Adding few settings for OS deployment as part of image deployment

Hi Team,
We have windows 8.1 U image created and deploying that image to computers using config manager 2012 R2 (MDT integrated)
We have few other stuff added to image when it is deployed on the machine as side load\part of customsettinsg.ini or unattend.xml..Could anyone points to right direction with the following
- Home page set to say www.bing.com
- Proxy settings on machine (GP\registry,powershell or any other) that configure IE with proxy configuration
- Adding trusted sites in IE
I believe we still don't have security compliance manager that has 8.1 template.
Regards

Hi,
I would do that using group policy instead for all of the above settings, or the computer is not Domain Joined?
For the Security Compliance Manager Template for Windows 8.1 / IE11 they are live here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/secguide/archive/2014/09/04/scm-baselines-for-windows-8-1-ie-11-and-server-2012-r2-are-now-live.aspx
Regards,
Jörgen
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Your system already has the latest versions installed.

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I have had a problem with my iphone 4s for some time now but I have just been so busy to try and fix it. When I try to disable cellular data in the settings for my apps it will toggle fine, but once I exit and go back in to the cellular settings its back on again all by itself. However, even though it says the data is on, I can’t use the data when I don’t have wifi. I tried restoring my phone a few times and the last time I did that, it wouldn’t turn my service on so I had to talk with a Verizon agent for a long time trying to fix it and finally they simply sent me another phone. I thought hey new phone, this part will be fixed. However, I got my service to work but it’s still the same problem with the cellular data. I have just left it alone and not worried about it, but it’s still not fixed and thought I could ask on here if anyone had any ideas. It has something to do with the apps actually installed on the iphone. Apps like the mail, safari, settings, itunes apps, etc. All my other apps turn on and off just fine. Does anyone have any ideas?

Read the User's Guide... it covers how to backup and sync the device as designed.

Profile Manager Settings for Group does not display for individual members of the group

Hi there,
Can anyone confirm whether I am going mad or not, I and new to Mac Server and have set up Profile Manager on OSX Mavericks from scratch and have been using it successfully to deploy enterprise iPads. I have just gone to edit the profile as we wish to increase the timeout time to locking and have been greeted with something strange.
We have all users in a Group which has settings applied for timeout, pass code change etc. however if I go to an individual account who is part of that group then it isn't showing any settings for that user and it would appear I need to set them again. Similarly if I go to a device belonging to a member of the group then its not showing any settings for that device.
I would have assumed that if you set restrictions for a group then when you view the restrictions for a member of the group then it would be the same however it appears that you can have a separate payload for a group. Is this the case?
I am grateful for any advice people can give me.
Thanks again.
Rob

I would have assumed that if you set restrictions for a group then when you view the restrictions for a member of the group then it would be the same
That was never the way it worked in older versions of 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 Server.
The restrictions for a Group were shown for a Group. The restrictions for a User (alone) were shown for that User.
And the advantage is that if you see something wrong for a single user, you might be tempted to fix it there, in that user, and when you had changed six of them, you might remember that you meant that to be a group setting after all.
And the software to implement them separately is simpler, but YOU have to test it to find out the end results of compositing Group and User settings.

Why does the tab in the settings for keynote for iOS for icloud keep flipping itself back to OFF?

I added a keynote document to icloud/iworks on my imac. No sign that it nade it to my ipad2. What i did notice is that the slider switch on the icloud settings for keynote on the ipad keeps restting itself back to OFF, despite several times setting it to on. No sign of my Keynote file making it over from my iMac. Any suggestions?

Just so we don't lose the point of the rant: is there anyway to fix or (please, please) eliminate this animation or scrolling or bouncing or whatever you'd like to call it? I have been looking for a solution for some months now and the few people who do manage to communicate their concern are never answered, or they get obscure advice on something in about:config that doesn't do squat.
SO, IS THERE A WAY TO FIX OR ELIMINATE THIS 'FEATURE?'

Specifying access settings for tabs in portal pages (rel.2)

Hello
I'm having a problem with specifying access settings on tabs.
I've enabled "Enable Item Level Security" on the page properties.
I've created a new tab on the page, which i've added view privilegies for a specific group, selected specify access settings and unselected "Display Tab To Public Users".
When this is done, the page should only be wievable for members of the group i selected and myself.
But this isn't happening. Users that aren't in the selected group can still view the tab.
What is happening here?
Regards
Per-Jarle Sfther

Per-Jarle,
Are you sure that the users are not part of a group that is included in the group you gave access to on the tab?
Rich

Is it possible to change settings for an existing sequence?

