Hi Andrew,
I do believe its got something to do with Beyond trust's EPM.
I am having endless issues with this product and jaws,
i.e. if I try and get to the system tray, or use some stuff related to jaws
specifically its as though the keys would get stuck.
Even if I use powershell,
JAWS wont read much and the keys don't work well its like I have sticky keys
turned on.
Luckily for now I'm avoiding it somehow just because of the access I have,
but I'm sure they will catch up with me.
Updating JAWS is a pain as the EDR software the company uses is set to block
child processes of an app or if an app invokes other processes.
I honestly just find that JAWS even sometimes NVDA doesn't work quite well
if no admin rights are given.
Kind Regards
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Hodgson via Blind-sysadmins
Sent: Friday, November 3, 2023 8:11 PM
To: Blind sysadmins list
Cc: Andrew Hodgson
Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Teams woes on a new laptop install
Hi.
I'm a bit stuck at the moment with an issue on Teams. The company I work for
has recently been taken over by a large corporate and this morning they
wiped my laptop in the expectation I would reformat it with a clean install
and provision it with their InTune. This seemed to go well at first, I
installed Windows 11 23H2 from an ISO I downloaded, and the provisioning was
successful.
They are using the BeyondTrust Privilege Manager to stop people installing
software and even though I have extra perms to install I am still prompted.
Getting JFW 2024 installed was a bit of an issue. This also does some other
lockdown of the system but unsure what and how it is locked down.
The main issue though is that the InTune installed Teams on the device, and
when I go into Teams I get absolutely no speech in any part of the app. I
have tried several things to rectify this without issue. Its Teams Classic
version 1.6.00.28554 that is installed. The version of Office they have
installed is 16130.20810 which is from the 2302 semi-annual enterprise
channel.
Has anyone seen this issue where Teams is completely unusable with JFW? At
this point I'm not sure if it's a problem with this BeyondTrust software or
something in Teams, but its going to cause me a bit of a headache next week
if I can't get this resolved quickly.
Thanks.
Andrew.
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