Making IT Happen
If you are as stupid as me and manage to make a partition active that you shouldn’t have done, so long as you haven’t restarted the machine, there is a quick easy fix to put it right. On the machine, do the following: Go into a Command Prompt Type “diskpart” Type “list volume” Type “select volume #” (# = the …
Making an Active Partition Inactive using Diskpart Read MoreAs you may have seen on some of my previous posts, you can update Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Reader X via Windows Updates using SCUP through WSUS/SCCM. This stops the annoying pop-ups for users especially when they can’t install updates if they have not got local admin rights – just like standard Windows Updates, this process will take care of …
Adobe Updates via Windows Updates Read MoreYou can install drivers by computer model using a WMI script during the SCCM OSD task sequence. This means that when you deploy an image, the target machine will always get the full and correct drivers for the model, rather than getting mismatched drivers. This also speeds up the deployment process. To do this is very easy and all you need …
Install drivers by computer model using WMI query during SCCM OSD Task Sequence Read MoreUPDATE : Get WMI Query v1.6 Now Released You can use WMI for various things but one of its uses is for identifying the model name of a machine so that it can be later used for Configuration Manager OSD or maybe even for Group Policy WMI security. To find out the model name of a machine using WMI, simply follow …
Find the make and model name of a machine using WMI Read MoreGroup Policy support is now also available for Adobe Reader XI which is great news for administrators as we can now control what had previously been a bit of a pain to control in corporate environments. Most of the settings are fairly obvious so I’m not going to go through them, but below is the link to download the ADM …
Adobe Reader XI Group Policy ADM Files Read MoreA recurring issue that I have is the old Active Desktop in Windows XP. No matter how many times you click the Restore button, you still get the script error. To fix this, you can do the following: Click Start then click Run, type “regedit” and press enter Browse to “HCUSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerDesktopSafeModeComponents” Double click the value DeskHtmlVersion Click the Decimal button Change …
Restore Active Desktop Problems Read MoreI recently tried to get my Google Adsense working on my blog as you never know, I might make my fortune using it, but when I tried, I got this error: “The publisher must be associated with the developer account before the developer can invoke operations on the publisher’s account” After spending some time searching the internet, I finally found the fix …
Google AdSense Error – “The publisher must be associated with the developer account before the developer can invoke operations on the publisher’s account” Read MoreWe have been looking into getting our OSD process to automatically change the computer name to what we want it to be for a while now but never really had much luck with it. Reading various forums and blogs, many people have said to use WSNAME and many others saying use scripts, all of which never seemed to quite work …
Setting Computer Name automatically during OSD Process using SCCM and MDT Read MoreIf you get an issue when trying to load a task sequence and you get the message that a package associated to the task sequence cannot be found, even when it looks like all packages are fully distributed, then you need to check out the SMSTSLog.log file that is on the machine that you are trying to deploy the task …
SCCM Task Sequence failed due to package associated to the task sequence cannot be found Read MoreAs you may be aware, System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Beta has now been released. To get this, you can download from:
System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Beta Released Read MoreWe had an issue this week with one of our Shoretel Contact Center Agents being stuck in Release mode. When trying to Resume, the agent was getting the following error: Your extension has lost its connection to the telephone system We tried everything to get this working, including removing the software completely from the agents machine and reinstalling, but still …
Shoretel Contact Center – Agent stuck in Release mode Read MoreIntroduction We have situations where sometimes we need to use a USB stick for stand-alone imaging for our remote sites that are not connected to the network or do not have a local DP. In SCCM 2007, this was easy, just run through the wizard and that’s it, but we’ve come across an issue with SCCM 2012 whereas if you image is larger …
SCCM 2012 USB Sticks for OSD Read More
