SCCM – User Experience During Application Installation

If you want your end user experience to show them the progress of an installation from your Software Center, then you will need to ensure that you have your command lines and user experience tab setup correctly. We have seen many people follow the “install in the background and don’t tell anyone the progress” method time and time again, however, …

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SCCM – 1802 Upgrade Released & How to get it now!

So Microsoft have today released version 1802 of Current Branch for Configuration Manager. This is great and there are some features in this upgrade that we are looking forward to trying out. But, on the slow ring, it could be a few days or weeks until it drops into your Configuration Manager Console. That’s bad. So, what can you do …

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SCCM – Active Directory Security Group Query for User Collection

If you are looking at setting up a SCCM user collection based on membership of an Active Directory Security Group, then you can use this WQL query for the collection. WQL Script To set this up, create a new collection and copy and paste this as its query: Variables You can add or remove any of the SMS_R_USER columns from …

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The Best Places to Start a Tech Company in 2018 (hint: it’s not Silicone Valley)

Startup life is already a fast-paced and difficult world. So don’t make it harder than it needs to be by living in Silicon Valley and paying higher prices than necessary. Instead, you can enjoy alternatives that may offer even more of what you’re looking without breaking the bank. Here are HQ locations to consider starting your tech company in: Bangalore, …

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Controlling Autodiscovery for Outlook using Group Policy

We have recently been working on a Microsoft Office 365 email migration from on-premise to cloud based Exchange. One of the challenges that we faced was making the migration process as painless as possible for the end user. However, with thousands of end users having Microsoft Outlook 2010 installed and already configured to work with the existing on-premise server, we …

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4 Ways Your Users Will Destroy Your Company Without Even Trying

One of the key roles that the Information Technology (IT) department provides is protecting an organization’s computers and data from internal and external threats. Despite the efforts of the technically-savvy men and women in IT, there are many things the typical end-user can and frequently does that put the organization at risk. These are four ways that your end-users can …

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