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- SCCM 2007 – Inventory troubleshooting
- SCCM 2007 – OSD basic troubleshooting
- SCCM 2007 – Troubleshooting SCCM State Migration Points and Management Points
- SCCM 2007 – OSD driver good practice
- SCCM 2012 – OSD driver good practice
- SCCM and MDT – List of variables
- SCCM and packaging – good and bad practices
- SCCM Collections – The basics
- SCCM Log files
- SCCM OSD Task Sequence Variables – A beginners guide
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Posts by category
Active Directory
- Win RM fails on DC with event ID 142
- Documenting AD ACL’s
- Otherwise healthy DC failing DFS-R, pointing to DC that no longer exists
- Issues with mailbox migration, multiple identities where tenant wide retention policies in use
- Cleaning up DNS after DC demotion
- Exchange migration and AdminSDProp
- Active Directory 2019 and Exchange 2019 – what’s new
- Importing AD powershell module into Windows PE and then using encrypted creds
- Making your software product too hard to obtain….
- Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS)
- Group Policy – Disabled SOM – ?
- Microsoft and management interfaces….
- August 15th – Win 2012 and Win 8 available for DL
- Active Directory in Windows 2012 – domain alias ?
- Things i was really hoping for in Windows 8 server… or a future version ?
- Exchange & AD migration – oddities
- AD restores
- Domain controller snapshots
- AD 2008 R2 – Recycle Bin
- Moving from 2000 FRS to 2003 R2 DFS-R
- AD Sites – a common misconfiguration
ADFS
Audio
Azure
Azure/General Cloudiness
- Changing the default sign in for Azure AD joined machines
- AADConnect – Proxy Address in conflict
- Azure AD sync objects not syncing – specifically some room and equipment mailboxes
- Scripting Office 365 licensing with disabled services
- Automating Mailbox Regional Settings in Exchange Online
- Using Azure RM Site to Site VPN with a Dynamic IP
Direct Access
Evil people
- Pet insurance australia – just shit…
- Office 365 installing bing as default search engine from Feb 2020
- www.youracclaim.com – now that’s dodgey
- Parallels phone spam
- Elance – some odd behaviour
- Drip pricing – JetStar
- Logon enabled for comments due to spam
- MS Exams….. how much worse can they get ?
- Australian Cat Ladies
- Protected: Beechwood Homes SA – Our building experience
- SCEP 2012 vs others – making my blood boil
- Current day SPAM
- IT Terminolgy for “we dont to do anything – ever”
- Free speech
- Scams….
- Lets photoshop out some women…
- US Military – Christians good, athiests bad
- Mortal Kombat – refused classification in Aus
- Free Speech
- Internet eh….
- “Discussion” with Conroy and the Aus internet filter
- Top 10 internet filter lies
- * sigh *
- Left 4 Dead 2 Ban upheld in Aus
Exchange
- Exchange – Can’t remove the domain ‘xy.com’ because it’s referenced in an email address policy by the proxy address template ‘smtp:@xy.com’.
- Removing EXO litigation holds and making your mailbox functional again
- Issue with manually created EXO inbound connector in hybrid environment
- Removing your last exchange on-premise servers after migrating to exchange online
- O365 ATP recommended config analyser
- Exchange 2010 to 2016 mail flow stops with “421 4.4 2 connection dropped due to socket error”
- Exchange hybrid – mailboxes missing on-premise
- Migration of public folders to exchange 2013/2016
- Microsoft Exchange Federation Certificates – Keep an eye on the expiry!
- Exchange 2013/216 receive connector selection process
- KB3124557 sets exchange 2013/2016 services to disabled
- Exchange 2016 architecture
- Handy list of antivirus exclusions for MS products
- Direct Access 2012 and Outlook RPC/HTTP
- Exchange 2013 Gotcha’s
- Exchange 2010 recovery scenario – OS disk dead
- Exchange/Lync/Office 2013 now available
- Exchange and Lync 2013 – a few more details…
- Exchange 2013 – November 2012 – ?
