RE: [NTSysADM] Hmmm....

2018-02-06 Thread James Rankin
5-8973 x101 - C: 248-635-4955 On Feb 6, 2018, at 10:49 AM, James Rankin mailto:ja...@htguk.com>> wrote: Horizon 7.2 Profiles are discarded by setting the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\{SID}\State value to 128 at logoff, which means the OS thinks that it is

RE: [NTSysADM] Hmmm....

2018-02-06 Thread James Rankin
Kramer, Senior Consultant Small Type Computing - www.smalltype.net<http://www.smalltype.net> W: 855-765-8973 x101 - C: 248-635-4955 On Feb 6, 2018, at 9:50 AM, James Rankin mailto:ja...@htguk.com>> wrote: Ok, so can anyone shed any light on this…. I have a VMware VDI implementa

[NTSysADM] Hmmm....

2018-02-06 Thread James Rankin
of me speculate as to what it might be. Any ideas anyone? 😊 Cheers, [cid:image007.png@01D3895F.44D7D410] [ISO 9001_COLOUR_NORMAL_UKAS] [cid:image003.jpg@01D23035.1507D340] James Rankin CTP ACA vExpert Technical Evangelist / Media Hound Howell Technology Group Office: 0191 4813446 Mobile

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Citrix question for the Citrix guru's l

2018-02-01 Thread James Rankin
m.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2018 11:46 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Citrix question for the Citrix guru's l Use the CLIENTNAME variable? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<m

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Citrix question for the Citrix guru's l

2018-02-01 Thread James Rankin
t directly involved in the “used to work” operation. Dave From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2018 11:46 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Citrix question for the Citrix guru&#x

[NTSysADM] RE: Citrix question for the Citrix guru's l

2018-02-01 Thread James Rankin
Use the CLIENTNAME variable? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Dave Lum Sent: 01 February 2018 18:07 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Citrix question for the Citrix guru's l We have a scenario where a customer wants to u

[NTSysADM] RE: Welcome a brand new CTP to the family

2018-02-01 Thread James Rankin
...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Webster Sent: 01 February 2018 14:08 To: NT Issues (ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com) Subject: [NTSysADM] Welcome a brand new CTP to the family Our very own James Rankin is a brand-new CTP. Welcome to the family James. https://www.citrix.com

[NTSysADM] RE: Random reboots Win7 and 10

2018-01-31 Thread James Rankin
Scheduled restart done by shutdown command from script somewhere? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Sean Chapman Sent: 31 January 2018 17:46 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Random reboots Win7 and 10 Hey all, Been goin

[NTSysADM] RE: VDI options

2017-12-14 Thread James Rankin
re for years, but I was approached last week by my supervisor and told to look into it, but no real scope. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 8:55 AM To:

[NTSysADM] RE: VDI options

2017-12-14 Thread James Rankin
around here for years, but I was approached last week by my supervisor and told to look into it, but no real scope. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Thursday, December

Re: [NTSysADM] VDI options

2017-12-14 Thread James Rankin
VMware isn't bad, Citrix expensive if you want platinum features, not sure whether Parallels do a vdi option? (Webster?) You also might want to look at Frame Sent from my slightly schizophrenic, but rather cool, BlackBerry Android From: joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov Sent: 14 December 2017 4:47

[NTSysADM] RE: VDI options

2017-12-14 Thread James Rankin
age001.png@01D21FCA.D5DD9850] [cid:image002.jpg@01D21FCA.D5DD9850] [cid:image003.jpg@01D374FC.4AA75FE0] James Rankin CTA ACA vExpert Technical Evangelist / Media Hound Howell Technology Group Office: 0191 4813446 Mobile: 07809 668579 Email: ja...@htguk.com<mailto:ja...@htguk.com> ww

Re: [NTSysADM] New Blog Post: Get-FrameworkVersion

2017-12-07 Thread James Rankin
Webster makes good tweeting, ASB too... my feed is probably unintelligible to left-pondians though Sent from my slightly schizophrenic, but rather cool, BlackBerry Android From: mich...@smithcons.com Sent: 7 December 2017 8:43 p.m. To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Reply to: ntsysadm@lists.myitfor

RE: [NTSysADM] Re: WOW!!! I had no idea I was going to be honored

2017-10-25 Thread James Rankin
It’s like a pyramid scheme, once you get pushed, you have to go out and push a few of your own. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Webster Sent: 25 October 2017 12:38 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Re: WOW!!! I had

[NTSysADM] RE: WOW!!! I had no idea I was going to be honored

2017-10-24 Thread James Rankin
Congrats, you old-timers have earned it :-0 And there's me thinking getting a CTP would be top of the pile haha From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Webster Sent: 24 October 2017 17:18 To: NT Issues (ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com) Subject:

[NTSysADM] RE: GPO application question.

