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December 2016 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

If you are having problems with updating your Windows 7 machine, then you should download the monthly update rollups now provided by Microsoft. These contain a large amount of updates to a particular date and are released each month. Once you have downloaded the update file and installed it, you should then only have a few minor updates to install …

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Enabling inactive Mimecast Outlook Plugin add-in that keeps being unloaded in Outlook

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To enable an inactive add-in that keeps unloading on restart in Outlook you should follow these steps: First shut down Outlook, then uninstall the software providing the add-in from your machine. Then go into regedit whilst logged in as the affected user and go to the following location: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice15.0OutlookResiliency Delete the REG_BINARY keys found in DisabledItems and CrashingAddinList folders: Then …

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Outlook Mail Server Settings

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This post details how to setup Outlook client for use with online mail services. This is just a quick reminder for ourselves and is taken from the Microsoft website but feel free to use this information. Gmail accounts Before you can add a Gmail account to Outlook, you’ll need to Prepare your Gmail account for connecting to Outlook and Office …

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WSUS – Windows 10 Feature Upgrades Fail Fix

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If you are using WSUS in your environment and you find that your Windows 10 clients are failing to download or install any Feature Upgrades (to 1607 or any CU updates) then you can give this fix a try. You should first ensure that you have not approved any of these upgrades before installing the KB3095113 update on your WSUS …

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Inject Windows Updates into WIM Image Files Using PowerShell

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To inject Windows Updates into custom-built images that you are using in your Configuration Manager OSD environment, you may find that keeping them up to date is a real problem. If you are happy with the image itself and do not want to make any changes to it, why should you need to rebuild and recapture it to include all …

Windows Update Injection Powershell Script

Download To download, simply scroll down towards the bottom of this page and you will see the options for this download. Ensure you select the correct one and click the blue Download button as detailed below:

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Exchange – Export Contacts to PST using Powershell

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If you want to export a users set of contacts from Exchange directly into a PST file using Powershell, then you can run this command using Exchange Management Shell (EMS): export-mailbox -id User1 -includefolders ‘contacts’ -pstfolderpath C:User1.pst Where: User1 = the mailbox that you want to export from C:User1.pst = the PST filename where you want to export to COMMENTS If …

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Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) v1.2 for Windows 10 Released – Full Download and Installation Guide

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Microsoft have released the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 version 1.2. There does not seem to be much information on what is updated in version 1.2 and we have installed it and cannot find any differences either, maybe just some security flaws fixed. You may also notice that DHCP is not included, but you can get the DHCP console …

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SCCM – Delete a Device using VBS

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If you are using SCCM and you want to delete a device from your database (for example if you are using OSD and only deploying to Unknown Devices) then you would normally have to go into the SCCM Console, Devices, search for the device and then right click and delete the device which would remove it from the SCCM database. …

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SCCM – Dell Client Bios & Driver Autodownload

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We have recently been using a new script that we came across which allows you to run a PowerShell script on your SCCM environment and it looks for all the Dell hardware models that you have and then automatically downloads all the latest drivers and BIOS’s for each machine found. This is an excellent way of ensuring that you keep …

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SCCM – How to clear CCMCache content older than x days using Compliance Settings

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If you are using SCCM for the deployment of software then you may find that with the smaller SSD’s that you may be using that free space is becoming an issue. This can be because the more an end user installs to their machine from your Software Catalog, the more data that is being downloaded to the CCMCache on their …

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SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2016 Released

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Microsoft have now released SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2016 and is ready to download and use. You can get the download by clicking the button below: Download SSMS 2016 SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is an integrated environment for accessing, configuring, managing, administering, and developing all components of SQL Server. SSMS combines a broad group of graphical tools with a …