Internet Explorer posted:

What I am not doing is making an OU called "Marketing Printers" and putting everyone who needs access to the Marketing printers in that.

Zero VGS posted:

I got our Ops team some new laptops with i7-6700HQ processors in them, and they are still telling me that Excel 2016 32-bit on Windows 10 is painfully slow. Apparently even adding a row will freeze up Excel for a minute plus. They're assuring me that they're avoiding every potential inefficiency (like following all these tips: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff726673)

I'm about ready to throw up my hands. Ops is like 8 people who use Excel entirely to track performance of 500 employees, so they don't have a way to break these spreadsheets into smaller teams/tabs.

Is there any other workaround? I was considering maybe spinning up a VM on a powerful server so their laptops act more as thin clients and they can brute-force the calculations. Either that or have them use Excel Online but they hate that and it can't use their Salesforce plugins (neither can 64-bit Excel)

Zero VGS posted:

I got our Ops team some new laptops with i7-6700HQ processors in them, and they are still telling me that Excel 2016 32-bit on Windows 10 is painfully slow. Apparently even adding a row will freeze up Excel for a minute plus. They're assuring me that they're avoiding every potential inefficiency (like following all these tips: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff726673)

I'm about ready to throw up my hands. Ops is like 8 people who use Excel entirely to track performance of 500 employees, so they don't have a way to break these spreadsheets into smaller teams/tabs.

Is there any other workaround? I was considering maybe spinning up a VM on a powerful server so their laptops act more as thin clients and they can brute-force the calculations. Either that or have them use Excel Online but they hate that and it can't use their Salesforce plugins (neither can 64-bit Excel)

Zero VGS posted:

I got our Ops team some new laptops with i7-6700HQ processors in them, and they are still telling me that Excel 2016 32-bit on Windows 10 is painfully slow. Apparently even adding a row will freeze up Excel for a minute plus. They're assuring me that they're avoiding every potential inefficiency (like following all these tips: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff726673)

I'm about ready to throw up my hands. Ops is like 8 people who use Excel entirely to track performance of 500 employees, so they don't have a way to break these spreadsheets into smaller teams/tabs.

Is there any other workaround? I was considering maybe spinning up a VM on a powerful server so their laptops act more as thin clients and they can brute-force the calculations. Either that or have them use Excel Online but they hate that and it can't use their Salesforce plugins (neither can 64-bit Excel)

Thanks Ants posted:

Also the setting in Options > Advanced where you set the maximum thread count to one less than the number of physical cores on your machine.

Zero VGS posted:

I got our Ops team some new laptops with i7-6700HQ processors in them, and they are still telling me that Excel 2016 32-bit on Windows 10 is painfully slow. Apparently even adding a row will freeze up Excel for a minute plus. They're assuring me that they're avoiding every potential inefficiency (like following all these tips: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff726673)

I'm about ready to throw up my hands. Ops is like 8 people who use Excel entirely to track performance of 500 employees, so they don't have a way to break these spreadsheets into smaller teams/tabs.

Is there any other workaround? I was considering maybe spinning up a VM on a powerful server so their laptops act more as thin clients and they can brute-force the calculations. Either that or have them use Excel Online but they hate that and it can't use their Salesforce plugins (neither can 64-bit Excel)

peak debt posted:

I'd still try it on Excel 2013 with Windows 8. Both Office 2016 and Windows 10 are still in beta phase so it might really be a problem with the software.

CLAM DOWN posted:

MS16-075/KB3161561 is causing problems too, it's an SMB EoP exploit fix, but it's had the effect of randomly and sporadically cutting off access to SYSVOL/NETLOGON if you access it via your domain alias. Still works if you go to the DC hostname directly.

Microsoft

incoherent posted:

So if you use subdomain.domain.xxx and not domain.xxx it will break your sysvol? Or, if you use diffrentthing.com -> domain.xxx?

Internet Explorer posted:

Quick, someone Photoshop Nadella into "I don't always test my code..." with your "your production" line.

buffbus posted:

BaseballPCHiker posted:

I'm so sick of Microsofts patching poo poo. It NEVER use to be this bad, and now monthly they manage to mess something up! I dont want to spend this much time thinking about patching!

Internet Explorer posted:

So ah... one of the patches from Patch Tuesday was pretty drat important. MS16-077 also known as "BadTunnel".

"The nuts and bolts of how the vulnerability works haven’t been revealed but it has been described as a technique for NetBIOS-spoofing across networks that bypasses firewalls and NAT (Network Address Translation) devices."

"This vulnerability has a massive security impact – probably the widest impact in the history of Windows."

Powershell Script posted:

CLS
Import-Module -Name ActiveDirectory
import-module -Name GroupPolicy

$objForest = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Forest]::GetCurrentForest()
$DomainList = @($objForest.Domains | Select-Object Name)
$Domains = $DomainList | foreach {$_.Name}
$domainshash = @{}
foreach($Domain in ($Domains)){
$nb_name = Get-ADDomain –Identity $Domain | Select -Expandproperty NetBIOSName
$domainshash += @{$nb_name = $Domain}
Write-Host "Getting $nb_name $Domain" -fore red
$Server = Get-ADDomainController -DomainName $Domain -Discover | Select-Object -ExpandProperty HostName
$GPOs = Get-GPO -All -Domain $Domain -Server $server | Select DisplayName, ID -ExpandProperty DisplayName
ForEach ($GPO in $GPOs){
Write-Host "Checking $GPO in $Domain" -fore red
Try {
$testaccess = Get-GPPermissions -Name $GPO -Domain $Domain -Server $server -TargetName "Authenticated Users" -TargetType Group -ErrorAction "Stop"
}
Catch {
$GUID = $GPO | Select ID -ExpandProperty ID
Write-Host "Fixing $GUID in $Domain" -fore green
Set-GPPermissions -Guid $GUID -Domain $Domain -Server $server -TargetName "Authenticated Users" -TargetType Group -PermissionLevel GpoRead
}
}
}

Mr. Clark2 posted:

A question for anyone successfully using MDT to perform an upgrade from Windows 7 pro to Windows 10 pro: Where did you get the Win10 media to import into MDT? I've used the official MS media creation tool to download .iso files, but they dont import into MDT. I found different .iso files on some MS 'techbench', those will import into MDT but then my task sequence fails with various vague error messages that I have so far been unable to solve.

Swink posted:

The media creation tool won't give you the correct media. You need the VL media as it contains the required WIM files.

Evaluation version will probably work?

Internet Explorer posted:

That sounds awful and you have my condolences for having to support what sounds like an awful setup.

I'm not familiar with what you mean by Windows 2012 hashing profiles and a quick glance did not bring up anything relevant, but cant' you just have a script that iterates through the relevant users in HKEY_USERS and sets the settings you need (or wipes it out and lets the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE settings take over or whatever you need to do)?

MF_James posted:

I've got 2200 remote machines with ~10 LOCAL users each