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Hello everyone, I was wondering if someone can help, we currently have a mix of Windows 7 computers and some new Surface 3s running Windows 10. For the last few years we have used mandatory profiles on windows 7 which has worked well. However with the new Surfaces running Windows 10 I have created a new .v5 profile which works however the default apps such camera don't seem to work. Has anyone got them working or knows of a way to get them working. Let me know if you need anymore information? Kind Regards
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Morning All, I'm in the process of setting up printers on Group Policy, this is my first time doing it in an environment using Roaming Profiles. The problem is, when a user logs on to a machine with a printer targetted to the machines' OU, that printer installs, but when the user logs off and logs on to another machine in a different OU they get the printer targetted to that OU too, so eventually the user will have every printer available installed, instead of just the ones relevant to the room they are in. I have tried adding 'Delete All' to the policy (see attached screenshot) and putting it at number 1 in the order but it still doesn't work reliably.. Any advise would be great please! Cheers Scott
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We are trying to set the proxy in IE 11 on Windows 7 and having problems with every method we've tried. Group policy preferences doesn't work, the registry method doesn't work when a user logs on but if gpupdate is run the settings are applied, we tried putting the regkeys into a logon script but they don't always apply either. We have tried different types of accounts (roaming and mandatory) and still have problems. We've even created an OU with no other GPO's in other than the proxy registry policy and added an one account and one PC but it still doesn't apply. Adding a fake regkey in the same policy works, is there anything else that we've not looked at.
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When using my laptop on domain, everything is tickety-boo. Go home and log in and no desktop background, no shortcuts working on taskbar or on Start Menu. And MS Outlook will not open. Any ideas on what I have wrong with roaming profiles? All laptops are the same so it is not a CSC issue (I think). Windows XP has none of these issues. Only my W7 machines. As I am entirely phasing out XP, I need a solution. Any ideas? Anyone? Did not set up this domain environment but, Folder redirection and roaming profiles look in place. Thanks in advance.
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Link: Download Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows and Windows Server from Official Microsoft Download Center http://i.snag.gy/vKuEn.jpg
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At long last we are moving to Windows 7. I've got most of the software up and running (and given the age of some of this I'm amazed!) but I'm having bother with the older Birchfield titles such as Nervous System and The Earth's Structure. These appear to use a file to the root of the C: drive to show that the software is registered but, given the way Windows 7 works, this is no longer possible unless you are an administrator. Logging on as a local administrator causes the software to run properly. I can't run the software as an administrator and grant these rights to all users as the software is installed on a network drive. I don't want to give all users local administrator rights or switch off UAC. I have already given Domain Users Full Control over the password files in the root of C: but to no avail. I suppose that I could just install these titles on the image and run as administrator but there is a pile as tall as the science block to chew through! Anyone else got these older titles working under Windows 7 whilst running them from a network drive? Cheers!
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Hi there, Does anyone know how to enable adding bookmarks in Google Chrome Enterprise through GPO? we want to enable this feature so that both students and staff can add bookmarks via Google Chrome without having to import their favorites from a different browser. If someone could let me know how to enable this setting, that would be brilliant!
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Hi all, I am trying to set up a trolley full of brand new laptops (HP 655) with Windows 7 (the were purchased with Windows 8 installed), and knew the easiest way for me would be to use WDS. This however is not the case as I am totally stuck! The operating system has been installed and updated, and all the necessary software and drivers have been installed. I have sysprep'd the machine ready for capturing the image and there is a capture file ready on the server. Now, when I network boot the computer, from what I have seen before, it should come up with "contacting the server..." etc and then eventually give you a list of either boot or capture files of which I need to select 'capture'... This doesnt happen! I'll hit F12 to Network Boot and it then displays a message "F12 for Network Service Boot", upon hitting F12 the 2nd time it boots straight into Windows 8 setup and following that into Windows Deployment Services to pick an image to boot into. So looks like it automatically selects the first option without giving the chance to change. Has anyone got any ideas of a solution ? I have changed the necessary BIOS settings to be able to network boot, ie. Legacy Support.
