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If you have upgraded to SCCM 1511 recently then you may have not yet noticed that their is a new Software Center available and included within the Software Center itself is an area when users can download the applications directly instead of having to have Silverlight installed and use Internet Explorer. The old Software Center looked something like this: You …
SCCM 1511 – New Software Center Read MoreIf you are using Exchange in your organisation and have multiple administrators, then you may need to keep an eye on mailbox limits. In most organisations the mailbox limits are set by default on the database, however you can change the limits per mailbox. So, if you want to see which mailboxes do not have the default database limits set, …
Exchange Mailbox Limits – Export None Default Quotas to CSV Read MoreIf you have used Visual Studio to create an installer, then you will find that their are two output files required for the installation – setup.exe and setup,msi. You can zip these together into a package, but what if you want a single EXE file installer? Well you can use 7-Zip to create a packaged EXE installer which will then …
Create a self extracting archive and launch an installer Read MoreIf you are trying to install SharePoint Foundation 2013, you will need to run the pre-requisite installation process. However, you may come across an error stating that the tool cannot configure the Application Server Role and Web Server (IIS) Role.
SharePoint Foundation 2013 Prerequisite Tool Failure Read MoreIf you would like to build an installer to install a custom font on a machine, then you can use Visual Studio to do this.
Create a MSI file to install a custom font Read MoreIf you are using System Center Configuration Manager for Operating System Deployment (OSD) then you may come across an error like this even after a successful PXE boot:
SCCM OSD Policy Retrieval Error Read MoreKB3114409 – Outlook in Safe Mode Problem – Microsoft have yet again released another Windows Update which has caused corruption and crashing on Windows computers.
KB3114409 – Outlook in Safe Mode Problem Read MoreRemote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 includes Server Manager, Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-ins, consoles, Windows PowerShell cmdlets and providers, and command-line tools for managing roles and features that run on Windows Server Technical Preview.
Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 Read MoreMicrosoft have released the Group Policy Admin Templates for the new release of Windows 10.
Group Policy Administrative Templates for Windows 10 Read MoreIf you would like to disable Microsoft OneDrive in your corporate environment then you can do so using Group Policy. Simply open up your Group Policy editor and create a new policy (or edit an existing policy) and browse to the following location: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components In this location you will find an “OneDrive” folder: …
Disable OneDrive using Group Policy Read MoreIf you are using a shared mailbox in Outlook 2013 then you may find that when you send items from the mailbox or if you delete items from the mailbox that they go into your own mailbox folders. To fix this and make the sent and deleted items go into the shared mailboxes folders, you need to make a few …
Outlook Shared Mailbox – Sent and Deleted Items into correct folders Read MoreWe recently came across an issue where our Configuration Manager Operating System Deployments (OSD) were failing at the activating Windows step. Having spent far too much time looking into why it was doing this, we eventually found out that it was our proxy servers that were blocking access it the Microsoft activation servers.
Windows and Office Activation Proxy Whitelist Websites Read More