- SenderBase reputation is poor…
- Exchange 2010 SP2 rollup 1 released
- If your getting paid like a consultant… act like it
- MS PST capture tool
- PST capture tool
- Exchange 2010 activesync and Windows Phone 7
- Exchange 2010 SP2 announced
- Exchange 2010 – cannot create users after demoting DC
- Exchange 2010 – OWA
- Exchange 2010 SP1 – EWS not available externally
- Exchange 2010 SP1
- Exchange 2010 SP1 videos from teched
- Exchange 2007 SP3
- Internal upgrades
- Exchange 2010 SP1 – Updated HA features
- Exchange 2010 SP1 – good stuff
- Exchange 2010 – SIS is gone
- Outlook 2010 beta – odd issue
- Outlook 2010 connects to up to 15 exchange orgs
- More exchange 2010
- Exchange 2010 AntiSPAM
- More exchange 2010 progress
- Exchange 2010 – First impressions
- Exchange 2007 SP2 in an environment running all 2008 R2 DC’s
- Exchange 2007 SP2 released
Funny
- despair.com sums up the IT industry nicely
- Something most techs can appreciate
- Wow – thats impressive – even for government
- This made me smile….
- Avengers….
- Working from home
- SOPA
- Recognition that calvinball is the most evolved sport ever!
- Sometimes – i wonder if i write xkcd in my sleep – tyler durden style….
- Classic
- Upsidedowndogs.com… WTF
- The A-Team Movie
- At least organised religion can still provide us a laugh – even if it is at things that aren’t funny in reality
- Classic….
- Hitchens
- up!
- Star Trekking across the universe
Games
- XBOX game pass for PC
- PS Now… on PC
- Tim Sweeneys opinion on the future of the windows store
- Doom (2016)
- Strider maps
- Legacy of the void – Prologue missions
- ED – Capital ships
- Elite Dangerous – Trading rare commodities
- Elite Dangerous – my getting started suggestions
- Elite Dangerous docking guide
- Far Cry 3 (Getting through the steam backlog)
- Heart of the Swarm
- Rise of the triad remake….
- Doom3 BFG edition
- 64-bit gaming engines – its about time
- Xbox wireless receiver
- Logitech Harmony 600
- Online gaming….
- Network TV Tuner
- superfrog and alien breed on GoG!
- RAGE
- Gabe Newell on piracy
- EA – your a bunch of fucking arse clowns…..
- RAGE
- Syndicate – old is new again
- Xbox 360 – my first impressions
- New vegas tour – cool
- Top ten games of a “generation”
- StarCraft 2
- Cool quake movies
- Bethedsa pack on Steam
- Fallout: New Vegas release date
- Alien Breed : Impact – how not to do a remake
- Bioshock 2 play
- Nostalgia for one of the best game series ever…
- Windows 7 RTM Gaming
Hardware
- Moving from Synology to QNAP
- Monitor flicker with AMD Radeon RX590
- Microsoft Surface Pro With 4G in Australia, and the people rejoiced!
- SM951 – my experience
- HP 250 G3 – avoid it
- A good rundown on USB 3.1 and the Type-C connector
- 8TB drives…. awesome price point
- Finding the “right” motherboard for the Samsung XP941
- Intel NUC as a media centre
- Synology Diskstation 2413+
- Home audio distribution – another thing that seems to be way harder than it needs to be!
- Samsung DLNA TV’s
- Ericsson video compression
- HP NC382i DP Virtual Bus Device – This device cannot start. (Code 10)
- Dell Server Management
- HTC Titan
- Bloody Seagate 1.5TB drives
- Stuck in the HP support void
- Thecus N7700 – an update
- Gigabyte X58A-UD7, Sata3
- Thecus N7700 NAS
- Now thats cool – a proper amount of storage!
