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ok found a solution from a helpful guy on Spiceworks if anyone else has this problem: x64 version: MsiExec.exe /qn /norestart /X{90140000-00D1-0409-1000-0000000FF1CE} x86 version: MsiExec.exe /qn /norestart /X{90140000-00D1-0409-0000-0000000FF1CE}

Hi, i'm having problems deploying Office 2019. I finally tracked it down to Automation Studio having installed the Microsoft Access database engine 2010 which is preventing the install. However, I cannot uninstall it via a script which I can deploy (manually removing it is fine but unfeasible for the amount of machines I need to do this on) I have tried from the command line: msiexec /x {90140000-00D1-0409-0000-0000000FF1CE} /qn I have tried from PS MsiExec.exe /X {90140000-00D1-0409-0000-0000000FF1CE} /quiet /norestart" -Wait -NoNewWindow Taking off the quiet switches shows that it is expecting a response to 'Are you sure you want to uninstall' Any help / ideas would be appreciated

yes it was great! I did email you back this morning....

ok thanks for all your input, guess it's time to stop avoiding SCCM\Intune

Hi I'm after a bit of advice before I start our summer rebuild of Adobe Software. We've been pulled up in a security audit for running a couple of unpatched Adobe apps so i'm looking at implementing app updates during the summer rebuild. We moved over to Shared Device Licensing last summer which was fine (although I really fail to see the benefit for education and don't get me started on the lack of SSO) and I deployed packages without auto updates. I'm wondering how people have handled this in a classroom environment? If I install the Creative Cloud agent and allow auto updates, how does this work in reality when a classroom machine could be logged in to by a different student every hour? Does it slow down the machine at all. I've also seen something called the Remote Update Manager, is this a better road to go down? I'm just worried about students either A- having a machine that is really struggling because it is updating Adobe in the background or B- unable to open an Adobe package because its in the middle of updating We've probably got approx 1000 machines with some form of an Adobe package installed, the majority being Windows. Any advice appreciated! thanks

it certainly would be interesting to find out the numbers who took up the offer

ok thanks i'll take a look at SCCM

Nobody has deployed a Store app like this? Could anyone give me any pointers on how to fix a store app which does nothing when you click on it? Thanks

Hi, Hoping someone can help before this drives me crazy! My goal is to have Microsoft To Do installed on all machines with a pinned start menu tile. Background: Win 10 1909, we use ENGL toolkit & ZenWorks to create a base image & packages and deploy through pxe I have grabbed the AppxBundle for To Do & also the Appx for the .Net dependency so I was thinking I could just install them during the build. How wrong was I..... this is my first experience of Store apps and hopefully my last until we look at moving over to the MS solutions for imaging such as Intune. I have tried the following: Installing on the base image before sysprep - Seemed to get stripped out but this didnt surprise me Creating a bundle to run the following powershell during imaging- Add-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online -PackagePath C:\ToDoInstall\Microsoft.Todos_2.19.31501.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe.AppxBundle -DependencyPackagePath C:\ToDoInstall\Microsoft.NET.Native.Runtime.2.2_2.2.28604.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe.Appx -SkipLicense After doing lots of reading I was under the impression that by using the Add-AppxProvisionedPackage command it would be available for all users, it would just install for each user profile that logged in to the machine? What's actually happening is the shortcut is available in the all apps area (I haven't played with the tile layout yet) but doesn't do anything when you try to run it... If anyone has any experience of installing Store apps without using the Store and could help in any way or have any pointers it would be most appreciated!

that sounds great, hopefully it doesn't take too long! Been using it personally on my work machines for a while now and I find it really good

Ok I seem to have this working as you describe now, it's a shame you have to click sync and not force it to just sync, the least user input from students and lecturing staff the better I find!

thanks for the info, i'm going to look at this again today as that setup would be fine in my environment.

how are you doing this?

So the user only has to click ok on a prompt and they are signed in to edge and it's automatically syncing? (Ignoring your firewall issue)

Yeah i'm failing to find an alternative and our staff could be in a different classroom for each lesson so i can see them ending up with lots! I'm going to pin things to the start menu instead of using desktop shortcuts but i can already hear the outcry when staff cannot see a shortcut on the desktop .... I really wish we had more options with the Group Policies, i'd rather not be re-directing the Desktop at all and just make use of the Documents aspect as the networks guys are eager to scrap the onsite storage we currently redirect to

Hi folks I'm starting to build a new 1909 image for when we're able to go back to college and i want to implement the Onedrive sync client and the new Edge based on Chromium. After reading the thread and doing a quick bit of testing is it correct that we don't have the ability to do the following: Automatically sign in to Edge with the logged on user (The machines & users are in Azure AD, we've got the Hybrid model) Automatically sign in to the sync. I could probably get away with staff having to sign in but no chance for students, it needs to just work thanks

Starting to look at this for our new 1909 build we'll hopefully be able to deploy over the summer. Finally got it to silently sign in thanks to this thread. Just wondering what people have done regarding duplicate files in the 'Desktop' folder? We have a few shortcuts in the public desktop such webmail, our intranet etc and during testing it seems to just be adding copies for every machine i log in to.... Ideally i'd just like to redirect the Documents folder and not bother with Desktop & Pictures. Any ideas?

thanks for that Arthur, works great :-)

Definitely look into the Chest agreement. Have just set up the sync tool with federated IDs using Azure for our college ready to roll out 2019 apps during the summer reimaging works. Was a bit daunting at first but lots of reading and a couple of questions to Adobe support (who were surprisingly helpful) and it's all done. My issue now is that any apps you package install the Creative Cloud desktop app which auto logs in at boot time which is really slowing down older machines which just have Acrobat DC installed....

This looks great, any rough pricing?

Sorry to drag up an old thread but this is exactly what i'm looking for. We currently use a VB script which somebody who has long left our college wrote. It allows us to send a message to either staff, students or both but this has become more and more temperamental since we upgraded to Windows 10. We use it as a quick way to communicate information such as printing is offline etc to try and stop our helpdesk getting bombarded. Can anyone give an example of what they use? Ideally it would be free and only allow the receiving of messages. We are a predominantly Windows 10 desktop AD controlled domain with a few Mac classrooms. Thanks