Windows Update Stuck on Installing Update.
Simple to follow guide to help you fix the Windows Update issue when it gets stuck on reboot or shut down of the operating system.
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Utility Pro Versions
Thank you for taking the time to download and use our freeware. In addition to the freeware utilities that we provide, you can enhance some of these buy purchasing the Pro versions. This also helps with the running costs of this website and allows us to keep the site going in the future due to ever increasing hosting costs and …
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UnityPDF – Free PDF Software
If you are looking for a PDF utility then we can recommend UnityPDF. We have been testing it for a few weeks and it allows you to merge, split, divide, extract and insert PDF documents. It is very simple to use with a user-friendly interface, but its big plus point is that it is completely free both for home and …
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Skype 6.20 Released – MSI Download Link & Silent Install Instructions
Skype version 6.20 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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Murphy Lifestyle HD TV Sky Remote Code
This is something a little different to our normal posts, but its important information to us as we have a Murphy TV at TGH Towers! We had a new Sky+ HD box installed and the Sky remote would no longer work to control the TV controls like the volume. So if you have a Murphy TV too, you can fix …
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Configuration Manager – How to Change the Approve/Deny Status of an Application Catalog Request
If you are a Configuration Manager administrator, the chances are that you are using the Application Catalog to allow users to install their own software.A great feature of this is that you can put in specialist or licensed software and add a “Request” button. This means that your end users will only get the software if you approve it. To …
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SCCM Query – Report on Distribution Point Statuses
In Configuration Manager 2012, there is a section under the Monitoring ribbon called Distribution Status. This will give you a lot of information about your distributions and your distribution points. If you look at Distribution Point Configuration Status, this gives you a good understanding of whether your drivers, packages, applications and images have deployed correctly to your local or remote …
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If you want to report on machines that have Outlook archive (PST’s) on them, where they are and how big they are, then you can use this guide to create a report that will do this for you using Configuration Manager. First of all, you will need to tell your Software Inventory to look for PST files on machines. To …
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SCCM – WQL Query for Devices with Configuration Manager Client Installed and no System Center Endpoint Protection Installed
We have had a report that one of our WQL queries has not been working correctly, this is the one for devices that have Configuration Manager client installed but do not have System Center Endpoint Protection installed on them. The original post is here: WQL Query for Devices without Endpoint Installed So, we have looked into this and found the …
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Viewing WEBP images in Windows Photo Viewer
You may have started to come across image files that are in WEBP forma on the internet recently. These are usually opened using Google Chrome but this can be very annoying if you have saved a number of these images and want to browse through them using Windows Photo Viewer instead of having to open them one by one. Well, …
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We have recently been doing some big OSD projects and with testing for such big projects comes the point where some of your testing will fail, so to find out why a test sequence fails, the first thing you should look at is your log files. However, ConfigMgr makes this an annoying process as the log files move about during …
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System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 Cumulative Update 5 has been released by Microsoft. The issues that have been fixed in this update are as below (source: Microsoft): Task sequences The Continue on error check box is not selected under Task Sequences when an Install Software step and a Virtual Application package are defined as the source. This affects only …
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