System Center Configuration Manager PKI Setup

If you are looking at setting up your System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) with PKI, then there is an excellent step by step guide that you can follow from SCCMGuy. The link to this guide is below: https://sccmguy.com/2013/11/26/pki-certificates-for-configuration-manager-2012-r2-part-1-of-4-web-server-certificate/ We have used this in the past our various labs and it details well what you need to do.

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Exchange Server – Anti-Spam Recipient Filtering

If you want to add multiple specific email addresses to your Exchange Anti-Spam Recipient Filtering then you can use Exchange Management Shell to run a command to add comma separated multiple email addresses. The command you should run is this: Set-RecipientFilterConfig -BlockedRecipients joe@bloggs.com,steve@techygeekshome.info,bob@mail.com You can keep adding email addresses to the list for what you require. Something to keep in …

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Skype 7.18 Released – MSI Download Link & Silent Install Instructions

Skype version 7.18 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 …

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SCCM 1511 – New Software Center

If you have upgraded to SCCM 1511 recently then you may have not yet noticed that their is a new Software Center available and included within the Software Center itself is an area when users can download the applications directly instead of having to have Silverlight installed and use Internet Explorer. The old Software Center looked something like this: You …

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Exchange Mailbox Limits – Export None Default Quotas to CSV

If you are using Exchange in your organisation and have multiple administrators, then you may need to keep an eye on mailbox limits. In most organisations the mailbox limits are set by default on the database, however you can change the limits per mailbox. So, if you want to see which mailboxes do not have the default database limits set, …

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Skype 7.17 Released – MSI Download Link & Silent Install Instructions

Skype version 7.17 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 …

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Create a self extracting archive and launch an installer

If you have used Visual Studio to create an installer, then you will find that their are two output files required for the installation – setup.exe and setup,msi. You can zip these together into a package, but what if you want a single EXE file installer? Well you can use 7-Zip to create a packaged EXE installer which will then …

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