Restore Active Desktop Problems

A recurring issue that I have is the old Active Desktop in Windows XP. No matter how many times you click the Restore button, you still get the script error. To fix this, you can do the following: Click Start then click Run, type “regedit” and press enter Browse to “HCUSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerDesktopSafeModeComponents” Double click the value DeskHtmlVersion Click the Decimal button Change …

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Google AdSense Error – “The publisher must be associated with the developer account before the developer can invoke operations on the publisher’s account”

I recently tried to get my Google Adsense working on my blog as you never know, I might make my fortune using it, but when I tried, I got this error: “The publisher must be associated with the developer account before the developer can invoke operations on the publisher’s account” After spending some time searching the internet, I finally found the fix …

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Setting Computer Name automatically during OSD Process using SCCM and MDT

We have been looking into getting our OSD process to automatically change the computer name to what we want it to be for a while now but never really had much luck with it. Reading various forums and blogs, many people have said to use WSNAME and many others saying use scripts, all of which never seemed to quite work …

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SCCM Task Sequence failed due to package associated to the task sequence cannot be found

If you get an issue when trying to load a task sequence and you get the message that a package associated to the task sequence cannot be found, even when it looks like all packages are fully distributed, then you need to check out the SMSTSLog.log file that is on the machine that you are trying to deploy the task …

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Shoretel Contact Center – Agent stuck in Release mode

We had an issue this week with one of our Shoretel Contact Center Agents being stuck in Release mode. When trying to Resume, the agent was getting the following error: Your extension has lost its connection to the telephone system We tried everything to get this working, including removing the software completely from the agents machine and reinstalling, but still …

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Orchestrator Runbook for Email Notification for ConfigMgr Software Catalog Requests [2020 Updated]

I’ve had a number of requests about how I created our email notification for requests for software made via our ConfigMgr software catalog. The solution is very simple and very basic, but until I get our Service Manager up and running (which does the job much better..), this is working for us so hopefully will help you to be it …

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SCCM Capture media in Windows x64 not working – FIX

We came across an issue today where the capture media (ISO) that we use to capture our newly created images would not load when running the TSMBAUTORUN.exe file from an explorer box. This was even more strange as it works fine for x86 versions of Windows. After some digging around, its to do with the autorun feature in x64 being …

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Deploying and registering OCX files using ConfigMgr 2012

I’ve been asked about deploying and registering OCX files, well this is how we do ours… Copy the INF and OCX files to a readily available location on the network. Also create two batch files (give the extension name of .cmd) with the following in each: Batch file 1 (File Copy): xcopy LOCATION_OF_FILES*.* “c:WindowsDownloaded Program Files” /e /c /i /g …

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How to deploy certificates for custom WSUS updates to client machines

As per previous posts on the blog for custom updates using WSUS, you have to make sure that your environment is set up correctly to allow these custom (local) updates to install on client machines. To make this work, you need to export your WSUS/SCUP self-signed certificate and make sure it is applied to all machines using Group Policy. There …

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