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Hi all, Not sure if this is the best section for this but here goes. I'm having an odd issue with windows 7 client computers applying GPO's in the school I work at. When users first log on the user GPO isn't always applied, if the user logs out and in again the policy is applied. This only happens on my Windows 7 Machines. Background: Server = 2003 Standard 32 Affected Clients = Windows 7 Pro 32 GPO's are set up with separate computer and User GPO (different GPO for Pupil and Staff). Other GPO's apply items such as printer settings software and some scripts. Additional - my logon scripts contains the GPUPDATE command which may help the second logon. Any Ideas?? Thanks
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Hello, I have a few users who cannot use the search function to search their My Documents (which are redirected from the server) If you try to search for something you know exists it just instantly goes to nothing found. The search does work in other locations. I have tried rebuilding the index and that does nothing, the only fix i've found so far is to move their documents to another location and share that out. The search will then work for a little while but will eventually stop working again. Anybody experienced this before? Viktor
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Currently using Windows Server 2003, with a VBScript to add icons to my desktop for multiple users on the same PC. My script will make the icons appear with each user login but I am having an issue with the physical location of the icon. Is there anyway to automatically have each icon appear at a desired location? PC is 64-bit Windows 7 Pro.
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Hi, I've no doubt this question has probably been asked before so I apologise in advance if I am doubling up! Can anyone give a list of the definitive services required to be active / disabled on a remote PC in order to avoid this response: The machines in question are behind an enterprise firewall, as is the host, so Windows Firewall is turned off. Remote Procedure Call (RPC) - auto Remote Registry - auto Windows Remote Management (WS-Management) - auto Windows Management Instrumentation - auto These are the obvious enabled services, but I can not get an answer from any Microsoft website as to what needs to be set for remote administration. The error code seems to be very general, with lots of reasons for it. Not all related to remote access. Currently, with the above set, some Windows 7 machines work and some don't, hence my confusion. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Cheers,
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Hello all, Does any one know how to optimize Windows 7 for network use, so that when a student logs into a new machine for the first time they don't get things like "I Accept" screens popping up when first using on CS5 or Adobe Reader and requests from Microsoft Office on how they want the machine updated etc. I have been told that there is a "Windows 7 first run optimization " profile that needs to be created and then copied across but am not getting any joy, can any one help? Many Thanks Rav
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Hello all, I'm have a fair few issues regarding WMM 6.0 (vista version) we are needing movie maker in our school environment (windows 7 machines) but our current 2.6 WMM does not save the final project We are trying to upgrade to 6.0 as it 'seems' to work much better, but there seems to be no MSI and i have spent far too long now trying to make it work, so has anyone had this issue ? or know of an MSI? And just to let you know we tried windows live essential WMM and it does not work. Apparently our new systems do not meet the required specification! Thanks, Sam Brooks
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Hi, I am using MDT 2012 on a 2008R2 Server. Have been trying to build a laptop via a Task Sequence that I havent tweaked in any way since I created it a long time ago and it is still building a week later (admittedly I am only at the school half a day per week). It was takings its time installing Windows Updates so I have removed the two steps from the Task Sequence. Are there any other steps that get added in as standard that I can remove to speed up the deployment process?
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Hello. I work in a small organization and i m network administrator for my org. we do not have domain based active directory network infrastructure. i want to deploy group policies to every single computer and different users on these computers. for that i have to walk to every pc and making GPO settings under MMC\group policy object editor for every single pc. i want to create a single executable file for all the GPO settings done so that on rest of the PCs i just need to run executable file and all the preconfigured GPO settings should apply to that particular PC. please guide me if there is any way to do this. note: all the systems are equal in terms of users, specs, and GPO policies Regards Farhad Jamali
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Hi, Our new promethean 300 boards keep loosing their usb audio connection each time the laptops they are connected to shutdown or restart. The only way to get the audio working again is to pull out the boards USB connection and plug it back in. I have update the promethean drivers( v 2.7.23.1)and active inspire software to the latest. I have checked the usb settings for the laptops in their BIOS and nothing seems out of order. The laptops are Dell latitude E5520 laptops with Windows 7 installed. I have even set the Promethean USB Audio as the defualt audio device on the laptops but each time a laptop shuts down or restarts you would need to re-plug the usb connection for the audio to work even though the boards reconnect after the shutdown or restart. Has any one encountered this problem and is there a work arround?
