Making IT Happen
We were asked recently about how to use a SCCM package to amend current user registry keys (HCU). To be honest, we didn’t really know, HCU registry changes have always been a bit of a nightmare to manage. However, we started to have a look around and found an excellent guide on how to carry this out using a mixture …
Creating Current User Registry Keys in a SCCM Package Read MoreIf you want to test your SMTP server is working correctly, you can use the telnet feature within Windows. The following guide will walk you through the steps to carry this out. Telnet to test your SMTP server Just open up an elevated command prompt then enter these commands in turn: This should then connect to your domain and you …
Test your SMTP server using Windows Telnet Feature Read MoreYou may have installed Microsoft Update KB4338818 during Patch Tuesday and now your Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 is broken right? Maybe even some Windows 7 machines? Well guess what? You are not the only one! Yes, Microsoft have done it yet again, released a dirty update that this time hits your Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 machines and Microsoft …
Broken Microsoft Update – KB4338818 Read MoreFollowing on from our previous post about how IT professionals can use the tools available to them to make their lives easier, we have another Exchange Management Shell (EMS) script which will get all the information available from all Shared Mailboxes including the sizes of each mailbox. Guide Open up the Exchange Management Script tool and enter this command: Get-mailbox …
Exchange Shell – Get all Shared Mailboxes Information Read MoreMicrosoft have done it again and released another update “fix” which has broken Windows 7 machines. This seems to be the same sort of issue as before where the wifi and VPN connections are affected. It is quite unbelievable that Microsoft continue to release updates that break our user machines! You can forgive the odd bad update, but this has …
New Broken Microsoft Updates – KB4284842 Read MoreSometimes as IT professionals, we get asked to supply a lot of data to company bosses. This can be extremely frustrating especially when what you want to do is fix stuff, but IT is becoming more and more like an admin role all the time. It doesn’t mean you stop fixing stuff, it just means you have to carry out …
Exchange Shell – Export all shared mailbox permissions to CSV Read MoreCMTrace is an awesome tool and I have been copying it onto an end users machine using a batch file during the OSD process for years. But finally, Microsoft have added it into the Configuration Manager Client installation. So, once you have an up to date client installed on a users machine, you can browse to the following location: %windir%ccmcmtrace.exe …
CMTrace Bundled with Configuration Manager Client Install Read MoreDo you need to upgrade your Certificate Authority from SHA1 to SHA2 (SHA256)? Well we recently had to carry this out as a test in a lab environment. None of us knew how to carry this out from the top of our heads, so like all good IT guys, we used the power of Google. Luckily we found an excellent …
Upgrade your Certificate Authority from SHA1 to SHA2 (SHA256) Read MoreMicrosoft are really outdoing themselves at the moment as it seems that they have released another pair of updates for Windows 7 machines that reboots the computer when connecting to a wireless or VPN connection. We have had around 40 machines with these two updates that have seen this problem. We have had to remove these from circlation on our …
KB4284826 & KB4284867 Might Break Windows 7 Machines Read MoreWe came across a problem with our SCCM OSD recently where it was getting through approximately half the build process and then seemingly getting stuck on “Just a moment…” before timing out and not completing the build. This was a bit of a head scratcher as there did not seem to be any crash or reason for it to just …
SCCM OSD Stuck on “Just a moment…” Read MoreIf you are an IT administrator then the chances are that you have come across issues with trying to download files directly from a website to your server. You would have received this security alert when trying to download: Your current security settings do not allow this file to be downloaded. Although this is a default setting and in most …
Windows Server – Internet Security Blocking Downloads Read MoreWe recently had a problem with our Service Manager database server using massively high RAM usage. It was using up all the RAM we gave it no matter how much extra we allocated to it. So we needed to try and figure out why it was doing this, like all good IT people, we started Googling! All the usual tricks …
Service Manager Database Using High RAM Read More
