If you have a new model of computer and you have PXE booted it and you do not get a network connection or IP address, then this is because the network card driver for that model is not available either within Windows PE or the boot image you have used to PXE boot the machine….
Skype version 7.5 has now been released and if you would like to either add this to your Configuration Manager Software Catalog or even have it available through WDS or Group Policy, then you will want to download the MSI file for it. Skype do provide a direct download link for its Skype software and…
You may want to create a Configuration Manager Collection based upon an Active Directory Organisation Unit. To do this you can use the following WQL code and then simply amend the last part to be the Organisation Unit that you want to base the Collection on: SELECT SMS_R_USER.ResourceID, SMS_R_USER.ResourceType, SMS_R_USER.Name, SMS_R_USER.UniqueUserName, SMS_R_USER.WindowsNTDomain FROM SMS_R_User WHERE…
Java have now released update 79 of version 7 of their Java Client software. The update is available as an offline installer and using our guide below, you can extract the MSI from it and use it for deployment by using Windows Updates to update current machines or add to your Configuration Manager Application Catalog…
We recently came across issues where our Configuration Manager Operating System Deployments (OSD) where running extremely slowly and we could not figure out why. After some investigation, we found out that one of our remote Distribution Points (DP) was not working correctly and that rebuilds on one of the sites where actually pulling the image…
Skype version 7.4 has now been released and if you would like to either add this to your Configuration Manager Software Catalog or even have it available through WDS or Group Policy, then you will want to download the MSI file for it. Skype do provide a direct download link for its Skype software and…
This is a re-post of a guide that we posted about two years ago, but this happened to us again thisweek so thought it would be good to share again… We ran into an issue where our newly created folders and runbooks in Orchestrator were not showing up in our SCCM (MDT) Execute Runbooks task…
Java have now released update 45 of version 8 of their Java Client software. The update is available as an offline installer and using our guide below, you can extract the MSI from it and use it for deployment by using Windows Updates to update current machines or add to your Configuration Manager Application Catalog…
This is going to be quite a lengthy guide but one that we think you might find very useful. Introduction We have previously shown you how to report Autodesk serial numbers using SCCM and this has led to a number of questions being sent to us on how to deploy AutoCAD using SCCM and in…
This post is a rehash of an old post we did back in December 2013 but with the recent release of version 2016 of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT and also the release of our updated code to retrieve the serial numbers from machines for this updated product; we thought that we would slightly update this…
We have now updated our Autodesk serial number collection script to include the recently released AutoCAD 2016 and AutoCAD LT 2016. The following additions have been made to the script: AutoCAD 2016 – English AutoCAD 2016 – Polish AutoCAD 2016 – Italian AutoCAD 2016 – Hungarian AutoCAD LT 2016 – English This is an extension…
When running or trying to create a large report in SSRS, you may come across an error stating the below: Error 2: There was an exception running the extensions specified in the config file. Maximum request length exceeded. It took us a while to figure this one out but it is actually very simple. After…
Java have now released update 40 of version 8 of their Java Client software. The update is available as an offline installer and using our guide below, you can extract the MSI from it and use it for deployment by using Windows Updates to update current machines or add to your Configuration Manager Application Catalog…
Java has now released update 75 of version 7 of their Java Client software. The update is available as an offline installer and using our guide below, you can extract the MSI from it and use it for deployment by using Windows Updates to update current machines or add to your Configuration Manager Application Catalog…
Mimecast have now released version 5.3.1122.13000 of their Outlook Client. This version of the MSO client now supports the following: Large File Sent Large File Receive Microsoft Outlook 2013 Other Microsoft Office 2013 Products (like Project and Visio 2013 no longer conflict with it) Windows 8.1/8/7 Mimecast Client Exchange Folder Replication Active Directory Integration There…
Java have now released update 31 of version 8 of their Java Client software. The update is available as an offline installer and using our guide below, you can extract the MSI from it and use it for deployment by using Windows Updates to update current machines or add to your Configuration Manager Application Catalog…
