Configuration will not deploy if no profile is logged in
I'm preparing a major application upgrade configuration. The custom script config runs perfectly if the computer is on and anyone is logged in. However, I need to get it to run even if no one is logged into the PC. Is there an option that I'm missing? Also, will Desktop Central wake up a sleeping computer with WOL? I'm having issues getting it wake up our laptops even though they're connected via LAN. Thanks!
Plain Paper Icons for ShortCuts
When I create ShortCuts other than weblinks my icons never show up.... Example I've given Desktop Central the path and Icon file name but they never show up.
Configure IE trusted sites
Can DCA be used to configure IE settings like trusted sites and custom security level settings? I found the basic template but nothing that digs into the settings of IE.
Can I used Desktop Central to add a website to trusted sites within IE
I need to add a trusted website to all of our machines in Internet Explorer - Internet Options. These are a mix of: Windows XP Windows 2008 Server The website is an https site. Can I use Desktop Central to do this for me? We only have access to the computer configuration and not the user configuration, but we want to apply this globally so I think it should be fine? Thanks in advance.
Move Desktop Central database to another drive
Hello, What is the easiest way of moving my current Desktop Central database from my current C partition to another drive/partition? Anthony
DesktopCentral, Members of Custom Groups
Hi, I'd like to have a report about the members of the custom groups. Someone posted a custom query for a report of computers within no group. That query works fine. Is it possible to change it to show all groups with all members? Here's the report for Computers in no group:select Resource.NAME from Resource inner join ManagedComputer on (Resource.RESOURCE_ID = ManagedComputer.RESOURCE_ID) left join CustomGroupMemberRel on (CustomGroupMemberRel.MEMBER_RESOURCE_ID = ManagedComputer.RESOURCE_ID) where
Automate Patch - Around Microsoft Official Date
It would be ideal to have an automated process to deploy Patches on the weekend after Microsoft official patch release date. Deploy these patches to our Test Group. Then the Week AFTER we deploy the same patches company wide. Currently your only process is to pick 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th Day of the month. Which does not work every month. How can we bend the automation configuration around this unique date that Microsoft deploys updates on? Microsoft pushes patches on Patch Tuesday. aka 2nd Tuesday
Software Repository & Patch Store Location's are not Accessible
Just upgraded to build 91003. When logging in to DS the following error appears 'Software Repository & Patch Store Location's are not Accessible'. The DS machine does have access to these locations shared on a server. I just tested patches do download to the Patch Store. Reading an earlier post 'Error Patchstore Build No:91002' the 'DesktopCentral_Server\conf\websettings.conf' does have the correct locations for the swrepository.loc and store.loc. Not sure why this error is appearing.
Upgrade & Migrate DesktopCentral Server
Our Desktop Central Server is running Build # 90145. On a Server 2008 R2 x64. We have two items to tackle. 1. Upgrading/Migrating Server 2008 R2 to a new Server 2012 R2 x64. 2. Upgrading Desktop Central. Questions. Do you have documentation on how to Migrate your Desktop Central Server from older Server 2008 R2 to a new 2012 R2 Server? Can we upgrade from One build to a newer build during migration? or would we have to upgrade prior to migrating? Thanks,
User Account Control Settings - impact on DC scripts
Does setting the User Account Control to "Always Notify" prevent scripts to be run by the Desktop Central Agent? We have a non-AD deployment of DC and AD is not possible at the remote locations. MIke
How to schedule a antivirus scan
How do is schedule a antivirus scan for all the desktops connected to desktop central. and get the report of scan activity performed.
cant start service afther Build 91002 upgrade
Hi, Im trying to update latest SP Build 91002 but after update I cant start service. Strange is that after update as you can see on pic it say "Uninstall completed" ?
