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In win 10, at least Microsoft have given users the option of tablet or desktop mode... unfortunately... as per usual for products of late.... there's not exactly great ways to manage this as a deployment admin. For one client, they wanted certain groups to be forced into tablet mode.... no group policy for that. Using…
Continue readinghttp://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2015/11/20/issue-with-the-windows-adk-for-windows-10-version-1511.aspx Pretty minor... its not as if many people that use SCCM would use the ADK.... only 100% of them. Some interesting comments at the bottom of the page... Previously I was one of those who thought Microsoft's patching and release quality testing was getting better... and it was... for a while... but between this…
Continue readingJava..... not only is the product itself pretty much a virus, the deployment and ongoing management of it just plain sucks. It seems that for Java 8 update 60, the dev's have managed to add that little bit more complexity. If you download and install the offline installer from the java web site ( http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp…
Continue readingA while ago I started using freelancer.com for some odd jobs here and there around coding or websites.... it worked out ok once for a basic website, but seemed to be very poor if I tried to use it for anything a bit more substantial. The main sticking point for me was that freelancer.com took…
Continue readingBeing able to communicate with Skype users via Skype for business is fantastic - however, the interface for adding Skype users - well, is confusing. Generally, when talking to someone and exchanging Skype details - the other person will quote their Skype name - which is fair enough - that's how it works with Skype…
Continue readingThe prologue missions for Legacy of the void became available a few days ago.... and I got around to playing them... and, well... it was a bit of "meh"..... Maybe I'm just too old and bitter.... or maybe the missions were just a bit of nothing and other people feel the same way.... either way…
Continue readingHad a client who was using the full office 2013 suite - but didn't want users to get confused between the default "one note" that comes with Windows 8.1 and the Office 2013 one note. Fair enough. A bit of googling found this handy script already written by the deployment guys in order to help…
Continue readingAfter quite a bit of research, i have finally purchased a new system - along with a SM951 - 256GB version. I wrote an article a while back about some of the difficulties of getting appropriate performance out of M2 drives - http://www.hayesjupe.com/finding-the-right-motherboard-for-the-samsung-xp941/ I ended up getting a MSI X99A SLI Plus motherboard which has…
Continue readingSince moving to SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 at some sites, I've been having some issues where the console crashes while editing task sequences. This is frequent, maybe once every 2 or 3 days... and is something that I've only been experiencing since SP1. The downside of this, is that even when restarting the console or…
Continue readingThis happens with devices that are classed as tablets - for some bizarre reason as per https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2959188 and can be modified using https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn660972.aspx Here's a screenshot of what it should look like in WSIM or in xml <settings pass="specialize"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-UnattendedJoin" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State "> <Identification> <Credentials> <Username> </Username> <Domain> </Domain> <Password>…
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