SCCM OSD Policy Retrieval Error
If you are using System Center Configuration Manager for Operating System Deployment (OSD) then you may come across an error like this even after a successful PXE boot:
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Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10
Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 includes Server Manager, Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-ins, consoles, Windows PowerShell cmdlets and providers, and command-line tools for managing roles and features that run on Windows Server Technical Preview.
Disable OneDrive using Group Policy
If you would like to disable Microsoft OneDrive in your corporate environment then you can do so using Group Policy. Simply open up your Group Policy editor and create a new policy (or edit an existing policy) and browse to the following location: In this location you will find an “OneDrive” folder: Open up this … Read more
Dropbox Whitelists for Web Security Proxy
If you are having problems in getting Dropbox to either install or synchronise on your corporate network, then you will need to add some IP ranges and URL’s to your web security proxy whitelists.
Google Drive Proxy Whitelist
Full list of all required web security proxy whitelist URL’s to enable Google Drive to work within a corporate environment.
Outlook Shared Mailbox – Sent and Deleted Items into correct folders
If you are using a shared mailbox in Outlook 2013 then you may find that when you send items from the mailbox or if you delete items from the mailbox that they go into your own mailbox folders. To fix this and make the sent and deleted items go into the shared mailboxes folders, you … Read more
Windows and Office Activation Proxy Whitelist Websites
We recently came across an issue where our Configuration Manager Operating System Deployments (OSD) were failing at the activating Windows step. Having spent far too much time looking into why it was doing this, we eventually found out that it was our proxy servers that were blocking access it the Microsoft activation servers.
Windows Live Meeting MSI Installer Download
If you have users that are still using Windows Live Meeting, you may want the MSI installer to be able to distribute it through Group Policy, WDS or Configuration Manager. So, we have extracted the MSI from the main installer and made it available on our Filestore microsite. DOWNLOAD Visit our Filestore microsite by clicking … Read more
Manual Windows 10 Upgrade Guide
We have posted a number of guides about automatically upgrading your computer up to Windows 10 using Windows Updates, however, if you are still having problems, there is one final way of manually going through the Windows 10 upgrade process. First of all, you need to download the Windows 10 Media Creator file which you … Read more
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Font Pack MSI Download
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Font Pack enables you to display and interact with documents authored in languages other than those supported in your native Adobe Reader. It is needed to correctly display a document when an author does not embed the appropriate font into the document. It is also needed when the author does embed … Read more
DustyPad v1.2 Released – Multi-tab NotePad Utility
DustyPad is a multi-tab notepad utility which comes as a standalone executable file for easy and quick use and is completely free to use and distribute. With DustyPad you can add as many new pads as you like within a tabbed environment and then save your pads for later use. An easy to use interface … Read more
SCCM OSD – “A required device isn’t connected or cannot be accessed”
We today ran into an issue where our SCCM OSD PXE boot was not working. It was coming up with a very confusing message stating: “A required device isn’t connected or cannot be accessed” This led us to start looking at the hard drive and the drivers, however, the solution was completely different. The problem … Read more