I am cutting a short "crowd-sourced" class play, shot by parents. I have 4 different types of footage from 4 cameras: Two are 720p (30p), one is a 640x480 .mov and the other was shot in 720p but burned to a PAL DVD so they are .VOB file rips at 25fps, 720 x 576 w/1.2 widescreen.The main camera is an .MTS file (AVCHD 720p)
Since I am planning on ultimately making widescreen NTSC DVD's, I sync'd the cameras in a widescreen-DV sequence, then nested that into a new widescreen-DV sequence and activated the multi-cam. I did all of my actual editing in the new muti-cam sequence - but now I am thinking that I should have started with an AVCHD 720p sequence to sync cameras and just maintained 720p thoughout - until exporting the MPEG-2 file for the DVD.
I can make a new 720p sequence and cut/paste everything from my timeline - but they would still be nested multi-cam cuts that link back to the original widescreen-DV sequenece I setup to sync the 4 cam views. I cannot seem to change the settings for the existing sequence - so is there maybe a workaround for what I am trying to do? Essentially, to trick the new 720p sequence (with all the actual multi-cam edits pasted into it) to linking to a new 720p sequence with the already sync'd cam footage pasted into it? And secondly, will it actually effect the quality of the final DVD output? I may also want to make a 720p web version for Vimeo if feasible...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have created the new 720p AVCHD and cut/pasted all of my edits. That is not the problem.
Almost of my edits (other than a few titles amd stil pics I added) are cuts from the original nested sequence called (4-CAM SYNC). It is a regular NTSC widescreen sequence. In this original sequence, I am scaling the the cameras down to fit the frame and sync'ing the four cameras. I am attempting to get this new sequence to link to a new 720p nested sequence that has my sync'd cam footage - to replace 4-CAM SYNC on the time, while still retaining all the edits I have made - I will just have to change some of my scaling settings in a few clips.
It sure would be easier if I could change the "Editing Mode" parameter under Sequence Settings...

Which are the best settings for exporting comps before edditing in Premiere Pro

Hello everyone!
As the title says, which are the best settings for exporting comps from AE to Pr.Pro and then edit them?
Let me explain: I have two comps in AE (intro and outro) and want to export them in Pr.Pro for edditing along with a fottage i shot.
When i render them the size of the files are huge (30 sec= 7GB).
Which is the best method (and settings) i can export the intro and outro to a 'normal' file size and then put them in Pr.Pro without loosing any quality??
[Comp settings: HDTV 1080 29.97 (1920x1080)]
AE and Premiere Pro both CS4

If you're rendering and exporting an intermediate video file to go from After Effects to any other piece of post-production software (such as Premiere Pro), you want to make sure that you're not losing any quality.
Most compression methods, which make movies smaller, also lose some of the image data---i.e., quality. There are a few compression methods that don't lose any image data; these are "lossless" codecs. These lossless codecs do decrease the size of a video file, but they're nowhere near as effective at decreasing size as the lossy codecs are. But file size isn't important when you're doing post-production work. Big files are a fact of life in post-production.
Examples of lossless codecs include the PNG codec and the Animation codec at the highest quality settings, both of which can be used in a QuickTime (.mov) container. I prefer the PNG codec; it's more efficient for photorealistic images, whereas Animation is more efficient for things like cartoons. There are lots of other lossless and nearly lossless codecs. A lot of people that do video editing like the Lagarith codec, but that is something that you'd have to go and get; it's not part of a standard CS5 or QuickTime installation.
See these FAQ entries for information about compression and why file sizes are big for losslessly encoded files:
"FAQ: Why is my output file huge...?"
"FAQ: What is the best format for rendering and exporting from After Effects?"
By the way, keep in mind that you don't always need to render and export an intermediate movie to go from After Effects to Premiere Pro. There are other ways to move data back and forth between these applications, including Dynamic Link. Which is best depends on the specific circumstance. See "Working with Premiere Pro and After Effects".

"Option's value is unacceptable" while configuring the sync settings for Outlook

Hello
I was wondering if someone could please help me with this error message:
"Option's value is unacceptable. Please check option properties"
I receive this message when trying to configure synchronization settings for Microsoft Outlook 2007 in Desktop Manager 5.0.1.
It does not matter whether I select Calendar, MemoPad, Address book or Tasks I get this error message.
I am aware that there is a BTSC article on this problem which simply states the IMAP Profile is corrupt. I have only had this problem since moving to Windows 7 from Vista. When moving to 7 I copied across my PST files. Outlook reads them fine but DM is throwing a hissy fit. I used the Microsoft Outlook PST repair tool and that fixed some errors in the file but DM still wouldn’t read it. I have also imported the PST file again into Outlook but no joy there.
Interestingly I have also created a brand new PST file in outlook and DM still gave me the error message. I don’t see how a brand spanking new PST can be corrupt. This leads me to believe my current PSTs are OK and DM is the problem.
I have tried uninstalling, restarting, and reinstalling DM and have also tried deleting the RIM folder in the roaming folder in AppData to no avail.
I have Googled this issue and came across a few posts in this forum but couldn’t find anything that helped.
If anyone has ANY suggestions that would be great. My calendars work fine on my computer through Outlook, the problem is without being able to sync them they are slowly getting more and more different!
Thanks
Cameron
Solved!
Go to Solution.