2017-10-24 Thread James Rankin
It will write the Registry key, I presume, but the OS will just ignore it. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim Sent: 24 October 2017 18:57 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] GPO application question. What happe

[NTSysADM] RE: PowerShell brainfart

2017-10-12 Thread James Rankin
Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2017 2:45 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [NTSysADM] PowerShell brainfart OK, I’m having a ditzy moment I’m trying to query profile type in PowerShell using gwmi Specifically gwmi win32

[NTSysADM] RE: PowerShell brainfart

2017-10-12 Thread James Rankin
} From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2017 3:45 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [NTSysADM] PowerShe

[NTSysADM] PowerShell brainfart

2017-10-12 Thread James Rankin
e moment - help! (Apologies to all blondes on the list) Cheers, [cid:image001.png@01D21FCA.D5DD9850] [cid:image002.jpg@01D21FCA.D5DD9850] [cid:image003.jpg@01D3439A.F6684710] James Rankin CTA ACA vExpert Technical Evangelist / Media Hound Howell Technology Group Office: 0191 4813446 Mobile: 07809 6

[NTSysADM] NLA issues

2017-10-11 Thread James Rankin
anyone is having the same issue, thought I’d share – although I’ve taken so long to get round and investigate it you are probably all aware of it 😊 [cid:image001.png@01D21FCA.D5DD9850] [cid:image002.jpg@01D21FCA.D5DD9850] [cid:image003.jpg@01D34277.F4D72C00] James Rankin CTA ACA vExpert

Re: [NTSysADM] Oopsie in Azure.

2017-10-07 Thread James Rankin
The register is awesome. Cue cloud Discussion... Sent from my slightly schizophrenic, but rather cool, BlackBerry Android From: mich...@smithcons.com Sent: 7 October 2017 9:40 p.m. To: Reply to: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Oopsie in Azure. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/

[NTSysADM] RE: OT Meanwhile at Derbycon this weekend...

2017-09-25 Thread James Rankin
SECURITY BREACH From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: 25 September 2017 18:53 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: OT Meanwhile at Derbycon this weekend... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA You replied to the wrong thre

[NTSysADM] RE: WSUS and Windows 10

2017-09-22 Thread James Rankin
WSUS and Windows 10 [cid:image001.jpg@01D333CE.5ABDBCE0] Webster From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Friday, September 22, 2017 9:59 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<m

[NTSysADM] RE: WSUS and Windows 10

2017-09-22 Thread James Rankin
What are the options you're faced with? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Webster Sent: 22 September 2017 14:24 To: NT Issues (ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com) Subject: [NTSysADM] WSUS and Windows 10 I haven't had the "pleasure" of dealing wi

RE: [NTSysADM] CCleaner found to be backdoored for downloads between August 15 and September 12

2017-09-18 Thread James Rankin
Ironic that my predilection for the free version of this, which doesn’t auto-update, has prevented me from being a victim of this ☺ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: 18 September 2017 20:46 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitf

RE: [NTSysADM] Dropping Kaspersky Av, who to replace it with?

