Long Term Storage of Chromebooks

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/9139543?hl=en

Battery tips

  • Do not let the Chromebook battery fully discharge over the summer. Even when a Chromebook is off, its battery continues to slowly lose charge. If left long enough, the batteries might no longer function and can’t be recharged.
  • At the same time, you shouldn’t keep Chromebooks plugged into a cart or charger while in storage for months. This can reduce battery life and lead to other issues. If you’re storing Chromebooks for a long time, charge them to at least 80% and unplug them from a battery source, following the instructions below.

Prepare Chromebooks for long-term storage

  1. Charge your Chromebooks so that the battery is at least 80% full. 
    This ensures that even when the battery discharges while unplugged over the summer, it won’t fully run out of power.
  2. To slow the discharge rate during storage, do not physically remove the battery from the Chromebook for storage. Instead, take the following steps:
    1. Connect the device to a charger and turn it on.
    2. Hold Refresh Refresh and Power Power at the same time.
    3. While holding these keys, remove the power cable from device and then release the keys.
      The device should shut down and remain off.
    4. Confirm the battery disconnect worked by pressing the power button. 
      The device should not power on, despite having a battery charge. The Chromebook won’t power on by touching the power button or opening the lid, until you plug the device back to a power source.

This is the ideal way to store devices. It reduces battery discharge to a minimum, prevents constant charge and discharge from reducing the battery life, and keeps the Chromebook in a stable, powered-off state.

Note: If you can’t put your model of Chromebook into the battery disconnect state described above, charge the battery to at least 80%. Then, turn off the Chromebook, unplug it from a power source, and store it in a cool, dry place.

Get your Chromebooks ready for school

A week before classes resume, get the Chromebooks ready for students.

  1. Connect the Chromebooks to a charger and a power source.
    This will get them out of the battery disconnect state.
  2. Power up your devices.
  3. Connect your Chromebooks to Wi-Fi and update them to the latest Chrome OS release. 
    This can take time, as multiple Chrome OS versions might have been released since the last time the device was updated. For details, see the Chrome Enterprise release notes.

DISM

Best explanation – https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-dism-command-line-utility-repair-windows-10-image

convert install.esd to install.wim (https://www.wintips.org/how-to-extract-install-esd-to-install-wim-windows-10-8/)

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/7808-use-dism-repair-windows-10-image-41.html

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-8.1-and-8/hh824869(v=win.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-update/component-store-has-been-corrupted-windows-10-need/fc74b21d-dd03-4544-b5b9-b31816d6d976

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/7808-use-dism-repair-windows-10-image.html

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/take-inventory-of-an-image-or-component-using-dism

ATT / Sbcglobal email not syncing with email client

Supposedly, this took affect over 5 years ago. The Sbcglobal email needs a special one time password for email clients. It is not the same password for the webmail.

Create a secure mail key

It’s easy to create a secure mail key from your mobile device, tablet, or computer. Have your User ID and password ready to sign in to myAT&T.

  1. Go to Profile and choose Sign-in info.
  2. Select the email account that needs a secure mail key. (You’ll find a menu at the top if you have multiple accounts.)
  3. Scroll to Secure mail key and select Manage secure mail key.
  4. Choose the email address that you’d like to use, if you have more than one.
  5. Select Add secure mail key and then enter a nickname for the secure mail key to make it easier to recognize.
  6. Choose Create secure mail key.

OLD INSTRUCTIONS

To create or change the one time email password for your email client, do the following.

  1. Go to Att.com/emailclient
  2. Then click on “update existing setup”
  3. From here it depends on where you are receiving your emails. But at the end you should also be at step 8. Steps 4 through 7 are for Outlook.
  4. Then “Desktop/laptop”
  5. Then “Pc”
  6. Then “Outlook”
  7. Then “Next”
  8. On the next screen make sure to click the word “here” then sign in and follow the instructions on the previous page.

Take Ownership of files and folders and apply new security to files and folders

When transferring a hard drive, that uses NTFS permissions, from an one computer to another, you will need to change the file and folder security to gain access.

1. You need to take ownership of the files and folders.

takeown.exe /u (username) /r /f (foldername/) /s (computer name)

2. you need to apply the NTFS security of the new computer to the files and folders

 

If inheritance is combined with /T (traverse subfolders) the change will apply to all folders, not just the top level.
for example:
icacls “C:\demo\example” /inheritance:e /T
Will traverse all subfolders below”C:\demo\example” and enable the inheritance for every one, this will replace any inheritance permissions that have been removed.