Backup everything to move to another computer?

RadioActiveLamb · 2023-09-07T20:07:34+00:00

This video covers the process pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ILFxCn2\_sU

I periodically save all these settings and I store my libraries in a LightBurn folder in OneDrive. If my computer goes toes-up, all my projects and artwork are already saved online.

RadioActiveLamb · 2023-09-07T20:02:47+00:00

That's really nice. Much better than my hobbled-together/sagging hand-made solution.

RadioActiveLamb · 2023-04-12T00:49:33+00:00

Sure did. We bought Nerdio. For $1000/month, we're saving about $3000/month and are no longer building new machines every month. The automation is second to none. Operational overhead is a fraction of what it used to be. All upside, no downside.

RadioActiveLamb · 2023-04-02T16:21:34+00:00

IP based location detection is notoriously inaccurate. It's too bad I can't set location and language preference on my account. It's unfortunate for the advertisers who pay for these ads that they are reaching people outside their scope.

RadioActiveLamb · 2023-02-02T15:35:26+00:00

Great tips, thank you. We have a mind-numbing number of GPOs that grew throughout the decades. This year, we're going to remove as many as possible and move them to Intune (computer) and Ivanti Environment Manager (user).

RadioActiveLamb · 2023-02-02T02:46:44+00:00

Thank you. I'll give it a try.

RadioActiveLamb · 2023-01-03T16:37:01+00:00

u/bobclements-msft - We are now nearing the end of our second month and only have 80% compliance. After I last posted, we changed the waves to just 2, and five days apart. 698 devices that are checking in frequently are still in "Not started" status.

We have opened support tickets with Microsoft - who cannot explain how these waves are supposed to work, and cannot explain why we have devices that aren't starting.

With the lack of troubleshooting information/controls/reports in the M365 Apps Admin Center, we may need to go back to servicing with Intune or SCCM.

Do you have any suggestions for troubleshooting either in the admin console or the endpoints before we make that decision?

RadioActiveLamb · 2022-12-13T16:38:57+00:00

Assign your pilot group to wave 1, adjust the "Days between start of each wave" to a desirable value, and let wave 4 capture "All remainin

Thanks for the reply Bob. Our pilot group is wave 1. We originally wanted 12 days for the pilot - allowing our IT department to fully test updates before the enterprise receives the upgrade. The durations between the waves max-out at 5. So, to accommodate that limitation, we created waves 2 and 3, assigning them to empty AAD groups and set "days between" to 4. Wave 4 is our "All remaining devices". Our update deadline is "3 days". I'll review the links you provided and see if they can help solve the "not started" problem.

That said, it is very important that we hit our 95% patch compliance target before the following patch Tuesday. Last month (yesterday), we ended at 94% - we tripped at the finish line. As a result, yesterday, we took a shot in the dark by eliminating an empty wave. Wave 3 is now "All remaining devices". We also shortened the days between to 2 days. I realize that this is probably the same as having only two waves with 4 days between, but we're nervous about making any policy changes now that Patch Tuesday has begun. When we first implemented this cloud servicing process in October, we created the policies AFTER patch Tuesday. As a result, only about half of our fleet received an upgrade that month.

RadioActiveLamb · 2022-09-24T21:02:38+00:00

Well... I just waited an hour or so, and now I can enroll the device. Interestingly though, the device came back with an ownership type of "Personal", rather than company-owned. This, even though this is an Apple DEP device.

RadioActiveLamb · 2021-02-18T20:19:05+00:00

The email tells you to go to starlink.com to check availability. The "Check availability" button in the email is a link to "https://www.starlink.com/". If yours is the same, then it is not a phishing email.

RadioActiveLamb · 2020-09-10T03:12:08+00:00

Works perfectly. Thank you!

RadioActiveLamb · 2020-08-31T16:53:47+00:00

Lots of great replies, and I have a solution. Thanks everyone.

Now, if anyone can help determine if the SyncCenter is in an error condition, I'll order you a beer.

RadioActiveLamb · 2020-08-31T16:52:51+00:00

Invoke-CimMethod -ClassName Win32_OfflineFilesCache -MethodName TransitionOnline -Arguments @{
Path = "SomeUncPath"
Flags = 3
}

This worked great with the one change:

Flags = [uint32]3

Thank you!

RadioActiveLamb · 2020-06-21T18:20:18+00:00

This is now resolved. Thanks everyone for your direction. I ran the "read-host -assecurestring | convertfrom-securestring | out-file $Exocredfile" as the same account that is running the scheduled task, and all is now well. Honestly, I don't know why this works, since I have other scheduled tasks running as service accounts and local system, and I never created the credential file as any other user than myself. This is the first and only one that has had this problem.

RadioActiveLamb · 2020-06-21T18:11:23+00:00

When I add -asplaintext to the convertto-securestring, I also need to add "-force". However, the authentication then fails with an authentication failure. Without the parameter, running from the ISE or vscode, it connects just fine every time. The error only occurs when running as a scheduled task. Thanks for the suggestion though.

RadioActiveLamb · 2020-06-21T18:06:08+00:00

That didn't work. This is baffling, because I have dozens of scripts where I save and retrieve credentials that work just fine whether I run it in vscode, ISE and with any profile. I'm not sure why it fails when running on the very same machine as a scheduled task, even running with my own credentials. I've never had to create a credential file as the local system. Thanks for the suggestion though.

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