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FISHMANPET posted:Probably bad advice right above me. Don't use LTSB for standard desktops. What is the use case for LTSB then? Why do you not recommend for deployment?
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LTSB is for mission critical applications like air traffic control and computers that control hospital equipment. Those are the literal examples given by Microsoft. Doing LTSB to avoid the new release schedule is just going to bite you in the rear end eventually, I think, because everything Microsoft is doing is moving fast. You're going to have to start moving fast yourself.
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Aug 1, 2016 21:17
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Some MS guy that explained all the options at one of their events basically said LTSB is for kiosks, ePOS, signage etc. and not a corporate desktop where new features and OS upgrades delivered through Windows Update are desirable.
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Aug 1, 2016 21:17
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Everyone's environment is different, you have to figure out whats best for you. We're deploying CBB to average users, while LTSB is getting deployed in one particular business unit. The important thing is understand the differences, and work with your stakeholders to make the right choice for your environment.
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Aug 1, 2016 21:21
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If I enable network discovery and file sharing on on one account, will it do it for everyone else on the computer? E: the answer is yes. 22 Eargesplitten fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Aug 2, 2016 |
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Aug 1, 2016 23:13
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 AD FS. That is all. Does anyone understand the feels? 
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Aug 3, 2016 05:07
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lol internet. posted:
Federation Services are complex. It's not really Microsoft thing more the nature of the beast. What's the problem?
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Aug 3, 2016 05:13
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Tab8715 posted:Federation Services are complex. It's not really Microsoft thing more the nature of the beast. What's the problem? Resolved now, but as you said it's more the nature of the beast. For even the smallest things, you can spend hours troubleshooting it if you're not super familiar with the technology.. and lets be honest, how often are you mucking around with AD FS in an organization... normally when the cert expires usually. Anyways I restored a website to a test environment to use AD FS only to find out the restore had some URLs specifically set to the production URLs which was causing it to not work correctly. Took forever to figure it out.
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Aug 3, 2016 05:34
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I'm running a Robocopy, and I'm getting some files saying they can't be copied because they are being used by other processes. I was wanting to do multiple copies from the same source at the same time, am I not able to do that with robocopy?
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Aug 4, 2016 00:30
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I'm running a Robocopy, and I'm getting some files saying they can't be copied because they are being used by other processes. I was wanting to do multiple copies from the same source at the same time, am I not able to do that with robocopy? Wrap the statements in powershell with a sleep 5 between the robocopies.
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Aug 4, 2016 00:32
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Wouldn't that risk the same thing if one computer was slower than the others? I wasn't thinking, but it's probably relevant that I'm doing it with a looped PSExec to copy files from a single NAS to multiple computers simultaneously. I had tried using PSExec to start a powershell session and call Copy-Item, but I was having a lot of trouble with that, which is why I was trying robocopy.
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Aug 4, 2016 00:40
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I know it's old-fashioned of me especially considering how much Powershell I use daily and encourage others to do so, but I really cannot shake using robocopy. It's just so versatile and good.
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Aug 4, 2016 01:16
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I believe I read there are significant speed gains on using the powershell copy feature over later version of SMB. I would factor this in if they're large files. Robocopy, for all its versatility, is still stuck a bit in the past. So loving lazy I still use richcopy
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Aug 4, 2016 02:10
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I'm running a Robocopy, and I'm getting some files saying they can't be copied because they are being used by other processes. I was wanting to do multiple copies from the same source at the same time, am I not able to do that with robocopy? If the file is persistently locked and you can't close the process doing it then you're going to need to use something with VSS capabilities to capture it hot. I don't think any of the built-in copy utilities can do that, but I might be wrong. e: Apparently HoboCopy can do it, if you trust it. BangersInMyKnickers fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Aug 4, 2016 |
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Aug 4, 2016 02:27
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Run robocopy with /r:0 and /w:0 and then just hope nobody cares about any missing files. YOLO bitches.
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Aug 4, 2016 02:31
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incoherent posted:I believe I read there are significant speed gains on using the powershell copy feature over later version of SMB. I would factor this in if they're large files. Roughly 10GB of files. I finally got the powershell version going when the transfer that normally takes 20 minutes was 40 minutes in and not even halfway done with robocopy. Some of that might be the NAS or computer in question, I don't know. At least, I got it working not using the variables I will be using in the script. Tomorrow I get to see the speed on it. I honestly like Powershell more than Robocopy or command line just because it's more verbose, so it's a lot easier for me to remember as I'm learning it.
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Aug 4, 2016 02:39
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Use something with vss, mate. It is conceptually and architecturally tidy.
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Aug 4, 2016 13:45
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I just remove access to the share and do one last sync before the cutover. It's the only way I can be sure that users are not changing files. I guess if you need 24x7 uptime that changes things, but then I would hope you're using other technologies that make moving to a new share easier.
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Aug 4, 2016 14:23
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:If the file is persistently locked and you can't close the process doing it then you're going to need to use something with VSS capabilities to capture it hot. I don't think any of the built-in copy utilities can do that, but I might be wrong. I'm stoked to see someone mention Hobocopy, that thing was amazing for backing up files in use, it saved my rear end years ago.
