SCCM OSD Policy Retrieval Error
If 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:
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Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10
Remote 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.
Disable OneDrive using Group Policy
If 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: In this location you will find an “OneDrive” folder: Open up this … Read more
Google Drive Proxy Whitelist
Full list of all required web security proxy whitelist URL’s to enable Google Drive to work within a corporate environment.
Outlook Shared Mailbox – Sent and Deleted Items into correct folders
If 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 … Read more
Windows and Office Activation Proxy Whitelist Websites
We 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 Live Meeting MSI Installer Download
If you have users that are still using Windows Live Meeting, you may want the MSI installer to be able to distribute it through Group Policy, WDS or Configuration Manager. So, we have extracted the MSI from the main installer and made it available on our Filestore microsite. DOWNLOAD Visit our Filestore microsite by clicking … Read more
Manual Windows 10 Upgrade Guide
We have posted a number of guides about automatically upgrading your computer up to Windows 10 using Windows Updates, however, if you are still having problems, there is one final way of manually going through the Windows 10 upgrade process. First of all, you need to download the Windows 10 Media Creator file which you … Read more
Office 2016 – Outlook and Exchange Compatibility
With the recent release of Microsoft Office 2016 and the subsequent release to volume licence users on VLSC, a lot of people will be rushing into upgrading to the latest version. However, be careful with compatibility with your corporate Exchange servers… Outlook 2016 will work with the following Exchange Server versions: Exchange Server 2016 Exchange … Read more
High Disk Usage on Windows 10 & Windows 8.1
You may notice that if you are running either Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 that your task manager is showing very high disk usage like the screenshot below: The reason for this is that Windows 8.1 and now Windows 10 automatically manages your machines virtual memory and paging file size by default. This is usually … Read more
Fix slow internet on wireless connections
Are you having problems with slow internet at home? are you on fibre but still only getting a few megabytes download speeds when running a broadband speed test? a lot of people think that this is due to the actual internet connection (and to be fair – in some cases it probably is!), but there … Read more
Dot Net 3.5 Offline Installers for Windows
You may come across a requirement to have the full offline installers for Dot Net 3.5 for Windows 8, 10 or Server 2012. This can be for older applications that require Dot Net 3.5 or 2.0. You may also need offline installers if you have WSUS in your environment and you cannot install the added … Read more