Making IT Happen
If you want to restart SCCM OSD Task Sequence from within Windows PE without having to reboot the machine and start the PXE boot sequence again, you can quickly press F8 to bring up a command prompt and enter the following command: x:smsbini386TsmBootstrap.exe /env:WinPE /configpath:x:smsdata This will then restart the task sequence process for you without having to reboot. Comments …
Restart SCCM OSD Task Sequence within Windows PE Read MoreYou may want to create a Configuration Manager Collection based upon an Active Directory Organisation Unit. To do this you can use the following WQL code and then simply amend the last part to be the Organisation Unit that you want to base the Collection on: SELECT SMS_R_USER.ResourceID, SMS_R_USER.ResourceType, SMS_R_USER.Name, SMS_R_USER.UniqueUserName, SMS_R_USER.WindowsNTDomain FROM SMS_R_User WHERE SMS_R_User.UserOUName = “LOCALDOMAIN.COM/COMPANYNAME/TECHYGEEKSHOME” More Queries …
SCCM Collection based on Active Directory Organisation Unit (OU) Membership Read MoreWe have the opportunity here for someone to take advantage of an amazing offer we can provide to you for a Microsoft Xbox One Package Deal for just £314.99 GBP. As part of the deal, you will receive the following: Xbox One console (including one wireless controller) Forza Horizon 2 for Xbox One 3-month Xbox Live Gold Membership 12-month EA …
Microsoft Xbox One Package – Special Offer Code for TechyGeeksHome.co.uk Guests Read MoreIf you have an old 16-bit application that you need to run on Windows 7 or 8.1 or maybe even an old classic game you want to play, you will find that the chances are the modern operating systems will not run them and you will run into an error like this for Windows 7: Or this one for Windows …
DOSBox – 16-Bit Application Emulator Read MoreWe recently came across issues where our Configuration Manager Operating System Deployments (OSD) where running extremely slowly and we could not figure out why. After some investigation, we found out that one of our remote Distribution Points (DP) was not working correctly and that rebuilds on one of the sites where actually pulling the image and application data from another …
Show Distribution Point in use during Task Sequence Read MoreIf you need to download the Windows 8.1 recovery media for your OEM version of your operating system, then you can do so by clicking the link below and entering the details from your licence sticker (COA). Windows 8.1 Recovery Software You can download the media to a USB stick or ISO file to burn to DVD and then this …
Create installation media for Windows 8.1 Read MoreMicrosoft have now released the preview version of their upcoming Office 2016 release and you can now download a trial version from the list of choices below: Download Get Office 2016 Preview (32 bit) Get Office 2016 Preview (64 bit) Use the product key provided below to activate your trial: NKGG6-WBPCC-HXWMY-6DQGJ-CPQVG Once the trial period expires, you will have the …
Microsoft Office 2016 Product Key Read MoreWe recently had an issue where a Domain Controller was giving us this error when we were trying to remote (RDP) on to it: The user profile service failed the logon. no more threads can be created in the system The server itself was on a different site to us many miles away (different country!) so we could not simply …
The user profile service failed the logon error fix Read MoreIf you need to download the Windows 7 recovery media for your OEM version of your operating system, then you can do so by clicking the link below and entering the details from your licence sticker (COA). Windows 7 Recovery Software You can download the media to a USB stick or ISO file to burn to DVD and then this …
Create Installation Media for Windows 7 Read MoreYou may have noticed with the batch of Windows updates on 14th April that your Lync Online client has now been automatically updated to Skype for Business 2013. So what are the changes? below is the official Microsoft line… Changes are coming to Lync Online in Office 365. Lync is joining the Skype family, so in the coming months, Lync …
Lync Online Client updated to Skype for Business 2013 Read MoreFollowing on from our popular guide on how to fix your machine if you get corrupt Windows Updates and your machine is stuck on “Installing Updates..” shut down screen like the one below, we have been asked by a number of people to create a quick demo video – so we have. Below you will find a quick 3 minute …
Windows Updates Stuck on Shut Down or Reboot Video Demo Read MoreThis is a re-post of a guide that we posted about two years ago, but this happened to us again thisweek so thought it would be good to share again… We ran into an issue where our newly created folders and runbooks in Orchestrator were not showing up in our SCCM (MDT) Execute Runbooks task sequence. We started to run …
Orchestrator Not Showing Newly Created Folders or Runbooks Read More
