Technology has transformed the way we shop. With access to countless goods at the click of a button, consumers now have much more power than their counterparts of yesteryear. They can enjoy the convenience of making purchases online and they can compare and contrast deals within an instant. This might be great news for shoppers,…
If you want to restart SCCM OSD Task Sequence from within Windows PE without having to reboot the machine and start the PXE boot sequence again, you can quickly press F8 to bring up a command prompt and enter the following command: x:\sms\bin\i386\TsmBootstrap.exe /env:WinPE /configpath:x:\smsdata This will then restart the task sequence process for you…
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…
Adobe have now released an update to their Acrobat Reader software to take it up to version 11.0.11. You can now download the MSI, EXE and MSP files for this release from their FTP site which you can get to using the download button below: Downloads Download Comments If you have any questions or comments…
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…
Adobe have released another update to their Adobe Flash Player software, this time taking it up to version 17.0.0.188. As always, you can download the executable file or get the MSI file so that you can load it into your Configuration Manager Software Catalog. The update is also now available to import through System Center…
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 have the opportunity here for someone to take advantage of an amazing offer we can provide to you for a Microsoft Xbox One Package Deal for just £314.99 GBP. As part of the deal, you will receive the following: Xbox One console (including one wireless controller) Forza Horizon 2 for Xbox One 3-month Xbox…
If you have an old 16-bit application that you need to run on Windows 7 or 8.1 or maybe even an old classic game you want to play, you will find that the chances are the modern operating systems will not run them and you will run into an error like this for Windows 7:…
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…
We have been trying to set up a new virtual host using VMWare ESXi 5.5.0 Update 1 with an Atheros AR8161 network card. As this is one of the unsupported network cards, it kept failing upon the bootup setup process – as expected of course. As most of you will know, you can “inject” network…
If you need to download the Windows 8.1 recovery media for your OEM version of your operating system, then you can do so by clicking the link below and entering the details from your licence sticker (COA). Windows 8.1 Recovery Software You can download the media to a USB stick or ISO file to burn…
Adobe have now released version 12.1.8.158 of their Shockwave Player software 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. Adobe do provide a direct download link for…
Microsoft have now released the preview version of their upcoming Office 2016 release and you can now download a trial version from the list of choices below: Download Get Office 2016 Preview (32 bit) Get Office 2016 Preview (64 bit) Use the product key provided below to activate your trial: NKGG6-WBPCC-HXWMY-6DQGJ-CPQVG Once the trial period…
We recently had an issue where a Domain Controller was giving us this error when we were trying to remote (RDP) on to it: The user profile service failed the logon. no more threads can be created in the system The server itself was on a different site to us many miles away (different country!)…
We are pleased to announce the release of Ultimate Settings Panel version 2.7. This release has some redesign and also has had a number of code changes to try and enhance the look and feel of the utility. It still has 10 different configuration tabs including Windows 8.1 and a total of 224 configuration items…
If you need to download the Windows 7 recovery media for your OEM version of your operating system, then you can do so by clicking the link below and entering the details from your licence sticker (COA). Windows 7 Recovery Software You can download the media to a USB stick or ISO file to burn…
If you are looking for any Dell drivers and you cannot find them on the standard Dell support website, then you should take a look at their FTP site. This site has a huge amount of drivers on there that are not readily available on the standard support website. For example, Windows Vista x64 drivers…
