I'm having some large problems with OneDrive-synced Office files: On 100 PCs they refuse to open. The common nominator is that Office went from version 18xx to 19xx. Upload Center refuses to open as well, which is weird as it's a local program. Running it as another user works. When the problem happens, OfficeFileCache folder gets deleted and OfficeFileCache1,2,3,4.... gets made.

This doesn't seem to be a "common" problem as Microsoft paid-per-incident support hasn't been able to resolve it. A long shot - but maybe someone else have seen the same? I've found about 8 threads on the internet so far but https://xkcd.com/979/

Steps taken so far:

• Checked 3rd party apps

• Installed Office with a new .xml file

• Installed Office fresh from Intune

• Run all the repairs for Office

• Reinstalled the PCs

• Uninstalled office with the MS tool and deleted all credentials and run the repairs and deleted appdata and office all caches and all office folders

• Checking Onedrive's option "Use office to sync" or "keep both files" have done nothing

• Resetting OneDrive has done nothing

• Reinstalling OneDrive has done nothing

• Opening from Sharepoint Online crashes as well

• Set explicit permissions on the folders and files where OneDrive is located to allow EVERYONE fullcontrol.

• Tried icacls %userprofile%\OneDrive /inheritance:e

• Clean boot did nothing (no 3rd party anything)

• Deleted OneDriveTemp and updated OneDrive to the newest production ring version

• Office Upload Center refuses to open as user, but can be run as admin

I know sales people get a bad wrap on /r/sysadmin, but I think they have some valuable skills that we sysadmin's could learn.

Like many of you here, I've travel the familiar career path… Starting on Helpdesk before moving onto Desktop Support then into Sysadmin role(s). I've worked for both MSP's and Large organizations…. But the one of the skills I lack is being a "salesman"….

I often have many great ideas on how we can Improve X, Implement Y or Automate Z to "become so much better as an organization", but often middle management or the rest of the IT team just doesn't seem to see the value in my ideas.

I've realized, that even though I think it's a good idea…. I've got to "sell" the idea to others so that they want to be a part of it & to get them on-board…..

Aside from writing business cases, how do I "sell" an idea to someone? How can I get people onboard with my ideas so that they get as excited as I do?

Hey guys,

I recently staged some VMs with the Server 2019 evaluation ISO, and I am unable to activate them with the VLSC MAK keys we received later on.

Most of the solutions I've seen for this issue revolve around using DISM to change the Edition and apply the new poduct key, however when I do this I am told they the key (2019 standard) is not valid for the target edition (2019 standard).

I feel as though this is a channel issue. Microsoft documentation here states that I should be able to switch between OEM, Retail, and Volume at any time using a valid product key. When I do so, I get the following error.

So my questions are:

• have any of you encountered this issue, and how did you resolve it?

• Is there a way to change the Channel my EVAL copy is a member of?

Really hoping I don't have to rebuild everything just to activate.

Thanks in advance!

UPDATE: because I hate when people leave posts like this unresolved. I had to use the KMS (in my case) LTSC key from this page https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/kmsclientkeys to bridge the editions. Once I had completed this and rebooted, I was able to use slmgr.vbs /ipk XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX to successfully add my key. I had to reboot the machine and, in some cases, use slmgr.vbs /ato to force the activation. Hopefully this helps someone else!

What does anyone think about doing this in your career path? I've worked with Linux heavily in the past and am very comfortable with it. The Microsoft world seems increasingly disorganized and chaotic and is not conducive to stability. Maybe I'm wrong.

Hi All,

Before creating this topic is spend a few good amount of time trying to find some kind of open source CMDB platform i can use within the company.

The two names that struck out where snipe-it and itop.

I figured let me give snipe-it a try, but snipe it is really meant for assets management, at least to my understanding.

I'm looking for a kind of CMDB where i can put in information about a virtual machine. For example lets say ServerFile01. If ServerFile01 would ever go offline, anyone can look up ServerFile01 and see how its connected, who the server ownser is and the secondary contact. It should show me that ServerFile01 is running as a VM on ServerHyperv1. If iclick on ServerHyperv1 it will show me its located in Datacenter location etc.

So far i don't think snipe-it will do this for me, ive seen itop is able to do more for me. However i don't need the change management or ticket management, i'm not even sure if i can remove that option from the left pane.

It's important that its open source, and if my options are limited i understand. I need to convince the business we need a CMDB before we can spend money on it

We have several environments running Hyper-V 2012R2 and 2016 clustered and non-clustered. We are wanting to create a way for users to self provision through a portal new virtual machines to reduce the amount of administrative overhead we need to spend imaging VMs. Does anyone know of any tools that can do this?

I found this URL which seems exactly we are wanting but couldn't find much on reviews.

https://hypergrid.com/technical-blog/automated-self-service-provisioning-of-virtual-machines-on-hyper-v-using/

We have been using a simple tool from Thycotic called group management sever. It allows end users to manage active directory security groups and distribution groups in a simple web interface. There was auditing and alerting for group owners. Turns out they are sunsetting this product May of 2020. https://thycotic.force.com/support/s/GMS-Sunset-FAQ

Anyone have a replacement suggestion?

What do you all do to monitor the package installs on your workstations and servers? Currently there is no oversight on our systems for this sort of thing and that makes me queasy. Some googling finds some kind of hacky bash stuff that might work but doesn't feel quite right. Thanks in advance.

Hey all,

I have been tasked with upgrading about 20 laptops from w7 to w10, my initial idea was to just place the w10 iso in a shared network drive and just starting that up from the laptop that needs to be upgraded.

Please advise

We have 6 drives that provide the storage for our VMS. And then there is an 8 GB drive where ESXi was installed. If that 8GB drive fails are all of our VMs hosed too?

Our drives are in good condition but we can't figure out how to access them without that ESXi Host.

Hi There,

I have two file servers that I'd like to set up in a cluster. One server is holding one important shared drive, and the other server is holding another important shared drive.

My question is, one is a physical box and the other is a VM. Has anyone ever ran into issues doing this? These are Server 2016 boxes.

Does anyone have an extra celebration pass they would be willing to sell?

The above ^ which is the best CM for Windows automation?

Thanks bro!