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https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mniehaus/2016/08/08/using-wsus-with-windows-10-1607/quote:For those of you who have started deploying Windows 10 1607, you might notice a change in the behavior of the Windows Update agent for PCs that are configured to pull updates from WSUS. Instead of pulling the updates from WSUS, PCs may start grabbing them from peers on your network, leveraging the Delivery Optimization service for referrals to other PCs that have already obtained the content. quote:It will add some additional traffic between each client PC and the Delivery Optimization service on the internet, as it has to talk to this internet-only service in order to get a list of peers. New surprise features slowly trickling out (this was posted today, and someone brought up defender updates were showing up before approvals). Can be disabled via GP The latest ADMX for 1607 are here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53430 incoherent fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Aug 8, 2016 |
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Aug 8, 2016 23:47
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Has anyone seen details of how the delivery optimization service is supposed to work? I have four Windows Home machines on satellite internet at a remote site, would be really nice if they shared a download instead of insisting on grabbing it themselves. The only things I turned up while searching were what buttons to click to turn it off.
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Aug 9, 2016 23:29
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It uses BITS unless something has changed in the last year. You can audit bits activity and there's info online.
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Aug 10, 2016 13:32
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thebigcow posted:Has anyone seen details of how the delivery optimization service is supposed to work? I have four Windows Home machines on satellite internet at a remote site, would be really nice if they shared a download instead of insisting on grabbing it themselves. The only things I turned up while searching were what buttons to click to turn it off. Also not strictly related to delivery optimization but have you looked at wsusoffline? You can download updates once, save locally and then install the updates via the local network or USB stick or something. When I worked in western Alaska and had office running off of HughesNet this was a godsend.
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Aug 10, 2016 13:56
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How are logon script GPOs applied to a laptop that's off the network, but can connect to the VPN after a logon? I want to believe that connecting to the VPN will download the script and apply the registry settings to run the script at logon, but I'm not certain.
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Aug 11, 2016 20:42
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Logon scripts in the context of logging in have very special privileges that aren't available to the user. You'll need to setup login to VPN before logon.
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incoherent posted:Logon scripts in the context of logging in have very special privileges that aren't available to the user. You'll need to setup login to VPN before logon.
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Aug 11, 2016 22:22
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Some Vpn clients have a post connect script option.
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Aug 11, 2016 23:16
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buffbus posted:Some Vpn clients have a post connect script option. poo poo, since my boss is so terrified of asking his boss for money to spend on things we need, maybe I'll spin up an OpenVPN server.
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Aug 11, 2016 23:34
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Might as well use RRAS, it's built into windows server.
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Aug 12, 2016 00:35
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Oh hey the first patch fuckup from patch tuesday: http://acton.seagullscientific.com/acton/rif/7853/s-00c7-1608/-/l-dyn-ldc-014d:4a0c/l-dyn-ldc-014d/showPreparedMessage?sid=TV2:poep3qTK7
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devmd01 posted:Oh hey the first patch fuckup from patch tuesday: Question is, is this a Microsoft fuckup or a Bartender fuckup?
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Aug 12, 2016 08:38
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Wow thanks for the heads up. We use Bartender daily.
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Some random Windows 10 build prior to August 2 broke the Google Cloud Print installer as well. Over a month later it's still not fixed, though it was finally moved from 'unconfirmed' to 'untriaged' on Wednesday. At this rate it should be fixed at some point in 2017.
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Aug 12, 2016 14:51
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I need to transfer a shortcut to the desktop of a bunch of users. I've written a script that will transfer it to all of the computers' public desktops, but some people already have the shortcut on their account specific desktops. How can I overwrite that old one so there is only one shortcut on the desktop? Alternately, how can I make it not go to the computers with it on a user's desktop already? I would prefer the first if possible.
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Aug 12, 2016 17:48
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I need to transfer a shortcut to the desktop of a bunch of users. I've written a script that will transfer it to all of the computers' public desktops, but some people already have the shortcut on their account specific desktops. How can I overwrite that old one so there is only one shortcut on the desktop? Alternately, how can I make it not go to the computers with it on a user's desktop already? I would prefer the first if possible. You can make a GPO that will create the shortcut anytime a user logs in. We do this (stupidly) for some links to our intranet.
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I don't have GPO access. At least I'm pretty sure I don't. How can I tell? I probably shouldn't set anything like that up if my lead hasn't run me through it or mentioned me using it. I think the expectation is just copy-paste and make sure it's on all of the computers in question. I came up with the idea of doing a powershell gci | remove-item for the file in question through all of the users' desktop folders. code:followed by a copy-item worked. I loving love powershell. I'm going to run a few more tests before I do it for real, but it should work.
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Aug 12, 2016 18:56
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Don't do this. Use Group Policy Preferences. You will need domain admin rights to edit GPOs. If you are able to access admin shares on PCs like you are doing, you likely have domain admin rights unless your company is doing things "right" and making you local admin, which I doubt if this was left to you with no help on doing it the right way. This should get you started - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753580%28v=ws.11%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I don't have GPO access. At least I'm pretty sure I don't. How can I tell?
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Internet Explorer posted:Don't do this. Use Group Policy Preferences. You will need domain admin rights to edit GPOs. If you are able to access admin shares on PCs like you are doing, you likely have domain admin rights unless your company is doing things "right" and making you local admin, which I doubt if this was left to you with no help on doing it the right way. I'm a "Jr. Admin" which is a custom group that has most admin privileges but not enough to majorly break anything. I think it's just the admin and director who have domain admin, the BI guy and I have less permissions. I'll take a look at that article.
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Also, if the new shortcut will have a different name than the old shortcut, you can put a delete shortcut for the old one. I'd generally recommend using an update option for the new one rather than any other option, if the shortcuts are the exact same name/target typem update will, well.. update it.
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