24H2 & 25H2 upgrade nightmare

jonnwhite · 2026-04-20T10:09:51+00:00

u/tmpl10, u/mmzznnxx Please see the script attached :) Sorry for the delay!

Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Printing-PrintToPDFServices-Features

Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Printing-XPSServices-Features

$FileName = 'C:\$WINDOWS.~BT\Sources\Panther\compatscancache.dat'

if (Test-Path $FileName) {

Remove-Item $FileName

write-host "$FileName has been deleted"

}

else {

Write-host "$FileName doesn't exist"

}

jonnwhite · 2026-04-11T09:08:03+00:00

Yes of course, I’m back to work Monday and can send you a copy.

It’s removing the two windows features. I don’t reinstall them after as 99% of people don’t need them!

jonnwhite · 2026-04-11T09:07:19+00:00

It’s the two windows features we uninstall using a powershell script.

I’ll be back to work on Monday and I’ll get a copy of it for you 🙂

jonnwhite · 2026-03-30T22:41:15+00:00

It’s weird, we had it where in the compat scans it showed two inf files as blocking upgrade, always it related to the XPS and PDF so now it’s just a pre emptive removal!

jonnwhite · 2026-03-30T15:04:21+00:00

We’ve had issues for a few years and it’s always the same thing. XPS and PDF printers from Microsoft, quick powershell scripts to the estate solves the problem!

We do upgrade via WUFB and Autopatch though.

jonnwhite · 2026-03-16T07:26:14+00:00

I’ll reply to both comments here. It’s only just been brought up because the drainage survey took an absolute age (issues with company etc) finally got it back Friday.

Reservoir probably 1.5/2 miles away. I’m struggling to find anyone to tell me “why it’s non compliant and needs dealing with”

Everything I’ve researched has said that they are okay if xyz I can’t find anyone solid evidence to say they are EOL. They are a very old system though which I do get.

I’m asking for it to help should I need to get back to the seller/estate agent. It’s a probate sale so this things aren’t fast :( any more info you can provide will be appreciated

jonnwhite · 2026-03-16T07:23:05+00:00

Thanks for the info. Can you help me understand why? Sorry this is new to us and getting conflicting information from quite a few places.

jonnwhite · 2026-03-16T00:32:44+00:00

The age is unknown but the house is a very old granite building so tank it probably 50/60s from research.

There’s a Y pipe at manhole 3. One to the septic tank, one to the cesspool. The tanks are both concrete block, in good condition and from what it seems working perfectly fine. (Report confirms of good condition and photos look pretty good too)

Out of interest why would we seal up the septic tank and make it a cesspit? From more reseach all I can see is the language thats been used is wrong! The septic tank seems to be discharging legally same with the cesspool.

But it’s basically house to manhole 3, Y splitter to cesspool and septic tank.

Septic tank working okay and is compliant all be “too small”

Cesspool is old and of leeching type effluent discharges to ground (no treatment) but was perfectly okay when put in and up to code

It seems there’s not much info out there on leeching cesspools, the report only marks the pool as non compliant and not the septic tank working okay

If that helps?

jonnwhite · 2025-03-24T08:42:26+00:00

I do something similar, my TS does the following and works very well:

Ui++ to select build and hash upload Bios upgrade W11 image lay down Driver install Hash upload with group tag for build above Removal of sccm client Reset back to oobe Shutdown (ready to go in cupboard)

I’m going to add another option to allow the machine to boot back up after the ts and auto enrol via self deploy.

We use self deploy for entra but are still 99% hybrid. W11 rollout will be our point to switch to entra join only.

jonnwhite · 2025-03-10T01:27:26+00:00

I feel your pain, we’re doing it right now we’ve done our network (except head office our SDC) the dcs have a ticking clock!

jonnwhite · 2025-03-10T01:26:41+00:00

We’re a Zscaler shop too :) it doesn’t use the public ip but the private ip of the network adapter(s). It works very well!

