I’ve been working on getting AutoCAD LT 2014 into our Software Catalog for some time now and I finally cracked it this week which I was delighted about! The idea was that any users that should have AutoCAD can upgrade their software or new starters can install it themselves without our desktop support staff having…
Microsoft have today released the preview of Windows 8.1. This download is available from the link below: Windows 8.1 Preview Download As expected, Microsoft have reinstated the Start button which is probably the main reason that most people will install this update! I’ve got Enterprise so I’m waiting for the ISO’s to become available but…
As most blogs are reporting, Microsoft have released CU for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1. This update is available to download from the link below: SCCM 2012 SP1 CU2 Download Link Microsoft are reporting on their website that the following items have been fixed: Administrator Console The Add Site Server Roles Wizard incorrectly blocks…
After the success of our Autodesk serial collection and reporting blog post nearly a year ago now, we have had many requests to update the scripts to include the latest versions of Autodesk products and also include a wider range of Autodesk products like Revit. If you are new to this, it would be worth…
We are pleased to announce the release of the Shoretel Batch WAV Converter v2. There have been some improvements to make it more user friendly and to have a much better folder structure. We are working on v3 already which will have a GUI front end so it will be even easier to use and…
Due to the increasing amount of files and code that we are starting to upload, we have decided to open ourselves a SourceForge site to help with the storage instead of using my personal SkyDrive account. You can visit the SourceForge site if you want to browse all our files or leave a review by…
Everyone seems to be playing Candy Crush Saga at the moment, but the most infuriating thing about it is when you get stuck on a level and then run out of lives. This means that you then have to wait 30 minutes to regenerate one life and up to 2 hours 30 minutes to fully…
There is a cheat within The Simpsons Tapped Out game where you can get a free Jebediah Statue! All you have to do is tickle Homer 10 times (tap him 10 times!) and he’ll give you the statue which will then be available in your inventory box. You can then place this into your Springfield!…
I’ve recently been trying to create a custom built Windows 8 image for future deployment using SCCM 2012 SP1. I built a clean Windows 8 base image and then installed all the programs that I wanted on the image and then run Windows Update. I made some changes to the Metro front screen and updated,…
We have recently allowed a few more people to utilise some of the functionality that the SCCM Console offers and installed the console onto their machines (albeit with heavily restricted permissions and they have to pass a training session first!!). However, a few of the machines were receiving the error that they could not connect…
As stated in my previous post, I have been asked recently about installing Endpoint Protection (SCEP) during the SCCM OSD process. This is pretty easy to do and the knock on affect is that you also can have SCEP available to install from your Software Catalog. To prepare the SCEP software for deployment in your…
]I’ve had a few requests recently asking whether it is possible to install System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) during the task sequence for an operating system deployment. I’ve also been asked if it is possible to put SCEP into the Software Catalog. Well, the answer to both questions is yes and I’ll be breaking the…
If you have a Software Center in your SCCM environment, you will want it to look as professional as possible. There are a number of ways to do this, one is to add your corporate name, setup your customise colours, but to top it all off, you can add an icon to each application. There…
I had been given a task to build a Software Catalog application where Outlook must be closed to allow the successful installation of the software. We had previously just packaged the software and made it available to the Software Catalog with a message stating that users must first shut down Outlook before attempting to run…
I have been working on a method to send our helpdesk an email notification when an OSD task sequence has completed. I started by looking into using the Status Filters and Powershell but this didn’t seem to work well enough for what I wanted to do, which was to create a fancy looking email by…
I ran into an issue today where my newly created folders and runbooks in Orchestrator were not showing up in my SCCM (MDT) Execute Runbooks task sequence. I started to run some checks and found out that these folders and runbooks were not showing up in my Orchestrator Web Console either, although all my previous…
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With the release of CU1 for System Center, you will notice that your Configuration Manager clients version will have changed to 5.00.7804.1202 from 5.00.7804.1000 If you would like to identify which of your clients have updated to the new version, you can use the query below: select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID, SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType, SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name, SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier, SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup, SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System…