2017-09-14 Thread James Rankin
Just playing devil's advocate here - are you required by regulation to actually use AV? Because I think it's had its day. App management and other tech are arguably so much better, and have much less of a resource footprint. -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailt

RE: [NTSysADM] Win2012 R2 and offline files

2017-09-01 Thread James Rankin
Offline Files suck ass. But there's not much choice unless you want to put your hand in your pocket. Wouldn't it be easier just to put more resiliency in the file share that hosts the stuff? -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com]

RE: [EXTERNAL][NTSysADM] RE: Imaging windows 10 1703 enterprise

2017-08-22 Thread James Rankin
t: Re: [EXTERNAL][NTSysADM] RE: Imaging windows 10 1703 enterprise Yes it worked No sanitazation I think my ad guys has grabbed some gpo's that are hurting me. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 22, 2017, at 9:58 AM, James Rankin mailto:ja...@htguk.com>> wrote: Did it (IE) work OK before you copied i

[NTSysADM] RE: Imaging windows 10 1703 enterprise

2017-08-22 Thread James Rankin
s.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 12:48 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Imaging windows 10 1703 enterpr

Re: [EXTERNAL]RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Imaging windows 10 1703 enterprise

2017-08-16 Thread James Rankin
on all profiles at this point) Begin deployment of the last is I will ever need? Sent from my iPhone On Aug 16, 2017, at 2:39 PM, James Rankin mailto:ja...@htguk.com>> wrote: Also make sure you set your desired file type associations in Audit Mode too. From: listsad...@lists.myitfor

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Imaging windows 10 1703 enterprise

2017-08-16 Thread James Rankin
Also make sure you set your desired file type associations in Audit Mode too. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: 16 August 2017 18:48 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Imaging windows 10 1703

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Imaging windows 10 1703 enterprise

2017-08-16 Thread James Rankin
: 16 August 2017 18:34 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Imaging windows 10 1703 enterprise Well shit. I did not build in audit mode. My base option is to start over and work from audit mode. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 16, 2017, at 1:32 PM, James Rankin mailto:ja...@htg

[NTSysADM] RE: Imaging windows 10 1703 enterprise

2017-08-16 Thread James Rankin
Build your default profile in Audit Mode and use that, you can remove all the UWP apps with PowerShell while you are in Audit Mode. GPOs to set FTAs are rubbish, they set for everyone and override anything defined by the user. This article has a section on doing it in Audit Mode - http://www.h

[NTSysADM] RE: Imaging windows 10 1703 enterprise

2017-08-16 Thread James Rankin
Already answered, but my replies seem to take light years to appear :) From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Webster Sent: 16 August 2017 17:51 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Imaging windows 10 1703 enterprise James

Re: [NTSysADM] Win10 1607 - Some installed programs don't show up to be uninstalled

2017-08-10 Thread James Rankin
Some installed programs don't show up to be uninstalled On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 11:12 AM, James Rankin wrote: > If you look in the Registry subkeys under > HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall, do any of the > subkeys hold the Uninstall information for t

RE: [NTSysADM] Win10 1607 - Some installed programs don't show up to be uninstalled

2017-08-10 Thread James Rankin
If you look in the Registry subkeys under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall, do any of the subkeys hold the Uninstall information for the application? -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Mich

RE: [NTSysADM] An acquisition I can live with?!?

2017-08-03 Thread James Rankin
Yeah, they were pretty damn helpful when I spoke to their support recently… From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Melvin Backus Sent: 03 August 2017 15:13 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] An acquisition I can live with?!?

[NTSysADM] RE: Folder redirection issues

2017-07-03 Thread James Rankin
and those who don't. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Monday, July 3, 2017 10:22 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [NTS

[NTSysADM] RE: Folder redirection issues

2017-07-03 Thread James Rankin
Didn't I read somewhere DFS for profiles is not supported? Why not use User Profile Disks instead? You can use UPD on Windows 10 with a bit of tinkering as well. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Melvin Backus Sent: 03 July 2017 15:12 To:

RE: [NTSysADM] Using GPP to fight Petya

2017-06-28 Thread James Rankin
Didn’t know that either. Educated! From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael Leone Sent: 28 June 2017 16:26 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Using GPP to fight Petya On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Melvin Backus m

RE: [NTSysADM] Using GPP to fight Petya

2017-06-28 Thread James Rankin
Pipe the server names from a text file to a command like psexec that runs gpupdate? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael Leone Sent: 28 June 2017 15:11 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Using GPP to fight Petya

RE: [NTSysADM] Using GPP to fight Petya

2017-06-28 Thread James Rankin
Have you got a filter applied? You may need to add Domain Computers to it From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael Leone Sent: 28 June 2017 14:13 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Using GPP to fight Petya So I'm confused

