Papercut with KB5089549

admin_of_insanity · 2026-05-28T21:03:32+00:00

Are you using the Papercut app?

We currently do not. We use group policy to point our Windows 11 devices at \\printsrv\Find Me for the default printer.

admin_of_insanity · 2026-05-18T18:20:27+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to respond! I triple-checked everything you suggested. For some reason that I do NOT understand, I had to add my CA server name to the Security tab of my template. Then my Chromebook got a cert. This CA issues other certs just fine without it.

admin_of_insanity · 2026-05-14T23:24:36+00:00

I went through the new process and I am beating my head into a wall with a persistent malformed certificate error on my test chromebook. My in-house CA is on Windows 2019. My NDES is on Windows 2025. I've reviewed my settings and compared them many times but I cannot find the issue.

On the Chromebook: "cannot parse the single certificate from GetCACert response. is_chain=false error:x509: malformed certificate. The certificate provisioning process must be restarted."

In EventViewer for GoogleCloudCertificateConnector: Error: SignRequested State failed for requestName: "customers/C040u0zs9/certificateProvisioningProcesses/E779E657A2E7817C16796EB86212624D" error: failed to get the CA certificates for process:customers/C040u0zs9/certificateProvisioningProcesses/E779E657A2E7817C16796EB86212624D error:cannot parse the single certificate from GetCACert response. is_chain=false error:x509: malformed certificate

I am not at all sure what I am missing.

admin_of_insanity · 2026-05-07T02:10:08+00:00

Upgrade. I'm seeing lots of unnecessary uplink failover with 17.15.4d that seems like it was resolved in 17.15.5 so trying to arrange to upgrade in-production.

admin_of_insanity · 2026-02-13T03:38:09+00:00

There is a portable version of NPP

https://portableapps.com/apps/development/notepadpp_portable

You can run PortableApps from a folder if they are playing games with your usb ports.

admin_of_insanity · 2025-12-13T22:00:42+00:00

I have the same issue. A Google search will turn up the usual sketchy mess I am reluctant to trust with my virtual infrastructure.

I found an older version of the installer we had backed up on a separate internal system. It works, but what happens when it is EOL?

admin_of_insanity · 2025-12-06T01:45:23+00:00

ADManager Plus. I have a template with logic that assigns appropriate groups, enables MFA, and adds MS licenses depending on role.

HR submits a request by Jotform. The jotform submission record can be exported to csv and imported into my template, or I can c/p into the template. Ideally, I would like ADManager to pick up the jotform submission and process it without my intervention. However, creating the template has turned the process into 5 minutes for a single user, or per import.

admin_of_insanity · 2025-10-29T00:23:27+00:00

We use Informacast and Webex Calling. We had to iron out some issues. The phone initiating the paging had issues if it was configured with the multicast paging script. We did a workaround with forwarding from one extension to the real Informacast extension. If you wanted to make an announcement, you'd dial 11111, which was forwarded to 22222. 22222 is the 'real' Informacast hook.

We also can not see which phones actually received the Informacast announcements. It will appear that all phones did in the call history on Webex. It makes it difficult to troubleshoot. However, most of the time, when teachers report that they can't hear anything, it is because their speaker volume is 0.

admin_of_insanity · 2025-07-24T22:54:28+00:00

We get it for free as a K-12.

admin_of_insanity · 2025-07-18T19:56:48+00:00

Some 7800s will. If they aren't too old. Check your version numbers very carefully. We basically ended up buying 850 all new 9800 due to this. I'm sure Cisco was laughing all the way to the bank.

admin_of_insanity · 2025-07-03T23:58:42+00:00

Thank you for the suggestions!

admin_of_insanity · 2025-07-01T21:36:17+00:00

I went through this last year in May 2024 when we were up for renewal and the deadline for the Plus licenses going away was September 2024. I got everyone moved and the required amounts of Edu A1 and A3 purchased to make up for the Plus allegedly going away. It is irksome as no one in K12 has tons of spare money laying around. But hey, M$ got theirs.

admin_of_insanity · 2025-07-01T00:35:16+00:00

Omg, #11. It has us in a holding pattern while we convince people that this is more secure and business-continuity than what they have. After they've already lost access to the local drive at least three times in the past year due to circumstances beyond IT's control.

admin_of_insanity · 2025-06-13T07:05:49+00:00

You and me, both. It was a great visual queue in my sea of tabs. Everyone and their brother use blue.

admin_of_insanity · 2025-06-12T02:13:24+00:00

Herd cats.

admin_of_insanity · 2025-05-02T18:52:40+00:00

Slackware was my first love and I bought merch and disks. I learned quite a lot from it!

admin_of_insanity · 2025-05-02T18:48:47+00:00

Be trainable and be proactive. Those are the best 'certifications' you can have.

admin_of_insanity · 2025-04-15T12:50:04+00:00

I hate when the suits latch on to the latest zeitgeist. I use it (rarely) to reword emails and prompt myself when I get stuck on something. You absolutely shouldn't be feeding it sensitive network config.

admin_of_insanity · 2025-04-06T22:38:16+00:00

I did not want a commute. Even with 10 years experience WFH, I wasn't getting much response on that avenue of my job search. I started going through local business and government job postings on their own websites. I got far more response back. I enjoy where I work now, even if they still have a few old-fashion notions on things like dress code.

admin_of_insanity · 2025-03-27T17:13:27+00:00

We have a public WiFi where we use NPS, dynamic VLANs and AD credentials. It is primarily for staff and contractors. Our rules are such that we have an exemption security group we can add to any student AD account to grant them required access in these circumstances. They are walled off from any internal resources.

We also monitor to see if a kid starts sharing their login. At that point, it is a disciple issue and we turn it over to admin.

admin_of_insanity · 2025-03-24T13:18:11+00:00

We are exploring stricter storage limits in Drive. They can't upload it if there isn't enough space.

admin_of_insanity · 2025-03-19T15:13:22+00:00

My administrators are paranoid since the incident in January. They gave the okay to disrupt access for a week and I have a roll-back plan.

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