@IRJ That's why this is a community and not email 😉

Good luck with your deployment!

Reminds me of this guy at Spicecorp one time. He thought he was cock of the walk, talking about PCI compliance. He made a statement that wifi can NEVER be used per PCI compliance.

Like HIPAA, PCI compliance is a guideline, there is nothing verboten. Yes, wifi could be "hacked" but also leaving interfaces unsecured is also a violation.

Of course, I love the "cloud" hosts who claim they are HIPAA compliant.

Set up a NAS, Use CloneZilla, and go...
Multiple hardware types are a pain, but the last 10 years have been the norm for me. I miss the days when I could build a bootable CD and would TnL (Toast and Load) a workstation for me...

Ah.. batch scripting with Ghost...

Sweet! Thanks @Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@Martin9700 said:

(Invoke-WebRequest ifconfig.me/ip).Content

Sweet, just tried it here, works great.

Still like the output from my script better--more PowerShellish. It's also quite a bit faster (the ifconfig.me site seems pretty sluggish).

Kind of like how you can do that for flights now.

I see this sometimes too.

@IRJ said:

@thanksaj said:

@IRJ said:

@thanksaj said:

@IRJ said:

This should be baked into your images

Apparently the guy who was doing this wasn't the one who made the image

What exactly do is he do to setup the default profile? This will give you the answer if it can be done with GPO. Adding things like desktop icons are easy via GPO

Exactly.

You are agreeing with me, but you never answered my question.... 😛

Not sure on all exact settings. Is there anything that you'd be limited to doing this way that can't be done via GPO?

Here is a good place to start

http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/product-training/sharepoint

Good find.

@Dashrender said:

WSUS are a type of offline updates.

Well, not really. WSUS can be used if the client is offline from the Internet but not if it is offline from the network or turned off.

sorry not familiar with the product.

That's a whole new type of thrashing!

Looks like it was something behind the CloudFlare CDN?

@coliver said:

We have a great Konica press-quality printer, it has amazing quality but we have to have the maintenance guy come in every 2-3 weeks to do re-alignment/repairs. During our busy season he is in every 2-3 days...

From talking to other colleagues this happens across all vendors - I'd say we have Konica out every 4-6 weeks to work on something, though this rarely means downtime. It's much better than the near weekly visits from Toshiba (and the Toshiba was offline 1 day in ten while we had it).

Our general office MFPs are all Sharps through the same company. Two of them we own outright with a maintenance agreement, the third is still under lease. We see that maintenance guy once every six months or longer.

Our desktop MFPs, Laniers, have a normal volume around 10K/month. They see service about every 4-6 months.

You should subscribe to their sale email. Two books minimum daily.

One of the obscure things I like about Windows 8 is the ability to easily create an app that uses a Windows 8 mode on IE with pre-configured settings. I see this being the way of the future.

We have a call center that just helps our members with Online banking. The call center isn't technical so we run into browser issues all the time. It would be great to have everyone that owns a Windows PC with Windows 8 or higher to just download an app with our preconfigured settings. No more which version of IE, Chrome, Opera, or FF are you using and all the variables that go with it.

@g.jacobse said:

I will look at LastPass - but even at $12.oo a year,.. I'm not sure I want to pay for something... I like OpenSource and free if possible. But respect the authors and they do very much deserve support for the work they do.

It is free to use. You only have to pay for the Premium membership if you want to use the app on your mobile device. But at that point it is the same as KeyPass, just slightly better in that as a commercial application, things are generally more polished.