If you are using custom updates for things Java or Adobe updates via WSUS and SCUP, then you need to ensure that you enable signed intranet updates for all your client machines. The best way to do this is to use Group Policy. You should create a new Group Policy Object (GPO) and apply that…
Bit of a simple one this but very useful…. If you want to add a link into the left sidebar of your windows explorer (which is the bit below): All you have to do is browse to %userprofile%\Links and then right-click, then go to New then Create Shortcut. Then follow the wizard to create a…
Like most businesses, we still have programs that rely on Windows XP to run. So, I built a Windows XP Professional image to push out to our slightly older machines where XP is needed to run these older programs. Once created, the image on some machines was working fine, but on some (mostly newer older…
If you are as stupid as me and manage to make a partition active that you shouldn’t have done, so long as you haven’t restarted the machine, there is a quick easy fix to put it right. On the machine, do the following: Go into a Command Prompt Type “diskpart” Type “list volume” Type “select…
As you may have seen on some of my previous posts, you can update Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Reader X via Windows Updates using SCUP through WSUS/SCCM. This stops the annoying pop-ups for users especially when they can’t install updates if they have not got local admin rights – just like standard Windows Updates, this…
You can install drivers by computer model using a WMI script during the SCCM OSD task sequence. This means that when you deploy an image, the target machine will always get the full and correct drivers for the model, rather than getting mismatched drivers. This also speeds up the deployment process. To do this is very…
UPDATE : Get WMI Query v1.6 Now Released You can use WMI for various things but one of its uses is for identifying the model name of a machine so that it can be later used for Configuration Manager OSD or maybe even for Group Policy WMI security. To find out the model name of a…
Group Policy support is now also available for Adobe Reader XI which is great news for administrators as we can now control what had previously been a bit of a pain to control in corporate environments. Most of the settings are fairly obvious so I’m not going to go through them, but below is the…
With the release of Adobe Reader XI, you may want to now make your current Adobe Reader X catalog software be superseded by the new version. This means that the old version will no longer be available in the catalog but will be replaced with the new version, it also will update anyone who has…
Adobe Reader XI was released today so I’ve now got the MSI for this version and superseded my Adobe Reader X application with this new release. If you are in need of the MSI for Adobe Reader XI, you can get it from the Adobe FTP website below: Adobe Reader XI MSI Download Files This…
A recurring issue that I have is the old Active Desktop in Windows XP. No matter how many times you click the Restore button, you still get the script error. To fix this, you can do the following: Click Start then click Run, type “regedit” and press enter Browse to “HCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\SafeMode\Components” Double click the value Desk\Html\Version…
I recently tried to get my Google Adsense working on my blog as you never know, I might make my fortune using it, but when I tried, I got this error: “The publisher must be associated with the developer account before the developer can invoke operations on the publisher’s account” After spending some time searching the internet,…
We have been looking into getting our OSD process to automatically change the computer name to what we want it to be for a while now but never really had much luck with it. Reading various forums and blogs, many people have said to use WSNAME and many others saying use scripts, all of which…
If you get an issue when trying to load a task sequence and you get the message that a package associated to the task sequence cannot be found, even when it looks like all packages are fully distributed, then you need to check out the SMSTSLog.log file that is on the machine that you are…
As you may be aware, System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Beta has now been released. To get this, you can download from: Free Subscription If you want to be notified when we post more quality guides like this one, sign up to our free subscription service and you will receive an email when a…
We had an issue this week with one of our Shoretel Contact Center Agents being stuck in Release mode. When trying to Resume, the agent was getting the following error: Your extension has lost its connection to the telephone system We tried everything to get this working, including removing the software completely from the agents…
Introduction We have situations where sometimes we need to use a USB stick for stand-alone imaging for our remote sites that are not connected to the network or do not have a local DP. In SCCM 2007, this was easy, just run through the wizard and that’s it, but we’ve come across an issue with SCCM 2012 whereas…
I’ve had a number of requests about how I created our email notification for requests for software made via our ConfigMgr software catalog. The solution is very simple and very basic, but until I get our Service Manager up and running (which does the job much better..), this is working for us so hopefully will…
