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By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 1 June 201810 September 2025
Posted in Guide, Microsoft

CredSSP Error Breaks Remote Desktop Connections

You may have come across a problem when trying to connect remotely to a server using remote desktop connection. If you are receiving a CredSSP error like the one below: Then the chances are you have this update: CVE-2018-0886 – which seems to be from March 2018 but we have only just started to see

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 25 May 201815 February 2025
Posted in Microsoft

Microsoft Updates – More Faulty Updates – KB4103712

After our recent posts about Microsoft releasing faulty updates and breaking user computers, we have now found yet another Microsoft Update which has been causing a problem with machines rebooting themselves quite randomly and completely losing network connections. Again we have done a load of testing and Googling and found the update to be KB4103712. Problem

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 23 May 201815 February 2025
Posted in Microsoft
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New Tuesday New Broken Microsoft Updates – KB4103713 & KB4130978

So it looks like Microsoft have done it yet again! Yes more updates have been causing us problems and we have had to go through a number of user machines uninstalling two more updates to fix broken computers. It is quite unbelievable that Microsoft continue to release updates that break our user machines! This seems

Screenshot of the "server manager" interface in Windows, showing dashboard with options like "local server," "file and storage services," "disable server manager," and performance metrics.

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 14 May 20189 September 2025
Posted in Guide, Evergreen, Microsoft

Windows Server 2016 – Disable Server Manager on Startup

I don’t know about you, but Server Manager loading up every time I login to a Windows Server 2016 machine drives me nuts! This is especially annoying when using my lab as most of the hardware is just old bits of kit that is not being used in production any longer. In older versions of

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 9 May 201815 February 2025
Posted in Microsoft

New Tuesday New Broken Microsoft Updates – KB4103718 & KB4103727

Yet again it looks as though Microsoft have pushed out their updates without testing them fully first! More problems have been reported after this round of Tuesdays updates which is now becoming a very regular occurrence. Again, after much Googling and removing updates one by one, we finally came to the conclusion that two more

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 4 May 201824 August 2024
Posted in Microsoft, Guide
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Powershell – Export Active Directory User Last logged on information to CSV

If you want to export all your Active Directory users last logged on information, you can carry this out using Powershell and then exporting to CSV format. Guide First of all, you will need to import the ActiveDirectory module if you have not already done so. To do this, just open up a Powershell command

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 30 April 201816 February 2025
Posted in Guide, System Center

How to create a MDT Package within SCCM

As a SCCM administrator you are probably fully aware that you have a lot of power available to you when carrying out deployments using task sequences. But you can add even more options to SCCM task sequences by adding Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) integration. This gives you a load more options during a task sequence

System Center Configuration Manager SCCM

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 27 April 201816 February 2025
Posted in Guide, System Center

SCCM – Full list of web security proxy exceptions

When using Configuration Manager, you may find that some things may not work fully if you are also behind a web security proxy service. We came across this problem recently where the Asset Intelligence Point was being blocked from contacting the internet due to web security. This caused this error in our Configuration Manager Console:

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 25 April 201815 February 2025
Posted in Microsoft
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KB4099950 & KB4093113 – Yet More Faulty Windows Updates Released by Microsoft

A few days ago we posted here about two Microsoft updates that had been causing us a number of problems with our older Windows 7 machines. We thought that we had resolved all of our issues in relation to these updates, but we have this week seen machines dropping off the network and ramdomly rebooting themselves

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 25 April 201824 August 2024
Posted in Guide, Microsoft

Powershell – Export all members of all AD Security Groups to CSV

Powershell is an awesome tool and can help IT professionals in gathering information in a split second whereas otherwise it could take hours manually. We were recently asked to carry out a number of tasks for information gathering for annual housekeeping. The tasks were varied but were made up of information from Active Directory and

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Tag: Microsoft

CredSSP Error Breaks Remote Desktop Connections

Microsoft Updates – More Faulty Updates – KB4103712

New Tuesday New Broken Microsoft Updates – KB4103713 & KB4130978

Windows Server 2016 – Disable Server Manager on Startup

New Tuesday New Broken Microsoft Updates – KB4103718 & KB4103727

Powershell – Export Active Directory User Last logged on information to CSV

How to create a MDT Package within SCCM

SCCM – Full list of web security proxy exceptions

KB4099950 & KB4093113 – Yet More Faulty Windows Updates Released by Microsoft

Powershell – Export all members of all AD Security Groups to CSV