RSS Feeds

We have been looking into a problem with our RSS feed which has not been working correctly for a while. We were not aware of this until recently and we have now found that due to the number of posts on our blog, the feed was too large and causing timeouts. This means that anyone using Feedburner, RSS or Feedly …

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Apple iOS Version 11.3 Released

Apple have now released iOS version 11.3 with a range of new and upgraded features. Below is an extract from Apple detailing all the new features. iOS 11.3 introduces new features including ARKit 1.5 with support for more immersive augmented reality experiences, iPhone Battery Health (Beta), new Animoji for iPhone X users, and more. This update also includes stability improvements …

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SCCM – User Experience During Application Installation

If you want your end user experience to show them the progress of an installation from your Software Center, then you will need to ensure that you have your command lines and user experience tab setup correctly. We have seen many people follow the “install in the background and don’t tell anyone the progress” method time and time again, however, …

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SCCM – 1802 Upgrade Released & How to get it now!

So Microsoft have today released version 1802 of Current Branch for Configuration Manager. This is great and there are some features in this upgrade that we are looking forward to trying out. But, on the slow ring, it could be a few days or weeks until it drops into your Configuration Manager Console. That’s bad. So, what can you do …

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SCCM – Active Directory Security Group Query for User Collection

If you are looking at setting up a SCCM user collection based on membership of an Active Directory Security Group, then you can use this WQL query for the collection. WQL Script To set this up, create a new collection and copy and paste this as its query: Variables You can add or remove any of the SMS_R_USER columns from …

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Controlling Autodiscovery for Outlook using Group Policy

We have recently been working on a Microsoft Office 365 email migration from on-premise to cloud based Exchange. One of the challenges that we faced was making the migration process as painless as possible for the end user. However, with thousands of end users having Microsoft Outlook 2010 installed and already configured to work with the existing on-premise server, we …

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Start a stopped service on multiple devices using Powershell

Following on from our recent guide about restarting a service on multiple devices, we were also asked about starting a stopped service using a similar method. This is pretty simple and can be carried out in almost exactly the same way. Powershell Script So to carry this out, you should create a txt file with the list of device names …

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