Following on from our recent posts about dodgy Microsoft updates, we thought we should post about how to uninstall Windows and Office Updates using WSUS. A lot of the issues people fast with dodgy Microsoft updates are when they are automatically or accidentally released through WSUS to your end users machines meaning that on their…
Google have now released a new version of their Chrome browser, version 39.0.2171.95. If you are looking at deploying Google Chrome using systems like Configuration Manager, WDS, SCUP or Group Policy, you will want to use their MSI installer to make it much easier. You can now download the Google Chrome MSI installer from our…
As you may have seen from previous posts, we make available the latest Java MSI files for you to be able to easily distribute and update clients using Group Policy, WSUS and Configuration Manager. As Java have recently released version 8 update 25, you can now find the MSI files for both the 32 and…
Java have now released update 25 of version 8 of their Java Client software. The update is available as an offline installer and using our guide below, you can extract the MSI from it and use it for deployment by using Windows Updates to update current machines or add to your Configuration Manager Application Catalog…
Microsoft have released Cumulative Update 3 for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. The hot fix download is available using the link below: Configuration Manager 2012 R2 CU3 The full details of the update are below: Issues that are fixed Software distribution and application management Content distribution from a Central Administration Site (CAS) to remote…
As you may be aware, we have previously created an MSI installer for FileZilla FTP Client, well there is a new version and we have now created an MSI installer for version 3.9.0.5. This is the standalone version that has been repackaged by us into an MSI installer. This means that you can use this…
If you are a Configuration Manager administrator, the chances are that you are using the Application Catalog to allow users to install their own software.A great feature of this is that you can put in specialist or licensed software and add a “Request” button. This means that your end users will only get the software…
In Configuration Manager 2012, there is a section under the Monitoring ribbon called Distribution Status. This will give you a lot of information about your distributions and your distribution points. If you look at Distribution Point Configuration Status, this gives you a good understanding of whether your drivers, packages, applications and images have deployed correctly…
If you want to report on machines that have Outlook archive (PST’s) on them, where they are and how big they are, then you can use this guide to create a report that will do this for you using Configuration Manager. First of all, you will need to tell your Software Inventory to look for…
We have had a report that one of our WQL queries has not been working correctly, this is the one for devices that have Configuration Manager client installed but do not have System Center Endpoint Protection installed on them. The original post is here: WQL Query for Devices without Endpoint Installed So, we have looked…
We use FileZilla a lot and we wanted an MSI installer for it. However, we could not seem to find one anywhere and FileZilla themselves do not supply one. So, we decided to create one ourselves. Depending on how popular this proves, if it is worth our time we will keep up to date with…
We have recently been doing some big OSD projects and with testing for such big projects comes the point where some of your testing will fail, so to find out why a test sequence fails, the first thing you should look at is your log files. However, ConfigMgr makes this an annoying process as the…
Java have now released update 67 of version 7 of their Java Client software. The update is available as an offline installer and using our guide below, you can extract the MSI from it and use it for deployment by using Windows Updates to update current machines or add to your Configuration Manager Application Catalog…
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 Cumulative Update 5 has been released by Microsoft. The issues that have been fixed in this update are as below (source: Microsoft): Task sequences The Continue on error check box is not selected under Task Sequences when an Install Software step and a Virtual Application package are defined as…
We have recently had problems with our global distribution points in ConfigMgr after the monthly content validation has happened. On some of our distribution points (not all) we are getting and error stating: “Failed to validate content hash” With our monitoring on the Distribution Point Configuration Status looking like this (click the thumbnails for the…
Java have now released update 65 of version 7 of their Java Client software. The update is available as an offline installer and using our guide below, you can extract the MSI from it and use it for deployment by using Windows Updates to update current machines or add to your Configuration Manager Application Catalog…