- PC rip offs – a good, but unsurprising bunch of events
HyperV/Virtualisation
Internet
- Moving off on HostGator
- A rare nice thing to say about NBN
- Microsoft NCSI – prompt for proxy authentication
- Direct Access – routing non internal domains through the corporate network
- Blog hosting – SiteGround
- Welcome to www.hayesjupe.com
- Downloading using FTM with IE11
- The oatmeal and a Tesla museum
- Steve Wozniak isn’t a fan of the cloud
- Freelancer – not so rosy now….
- First experiences with freelancer.com
- Love it – a retailer to call people on using shitty old stuff
- Blogging and new clients
- Those random dots….
- WordPress and IE9
- IE9 – first impressions
- Finally…. decent…. internet….
Intune
ISA/Forefront
- EOP IP addresses – TMG subnet definitions
- No more TMG
- TMG Malware inspection – blocks google with malware inspection
- Forefront endpoint protection and logon times
- Symantec Endpoint Protection and UAG SP1
- Cisco VPN client with Forefront TMG
- UAG, direct access and bad cert names
- TMG 2010 – slow start ups
- FIM 2010 has RTM’ed
- Forefront TMG 2010 – internal upgrade
- Forefront Threat Management Gateway
- Isa tmg to support multiple ISP connections
Lync
- Telstra calling for Skype for Business (Australian focused article)
- Skype for Business to Skype – adding contacts
- Skype for business – some more details on what will be in it
- Lynkype, skync, Lype ?
- Lync Connectivity Analyzer crash on startup
- Lync 2010/2013 to Skype
- Lync 2013 client unable to sign in – Kerberos error
- VOIP config for Billion 7404VGPM and Nodephone (internode)
- Lync Mobile clients
- Wall mounted tablets/slates and POE
- Lync & RCC – rumours on reversing the RCC/Video fuckup
- Lync 2010 add-ons
- Lync 2010 and wildcard certificates
- MS buys Skype
- Lync 2010 and compatibility
- Lync 2010 & RCC
- Lync 2010 – Video conferencing with MSN/Live users
- Lync Stuff
- Microsoft announces OCS “14”
- OCS 2007 R2 – archiving report
- OCS remote connectivity analyser
- kb974571 strikes again…
- OCS 2007 R2 – KB974571 breaks front end service
M365
Mobile Devices
Non-Technical
Office 365
- Unlicensed OneDrive charges as of Jan 2025 and analysis
- Basic auth and exchange online
- Avoiding a Microsoft Teams Nightmare
- Decommissioning Skype for Business 2015 on premise after migrating to O365
- Scripting Office 365 licensing with disabled services
- Automating Mailbox Regional Settings in Exchange Online
Powershell
Printing
Random
- Ctrl + Alt + Del in nested RDP/VM sessions
- Powershell – Test Network Connection
- MYOB – finding the current library root for server edition
- Windows NT is now 25 years old….
- Outlook HTML…. holy shit that’s bad.
- Microsoft culture change to non-sales focused ?
- IT support for family and friends
- hotmail/outlook.com/LiveID constant security prompts
- The wastage of the MS partner program….
- Swine flu – the beauty of pictures
- “Corporate lingo clouding communication”
- Scan, scan, scannity, scan
RDS/AVD
security
- Crowdstrike BSOD and GPO no longer updating
- Resetting the local admin password on a more locked down server
- Microsoft releases security update for new IE zero-day
- Reducing your Risks
- Meltdown and Spectre patches available
- Preparing to update for Intel® Management Engine Critical Firmware Update (Intel SA-00086)
- USB Ethernet adapter sniffing credentials
- Symantec infection report for 2011
- Action against symantec for scareware…
Social networking
System Centre
- Server and SQL upgrades – lessons learned
- Microsoft Edge works best with the latest Windows Updates
- SCCM – Config baseline to detect Windows optional features
- Windows 10 version numbers – and how they actually show up in SCCM when added as WIM
- Windows 10 21H2 – getting Enterprise edition and extracting when using M365 licensing
- SCCM – auto uninstall of applications once removed from collection
- Migrating SCCM to new hardware using active/passive site servers
- SCCM – CAS Collapse feature
- SCCM 2011 TP released
- Adding F8 command prompt to legacy boot wims
- SCCM reports show “The DefaultValue expression for the report parameter ‘UserTokenSIDS’ contains an error: The user name or password is incorrect. (rsRuntimeErrorInExpression)”
- SCCM – picking random clients for a collection
- SCCM antimalware client policies – do they merge ?