RE: [NTSysADM] PCI nightmare - c:\windows\csc files

2017-06-20 Thread James Rankin
Be aware a load of those GPOs are XP/2003 only. Here’s an article documenting my adventures with it (admittedly from a while back) http://www.htguk.com/appsense-desktopnow-and-offline-files/ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Charles F Sull

RE: [NTSysADM] Re: GPO being filtered out, denied by security - RESOLVED

2017-06-20 Thread James Rankin
In my testing I was never quite sure that trick would work. I wrote an article about it a few years ago, but the behaviour seems to be a little hit and miss. However if it reduces the amount of reboots required only by a few, it would appear to have done some good. -Original Message- Fr

[NTSysADM] RE: PCI nightmare - c:\windows\csc files

2017-06-20 Thread James Rankin
Does using the Registry value to reset the database do this, or does that just whack the database and not the data? As I recall it's HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CSC\Parameters\FormatDatabase (DWORD 1) and then a restart... From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@list

RE: [NTSysADM] Re: GPO being filtered out, denied by security - MORE

2017-06-20 Thread James Rankin
Was just going to suggest that - that bites me all the time -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Miller Bonnie L. Sent: 20 June 2017 17:30 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Re: GPO being filtere

Re: [NTSysADM] Ransonware protection

2017-06-12 Thread James Rankin
Ivanti Application Manager Bromium vSentry Sent from my slightly schizophrenic, but rather cool, BlackBerry Android From: tominyorkt...@gmail.com Sent: 12 June 2017 1:42 p.m. To: NTSysADM@lists.myitforum.com Reply to: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Ransonware protection Hi All,

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: VMware to Hyper-V transition

2017-06-08 Thread James Rankin
VDI in a box Sent from my slightly schizophrenic, but rather cool, BlackBerry Android From: webs...@carlwebster.com Sent: 8 June 2017 8:58 p.m. To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Reply to: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: VMware to Hyper-V transition You left out Emergent Onlin

[NTSysADM] RE: Windows 10 Explorer drag and drop issue

2017-06-02 Thread James Rankin
tforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Friday, June 02, 2017 12:23 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Windows 10 Explorer drag and drop issue That'

[NTSysADM] RE: Windows 10 Explorer drag and drop issue

2017-06-02 Thread James Rankin
es. Thanks, jlc From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 12:42 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Windo

[NTSysADM] RE: cloud service (VDI)

2017-05-31 Thread James Rankin
m> mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>> on behalf of James Rankin mailto:ja...@htguk.com>> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 8:47 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: cloud service (VDI) I've been failing fraud d

[NTSysADM] RE: Windows 10 Explorer drag and drop issue

2017-05-31 Thread James Rankin
m: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 12:04 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Windows 10 Explorer dr

[NTSysADM] RE: Windows 10 Explorer drag and drop issue

2017-05-31 Thread James Rankin
The usual Windows 10 reply...is it fully patched? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Joseph L. Casale Sent: 31 May 2017 18:51 To: 'ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com' Subject: [NTSysADM] Windows 10 Explorer drag and drop issue I have a Windows 10

[NTSysADM] RE: cloud service (VDI)

2017-05-31 Thread James Rankin
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[NTSysADM] RE: cloud service (VDI)

2017-05-31 Thread James Rankin
Just go Citrix Cloud, all wrapped up as a service in Azure From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: 31 May 2017 03:10 To: NT Subject: [NTSysADM] cloud service (VDI) Hi all , I have a client that wans to do "cloud services" VDI, th

[NTSysADM] RE: recommended SNMP Monitoring tools

2017-05-23 Thread James Rankin
We've just started doing work with a company called Insentra that do a cloud-based monitoring tool (although you can run it on-premises as well) called Predictive Insights and Analytics (PIA). It's based on Lakeside Systrack but with a custom dashboard built on top. Might have to ask whether it

Re: [NTSysADM] Looking for monitoring/management for small business

2017-05-16 Thread James Rankin
Insentra do a great cloud Managed Service called PIA which is cheap and very comprehensive. Disclaimer - we do sell it, but it's the best monitoring solution I've seen yet, based on lakeside systrack Sent from my slightly schizophrenic, but rather cool, BlackBerry Android From: timwilli...@quad

