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This is something a little different to our normal posts, but its important information to us as we have a Murphy TV at TGH Towers! We had a new Sky+ HD box installed and the Sky remote would no longer work to control the TV controls like the volume. So if you have a Murphy TV too, you can fix …
Murphy Lifestyle HD TV Sky Remote Code Read MoreIf you are a Configuration Manager administrator, the chances are that you are using the Application Catalog to allow users to install their own software.A great feature of this is that you can put in specialist or licensed software and add a “Request” button. This means that your end users will only get the software if you approve it. To …
Configuration Manager – How to Change the Approve/Deny Status of an Application Catalog Request Read MoreIn Configuration Manager 2012, there is a section under the Monitoring ribbon called Distribution Status. This will give you a lot of information about your distributions and your distribution points. If you look at Distribution Point Configuration Status, this gives you a good understanding of whether your drivers, packages, applications and images have deployed correctly to your local or remote …
SCCM Query – Report on Distribution Point Statuses Read MoreIf you want to report on machines that have Outlook archive (PST’s) on them, where they are and how big they are, then you can use this guide to create a report that will do this for you using Configuration Manager. First of all, you will need to tell your Software Inventory to look for PST files on machines. To …
SCCM – Report on Outlook Archive PST files on Devices Read MoreWe have had a report that one of our WQL queries has not been working correctly, this is the one for devices that have Configuration Manager client installed but do not have System Center Endpoint Protection installed on them. The original post is here: WQL Query for Devices without Endpoint Installed So, we have looked into this and found the …
SCCM – WQL Query for Devices with Configuration Manager Client Installed and no System Center Endpoint Protection Installed Read MoreYou may have started to come across image files that are in WEBP forma on the internet recently. These are usually opened using Google Chrome but this can be very annoying if you have saved a number of these images and want to browse through them using Windows Photo Viewer instead of having to open them one by one. Well, …
Viewing WEBP images in Windows Photo Viewer Read MoreWe have recently been doing some big OSD projects and with testing for such big projects comes the point where some of your testing will fail, so to find out why a test sequence fails, the first thing you should look at is your log files. However, ConfigMgr makes this an annoying process as the log files move about during …
Configuration Manager 2012 – How to Capture Task Sequence Error Logs to a Network Share Read MoreSystem Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 Cumulative Update 5 has been released by Microsoft. The issues that have been fixed in this update are as below (source: Microsoft): Task sequences The Continue on error check box is not selected under Task Sequences when an Install Software step and a Virtual Application package are defined as the source. This affects only …
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 Cumulative Update 5 Released Read MoreSkype version 6.18 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 the installer is packaged as …
Skype 6.18 Released – MSI Download Link & Silent Install Instructions Read MoreWe have recently had problems with our global distribution points in ConfigMgr after the monthly content validation has happened. On some of our distribution points (not all) we are getting and error stating: “Failed to validate content hash” With our monitoring on the Distribution Point Configuration Status looking like this (click the thumbnails for the larger images): As you can …
Failed to validate content hash on ConfigMgr Distribution Points after Content Validation Read MoreIf you have been trying to load any roles or features onto your Server 2012 R2 Core using Powershell, then you may find that you are the victim of this error message everytime you try to run your command: No matter was source you enter, it will not work. This frustrated us for days until we found a site with …
Windows Server 2012 R2 Core – Adding Roles and Features Error Fix Read MoreIf you have Windows Server 2012 R2 Core installed but you want to be able to use a Graphical User Interface (GUI) then you can use the following Powershell command to enable it: Install-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Shell –Source d:sourcessxs NOTE: you should ensure that your source location is correct and up to date with your Windows Updates. Once this is complete, you …
Powershell – Install Server Core GUI Features Read More
