Author : Andrew Armstrong

Drones And Robotics The Next Wave of Disruption in Retail IT

Drones And Robotics The Next Wave of Disruption in Retail IT

E-commerce is leading the retail disruption. However, it still has a long way to go to consistently contribute to customer delight. TimeTrade’s ‘State of Retail 2016’ report, informs that 72% of customer surveyed still prefer to shop from traditional brick-and-mortar stores as much as they had done in 2015, despite access to e-commerce portals. What’s […]

How to Connect Kindle Fire to PC Wirelessly

How to Connect Kindle Fire to PC Wirelessly

If you are fed up of having to use an USB cable to connect your Amazon Kindle to your computer, then you can take advantage of your own home wireless to create a connection between your computer and Kindle. Connect your Kindle Fire to your home wireless connection. Also ensure that your computer is connected […]

SCCM OSD – Restart a task sequence wizard in WinPE without rebooting

SCCM OSD – Restart a task sequence wizard in WinPE without rebooting

If you have started a task sequence in Configuration Manager and you hit a problem, the last thing you want to do is to have to go through the reboot process back into Windows PE. So, if you want to just restart the task sequence without rebooting, carry out the following steps: Press F8 to […]

Operations Manager – Enable agent proxy on all agents

Operations Manager – Enable agent proxy on all agents

If you are using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) then you may want to enable agent proxy on all your agents. If you want to do this then you can use the power of Powershell to carry this out. Just open up a Powershell command box and use the following command: get-SCOMagent | where {$_.ProxyingEnabled […]

System Center Service Manager Data Warehouse Analysis Services installation error

System Center Service Manager Data Warehouse Analysis Services installation error

If you are trying to install System Center Service Manager Data Warehouse then you may run into an issue on the Configure Analysis Services for OLAP cubes wizard page where it states that The server is not available: We ran into this issue a while ago and we checked everything that we could find on […]

How to disable users personal OneDrive in Windows 10

How to disable users personal OneDrive in Windows 10

If you’re using Windows 10 Professional, Enterprise, or Education, the easiest way to disable and hide OneDrive is by using the Local Group Policy Editor (or Group Domain Policy if on a corporate domain). In Windows 10, press Start, type gpedit.msc, and press Enter. In the Local Group Policy editor’s left pane, drill down to Computer […]

Disable the Windows Creators Update Notice

Disable the Windows Creators Update Notice

If you have not yet upgraded to Windows 10 Creators Update then you may notice this annoying message in your Windows Update page: So, what if you don’t want your computer (or Microsoft) telling you what to do and you want to remove this message? Well, the solution is a very simple registry edit. Open […]

Errors when trying to inject offline Windows Updates into a mounted WIM

Errors when trying to inject offline Windows Updates into a mounted WIM

If you are using WIM files for Operating System Deployments (OSD) you may be injecting Windows Updates into the WIM to keep them up to date. If you are doing this, you may run into errors when processing through the updates like this: This is because the mounted WIM thinks that there are pending updates. […]

KB4022719 Windows Update Breaks Internet Explorer Printing

KB4022719 Windows Update Breaks Internet Explorer Printing

Microsoft have released an update this week which potentially stops Internet Explorer from being able to print. When you select to print something from the internet using IE, you will just get a blank page coming out from your printer. To resolve this, you need to uninstall the KB4022719 update and reboot.

Stop encryption of network shares using FSRM

Stop encryption of network shares using FSRM

With the recent ransomware attack across the world, IT departments should now been fully patched but also be taking steps to help protect themselves in the future. One way of trying to stop encryption of your files on network shares is to utilise the free File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) tool. This tool has been […]

Bulk Delete Multiple Operations Manager Management Packs [2020 Updated]

Bulk Delete Multiple Operations Manager Management Packs [2020 Updated]

If you are using System Center Operations Manager and you want to bulk remove multiple Management Packs, then you can use the power of the Operations Manager Shell to carry it out. First of all, you need to open up the Operations Manager Shell. Then you should run the following command: where: “*Microsoft.SQLServer*” = the […]

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