[NTSysADM] RE: Updating Windows 7 "Home" on old laptop

2017-05-15 Thread James Rankin
Not sure if this may help http://www.infoworld.com/article/3177323/microsoft-windows/microsoft-endorses-convoluted-technique-for-installing-win7-from-scratch.html From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Richard McClary Sent: 15 May 2017 14:14 To:

RE: [NTSysADM] Terminal server sizing

2017-05-02 Thread James Rankin
Much easier with a vehicle – simply buy German ;-) From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Webster Sent: 02 May 2017 15:08 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Terminal server sizing Not enough info, way too many unanswered qu

RE: [NTSysADM] Folder Redirect

2017-04-20 Thread James Rankin
rum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 6:51 AM To: New NT System Admin List (NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.com<mailto:NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.com>) mailto:NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.com>>; n

Re: [NTSysADM] Folder Redirect

2017-04-20 Thread James Rankin
What do the event logs say when the GPO folder redirection fails? The gpo for "prevent user from changing My Documents path" can interfere with folder redirection, but that would generally be a different behaviour to what you're seeing. Sent from my slightly schizophrenic, but rather cool, Blac

RE: [NTSysADM] UAC prompt when launching Chrome

2017-04-06 Thread James Rankin
Long shot, but there isn’t a value in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ApPCompatFlags\Layers with a value referencing chrome.exe, is there? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jimmy Tran Sent: 06 April 2017 16:41 To: ntsysad

RE: [NTSysADM] Question about Word

2017-03-27 Thread James Rankin
Natola From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>> on behalf of James Rankin mailto:ja...@htguk.com>> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 10:13:22 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.c

RE: [NTSysADM] Question about Word

2017-03-27 Thread James Rankin
27, 2017 at 8:19 AM, James Rankin mailto:ja...@htguk.com>> wrote: My Microsoft Office skills are a bit limited and I can’t seem to frame the Google query right today… I am writing a template document. At the start of this I want to put a section for “Customer Name”, the idea being that wh

[NTSysADM] Question about Word

2017-03-27 Thread James Rankin
#x27;t understand... TIA, [cid:image001.png@01D21FCA.D5DD9850] [cid:image002.jpg@01D21FCA.D5DD9850] [cid:image003.jpg@01D2A6FC.B3880150] James Rankin CTA ACA EUC Solutions Architect Howell Technology Group Office: 0191 4813446 Mobile: 07809 668579 Email: ja...@htguk.com<mailto:ja...@ht

RE: [NTSysADM] %[SYSTEM]% environment variable

2017-03-21 Thread James Rankin
I’ve never seen SYSTEM declared as an environment variable, unless it’s a custom one. SYSTEMDRIVE, SYSTEMROOT, but never SYSTEM From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Richard Stovall Sent: 21 March 2017 15:15 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Su

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Persisting access to an Azure shared folder

2017-03-17 Thread James Rankin
should complete when run again after the mapped drive is connected. On 17 Mar 2017, at 14:43, James Rankin mailto:ja...@htguk.com>> wrote: I did try Group Policy with the delay set to 0, but it didn’t manage to get in soon enough. However I didn’t configure any of the other settings, le

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Persisting access to an Azure shared folder

2017-03-17 Thread James Rankin
m.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 11:46 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Persisting access to an Azure shared folder OK, the problem with this seems to be timing. Running a “cmdkey” command at logon allow

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Persisting access to an Azure shared folder

2017-03-17 Thread James Rankin
ks all for suggestions. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: 17 March 2017 14:04 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Persisting access to an Azure shared folder This sender failed our fraud detection

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Persisting access to an Azure shared folder

2017-03-17 Thread James Rankin
e I've found. -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Fri

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Persisting access to an Azure shared folder

2017-03-16 Thread James Rankin
Reply to: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Persisting access to an Azure shared folder Scheduled task at startup? Kurt On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 3:48 PM, James Rankin mailto:ja...@htguk.com>> wrote: That's what I've been trying, but the net use command, w

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Persisting access to an Azure shared folder

2017-03-16 Thread James Rankin
I’ve had people executing the “net use /persist” from a batch file (or sending around an intern to do it). From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 3:39 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM

[NTSysADM] Persisting access to an Azure shared folder

2017-03-16 Thread James Rankin
authentication? All suggestions gratefully welcomed... Cheers, [cid:image001.png@01D21FCA.D5DD9850] [cid:image002.jpg@01D21FCA.D5DD9850] [cid:image003.jpg@01D29E8C.F16761A0] James Rankin CTA ACA EUC Solutions Architect Howell Technology Group Office: 0191 4813446 Mobile: 07809 6

RE: [NTSysADM] Sohpos disables UAC ?

