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Most users in organisations believe that Google Earth is a great tool for their work and freely install it on their work machines and think nothing of it. Well, Google Earth is NOT free for commercial use and if business users want to use Google Earth for work purposes on work machines, then a licence … Read more
If you want to identify machines with Google Earth software installed, you can utilise the Add/Remove Programs software inventory to do this by using this query. This WQL query can then be used as part of an import function to create a device collection within SCCM. More Queries Our full range of SQL and WQL … Read more
You can use Problem Steps Recorder to automatically capture the steps you take on a computer, including a text description of where you clicked and a picture of the screen during each click. Once you capture these steps, you can save them to a file that can be used by a support professional or someone … Read more
We have had reports of people purchasing Need for Speed: Rivals for their Xbox One and installing the game, starting the tutorial at the beginning and then finding that the car does not move!! A quick fix for this is to completely power off your Xbox One console and start up the game again – … Read more
Sorry but we have been forced to remove this page as NitroPDF believe that we are giving out serial numbers illegally. Although this is just a tutorial for how to gather your OWN PAID FOR serial numbers using SCCM, it seems this is not good enough for NitroPDF or Google. So, we have had to … Read more
We are pleased to announce the release of our updated utility – RemoveIE v3.4 This utility follows on the success of our previous release – RemoveIE10 v2.1 which can still be downloaded from our site. In this release, we have added the option to remove Internet Explorer 11 from your Windows 7 machines. This is … Read more
If you have custom build images that you are using in your SCCM OSD environment, you may find that keeping them up to date is a real problem. However, there is a way of running Windows Updates against your custom WIM files offline and then simply redistributing your WIM file. Below is a guide on how to carry this … Read more
If you are trying to run Windows Update on a Windows XP machine, you may find that you are getting errors or that it gets stuck in a “Searching for updates” process. This may be that your Windows XP machine has not fully updated its own Windows Update Agent. To fix this, you should first … Read more
I have been asked to provide a solution to a situation where during SCCM OSD, they want to run Windows Updates across multiple sites worldwide using the local WSUS replica servers. So as an example, the main Headquarters office is in New York with the main WSUS server and then in Rome there is another … Read more
UPDATE: Shoretel Contacts Importer v3.0 is now available – click the Downloads button above to obtain ================================================================ We are pleased to announce the release of Shoretel Contacts Importer version 2.0. This is an update to our previous version which can be found below with full instructions and details on what functions this program carries out. DOWNLOADS INSTRUCTIONS … Read more
We are pleased to announce the release of the installer and MSI files for our Shoretel Communicator Contacts Enabler program. The program was originally released as a standalone utility and that program can be downloaded for free here: Shoretel Contacts Importer v1.1 The latest version is version 3.0 which can be downloaded for free below: … Read more
If you have a client that is not downloading its required files in the Software Center (having requested from the software catalog and is seemingly stuck on 0%) then it could be an issue with the local DP server. To fix this, login to the local server and go into IIS Manager. You should then … Read more