PurpleTentacle

I haven't been presented with a reCAPTCHA for some days. Just tried the site I was having issues with... Still broken. Might have to contact the site and get them to investigate it.

No problem! I appreciate you taking the time to help. Yes, it does.

No, the invisible proxy / bridge.

Yes, but Chrome does exactly the same as Edge. Yes, but I excluded my IP so it isn't getting any filtering/inspection.

Is anyone having issues with reCAPTCHA? I've been unable to access two sites protected by reCAPTCHA. Did someone turn me into a robot while I wasn't looking?

Might be worth checking to seeing if Chrome has ephemeral profiles. 😡

It was adding the cloud ones but still asking which profile to use. I have found out what caused the issue though. Ephemeral profiles. At some point in May 2023 I (not that I remember the decision) forced ephemeral profiles. Yesterday, that decision bit me in the ass.

Yesterday afternoon I got the first ticket informing me that Edge was asking users which profile to use, where previously it loaded a default profile that was signed in with their AD account, and forced to sync. This only seems to be occurring for Windows 11 users. Any clues?

Are you applying polices through Intune? If so, how are you finding that?

Currently EES, however I know that is being phased out / will be phased out by the time we renew.

Quick FYI: we use Wave9 and a Sophos firewall appliance. Very happy with their support.

Quick straw poll: Do you subscribe to A3 or A5? Bonus appreciation points for reasons why. Edit to add: we are currently on A3, I wasn't party to the decision to upgrade from A1.

I'm starting to see a rise in issues where various apps do not give the option to print to queues on a print server. When looking at the Settings > Devices > Printer & Scanners page, the printers are showing as they have been added. The network printers cannot be set as the default. Edge (and the Office apps) only show the standard local/software printers. Removing the network queue printers is fruitless. Interestingly when I logged on to the computer as the local administrator, I found Windows had added the printers, an impressive feat as the local administrator shouldn't have access to the queues to be able to add them. Again, using settings to remove the printers was fruitless. I deleted the devices (printer queues) from Device Manager, but they were added back again almost instantly. The only way I could get rid of them was to stop the spooler service, and then delete the relevant entries from the registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print). Has anyone else experienced this behaviour from Windows? Better still, does anyone know what Windows is playing at, and how to stop it?

Thank you! This is what I said in response to the user's request for help. The LA just keep telling us it should work and it's not their fault.

They are a neighbour LA, so we definitely never had addresses from them. The cynic in me thinks this is a ploy by the department sending the email because if we don't answer it they make assumptions that would appear to benefit them.