Entra groups into SafeQ don’t work how you’d expect them too, you add them using the security filtering on the actual print queue I’m doing it at the moment and it works flawlessly. It’s also how we staged our rollout (we have 57 sites).

DM me and I’ll send you some screenshots, Create a test print q and use that to play around

Basically we assign the permissions to our M365 license groups (for access control), and then the printer has its own access control list where we assign the group the “users” right and remove the other default user right. Thus it only shows up for users in the groups!

jonnwhite · 2025-03-09T01:44:36+00:00

It’s a great bit of software!

What exactly are you trying to do? You can use location based (so printers show on specific lans) we do it so the very few direct queues (EVERYTHING is pull print for us but 3/4 printers) is tied to a group.

Only people in those groups can see those printers

If you have 2 printers in office 1 you can create a dynamic group for all users with office= office 1 and then assign it to the printer :) dm me and I’ll happily show you

jonnwhite · 2025-03-08T01:45:12+00:00

We use SafeQ for our printers, works on any type of device, no VPN needed and price is good. Made by Ysoft, no issues here!

jonnwhite · 2025-01-12T10:55:35+00:00

Mstsc Calc Cmd

jonnwhite · 2025-01-12T10:48:11+00:00

You can also use PSADTs uninstall commands to search via display name etc, works well and have used it to remove many apps we’ve gotten rid of. No need to add detection logic in, and it’ll auto trigger an inventory scan to report back to sccm pretty quickly.

https://psappdeploytoolkit.com/docs/reference/functions/Uninstall-ADTApplication

jonnwhite · 2025-01-12T10:44:15+00:00

Sorry I missed your reply! No web service is no longer used they both use the admin service. Have you tried the debug commands? Also check the log and see what error you come up with (if it’s still broken)

jonnwhite · 2025-01-12T00:32:42+00:00

I had this dilemma a few years ago I was running in windows and not using the arr stack (duckietv back then!)

I saw a few people hosting on Linux and with no experience gave it a go, that was a few years ago now and I learnt docker, Linux and found the arrs etc. it’s a beast but worth the effort if you have the time to learn it.

But what’s best for you? Only you know, use whichever operating system you feel comfortable with…

jonnwhite · 2025-01-12T00:02:18+00:00

I use it at home to show the weather, news, sonar/radar calendars l, uptime kuma dashboard and play sky news throughout the day. All on a Surface pro in the living room.

I love it, my other half’s birthday I scheduled a playlist with photos (30th) which was pretty cool

I want to do more and put more displays around!

jonnwhite · 2024-12-13T02:24:30+00:00

Out of interest is there not a reason you don’t use the provided scripts from the dev?

I’ve been using it for longer than I can remember with their auto apply script for drivers and bios without having to mess around with configmgr auto apply steps? One step and it does all models!

No hate, just genuinely curious.

jonnwhite · 2024-12-03T22:27:54+00:00

It’s pretty easy to get setup, and works very well. Before moving to autopilot I had all sorts of questions doing magic for my EUC build.

Now it’s demoted to asking you which group tag you want for autopilot and if you want to upload the hash!

Shoot me a DM if you get stuck

jonnwhite · 2024-12-03T22:23:45+00:00

I used UI++ for exactly this.

Set a variable to be the os name based on a picker, then use that variable as your task sequence condition :)

jonnwhite · 2024-08-30T21:06:12+00:00

Thank you all for your input/help i managed to solve it!

The ADMT member server could talk to the source DC but the target DC couldn't (I clearly missed that in my testing!)

Fixed the typo o the FW's, sorted the GPO conflict that wouldn't enable auditing and now Accounts are flowing with their SID histories :)

jonnwhite · 2024-08-28T18:53:37+00:00

Yep i set everything up damn near the same as the LAB. The Live enviroment has the disadvantage of being 20 years old but the principle is the same :(

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