A.J. Armstrong

Group Policy Corruption – Fix the processing of Group Policy failed error

If you are getting Group Policies that are not applying to a users machine, you may well come across this error: The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not apply the registry-based policy settings for the Group Policy object LocalGPO. Group Policy settings will not be resolved until this event is resolved. This can be a corrupt registry.pol file …

Updates fail or time out when WSUS is used during an MDT or SCCM capture

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This guide assumes that you use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT build 8443) or Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) capturing Windows. You capture a task sequence, and the capture computer does not have Internet access. When the task sequence is running and the computer is checking for updates (pre-application installation), the installation freezes for 2 hours while searching for updates. After …

System Center / Guide

SCCM – SQL Query for all Laptops

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If you are using Configuration Manager, you will be aware that you can create a number of custom reports using the SCCM SQL data and SSRS to produce the reports. The best way to start creating a custom report is to ensure that you get your SQL query correct first. We have written hundreds of various queries over the years …

Guide / System Center

Windows 10 1709 Fall Creators Update – SCCM Build and Capture Task Sequence Failing

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We recently had put together a SCCM Build and Capture task sequence to update our images up to Windows 10 version 1709. We copied the install.wim from the sources folder of the Windows 10 v1709 ISO and added this as our operating system capture image. We took our existing task sequence (which has lots of things in it like Office …

System Center

SCCM – Chassis Types Values

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This is a quick reference guide to the Chassis Type values that are pulled from machine when using SCCM. 1 = ‘Other’ 2 = ‘Unknown’ 3 = ‘Desktop’ 4 = ‘Low Profile Desktop’ 5 = ‘Pizza Box’ 6 = ‘Mini Tower’ 7 = ‘Tower’ 8 = ‘Portable’ 9 = ‘Laptop’ 10 = ‘Notebook’ 11 = ‘Hand Held’ 12 = ‘Docking …

News

The Best Apps For Windows 10

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A new Windows personal computer is definitely something to be upbeat for, especially when it’s supports the highest operating system available. So you are right to chortle about your new window 10 PC; after all, not everyone owns one. But then, it’s not merely the idea of owning such a powerful machine or being able to finally play betway casino …

News

Recovering Lost Files With EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free

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When your files suddenly get lost or deleted from both internal and external hard drives, you feel threatened and in most cases very disappointed. You can experience file loss in a variety of different formats including videos, photos, programs, music, and documents. Most times, when files of this sort are deleted to go into the recycle bin where they are …

Television / Guide

How to factory reset your Sky+ HD Box

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If you have the need to factory reset your Sky+ HD box, then there is a few simple steps that you need to follow. Guide First press the Services button on your Sky remote which will take you into the Services section: Then press 0, 0, 1 then press the Select button to take you into the engineers section: Press …

Social Media / News

Follow us on the TechyGeeksHome Network

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We have a number of social media platforms that we use where you can add us on and keep up to date with all the news and any new guides that we have to offer. There are also other microsites to form our network. You can join us on our Social Media presence using the links below: Site Profile URL …

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FAI’s Collaboration With Noosphere Ventures and Managing Partner Max Polyakov in the Field of Airsports

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Noosphere Ventures and FAI (World Air Sports Federation) formed a strategic collaboration on February 2nd 2017. This collaboration formed Global Technical Partnership of Noosphere Ventures and FAI. Max Polyakov, Noosphere Ventures’ Managing Partner signed the Technical collaboration agreement. The other people who signed that agreement are the World Air Sports Federation president (Frits Brink) and the Secretary General (Susanne Schoedel). This …

Guide / Microsoft

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update – Cannot access network shares fix

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Have you recently upgraded your machine to Windows 10 Fall Creators Edition (1709) and can now no longer access your network drives or home NAS drives? Well, we have just run into this issue where after installing the 1709 update, we could not access our (slightly old) WD MyBook Live network attached storage device. When we tried to access the …

Guide / Microsoft

How to download Windows 10 Fall Creators Update ISO offline installers

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With Microsoft‘s release of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (1709), you may want to have the ability to choose when to update your personal or corporate machines and maybe without access to the internet. So how can you do that? Microsoft seem these days to want to update all our machines using Windows Update. This is fine in theory …