What saddens me is that this problem still exists after 3-5 years of this problem first being introduced. I have tried the above and several other options posted on BB Forum, all to no avail. I have being enduring the inability to sync my BB and life together for nearly a year now. Talk about frustration and aggravation in tryng to sync my Outlook and BB calendars manually. I even went and upgraded my BB Curve 8330 to a BB Curve 9330, only to have the same problems when syncing.
But today I googled the internet once again to finally find the post that had the answers and resolved my issues! A TREMENDOUS THANK YOU to Matt Seitz and his live journal entry at http://seitz.livejournal.com/3593.html.
The following is from his post:
Blackberry sync with Outlook fails if no mail account is configured
It surprises me how software that is published by and widely used by major corporations can be so badly written.
I recently tried installing Microsoft Outlook and RIM Blackberry Desktop Manager so that I could sync my Blackberry with my PC. When I tried to configure the Blackberry Desktop Manager to sync with Outlook, I received a cryptic "Option's value is unacceptable" error message. It would have been nice if the software told me which option, what the value was, and why that value was unacceptable.
After much searching, I finally came across an article from RIM that explained this was because my Outlook e'mail (MAPI) profile was invalid. That was probably because I hadn't configured Outlook to access e'mail. I use Yahoo! Mail's web (HTTP) interface and didn't want to use Outlook (or any other POP client) to access my mail.
But apparently Desktop Manager requires that Outlook be configured with an email account, even if I don't plan to access email via Outlook. So, I dutifully added my Yahoo Mail account to Outlook, and simply told Outlook to never access it.
But that wasn't good enough. I then received an error from Outlook: "The operation failed. An object could not be found." Once again, the error is cryptic. What operation failed? Which object was not found?
A Microsoft article explained that the only cure for this error was to configure a whole new user profile in Outlook. I did that, and finally my Blackberry would sync with Outlook.
After creating a new user and linking it to an email, I too was able to finally sync my BB 8330 and my BB 9330 with Outlook. Hallelujuh!!!

Harms settings for asus p9x79 - ?

Not sure if harm will see this but any to all : is there somewere with all of harms bios settings for his over clock? I did find this one: http://ppbm7.com/index.php/final-results?showall=&limitstart= but it only got a few of the settings - its just I got a asus p9x79 pro and a 3930k similar to him and I am finding the OCing a bit tricky - just would be nice to reference somone that has done it.
I am most of the way there - can get 4.9 ghz out of it in auto tune but for some reason the auto tune seems to set my RAM down from 1600mhz to about 1300mhz to do it?! A bit bizzare - I did try to set stronger settings in the digi + section but if I press auto tune after applying changes all I get is the CPU auto tune sequence of restarting etc. and at teh end my RAM is about 1300mhz and the CPU 4.7 / 4.9 (different each time I try it) :S . Just would of been nice to get a OC of my RAM as well as the CPU anyway I will be checking this part with asus if they ever answer (didnt get much luck with them last time I tried them).
I have also started manualyOCing and can get about 4.7 on the CPU but the RAM is more tricky as its 1600mhz base...possibly the asus auto tune does not change ratings? tnx.

Bill : yes but some programs stress the CPU at 100 % but the temperature can be more than 10 C different I have seen intel burn seems to do something crazy harsh but fluctuates - deffinatly the harshes tester at the exact cores very high and above I guess etc...
And yes I use HWmonitor : http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html and Real temp but they appear to show pretty much the same temps : http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/
AIDA64 stress test is only getting my cores to 61 C :O by the way!
What temperatures are you getting Harm or did you get before?
Just out of interest here are my digi+ settings :
I was thinking I could get temps down with it but its not stable if I lower some of these settings...

Error while adding a connector for SSL..help!!!

i'm getting this error when i added a connector for SSL and restarted tomcat
my connector tag is
<Connector keystorePass="kalima" scheme="https" port="8443" sslProtocol="TLS" redirectPort="-1" enableLookups="true" keystoreFile="Mykeystore" protocol="TLS" keystore="C:\Documents and Settings\santhoshyma\Mykeystore" clientauth="false" algorithm="SunX509" keypass="changeit" secure="true" keytype="JKS">
      <Factory className="org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteServerSocketFactory" keystorePass="kalima" keystoreFile="C:\SSLTest\Mykeystore"/>
    </Connector>
LifecycleException: Protocol handler instantiation failed: java.lang.NullPointe
rException
        at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteConnector.initialize(CoyoteConnector.
java:1368)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initialize(StandardService.j
ava:609)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initialize(StandardServer.jav
a:2384)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:507)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:528)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:250)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:424)

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