2017-03-10 Thread James Rankin
That would be bad, very bad. Not just from a security perspective - certain UWP apps on Windows 10 misbehave considerably if UAC is disabled. -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Klaus Hartnegg Sent: 10 March 2017 16

[NTSysADM] RE: Group Policy Settings Reference for Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop

2017-03-07 Thread James Rankin
Excellent stuff - I've referenced it already in my article here http://www.htguk.com/applying-citrix-policies-through/ I may update the article using this as a template, really handy, cheers! From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Webster Sent:

Re: [NTSysADM] Group Policy settings

2017-02-28 Thread James Rankin
HKCU doesn't exist until a user logs on. You could edit the ntuser.dat files with a script of some sort, assuming you've got the profiles stored somewhere accessible. Sent from my slightly schizophrenic, but rather cool, BlackBerry Android From: dav...@imcu.com Sent: 28 February 2017 6:22 p.m. T

RE: [NTSysADM] Hyper-V fun

2017-02-24 Thread James Rankin
particularly nice today, I wasn’t nasty about it ☺ ). https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/362xpe/dont_forget_to_enable_smb3/ You have to enable it. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James

RE: [NTSysADM] Hyper-V fun

2017-02-23 Thread James Rankin
/362xpe/dont_forget_to_enable_smb3/ You have to enable it. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 2:14 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto

RE: [NTSysADM] Hyper-V fun

2017-02-23 Thread James Rankin
February 2017 19:04 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Hyper-V fun SMB works great, if, as MBS said, you're running v3. On Feb 23, 2017 9:46 AM, "James Rankin" mailto:ja...@htguk.com>> wrote: Ah. So looks like SMB share is a big no-go. Time to do som

RE: [NTSysADM] Hyper-V fun

2017-02-23 Thread James Rankin
ciated… [cid:image001.png@01D21FCA.D5DD9850] [cid:image002.jpg@01D21FCA.D5DD9850] [cid:image004.jpg@01D28DE1.192FD990] James Rankin CTA ACA EUC Solutions Architect Howell Technology Group Office: 0191 4813446 Mobile: 07809 668579 Email: ja...@htguk.com<mailto:ja...@htguk.com> www.ht

[NTSysADM] RE: Documenting Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.8+ with Microsoft PowerShell V2.0

2017-02-23 Thread James Rankin
esktop 7.8+ with Microsoft PowerShell V2.0 Neither Unidesk nor WEM have any PoSH stuff. Webster From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 6:05

[NTSysADM] Hyper-V fun

2017-02-23 Thread James Rankin
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[NTSysADM] RE: Documenting Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.8+ with Microsoft PowerShell V2.0

2017-02-23 Thread James Rankin
Great stuff. Now get ready to update it all for the Unidesk and Norskale features ;-) From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Webster Sent: 23 February 2017 11:28 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [NTSysADM] Documenting Citrix XenApp and XenDe

RE: [NTSysADM] Question re job interview

2017-02-22 Thread James Rankin
questions are asked! LOL Webster From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 7:37 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com>

RE: [NTSysADM] Question re job interview

2017-02-21 Thread James Rankin
Congrats. Have to agree with Jeff, I am the master of turning 1 hour presentations into 35 minutes through sheer speed of talking. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Steward Sent: 21 February 2017 13:07 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com

RE: [NTSysADM] Some advice needed about allowing local C: drive access

2017-02-17 Thread James Rankin
Why don't they just browse to \\hostname\c$? -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael Leone Sent: 17 February 2017 17:34 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Some advice needed about allowing local

