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On April 8th 2014, Microsoft ended all support for Windows XP. They then released a number of Windows Updates that displays annoying messages on your desktop telling you that your operating system is now at its end of life. This is the Windows message: The second is the Microsoft Security Essentials one: We have been asked a number of times …
Remove Windows XP End of Life Messages Utility Read MoreWe have had a number of people asking us how they can remove the annoying end of life message that Windows XP displays. There are actually two of them, one is a Windows end of life message that looks like this: The other is Microsoft Security Essentials end of life message that looks like this: So what can you do …
Removing the Windows XP End of Life Message Read MoreAs most of you should already know by now, Configuration Manager 2007 in any of its versions is now no longer supported as the mainstream support deadline passed on 8th July 2014. This means that you should now be looking at moving over to 2012 R2 as soon as possible (its a much better system anyway!). If you require any …
Configuration Manager 2007 – Mainstream Support End! Read MoreToday we have had our 1 millionth page view on TechyGeeksHome! As a complete coincidence this post is also our 300th post since we started some two years ago. We find it completely incredible that our little site with its customised guides (usually to our own requirements!) has managed to gain a million page views and we never thought we …
1 million pageviews and 300 posts! Read MoreMicrosoft have released a number of documents to make up a best practice guide for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2. The documents are free to download and although we have not read through them ourselves yet, we are told that they are very good so worth a read. You can download the documents individually from the link below: Download …
Configuration Manager 2012 R2 – Task Sequence Best Practices Documentation Read MoreIf you want to report on the servers that have not had a reboot in the last week within your Configuration Manager environment then you can run this query directly on your SQL database or you can use it to create a report within SSRS. How to create a Configuration Manager Report using SSRS SQL Query The query is below …
Configuration Manager Report Query for Servers not rebooted in the last week Read MoreIf you want to report on the machines that do not have the ConfigMgr client installed within your Configuration Manager environment then you can run this query directly on your SQL database or you can use it to create a report within SSRS. The query is below and can be altered to fit your own needs by adding columns and …
SCCM Report Query for Machines without Client Installed Read MoreIf you want to report on the versions of your ConfigMgr clients that you have within your Configuration Manager environment then you can run this query directly on your SQL database or you can use it to create a report within SSRS. How to create a Configuration Manager Report using SSRS The query is below and can be altered to …
Configuration Manager Report Query for Client Version Read MoreSorry about the recent lack of updates on our site but we have been incredibly busy fixing “real world” IT issues! Its also the silly season for holidays so over the next month updates may be a little sparse but we will try our best! We recently came across a really good blog post by Daniel Ratliff over at PotentEngineer.com about ConfigMgr …
Task Sequences types in Software Center – OSD or Application? Read MoreWe are pleased to announce the release of WillyTheWorm version 1.1. We have been playing with creating a few very basic retro games for a while now and although these are really only more than testers and nothing to get too excited about, we thought we would release them for you to play with anyway and you can feel free …
WillyTheWorm v1.1 Released – Retro Snake Game Read MoreWe are pleased to announce the release of DustyRacer v1.0. This is very much a test release and more of a practice in coding so please treat it as such! Your feedback and ideas are welcome but we are looking into building this up with lots of new features, like levels that speed up as you get to higher levels, …
DustyRacer Retro Racing Game v1.0 Released Read MoreWe are pleased to announce the release of our first web browser codenamed DustyNet. DustyNet is a simple and easy-to-use web browser. It is lightweight and standalone so can you run direct from a single executable file and even from a USB stick. This is a second release so if you find any bugs or if you want to suggest …
DustyNet Web Browser v2.1 Released Read More