Pushing shortcuts with spaces
In past versions of DC I was able to push shortcuts with spaces in the file name as long as I used " ". Now DC seems to ignore " ". A Chrome shortcut with the path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --app=https://website I want to point to In the past this has worked an now a shortcut is created with a target of c:\program files and nothing else. Has something changed? Thanks, /Chad
Copy Files over Internet
We are deploying Desktop Central to manage computers over the public internet as well as our internal network, but I'm running into an issue. Does anyone know how or can suggest a secure, good way to copy files from the server to the workstations? The configuration works perfectly within our internal network using a UNC share, but that's not an option over the public internet. Thanks!
web console issue
hi team Pls help me to fix the below issue we migrate the desktop central to new server. after the migration i'm not able to access web console through locally & remote (Ex http://localhost:8020 & http://<server-name>:8020)
Prevent removal of agent
How do we "prevent" users from removing the Desktop Central client? I know how to remove the Uninstall option in Programs and Features but that doesn't prevent them from uninstalling it through other methods.
How to restrict desktop central to uninstall any update or app
Hi, How do is restrict desktop central not to uninstall any app or update. Where do i navigate to setup this option. Thank You Dinesh
Desktop Cenral Alerts or Notification
How and from where should I manage Alerts for desktop central The computer not in contact with Desktop Central server is given below: Computer Name XXXXXX Domain Name XXXX Remote Office Name Local Office Agent Version 9.0.121.W Last Contact Time Feb 04,2015 07:37:19 AM
Trying to deploy a file/folder operation configuration
Hello, I just upgraded from build 90066 to 90135 yesterday. I am trying to deploy a new File/Folder Operation Configuration by computer as I've always done and am now getting a prompt for a password with my user name showing. I entered it and nothing seems to be happening. What's going on here? Is there a new setting that I am unaware of in build 90135 or is this a bug? Thanks, Eric
Adobe Security Bulletin - March 2015
When are the new versions of Adobe going to be released as templates? I have checked several times and I still don't see them yet.
move a PC out of a remote office?
we still evaluate MEDC, so bear with us if this is too simple: we have two notebooks that are assigned to a remote office, but which are most of the time not accessible by the distribution server, as they are out of office. a) should we move them out of the remote office? b) is there a way to do this within MEDC?
DC MSP - change server ip address
Hello, My server has 1 NIC with ip=10.0.0.100 and 2 other virtual NICS (created by vmplayer) I installed DC MSP, and it got the IP of one of the virtual NIC (192.168.186.1) I follwed this instruction (How to make Desktop Central Server use a specific IP Address, if the computer has multiple NICs?) - http://www.manageengine.com/products/desktop-central/desktop-central-server-ip-binding.html but it doesn't help, probably it is for DC and not DC MSP. I found that the info is stored in "mater-meta-data.xml",
Deploy configuration pop up from DCME "Security Confirmation! Confirm Password to perform the operation"
Hi, when i try deploy printer Configuraitons i got this message: "Security Confirmation! Confirm Password to perform the operation" This is first time that i have this problem. DCME offer my username, when i type my pass nothing happend. Kind regards.
Configurations
Do configurations have a time out period? After so long do they stop working? I don't think this should be the case but I had some machines that were in a configuration for about a month and didn't update. When I setup a configuration and pushed the software to the machine again it worked within minutes.
User Configurations per computer.
Is there any way to configure user settings to be applied by the computer name ? Settings such as user shared printers, shortcuts, drive mappings and etc. Am I missing the obvious or is this feature just not there, other products in the past had the ability to set user configurations only when on specified computers. I ask because we have about 1/3 of our users who move between departments and offices. Each department or office can have wildly different user configurations. WE basically want to configure
Any planned updates for Security Configurations?
In looking through the list of available options in the Security Configurations, it seems the list is is fairly limited compared to the full options that are available through Group Policy. Are there any plans to update this feature with more options, especially related to some of the new features in Windows 8/8.1? Currently I don't see anything related to locking down the Start Screen or Metro application access. Thanks.
delete a configuration
I configured this alert a user. Now I want to take it off but also erasing the configuration under the configuration tab the user continues to see the alert. It ' very angry . How can I do to make him disappear? Warn User: 3 days before network password will expire Warn User if less than: 1 MB are free on system drive Purge Temp Files: Never
Server with multiple NICs appearing in different remote office scopes - DESKTOP CENTRAL
Hello, Firstly I am posting this in the closest forum I can find to Desktop Central, as there isn't the option for it in the forum selection menu. So hopefully a nice mod will move this to the Desktop Central forum. We have set up multiple remote offices based on IP scope. We have a server that has 2 NICs, and so 2 IP addresses. One IP address is in the 10.0.0.0 range, the other IP address is in the 192.168.0.0 range. It appears that Desktop Central is picking up the 192.168.0.0 IP as its
LockOut
Good Evening, how to set windows account lockout configuration in desktop central? Thank You
Exit Codes
I am wanting to deploy Skype 7 to all our users via DC, we previously installed 6.18 via GPO, so I created a custom script to remove 6.18 as a pre-deployment task. MsiExec.exe /X{1845470B-EB14-4ABC-835B-E36C693DC07D} /passive /norestart However if for some reason Skype was not installed by GPO the pre-deployment script fails and version 7 is not pushed out, how can I configure the exit code to proceed if the 6.18 version was not found?
