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If you are looking at upgrading your user machines up to Windows 10 1607 then you can do this quickly and easily using an inplace task sequence with Configuration Manager. All you need to do is create an operating system upgrade source for Windows 10 1607 and then create the upgrade task sequence and deploy it where required and your …
SCCM – Windows 10 1607 Upgrade Read MoreIf you are trying to deploy an operating system using SCCM and you are getting an error 80220005 at the “Apply Windows Settings” step, then there can be two reasons for this. One is that the computer name that you are trying to give to the machine is over 16 characters long and will cause a failure. The second is …
SCCM OSD Fails with Error 80220005 at the “Apply Windows Settings” step Read MoreIf you are setting up some distribution points for Configuration Manager (SCCM) then you will need to ensure that you have all the correct server features installed and also the correct firewall ports opened. To do this, we have created a quick PowerShell script to carry this all out for us. To download this script for yourselves, please click the …
SCCM Distribution Point Pre-Requisite Powershell Script Read MoreIf you are deploying Microsoft Office 2013 then you will have used the Microsoft Office Customization Tool (OCT) to tell your installer what parts of Office to actually install. So what if you have setup your installer to carry out the standard Word and Excel installs but you also want Skype for Business (or Lync as its known in Office …
Microsoft Office 2013 – Skype and OneDrive for Business not installing when using OCT Read MoreYou should have noticed by now that the default internet browser Microsoft want you to use is their new Edge browser. Well, ok, its fine for home browsing but a lot of companies have legacy programs that still need Internet Explorer 11 to run them. So, how do you get your SCCM Operating System Deployment (OSD) to make the change …
SCCM – Change Windows 10 Default Internet Browser During OSD Read MoreSo today we built a new custom Windows 10 image on a virtual machine and created our new SCCM capture media from the very latest version and every single time we ran the capture it failed at the Sysprep step. Infuriated by this as we have done captures hundreds of times, we started the annoying method of going through the log …
SCCM – Windows 10 Sysprep Capture Errors Read MoreThis is a guide on how to capture Microsoft Office updates from a machine and then use these captured updates to either streamline a fully updated installation of Microsoft Office, or it can be used with Configuration Manager to ensure that you are pushing out the software fully patched. The reason we started using this method was to ensure that …
How to Capture Microsoft Office Updates Read MoreThere is an excellent Powershell download available giving you 52 operational collections within SCCM. You should go over to the link below and take a look: 52 SCCM Powershell Collections Full list of collections created using the Powershell script are: All Clients All Clients Active All Client Inactive All Clients R2 CU0 All Clients R2 CU1 All Clients R2 CU2 …
SCCM – 52 Operational Collections Read MoreSystem Center Configuration Manager 1602 has now been released and you can easily upgrade to it by going into your Configuration Manager 1511 console and browsing to: Administration > Cloud Features > Updates and Servicing Then in there you should see the new version available for pre-req checks and installation: To install, simply highlight the update and click the Install Update Pack. …
System Center Configuration Manager 1602 Released Read MorePrerequisites This program requires System Center Configuration Manager to be installed and configured in a production environment. 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:
CCMClean Read MoreYou may have seen our previous post about adding a local user to a machine during SCCM OSD using a “Run Command Line”. Well in this guide we will show you how to add a local user into the Administrators Group on the local machine. This means that you can add a local user and then make them a local …
Add Local User to Administrators Group During SCCM OSD Read MoreIf you are using SCCM for your operating system deployments across different countries, then you may want to set the time zone within the task sequence. To do this, you can take advantage of the built in Windows tool call tzutil.exe. In this example we will set the time zone for a computer deployment based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands which …
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