The certificate you specified is already in use. Are you sure you want to use...
The whole point of this message is to say Warning: if you block this certificate tomorrow, you are going to break other things When creating bootable media or modifying a distribution point you will...
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SCCM Component manager is a quick way to start/stop/pause SCCM components that you would normally control using the Service Manager. The reason the Service manager is so slow is because it has to...
View ArticleMonitoring your fleets event logs - Part 1
Windows has an amazing feature that let's you collect logs from remote computers, it's called Windows Event forwarding and is pretty easy to set up. Once we have this data we can use free tools such...
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Install Splunk - It's free! https://www.splunk.com/en_us/download/splunk-enterprise.html Modify Program Files\Splunk\etc\system\local\inputs.conf Add the lines [WinEventLog] evt_resolve_ad_obj = 1...
View ArticleDisabling Windows File Explorer banner advertising
Microsoft has soo much advertising power with Windows 10, they can now put banners up in Windows Explorer via updates. You may see one such as this: 'Save your documents and photos to OneDrive' or 'Get...
View ArticleManaging Automatic Deployment rules when you don't live in the USA
The Yearly Check Currently Microsoft releases updates on the second Tuesday every month (USA Time) so we run our automatic deployment rules on the second Wednesday of every month (Australia time). This...
View ArticleThe certificate you specified is already in use. Are you sure you want to use...
The whole point of this message is to say Warning: if you block this certificate tomorrow, you are going to break other things When creating bootable media or modifying a distribution point you will...
View ArticleSCCM Component Manager
SCCM Component manager is a quick way to start/stop/pause SCCM components that you would normally control using the Service Manager. The reason the Service manager is so slow is because it has to...
View ArticleMonitoring your fleets event logs - Part 1
Windows has an amazing feature that let's you collect logs from remote computers, it's called Windows Event forwarding and is pretty easy to set up. Once we have this data we can use free tools such...
View ArticleMonitoring your fleets event logs - Part 2
Install Splunk - It's free! https://www.splunk.com/en_us/download/splunk-enterprise.html Modify Program Files\Splunk\etc\system\local\inputs.conf Add the lines [WinEventLog] evt_resolve_ad_obj = 1...
View ArticleSetting the Client Status Settings for Client Activity based on AD logon
SCCM will mark a computer inactive if none of the activity checks happen Client policy request Heartbeat discovery Hardware Inventory Software Inventory Status messages sent See technet The default...
View ArticleSCCM client = None after deploying an operating system
In an environment where you use certificates this can happen. CLientIDManagerStartup.log will mention Regtask: Failed to refresh MP. Error: 0x80004005 alot of times... Below I have the 2 fixes! Fix 1...
View ArticleEdge browser crashes on load - Windows 1703
We have seen roaming profiles in Windows 10 1703 unable to use the Edge browser if the profile was originally first created with Windows 10 1607. The address bar briefly displays...
View ArticleDisable the OneDrive Notification/Advertisement
This will popup for each user on first login. There is a registry entry that you can use to trick OneDrive to thinking it has already done this. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OneDrive Name:...
View ArticleSCCM Run Script File Copy Example
New to the Scripts feature however I'm enjoying it. I needed a script that could copy files from a network folder to the local machine To import this script first download it from...
View ArticleDeploying Office 2019 VL
Office 2019 now uses click-to-run technology instead of 'setup /admin' there are a few changes, probably for the best in the long run. Create Config Files First you need to download to Office...
View ArticleCitrix Fixes - Nvivo 12.2
Issue: Doesn't stay activated. Checks for updates. To fix this after installing Nvivo, uninstall it. Copy the msi and mst, cab files to C:\ProgramData\NVivo_Install Import the scheduled task...
View ArticleCitrix Fixes - Oxygen XML Editor 19
Issue: Doesn't stay activated Fix: Copy license.xml and oxyOptionsSa19.1.xml from %appdata%\com.oxygenxml to C:\Program Files\Oxygen XML Editor 19\com.oxygenxml Copy oxygen.vbs to C:\Program...
View ArticlePowershell script to enable Citrix AutoScale
The Citrix console is really difficult to use to configure AutoScale on delivery groups, especially using the cloud version. It's easier to create a script to configure the new AutoScale settings. At...
View ArticleMoving the Content Library to remote share tips
The Move When moving the content library we ran into a few issues, the main one was that the process kept getting aborted: CopyFiles failed; 0x800703e3 SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 10/07/2019 8:52:34 AM...
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