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Microsoft have now released the Windows 10 Technical Preview for you to try out on an evaluation licence. You can download the ISO files from the link below but be warned, they are about 4GB in size each: Windows 10 Technical Preview Download The serial number that you should use to active your Windows 10 Technical Preview Evaluation is: PBHCJ-Q2NYD-2PX34-T2TD6-233PK …
Windows 10 Technical Preview Download and Licence Key Read MoreSimple to follow guide to help you fix the Windows Update issue when it gets stuck on reboot or shut down of the operating system.
Windows Update Stuck on Installing Update. Read MoreIf you are a Configuration Manager administrator, the chances are that you are using the Application Catalog to allow users to install their own software.A great feature of this is that you can put in specialist or licensed software and add a “Request” button. This means that your end users will only get the software if you approve it. To …
Configuration Manager – How to Change the Approve/Deny Status of an Application Catalog Request Read MoreIf you want to report on machines that have Outlook archive (PST’s) on them, where they are and how big they are, then you can use this guide to create a report that will do this for you using Configuration Manager. First of all, you will need to tell your Software Inventory to look for PST files on machines. To …
SCCM – Report on Outlook Archive PST files on Devices Read MoreWe have had a report that one of our WQL queries has not been working correctly, this is the one for devices that have Configuration Manager client installed but do not have System Center Endpoint Protection installed on them. The original post is here: WQL Query for Devices without Endpoint Installed So, we have looked into this and found the …
SCCM – WQL Query for Devices with Configuration Manager Client Installed and no System Center Endpoint Protection Installed Read MoreYou may have started to come across image files that are in WEBP forma on the internet recently. These are usually opened using Google Chrome but this can be very annoying if you have saved a number of these images and want to browse through them using Windows Photo Viewer instead of having to open them one by one. Well, …
Viewing WEBP images in Windows Photo Viewer Read MoreWe have recently been doing some big OSD projects and with testing for such big projects comes the point where some of your testing will fail, so to find out why a test sequence fails, the first thing you should look at is your log files. However, ConfigMgr makes this an annoying process as the log files move about during …
Configuration Manager 2012 – How to Capture Task Sequence Error Logs to a Network Share Read MoreWe have recently had problems with our global distribution points in ConfigMgr after the monthly content validation has happened. On some of our distribution points (not all) we are getting and error stating: “Failed to validate content hash” With our monitoring on the Distribution Point Configuration Status looking like this (click the thumbnails for the larger images): As you can …
Failed to validate content hash on ConfigMgr Distribution Points after Content Validation Read MoreIf you have been trying to load any roles or features onto your Server 2012 R2 Core using Powershell, then you may find that you are the victim of this error message everytime you try to run your command: No matter was source you enter, it will not work. This frustrated us for days until we found a site with …
Windows Server 2012 R2 Core – Adding Roles and Features Error Fix Read MorePowershell is becoming more and more important these days and the possibilities for using it are endless. However, there are also a large amount of very basic easy-to-use commands that you should add to your knowledge collection. We all pick up new Powershell commands that help us to do our jobs all the time so from today, we will be …
Powershell Commands Read MoreIf you are using Server 2012 R2 Core and you wish to join it to the domain, then you can use this simple Powershell command to do it. Add-Computer -DomainName YOURDOMAIN.COM -Credentials DOMAINUSERNAME -Restart Note that the -Restart command at the end will automatically restart your server once it has completed the joining process. Also be aware that you should …
Join Server 2012 R2 Core to your Domain Read MoreIf you are using Windows 2012 R2 Core or if you just like using Powershell, then you may want to know how to enable Remote Desktop. To do this, you should go into your Core server where you should see a command box. In here, type in Powershell and press enter. This will open up the Powershell console for you …
How to enable Remote Desktop using Powershell Read More
