a Sharepoint (O365) site that is set up for the different teaching departments. Every department has it's own shared file library, and only members from that departments' AD group can write files to it, everybody else (including students) can read the files, as it's set up for classroom resources, worksheets, old exam papers, things like that. The primary push we made was being able to access the files and edit them from home. The biggest inhibitor we have is that the majority of our lesson resources are Smart Notebook files (they'll be the death of me), and there's obviously no way of editing these in Office 365. We have looked at mapping OneDrive/Sharepoint but until we can get SSO working effectively/reliably, it'll have to wait I think. We couldn't install the OD desktop client either without it wanting to sync the entire contents to the local profile, I'm sure there's a way of fixing this, but we haven't looked at it yet. Our shared drives aren't going away any time soon. Thanks, CP

The "N" build of Windows 10 deliberately excludes Windows' media playing capabilities, to comply with "antitrust" rulings. The normal build contains WMP 12. You can "re-enable" the features by installing the Windows 10 Media Feature Pack. CP.

We've got a number of X11s here, and none of them have ever suddenly dropped a single colour! We've had convergence/colour alignment issues with the older projectors (EB-X9s) though. First thing is to try without any input, and see if the menu displays correctly. Second thing is to swap out the lamp if you have any other projectors, but I would suspect the projector is faulty.