- Surface Pro X and Pro 7 – SCCM deployment
- Deploying the new chromium based edge via SCCM
- SCEP updates fail on Windows 7 and 2008R2 clients where they are not patched
- Finding the right SQL view for your SCCM report
- BITS / ConfigMgr client install error, no active network connections
- Microsoft Endpoint Manager – potentially SCCM’s future
- SCCM 1906 release
- ConfigMgr 1906
- SCCM – Windows 10 no longer ticked as deployment target OS for packages and TS’s after upgrade to current branch
- SCCM powershell errors after moving primary site server via site failover
- Execution status received: 24 (Application download failed)
- Update 1806 for Configuration Manager current branch is now available
- Creating large stand-alone media from SCCM – issues when the HP SPP 2018.03 is a package in the TS
- Speed up offline servicing
- The importance of cleaning up WSUS – even if your are only using it for SCCM
- Microsoft Surface Laptops and SCCM OS Deployment
- Importing AD powershell module into Windows PE and then using encrypted creds
- UEV now included in Windows 10 1607 (and above)
- Nested task sequences coming in SCCM 1704
- UEV now included in Windows 10 1607 (and above)
- Windows Server 2016 and SCCM 2016 release dates – End of September 2016
- SCCM 2012+ – Bug when building query using values selector for Software files – File modified date
- KB3148812 breaks WSUS, KB3159706 fixes but requires manual intervention
- SCCM 2016… errrr 1511!
- ADK 1511 – don’t use it quite yet
- Java 8 update 60 install with SCCM
- SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 – Unlocking objects “in use”
- Windows 8.1u1 – Power button does not show up on start screen
- You cannot import a Windows 8 signed driver on a Windows Server 2008 R2-based WDS server
- SCCM 2012 R2 SP1…. must have SP2 installed ?
- Updates for SCCM 2012 and R2 coming next week…
- Adding .net 3.5 to 8.1 and 2012 R2 – the easier way
- SCCM – Error sending DAV Request. HTTP Code 500,Status ‘Internal server Error’.
- Windows 8.1 – Customising the Metro tiles – IE shortcuts
- DeDup for DPM
- SCCM 2012 R2 CU3 – easier way of getting CU3 into your TS
- SCCM 2012 R2 CU3 released, allows specification of MP’s
- Windows 10 and SCCM
- SCCM 2012 R2 bootsect.exe hotfix now available
- A good way of handling your “Bad” drivers
- SCCM 2007: Windows 8.1 support
- SC 2012 R2 now on technet downloads…
- SCCM 2012 SP1 installation reboot behaviour on 3010 return code
- SCCM 2012 reference build updates fail due to proxy error when WPAD in use
- MS monitoring agent 2013
- VMXNet3 drives for PE
- HyperV in 2012 R2
- SCCM – Install at logoff (or similar)
- SCOM 2012 RTM wont upgrade to SP1
- OSD driver good practice – updated for 2012
- System Centre 2012 SP1
- SCEP 2012 competitive uninstall
- MDT 2012 update 1
- SCEP 2012
- MDT 2012 RTW’s
- How to determine which drivers to update
- System Centre 2012 – unified installer
- SCCM 2012 and “private cloud”
- System centre RC and beta updates – available to download!
- Testing SCCM packages
- SCCM 2012 and FEP 2012 Beta 2
- WAIK – Win7 SP1 compat issues
- SCOM 2007 R2 – Never ending discovery
- SCCM 2007 R3
- SCCM now officially supported on SQL 2008 R2
- ACT 5.6 released
- SCCM R3 chat….
