Windows Server Guides, Tutorials & Configuration

Restart SCCM OSD Task Sequence within Windows PE

1 May 202629 May 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

System Center Configuration Manager SCCM

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 … Read more

How to identify a missing NIC driver during SCCM OSD

1 May 202628 May 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

If you have a new model of computer and you have PXE booted it and you do not get a network connection or IP address, then this is because the network card driver for that model is not available either within Windows PE or the boot image you have used to PXE boot the machine. … Read more

Show Distribution Point in use during Task Sequence

1 May 202613 May 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

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 … Read more

Orchestrator Not Showing Newly Created Folders or Runbooks

1 May 202623 April 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

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 … Read more

Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 10 & Windows 8.1

2 May 202620 April 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

You can now download the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for both Windows 10 and Windows 8.1. This allows you to manage your servers for options like DHCP, Active Directory and DNS amongst many others. To download the RSAT installation files, simply click the version you require below: DOWNLOAD RSAT for Windows 8.1 RSAT for … Read more

How to deploy AutoCAD using SCCM

1 May 20267 April 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

This is going to be quite a lengthy guide but one that we think you might find very useful. Introduction We have previously shown you how to report Autodesk serial numbers using SCCM and this has led to a number of questions being sent to us on how to deploy AutoCAD using SCCM and in … Read more

Firefox ADM Templates for Group Policy

2 May 202630 March 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

Following on from our post about being able to download a Firefox MSI installer, we have now also found a Firefox ADM template that can be used to ensure that you can set customisation settings using Group Policy in your organisation. This means that you can ensure that your proxy settings are applied, your intranet … Read more

How do I type a Powershell “Pipe”?

1 May 202623 March 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

This may seem like a very simple thing to most techies out there, but we have had this question asked to us a number of times with people using the incorrect keys to type a Powershell pipe. So, how do you type a Powershell “Pipe”? A Powershell pipe can be seen below in the example … Read more

Exchange Server – Why are the emails in plain text format?

1 May 202618 March 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

We recently noticed an issue with our lab Exchange server where it was sending emails by default in plain text format rather than in HTML format. We could not figure out why the server was doing this, but after some research we found out that it had to do with the settings for the “Remote … Read more

How to Transfer Infrastructure Master FSMO Role to a Different Server

1 May 202618 December 2014 by Andrew Armstrong

If you want to transfer your Infrastructure Master FSMO Role to a different server then you can follow the steps below to carry this out. You should first logon to your Domain Controller using an Enterprise Administrator account and then launch an elevated command prompt. You should then enter the following commands within the command … Read more

How to add a Secondary Domain Controller to an Existing Domain

1 May 202624 November 2014 by Andrew Armstrong

If you have a requirement to add a secondary domain controller to your existing domain, then the video guide below should show you exactly the steps you need to take to carry this out. Comments If you have any questions about setting up your secondary domain controller, then please feel free to leave a comment … Read more

Remove a Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller from an Existing Domain

1 May 202622 November 2014 by Andrew Armstrong

We have been viewing some video guides on YouTube over the last few days so we thought that we would share some good ones that we have found that we feel you may find useful.

We have scheduled a number of these videos to be posted to our site over the next few days so make sure you check back here to see whether there is anything here to help you out!

To begin with, we thought we would start with the basics, removing a domain controller from an existing domain is a fairly simple process but if you need a hand with doing this, the below video is an excellent guide on what to do.

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