chrisprice
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Yes this is what I have read but no idea how to block them. Is there a standard way of doing so? Does it make a big difference? Cheers
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Yes that's correct we already have this turned on, so we know which GPO's we need to shoot but then it's the part where it's actually building the profile "preparing Windows" after all the GPOs that it seems to sit for a minute or two. Thanks
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We do actually...maybe pointing us in the right direction here. Cheers for your assistance!
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We do prevent users writing to their desktop, as we redirect the desktop to a standardised set of folders on NETLOGON Potential solution here - we'll investigate. Thanks!
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Thanks for the reply Ollie. Yes so GPO is another whole kettle of fish that we're trying to tackle too. Printer mapping especially offline ones is a nightmare. But we seem to have the GPO load down to acceptable times at the moment - the logon just sticks at preparing windows for ageeeeees.
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Hi Thanks for your reply. I've just updated my post. Decent spec, and network backbone is 10gb back to core, with 1gb to each client. Cheers
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Hello Hope you're all well. Just wondering what everyone's thoughts are on logon times, specifically the preparing windows screen. What have you all done in your establishments to speed up log on times? "First" logons can be upwards of 2 minutes which we really want to tackle this summer. We don't use roaming profiles and clear profiles from machines every 20 days, otherwise the drives begin to fill up. Close to 3500 students and 400 staff. I remember reading somewhere that it can be due to the tiles on the start menu. Any advice? EDIT: Decent spec'ed machines. 8gb RAM+ and at least 4 cores, 8 threads. Looking at upgrading to 16gb machines. Network backbone is 10gb back to core and 1gb links to machines. Servers are way overpowered!! Thanks in advance Chris
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Hi, Thanks for the reply. Yes it only happens on the group of computers to which I apply the policy - currently only my pc though as I rolled it out to an office and none of their network drives were mapped Gpresult doesn't really tell us much apart from the fact it cant apply the user policies due to the above. Event logs just give us the same error as the cmd window, so its frustrating to diagnose. I tried turning off firewall on my machine and the user policy works instantly - no issues. Chris
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Hi guys, Hoping someone can help me to answer a seemingly stupid question. I work in a sixth form college in Leicester and we're working on getting our Windows Firewall enabled on client devices. The group policy I was building was going swimmingly, until I tried to roll it out to a set of machines (typical). As soon as the firewall was enabled, user policies will not pull down from our DC's. Computer policies seem to be ok, but we get an error when trying a gpupdate for the user policy. We have our firewall default action for all inbound/outbound to block, unless it matches a rule of ours. I have added the necessary ports for DC client communication, as recommended by Microsoft, as well as the necessary group policy ports, but still seems to be a problem. DNS is also opened and all other DC communication is ok, nothing else seems to be an issue. I used a lot of the preset rules from Microsoft to allow the necessary ports anyway, so I really dont see what I'm missing. I've been through all the Microsoft tables and checked every port, yet still no luck. Anyone got any ideas? Am I missing anything? For obvious reasons I wont screenshot our firewall rules, but happy to answer questions if needed. Thank you for any ideas Chris
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Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I don't think that's an option. We have staff on local but students on roaming, for many reasons. Surely there is another way around this?
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Hi, We're having a weird issue recently since the upgrade to Windows 10. We are running Adobe CC and the shortcuts are supposed to be on the desktop (or start menu) for students, but more often than not, they aren't. This means they can't use the programs, as they aren't allowed to access the C drive. We have students on roaming profiles, and a profile reset (deletion of profile on server) seems to sort it. We don't allow them to store anything in the profile anyway so it's not a big deal, but it requires a log off so we can reset it, for them to log on again, which can take a while at the start of a lesson. Anyone had a similar issue or got any ideas? Thanks! Chris
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Hi all, Just having an issue currently whereby our main wireless network will not offer a DHCP lease to a MacBook Pro. When it connects, it assigns a self assigned IP, yet it works on our free, open WiFi network, where Meraki handles DHCP instead of our Windows Server. We're using Windows Server 2012 R2 and is working on all other devices. Just wondering if someone could suggest things to try. It is not in as a reservation or deny filter. Thanks, Chris
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Photoshop Saving As .tmp - Student Work On Network Share
chrisprice replied to chrisprice's topic in Windows 7
Yes - as it's their home folder, we've provided them with full control. Chris -
We're currently experiencing an issue whereby Photoshop CS3 (outdated I know, looking at upgrading to CC) is saving students work on one of our servers as .tmp files. The file names become ~ps[random string of numbers].tmp. They can work on the document fine, save it as normal, however when they come to use reopen it, it's a .tmp file which they can do nothing with, often losing a fair amount of work. They have the correct permissions to the share - we use folder redirection to direct their documents to a network share which is their own home drive. I understand Adobe discourage use of saving to a network, but as you can imagine, saving locally is not an option. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Chris