- DPM 2010 RTM’s
- APPV 4.6 available
- SCCM – FFS!
- SCCM 2007 SP2 – where art thou?
- Complete list of SCCM log files
TV
Uncategorized
- AADConnect – get Sync’ed and excluded OU’s via powershell
- Synology – choppy network performance
- Powershell fails to download from gallery – Wanring: Unable to download from URI xxx
- Draytek – central AP management – not so great
- Active Directory 2019 and Exchange 2019 – what’s new
- Cloud should stay up forever, right? Well, no.
- Importing updates into WSUS on Server 2016 fails
- Microsoft products – consolidated table of end of life dates
- KB4038777 fails on some Windows 2008 R2 servers
- SMB 1 no longer installed by default in Win 10 1710/Server 2016 (next release)
- SCCM – BADMIF error 4
- Microsoft Partner technical support
- SCCM console cannot connect from Windows 8.1
- Skype for business tech preview client available
WAP
Windows
- WSUS is now deprecated
- Error: SWbemObjectEx: Invalid index when trying to update a NIC using SConfig on server core
- Windows 11 – first useful information starts trickling
- Removing one note from windows 8.1u1
- Windows 8 – We couldn’t create a new partition or locate an existing one
- List of Direct Access hotfixes
- KB 3004394 for Windows 7 – casuing issues
- Windows 8.1/10 to go – on non-certified USB device
- Online (at home) MS exams…. interesting idea
- Windows 7 SP1 sxs cleanup – now built into disk cleanup!
- KB2817630 – for when you dont want to be able to sort your mail or see your folders
- Windows 8.1 a free update
- Tech-ED Aus 2012
- Win 8 & 2012 RTM – thoughts and impressions
- Windows 8 editions – WTF?
- Windows 8 boot times
- windows 8 – copy jobs
- Windows 7 touch pack available for download….
- Office 2010 RTM
- Surveys, surveys….
- The Man Behind Windows 7’s Fast Start
- RDC 7.0 client available for XP/Vista
Windows 10
- Windows 11 start menu configuration
- Windows 10 1709 and installing Hyper-V
- SMB 1 no longer installed by default in Win 10 1710
- Windows 7 unsupported CPU’s starting to hit the market
- Windows 10 Fast Startup Mode – Maybe not so good for enterprise!
- Windows 10 Photos App – Invalid Value for Registry / Repairing Windows 10 Universal Apps
- Windows 10 refresh tool
- Common Windows 10 config requests – via SCCM or group policy
- Windows 10 – forcing tablet mode
- Windows 10 – Wireless with web page auth doesn’t seem to work
- Windows 10 – 2 weeks in
- Windows 10 – First thoughts
- Windows 10 announced
Windows Server
- Removing folders with a trailing space on NTFS volumes
- Windows Server 2019 networking fails on Hyper-V 2012 (non R2) host once CU 10-2022 applied
- RDS Farm HA and Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server/SQL native client
- VMWare guest server CPU and memory issues
- Windows and NTP
- Project Honolulu
- Server 2016 LTSC vs Server 1709 Semi-Annual
- Licensing mode for the Remote Desktop Session Host is not configured
- Windows 10 server delayed until 2016
- KMS Guide
- XP/2003 clients cannot run logon scripts from 2012 R2 U1 servers
- Win 2012 R2 and 8.1 RTM now on Technet downloads
- Windows 2012 deduplication – turning it off (completely) and recovering your space!
- 2012 deduplication savings
- Win 8 RTM available on technet downloads
- Win Server 2012 and Win 8 – 1st week of augfor RTM
- SMB 2.2 – now that sounds cool…
- HyperV and TCP offload
- Remote desktop gateway step by step guide
- MS – some DB consistency ?
- RDWeb/RDGateway – the nightmare
- Windows 2008 R2 DHCP
- Hyper-V VDI – 2008 domain functional level for pooled desktops
- Windows server compatibility