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If you are using Server 2012 R2 Core and you wish to join it to the domain, then you can use this simple Powershell command to do it. Add-Computer -DomainName YOURDOMAIN.COM -Credentials DOMAINUSERNAME -Restart Note that the -Restart command at the end will automatically restart your server once it has completed the joining process. Also be aware that you should …
Join Server 2012 R2 Core to your Domain Read MoreIf you are using Windows 2012 R2 Core or if you just like using Powershell, then you may want to know how to enable Remote Desktop. To do this, you should go into your Core server where you should see a command box. In here, type in Powershell and press enter. This will open up the Powershell console for you …
How to enable Remote Desktop using Powershell Read MoreOn 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 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 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 MoreWhen you delete packages, applications or images using your Configuration Manager Console, it will then start to process the removal of the files from your distribution points. Depending on how many distribution points you have, this can take some time to complete. We recently had a scenario where we had to remove nearly 100GB of old driver packages, the removal …
ConfigMgr 2012 – Log file to check package deletion progress Read MoreWe had reports from a customer this week about strange issues with their Configuration Manager OSD Task Sequences failing. The OSD seemed to work on most machines but a new batch of refurbished laptops would PXE boot but then would fail after the task sequence had been selected with a generic Microsoft error (you know the type!). We had been …
ConfigMgr OSD – Strange Task Sequence Failures Solved Read MoreWe have just started to update our hardware BIOS’s during the Configuration Manager OSD process taking advantage of the Application model. It works extremely well and is very easy to setup. We used this excellent guide to help us so we thought that we would share this with our visitors for it to help you too. Deploying Dell BIOS Updates …
Deploying Dell BIOS Updates using the Application Model Read More