Push Chrome to XP workstations
I need to push Chrome to my remaining XP workstations, but I need to make sure that IE is still the default browser. We have custom software that has to have IE as the default. I know there is a template for pushing Chrome out, so I think I will be good there, but I am not sure how to set IE as the default AND it not ask the User if they wish to make Chrome the default. thanks! jsbac
File/Folder Operation
In file folder operation, specifically the delete operation, I would like to see more capabilities around verification that a file exists. Case in point..I recently had to delete multiple files of type .exd from our workstations and they can reside in possibly 6 different places. I deployed this configuration to a test account and all it says is 'Execution Failed' 'The system cannot find the path specified' I have no idea of easily knowing if any files were deleted or not at a glance. I realize
Logs Folder on Client too big
I installed the agent on about 30 laptops in the company. On each computer has created the folder
C : \ Program Files ( x86 ) \ DesktopCentral_Agent \ logs
which grows about 150 megabytes per day . If this continues I will fill in a short time the hard drives of users . how can I do to prevent or limit does not grow beyond a maximum of 200 Megabytes ? Please help me thank you very much
computer configurations don't execute!
I have deployed some configurations in computer section,I have even tried the templates themselves,I have reset the PC for several times and it's been over 90 mins that these policies have been deployed. None of the computer configurations(such as software deployment,user management,etc) got applied, my user configurations execute properly though.
Mapping Custom Drives
Hello I am attempting to map user specific network drives. Example AD User Name = bwhitson Needs to map X:\ to \\MXEXAMPLE\Users$\bwhitson We currently use Desktop Authority to map the drives in this manner. \\MXEXAMPLE\Users$\@USERID This gives the user a mapped X drive with their appropriate folder on that server. I really don't want to create a dedicated configuration for each user on my network. (I have over 700 AD accounts.) I want to be able to tell Desktop Central that any one in a particular
exit codes on custom scripts
Hi, I found this link (http://www.manageengine.com/products/desktop-central/returning-error-code-on-scripts-how-to.html) while doing research on custom scritps. How does the exit codes help? Does Desktop Central tell me if there is an error while running the custom script? How will it let me know, i.e. will it send an email? Let me know if you need more details. Thanks.
Trying to delete an obsolete shortcut from the desktop of all user profiles.
Trying to delete an obsolete internet shortcut from the desktop of all user profiles. Our workstations are standardized on Windows 7 pro, 32 and 64 bit versions. In the shortcut name field I put: C:\Users\Public\Desktop\Treev I get an error stating the Filename, Directory Name, or Volume label syntax is not correct.
log on server after reboot
i have a couple fo windows servers that i want to reboot using desktop central. Can someone explain how i can setup Desktop central to get the server to log on as a user and startup up a couple fo programs? tahnsk
View patch jobs or configurations from other technicians
We have a technician that has configured and running a patch job. Other technicians who are logged in are not able to view the patch job(s) or view the status of running patch jobs. We are looking under the 'Configurations' tab and then selecting 'Created by All'. Also on the 'Home' tab there is a 'Configuration Summary Report'. Can that also be made to reflect all Configurations instead of just the logged in technician?
Adobe Reader XI Upgrade
Ladies and Gentlemen, I was trying to upgrade the computers to Adobe Reader XI, but only on the computers that currently have a version of Adobe Reader. I tried adding a pre-deployment activity, in which the configuration would check the computer for a version of Adobe Reader lower than 11, but it just happens that Adobe Reader is not just known by that name. It has so many other names, versions and even Manufacturer's name in the Software Inventory that it doesn't seem to recognize what I am asking
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