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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
Below is a list of useful links for downloading MSI files. ADOBE DOWNLOADS Adobe Reader FTP Site Adobe Shockwave Player Download Site Adobe Flash Player Download Site BROWSER DOWNLOADS Google Chrome MSI Download Site Firefox MSI Download Site COMMUNICATIONS DOWNLOADS Skype MSI Download Site UTILITIES 7-Zip
You may wish to add the WSUS console to the Software Center in SCCM. This stops people logging onto WSUS servers and also provides quick and easy access to multiple WSUS servers. However, the installer requires a few setup parameters to make it work correctly. Download WSUS Console Windows Server Update Services Console 3.0 SP2 … Read more
< div dir=”ltr” style=”text-align: left;”> If you have a requirement to place Exchange Management Tools 2007 into your Software Catalog, then it can be a bit tricky finding out the correct installation parameters to setup to get it to work fully. I have been through this and managed to get it working correctly so below … Read more
We have recently had an annoying issue with machines taking a very long time to get to the ALT-CTRL-DEL screen on boot up and getting stuck on starting Windows and also taking ages to shut down and do anything in Windows. We found a few hotfixes for this issue, but when we tried to run … Read more
We are pleased to announce the release of our latest utility – ShoreWAVCon v4.4. This is a new utility based on our Shoretel Batch WAV Converter that we released a few weeks ago. In this utility you can browse for the WAV file that you wish to convert and we have also added a small … Read more