RE: [NTSysADM] Fwd: Protecting from Ransomware

2017-02-15 Thread James Rankin
There’s only one sure way to stop ransomware and that’s application execution management. Device Guard, AppLocker, Scense, Ivanti Application Manager, RES – these can all do it by only running trusted code. Even the best “anti-ransomware” stuff is going to be vulnerable to a targeted, unknown pi

RE: [NTSysADM] Minor mystery - Win 10 versions I don't recognize

2017-02-02 Thread James Rankin
Hmmm... didn't read the link before replying :-( Are they possibly eval versions or machines stuck outside of the grace period for their branch? -Original Message- From: James Rankin Sent: 02 February 2017 19:14 To: 'ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com' Subject: RE: [NTSysADM

RE: [NTSysADM] Minor mystery - Win 10 versions I don't recognize

2017-02-02 Thread James Rankin
The 10586s are 1511 versions with different cumulative updates, I presume. The 14393s are 1607 versions again with different cumulative updates. The RTM version was 10240.x.x I'm sure the cumulative updates increment the minor version number somewhat, as I recall. -Original Message- Fr

Re: [NTSysADM] Adding *only* reboot right for domain user to a local host, remotely ...

2017-01-20 Thread James Rankin
Looks right, but they might possibly also need the "shut down the system" right as well... Sent from my slightly schizophrenic, but rather cool, BlackBerry Android From: oozerd...@gmail.com Sent: 20 January 2017 5:49 p.m. To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Reply to: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Sub

RE: [NTSysADM] Microsoft announces Windows 7 is a security disaster.

2017-01-18 Thread James Rankin
I’m doing a series of webinars on Windows 10 and my experiences deploying it, if anyone wants to try and get themselves ready and find out all the worst things you may encounter… https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2890274500477726465 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad..

Re: [NTSysADM] Microsoft announces Windows 7 is a security disaster.

2017-01-18 Thread James Rankin
Come to my webinar and I can show you more of Microsoft 's slightly immoral marketing tactics. Ok, will stop trying to drum up more attendees now :-) Sent from my slightly schizophrenic, but rather cool, BlackBerry Android From: kennedy...@elyriaschools.org Sent: 18 January 2017 6:33 p.m. To: nt

RE: [NTSysADM] Environment variable editing

2017-01-18 Thread James Rankin
If you wanted to modify SYSTEM variables you’d need some form of elevation, in order to write the relevant Registry keys. This could be done with a script and something like CPAU from JoeWare, or a third-party tool, maybe. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.

Re: [NTSysADM] Environment variable editing

2017-01-18 Thread James Rankin
Can I ask why you would need to do that? Sent from my slightly schizophrenic, but rather cool, BlackBerry Android From: lmat...@path-solutions.com Sent: 18 January 2017 9:38 a.m. To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Reply to: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Environment variable editin

Re: [NTSysADM] TestUser2 Group Membership

2016-12-20 Thread James Rankin
Replication lag? Sent from my slightly schizophrenic, but rather cool, BlackBerry Android From: dav...@imcu.com Sent: 20 December 2016 6:33 p.m. To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Reply to: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] TestUser2 Group Membership Why would a user be in a group b

[NTSysADM] RE: Good converter of WAV to MP3

2016-12-19 Thread James Rankin
Who's the best, Jack, or Rostov? ;-) From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul Sent: 19 December 2016 14:07 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Good converter of WAV to MP3 That webpage had a link to a ripper co

[NTSysADM] Windows 10 servicing branches

2016-12-15 Thread James Rankin
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[NTSysADM] OT: windows 10 stuff

2016-12-08 Thread James Rankin
If anyone is interested in hearing about my experiences with windows 10 deployment, here's a link to a (possible series, dependent on uptake) of webinars. http://bit.ly/2hp2OUA End shameless self promotion :-) Sent from my slightly schizophrenic, but rather cool, BlackBerry Android

Re: [NTSysADM] OT: IT Philosophy

2016-12-08 Thread James Rankin
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2016 9:46 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] OT: IT Philosophy Software we use has a “rights discovery mode” that you can use to audit the environment fir

[NTSysADM] RE: Windows Hello for Business

2016-12-08 Thread James Rankin
I've never tried this in the enterprise myself, but I've been less than impressed with Windows Hello's propensity to activate when confronted with people of, erm, similar lack of hair... From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of dylan.mar...@bench

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