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Have you ever had the experience of providing users a document management system or Sharepoint site only to find that everyone uses it differently, creates folders all over the place in different ways, stores documents differently and after six months time it's so hard to find anything that it defeats the purpose for which it…
Continue readingConfigMgr 1806 was released yesterday morning https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2018/07/31/update-1806-for-configuration-manager-current-branch-is-now-available/ Couple of nice usability features: CMPivot , building off our real-time script capability. CMPivot is a new in-console utility that provides access to real-time state of devices in your environment. With CMPivot, you can get instant insights into your environment. Need to know your current compliance state in…
Continue readingThanks for making me feel old(er)... https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/30/windows_nt_is_25/
Continue readingIf you've been reading through some of our other blog posts, you'll have noticed that we generally like to automate things using Powershell - which quite often requires storing credentials somehow. Preferably not in plain text. In our existing scripts on this blog, the process has generally involved generating an encryption key, using that key…
Continue readingWe often create one task sequence for all workstation builds and another for all server builds, utilising task sequence variables to perform the decision making within the task sequence. One of the downsides of this is that the task sequence binaries can get quite large, especially for server builds where we have current and legacy…
Continue readingCurrently i am creating some server builds for a place which will be deploying large numbers of servers over the coming months. One of things that is/was taking up a great deal of time was offline servicing for the base OS, primarily because the SCCM server is currently sitting on a virtual environment with disk…
Continue readingI ran into a situation recentlly where i needed to import a specific update from the Windows update catalog into WSUS (and in turn into SCCM) I opened WSUS, clicked on "import updates", seletced my update and was presented with "This update cannot be imported into Windows Server Update Services, because it is not compatible…
Continue readingIn the distant past, we would generally say to clients "Leave WSUS admin alone - the SCCM settings will take precedence, so there is no point in using it" As the years have passed, and the number of updates available has grown considerably, this is no longer the case. The SCCM settings still take precedence…
Continue readingWhile hybrid exchange environments are awesome for stretching your on premise exchange topology to Office 365, they do introduce a bunch of complexity - primarily around user creation, licensing, and mail flow. I recently had an issue at a client where they had email bounce-backs from an on premise service destined for a few Exchange…
Continue readingIt's not often that I actually install Hyper-V on a client OS, so it was only by chance that I came across a bit of a weird issue when installing it on Windows 10 1709. Obviously I performed the usual process: Virtualization was enabled in the BIOS, enabled Hyper-V in Windows Features, rebooted and it…
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