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I am running Windows 7 Workstations and Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Domain Controller. I am using group policy to manage printers on my workstations. When I push out these policies it will apply to most of the PCs in a classroom but not all. I have had this issue with multiple group policies in the past and can never workout why they aren't applying. As far as I can see there is no pattern, it is never the same PCs that policies dont apply. Does anyone know any reasons why policies wouldn't apply. James Taylor ICT Technician
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Hi, Does anyone know where I might get hold of a Windows Movie Maker MSI installer for Windows 7? If not, what are the best practices for deploying it? Thanks in advance! Andy
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There comes a time where roaming profiles need to be backed up, however, Windows 7 and Server 2008R2 does not allow you to access the roaming profile folder unless the user has specifically given access. Here is a quick logon script I wrote to deal with this issue. 'This Script Sets the Permissions on Windows 7 Roaming Profiles so that we in ICTS can back them up 'It runs in user context 'If something goes wrong....Seek Louis, he may know how to fix it. 'Another thing.... you need to use ObjNetwork.Username to get the username On Error Resume Next Set objNetwork = wscript.CreateObject("wscript.network") 'Allows the Script to Access Username Set Command = Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") 'Allows the Script Access to the shell (CMD) SetPerms = "icacls.exe \\atuin\louis\test\icaclcs_test /grant administrators:(F) /T" 'File Path which Administrator needs permissions to should be Example: \\Servername\Profiles$\" & ObjNetwork.Username & "_profile.v2" Dim objFSO Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") 'Allows the script to create a file or folder strPermsFldr = "\\atuin\louis\" & ObjNetwork.Username & "_profile.v2\appdata\Roaming\.PermsChk\" 'Where the folder will be stored to check permissions. Should be Example: \\Servername\Profiles$\" & ObjNetwork.Username & "_profile.v2\appdata\Roaming\.PermsChk\" If objFSO.FolderExists(strPermsFldr) Then ' MsgBox "The folder exists! The Journey Ends Here" 'Debugging Line, this can be commented out. Else ' MsgBox objNetwork.Username 'Debugging Line, this can be commented out. ' MsgBox "The folder does not exist! Please wait a moment whilst it is created" 'Debugging Line, this can be commented out. objFSO.CreateFolder strPermsFldr ' MsgBox "Permissions Will now be set, this may take a while" 'Debugging Line, this can be commented out. Command.Run (SetPerms) ' Msgbox "Permissions Have Now Been Set" 'Debugging Line, this can be commented out. End If 'Wscript.Echo "Permissions Successfully Set!" 'Debugging Line, this can be commented out. This script should be saved as a VBS and the file paths should be set to match your network environment. Hope this is of use to anybody. Louis
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We have started to deploy Windows 7 using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) and Deployment Services (we have always used Ghost in the past). Unfortunately we have found (after deploying 60 machines!) that the Internet does not work on a MDT deployed workstation on Internet Explorer 8 or 9 (DVD installed and Ghosted workstations work fine?!). We are however able to connect to the Internet using Firefox and Chrome, download Windows updates and device drives from the Internet, ping the county councils proxy and connect to the Netsweeper admin console from the affected machines using IE. Internet proxy settings are set by Group Policy and work fine for XP and Windows 7 workstations that we have installed from DVD or imaged using Ghost. We have tried deploying a workstation to a workgroup rather the domain (thus no GPOs applied) and after manually entering the proxy information IE still doesn’t work (but Firefox etc. do..) Microsoft are now involved and although we still have no resolution we have discovered using Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4 that it appears to be an issue related to NTLM authentication as when the proxy asks the second time for NTLM authentication the workstation fails to send another request and simply displays the ‘Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage’ page. It appears that IE only sends the domain and workstation name to the proxy and then fails to respond when requested for the username. On a working workstation IE will send an additional request with domain, workstation name and username and from there the proxy will authenticate and send the page requested. The question is, has anyone else experienced this issue, either related to MDT or separately? If the answer is yes have you managed to resolve it and what was the resolution? Any help with this is much appreciated as our Windows 7 deployment is now very much at risk. Many thanks Nath
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Hey guys Does anyone know how to create a bootable recovery partition for Windows 7 on a laptop HDD? I have done a bit of searching around and come across Acronis True Image Home. It looks fairly good but I was looking for something more...enterprise based. I guess we could edit the Boot manager to add the recovery partition as a boot option, unless there is a way of making the user press a button during post or something that can be installed over the boot manager to boot to it instead of the main OS? Thanks in advance
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Been looking for a copy of windows 7 ultimate for my new PC build and stumbled across this site... windows7key-windows8key.co.uk seems a bit dodgy to me. Has anyone heard of it before, or know where it stands as far as legality is concerned?
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A nice security flaw in Windows 7 that I wondered if anyone else has fixed, as I can't find an elegant solution. Student logs in, right clicks in My Documents - New - Shortcut, types in C:\ and there you go, complete access to the C:\ Drive. This is despite having a GPO that is meant to restrict access to C: (How To Restrict Access To Drives In My Computer In Windows - How-To Geek). I could prevent users from creating shortcuts (I think) however it is a mandatory part of the OCR or Cambridge Nationals ICT course, and would probably cause more trouble than it's worth. I'm loathe to change permissions on the C: drive as that tends to cause a lot of issues, and changing permissions on C:\Windows (the main folder I want to protect) appears to be a big no no. Any other ideas?
