AlexB

Damn I started fresh on 1.3 Community (after being trial 1.1 Ent) and the 2 1.3 upgrade installs have gone fine, but I think 1.3 had some major changes under the hood.

We got our community licence yesterday. Just waiting for Infrastructure to spin up a perm home for it. Hoping I'll be able to get it to do everything we need.

Sounds like it is worth a shot 🤞

Have a look at what DNS domain is coming out of your ISP DNS (though possibly the router is providing DNS/DHCP rather than the ISP directly?). If it is a constant domain suffix, you should be able to use this. We have a 5G router for simulating/testing against an external connections and it gives devices a FQDN of <hostname>.home

Yes, I think I saw something about making the deployr server object the owner, but didn't pay attention

Gary I suspect, his github is incredible. I live for the code, one of the reasons I like DeployR so much. The delete isn't an issue for us as we have long been required to delete the AD object before a reimage here. That said, at my last school, it would have been a major headache. I'm assuming that is the offline domain join that doesn't play nice with existing AD objects? I know 2Pints are discouraging stored credential domain join, but I look at it this way.... that is how MDT does it now. If you're happy to accept the ongoing security risk to do it the same way as MDT, I wrote a script to ask for AD credentials and then domain join and I assume (haven't specifically tried) that it would work over the top of an existing AD object. Ironically, I don't use it now, but it isn't like I deleted the code

Yeah, I got basically the same thing today Their wording sits very poorly for me and that is me being generous because I rate the software so much. Guess I'll make the most of the Community version when they let me in

Certainly going to try for free. I abandoned the school world about 6 years ago for the NHS, but still hoping that let me play with the Enterprise under the public sector banner https://2pintsoftware.com/pricing/publicsector They suggest I should be able to get the software without taking support, but I guess time will tell #shrug

Enterprise trial (10 days left 😮 ) Hoping to get the Public Sector version long-term, but gotta demo and sell to management later this week.

Also, 2Pint Software webinar: Advanced step definitions started @ 3

welshGJE24? I'm RockOriginal7938 over there (oh how I regret letting it auto generated a username for my work account )

Might be worth taking a look at https://github.com/gwblok/2PintLabs/blob/main/DeployR/FrontEnd/FrontEndJSONDriven/FrontEndConfig.json I used this as a starting point and ended up with something that reads the machine asset tag (how we name them) and just asks for a prefix. It adds an automatic prefix for the machine type (we have different suffixes for laptops, desktops and whether they are owned or leased). There is a fallback manual box for those machines we can't get an asset tag into the BIOS for

🎉🎉 Week off mode here, enjoy tinkering

Good to know, cheers and good luck

I know the feeling. I got lucky with a quiet two week at the end of May and got most of my tinkering done. Now, of course, it all dies in another 2 weeks when the 30 days runs out

My guess is features will just be disabled. But, take a snapshot in case . Personally, I'd be tempted with just changing the license key to the community ones in the config files and see what happens 😮 This is back in December, but gives you an idea of what you'll miss. The main one for me that was mentioned in another video (sorry, watched too many to remember which) is that the cloud drivers "will" be branch cached in Ent, but not Community.

Anyone coming at it fresh, if you have a need for multiple task sequences, but they are going to share most parts, look into nested/child task sequences. That way you can make changes to the child task sequence and it updates all the parents... love it!

We got the same and then a helpful follow-up email 2 weeks later saying they hadn't forgot about us, but still no. In the meantime, I've been playing with the 30 day trial. It has some quirks, but I find it so much easier to work with than MDT

On my list to trial too. I thought the software licence was free to public sector, just the support that was paid? Public Sector Pricing - 2Pint Software

PM sent. For those that need to put it together in the future, wrap "c:\users\$($_.Name)\Downloads\*" with either side of Remove-Item -Path and -Recurse -Force (needs running as admin)

Best guess is that it needs BLE to keep the battery use even vaguely acceptable.

get-childitem c:\users | % { "c:\users\" + $_.Name + "\Downloads" } or get-childitem c:\users | % { "c:\users\$($_.Name)\Downloads" } This will just echo back the full path, but should give you enough the expand with Remove-Item commands (I don't want to post the exact command as it is a bit dangerous if folks copy and paste)

We've used HAP+. I won't say it is all singing and dancing, but it gives access to network shares and is free.... Home Access Plus+

Someone in the school should have a login to https://computacenterprod.service-now.com/dfe This will give you access to BIOS and local admin creds

For straight output I tend to just repeat the command in quotes. To a logfile is slightly different. try: "Add-ADGroupMember -Identity $($ADGroupname) -Members $($user.samaccountname) -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue" |Out-File -filepath $log -Append I like the full command as I can spot any errors, but it could easily be something like "$($user.samaccountname) added to $($ADGroupname)" I've not used "Out-File -filepath $log -Append", I've always used Add-Content $log "`nsome sort of log data`n$($DateStamp)`n" but probably only because that was what I used first... Depending on the situation I often just redirect the whole to standard out and error out to a logfile.