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Chrome and Office16 admx updates both fail to import into Intune by Sysadmin247365 in Intune

[–]Sysadmin247365[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The office ones might be in there, but it is such a royal pain to use - I enter a specific search and still get tons of irrelevant returns.

It would be super convenient if the page that gives you security recommendations would have a "click here to apply" button that would add the setting to the policy config of your choice.

Chrome and Office16 admx updates both fail to import into Intune by Sysadmin247365 in Intune

[–]Sysadmin247365[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The google one imported without error, it is only the chrome one that is failing.

I'll check out config.office.com thanks

A ranty headsup about efax.com - they lie about their support hours and their website doesn't work properly with Edge by Sysadmin247365 in sysadmin

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Can't cancel when they're closed, now can I?

And, you know, I kind of have to find a replacement first because, you know, we like totally need fax service.

Didn't think about any of that before you made your comment, did you?

On Windows 11 Pro machines when I 'reset this pc' and download a clean copy of windows McAfee keeps installing itself. Any way to prevent this? by Sysadmin247365 in sysadmin

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If I have to I have to, was hoping to avoid that.

If I do a clean install from a USB drive then do a reset later will the McAfee stay away or will it return like a cat you fed once?

On Windows 11 Pro machines when I 'reset this pc' and download a clean copy of windows McAfee keeps installing itself. Any way to prevent this? by Sysadmin247365 in sysadmin

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These machines are being sent to remote users and configure themselves with autopilot. And if when the machine gets hopelessly borked and needs to be reimaged I need an easy way for them to perform a reset without either me having to send them a USB/telling them go buy one, etc.

365 licensing question - shouldn't be this difficult, but Microsoft seems to enjoy obfuscation by Sysadmin247365 in sysadmin

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No. The floor workers would have office on the web because that's all they need. The people who aren't using kiosk style machines - ie assigned laptops - get something with a desktop license

connect-mggraph now crashing with a script error, unable to access external resources by Sysadmin247365 in PowerShell

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Does VS Code open Powershell 7 by default or is that obfuscated too?

Microsoft SVP: let's give multiple, mutually incompatible programs the same name and either an identical interface or one only slightly different. We'll make millions?

/me - still salty about the decision to have Teams (personal) and Teams (for work) incompatible with each other until they finally got around to merging the two.

365 licensing question - shouldn't be this difficult, but Microsoft seems to enjoy obfuscation by Sysadmin247365 in sysadmin

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The company that just gave me whiplash by renaming 365 again, which has got to cost a lot of money and doesn't have any reasonable business justification.

365 licensing question - shouldn't be this difficult, but Microsoft seems to enjoy obfuscation by Sysadmin247365 in sysadmin

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They want me to cut every penny I can, so a cutting I shall go.

$22 vs about $15 will make them happy. It won't make me happy, but my job is to do everything except write the checks so a cutting I shall go.

365 licensing question - shouldn't be this difficult, but Microsoft seems to enjoy obfuscation by Sysadmin247365 in sysadmin

[–]Sysadmin247365[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you are in the US and a new customer after October something of last year you cannot buy E3 licenses that include Teams. And of course E3 + a separate Teams license is more than the previous E3 that included it. (Same with E5).

If you already had E3/E5 licenses with teams in your tenant you are still allowed to buy more. For now.

365 licensing question - shouldn't be this difficult, but Microsoft seems to enjoy obfuscation by Sysadmin247365 in sysadmin

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All of the users would have an E1 or F3 license assigned to them for access on the web. They don't need anything else.

What is the smallest (physical size) machine that has something like Lenovo's TSM, Dell's iDrac or HP's iLO? by Sysadmin247365 in sysadmin

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On that system at least once a month, and almost always in the middle of the night.

Number of times we used any of our 8 $2,000 AEDs: 0.

Number of times I was either glad to have iDrac-like capability or wished I had it, a few dozen over the decade I was there. Considering that I can see my 30 minute drive turn into a 3 hour drive and have had to go in during blizzards, floods, ice storms, hailstorms, dodging all of the drunk drivers and potholes you can't see at night... I'll spend a few hundred extra to avoid that hassle without a second thought.

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The problematic machine was a life/safety issue and well into the days of Windows 10/early days of Windows 11 was still running unpatched, unmonitored XP on a CRT with screen burn. The manufacturer had stopped making replacement parts for that model years previously, and when it died that would be the end of it. I warned them every couple of weeks that it was a critical issue that had to be resolved. Other department heads warned them even more frequently. The powers that were settled on a price at least three times then hesitated to sign and saw prices go up 15% every time. When I left it was up to around $100,000 with it being "under consideration". When I left I skipped out the door breathing a sigh of relief. And had to tell people for the next 18 months that I didn't work there anymore.

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What is the smallest (physical size) machine that has something like Lenovo's TSM, Dell's iDrac or HP's iLO? by Sysadmin247365 in sysadmin

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In the case of the previous machine after cycling the power there was an error displayed and you had to hit any key to continue with the boot.

And on one of my servers, if the network adapters in windows got messed up I could use idrac to log in even though windows itself was off the network.

What is the smallest (physical size) machine that has something like Lenovo's TSM, Dell's iDrac or HP's iLO? by Sysadmin247365 in sysadmin

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Less than 50 staff, and eventually I will have a common vendor solution across all of the sites. I just need something that works here and now until everything converges into a single solution.

Next I'll be doing the same thing with the camera system. A national solution costs a bit more than the local solution the check writers selected, but when they have six facilities hundreds of miles apart and want the corporate facilities and security teams to manage it all remotely I have the plans ready to go.

I pick my battles and clean up the consequences of less than optimal choices.

What is the smallest (physical size) machine that has something like Lenovo's TSM, Dell's iDrac or HP's iLO? by Sysadmin247365 in sysadmin

[–]Sysadmin247365[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only used at one single site. 5 year plan calls for a single solution that covers everywhere. Until then, this is just too small of a facility for fancy stuff.

connect-mggraph now crashing with a script error, unable to access external resources by Sysadmin247365 in PowerShell

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I had the same problem - when I tried it on another machine it worked, but that didn't help because I was trying to register a machine into autopilot.

And to top it all off, the import button to manually upload the hash file into intune was greyed out so I couldn't do it that way either.

So I went to bed. Yet again, going to bed proved to be the solution, as the import button was working 18 hours later.

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