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We are pleased to announce the release of Advanced BootInforma for Windows 7 and 8 machines. This is a Windows Operating System tweak that turns on the logging information when your machine is booting up, logging in and shutting down. What this actually shows you is the processes that are being carried out by your machine instead of the Windows …
Advanced BootInforma Released Read MoreAlthough most people will be using full versions of Windows Server 2012 products by now, some may still use the evaluation VHDs from Microsoft. We have just downloaded all 11GB of VHD files from Microsoft for doing some testing and got to the point where we need to enter the Contoso Administrator password. After trying all the passwords we could …
Microsoft Evaluation VHD’s – Windows Server 2012 Contoso Administrator Password Read MoreIf you wish to play God with your Windows operating system and have the ability to change virtually every setting on your machine in one easy to access window – then this little tool is for you. Simply download the installer, install on your Windows machine and you will gain full access to all the administration tools that Windows has …
God Mode for Windows Read MoreIf you have Windows XP, or if like me, you have to rebuild many friends and family members old computers, then you will probably be aware of Microsoft Security Essentials – the free Microsoft security program. Microsoft have provided this free of charge to Windows XP and Windows 7 users for some time now but that is soon to end …
Microsoft will remove Security Essentials (MSE) for Windows XP in April 2014 – Download NOW! Read MoreDell have an excellent tool freely available called Dell Client Integration Pack. Included in this tool is something called Warranty Status. What this part of the tool does is looks at your SCCM SQL database for Dell machines and their asset tags, then checks against its own warranty database for the warranty information. It then inserts all the warranty information into …
Report on Dell Warranty Statuses for all machines using SCCM & Dell Client Integration Pack Read MoreIf you are having trouble in getting the Dot.Net 3 feature to enable on your Windows 8 machine, there is a way that you can do this offline by using DISM and the original Windows 8 media. Instructions Firstly, you sure ensure that you have your original Windows 8 media in your optical drive (or on a USB stick). Then …
Windows 8.1 Dot.Net 3 Feature Enable using Operating System media offline Read MoreIf you are trying to run a Powershell script, you may find sometimes that you get this following error message: Cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. There is a very simple fix for this, all you have to do is ensure that you run your Powershell program as administrator to give it elevated …
Powershell error when running scripts – scripts disabled Read MoreYou can use Problem Steps Recorder to automatically capture the steps you take on a computer, including a text description of where you clicked and a picture of the screen during each click. Once you capture these steps, you can save them to a file that can be used by a support professional or someone else helping you with a …
Problem Steps Recorder (PSR) in Windows Read MoreIf you have custom build images that you are using in your SCCM OSD environment, you may find that keeping them up to date is a real problem. However, there is a way of running Windows Updates against your custom WIM files offline and then simply redistributing your WIM file. Below is a guide on how to carry this out and a list of …
Updating a WIM Image File using Offline Updates Read MoreIf you are trying to run Windows Update on a Windows XP machine, you may find that you are getting errors or that it gets stuck in a “Searching for updates” process. This may be that your Windows XP machine has not fully updated its own Windows Update Agent. To fix this, you should first ensure that you are running …
Windows XP Windows Update Fix Read MoreI have been asked to provide a solution to a situation where during SCCM OSD, they want to run Windows Updates across multiple sites worldwide using the local WSUS replica servers. So as an example, the main Headquarters office is in New York with the main WSUS server and then in Rome there is another site with a replica WSUS …
Windows Updates during SCCM OSD from Replica WSUS Servers Read MoreIf you have a client that is not downloading its required files in the Software Center (having requested from the software catalog and is seemingly stuck on 0%) then it could be an issue with the local DP server. To fix this, login to the local server and go into IIS Manager. You should then browse to the Application Pools …
SCCM clients stuck on 0% downloading applications Read More
