Skype 7.7 Released – MSI Download Link & Silent Install Instructions

Skype version 7.7 has now been released and if you would like to either add this to your Configuration Manager Software Catalog or even have it available through WDS or Group Policy, then you will want to download the MSI file for it. Skype do provide a direct download link for its Skype software and the installer is packaged as …

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Silverlight Silent Installation and Uninstall

If you have a requirement to have Silverlight installed as a silent install, like for deployment through System Center Configuration Manager, then you can use the following guide to allow you to do this. First of all, you will need to download the full installer which you can get from the download link below: Download Silent Installation To then install …

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Restart SCCM OSD Task Sequence within Windows PE

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 …

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Skype 7.5 Released – MSI Download Link & Silent Install Instructions

Skype version 7.5 has now been released and if you would like to either add this to your Configuration Manager Software Catalog or even have it available through WDS or Group Policy, then you will want to download the MSI file for it. Skype do provide a direct download link for its Skype software and the installer is packaged as …

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SCCM Collection based on Active Directory Organisation Unit (OU) Membership

You 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 …

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Show Distribution Point in use during Task Sequence

We 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 …

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Skype 7.4 Released – MSI Download Link & Silent Install Instructions

Skype version 7.4 has now been released and if you would like to either add this to your Configuration Manager Software Catalog or even have it available through WDS or Group Policy, then you will want to download the MSI file for it. Skype do provide a direct download link for its Skype software and the installer is packaged as …

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Orchestrator Not Showing Newly Created Folders or Runbooks

This 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 …

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SQL Reporting Services Error – Maximum request length exceeded

When running or trying to create a large report in SSRS, you may come across an error stating the below: Error 2: There was an exception running the extensions specified in the config file. Maximum request length exceeded. It took us a while to figure this one out but it is actually very simple. After speaking to our SQL and …

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Mimecast Outlook Client Version 5.3.1122.13000 Released

Mimecast have now released version 5.3.1122.13000 of their Outlook Client. This version of the MSO client now supports the following: Large File Sent Large File Receive Microsoft Outlook 2013 Other Microsoft Office 2013 Products (like Project and Visio 2013 no longer conflict with it) Windows 8.1/8/7 Mimecast Client Exchange Folder Replication Active Directory Integration There seems to be a slight …

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