Silverlight Silent Installation and Uninstall

1 May 202611 June 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

If you have a requirement to have Silverlight installed as a silent install, like for deployment through System Center Configuration Manager, then you can use the following guide to allow you to do this. First of all, you will need to download the full installer which you can get from the download link below: Download … Read more

Reset a ShoreTel phone handset to factory settings

1 May 20269 June 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

You may run in to a situation where you need to completely factory reset a Shoretel phone handset. This can be due to a handset being unresponsive or not talking to its headquarter server or local MGC, amongst other reasons like selling your handset! To carry out a full factory reset you should take the … Read more

Restart SCCM OSD Task Sequence within Windows PE

1 May 202629 May 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

System Center Configuration Manager SCCM

If you want to restart SCCM OSD Task Sequence from within Windows PE without having to reboot the machine and start the PXE boot sequence again, you can quickly press F8 to bring up a command prompt and enter the following command: x:smsbini386TsmBootstrap.exe /env:WinPE /configpath:x:smsdata This will then restart the task sequence process for you … Read more

How to identify a missing NIC driver during SCCM OSD

1 May 202628 May 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

If you have a new model of computer and you have PXE booted it and you do not get a network connection or IP address, then this is because the network card driver for that model is not available either within Windows PE or the boot image you have used to PXE boot the machine. … Read more

DOSBox – 16-Bit Application Emulator

1 May 202614 May 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

If you have an old 16-bit application that you need to run on Windows 7 or 8.1 or maybe even an old classic game you want to play, you will find that the chances are the modern operating systems will not run them and you will run into an error like this for Windows 7:

Or this one for Windows 8:

So, what can you do?

Well there is hope! There is an excellent DOS emulator that we have tested and now using called DOSBox. It seems to work with all of the DOS programs that we have tested it with and we even downloaded some old DOS games to test it and all worked perfectly.

With a little bit of simple configuration, the DOSBox emulator loads your DOS program in no time and allows you access back into these old programs.

Download

You can download the latest version of the DOSBox program from SourceForge using the link below:

DosBox Download

Instructions

Once you have downloaded the DOSBox program there is a little configuration you have to carry out in the options to get your program “mounted” and then to run, but it is extremely simple to do. Below is a video guide on how to configure the program to run:

Video Demo

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Show Distribution Point in use during Task Sequence

1 May 202613 May 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

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Create installation media for Windows 8.1

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Create Installation Media for Windows 7

1 May 20264 May 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

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Orchestrator Not Showing Newly Created Folders or Runbooks

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How to deploy AutoCAD using SCCM

1 May 20267 April 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

This is going to be quite a lengthy guide but one that we think you might find very useful. Introduction We have previously shown you how to report Autodesk serial numbers using SCCM and this has led to a number of questions being sent to us on how to deploy AutoCAD using SCCM and in … Read more

How to add a YouTube Subscribe button to your website or blog

1 May 20261 April 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

If you want to add a YouTube Subscribe button directly on to your website or blog so that visitors can just click it and immediately subscribe to your videos without even having to go to your YouTube Channel, then this guide is for you. Instructions So how do you do it? all you need is … Read more