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Run into by an employee - John. straight copy from his email. Ran into this issue yesterday, ConfigMgr 2012 R2 running on Windows 2008 R2. When attempting to import some network drivers, the Windows 7 driver’s imported fine, however the Windows 8 or later drivers gave the error “Error: Failed to import the following drivers…
Continue readingIf I logon to MSDN downloads (which is my only option now TechNet downloads is gone) I see this I stupidly thought it would be SCCM 2012 R2 SP1.... The file name also made me think it would be SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 But, I was wrong.... Apparently to install SP1, I must have SP2…
Continue readingDoes it make me nerdy that I found this an interesting/good read ? http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2015/05/05/exchange-server-2016-architecture.aspx
Continue readingLooks interesting - haven't used it yet - but will be labbing it up in the next few days https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46899 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3062591
Continue readinghttp://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2015/05/04/announcing-support-for-windows-10-management-with-system-center-configuration-manager.aspx The main bit that I'm interested in is Next week, we will also be releasing service packs for Configuration Manager 2012 and 2012 R2 customers. These will deliver full compatibility with existing features for Windows 10 deployment and management as well as several other features, including: App-V publishing performance – Improved performance that reduces…
Continue readingFirst of all - we mount the existing WIM (in this case, I'm mounting server 2012 R2 standard) The directory D:\PSource$\OSD.Windows.2012.R2 has a full copy of 2012 R2 The directory D:\mount is empty Dism /Mount-Image /ImageFile:D:\PSource$\OSD.Windows.2012.R2\sources\install.wim /Index:2 /MountDir:D:\mount Dism /Image:D:\mount /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /All /LimitAccess /Source:D:\PSource$\OSD.Windows.2012.R2\sources\sxs Dism /Unmount-Image /MountDir:D:\mount /Commit This is much easier than the…
Continue readinghttp://www.despair.com/marketing.html It's frustrating - but I think this is a fair representation of where the IT industry is currently at.
Continue readingI implemented Direct Access for a client of mine recently - and all went well, up until they tried to use force tunnelling. This client has a couple of websites that their employees use - and traffic coming from their IP address's gets additional access to these web tools, so it was preferable for them…
Continue readingHad an issue today where tasks sequences which had been running fine for months suddenly stopped running fine. After some investigation, I found the content was being delivered, even though the cas.log indicated content locations had been found. Turned out the datatransferservice.log had the following error logged Error sending DAV Request.HTTP Code 500,Status ‘Internal server…
Continue readingI think everyone is well across how to customise the windows 8.1 start tiles - the best article on it (IMO) being http://stealthpuppy.com/customizing-the-windows-8-1-start-screen-dont-follow-microsofts-guidance/ The quick summary is: Customise your start tiles on one machine Run " Export-StartLayout -As BIN -Path CustomStart . bin -Verbose" from powershell If you already have a Windows 8 configuration package…
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