This category contains Windows Server tutorials and guides covering installation, configuration, and troubleshooting across multiple versions including 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2025. Designed for system administrators and IT professionals managing server environments.
If you are using SCCM to update your Microsoft devices, then you may have noticed the large amount of Products that are available under the Software Update Point (SUP) configuration. I’ve struggled to find good explanations for each of the products so my plan is to find out as much information as I can for … Read more
Merging the PDF files is quite a simple task even if you don’t have Adobe Acrobat. There are multiple ways that you can apply to combine PDF documents. Many free online tools and mobile applications can help you combine PDF documents quickly without any extra effort. Furthermore, you can also do this job manually on … Read more
I’ve been creating a lot of collections with our SCCM recently, so I thought I would share the ones we thought were most useful: Show all computers in SCCM: Show all computers with a specific name: Show all computers with a specific operating system: Show all computers with a specific IP address: Show all installed … Read more
VMware vSphere HA (High Availability) is a feature that provides automated failover capabilities for virtual machines running on VMware vSphere hosts. When a host failure occurs, HA will detect it and restart the affected virtual machines on another available host in the cluster. If you are experiencing a failover error with VMware vSphere HA, there … Read more
To export PowerShell to CSV file, you can use the Export-Csv cmdlet. Here’s an example: This command gets a list of all running processes, selects the process name, ID, and CPU usage, and sorts the list by CPU usage in descending order. This command exports the data to a CSV file named “processes.csv” in the … Read more
I recently came across an issue that I had to diagnose where I needed to reset a device’s Group Policy settings. It wasn’t the easiest thing to find how to do, so I thought I would document it here in full step-by-step dummies guide method in case I need it in the future again. Group … Read more
How to write custom SCCM reports using SSRS. This guide will show you exactly how to create your own custom SCCM SSRS report.
If you need to identify machines with specific software installed on a device but would also like to know whether they have a certain version of the stated software or below, then you can use the below query. This can help with software upgrades to identify machines that have not yet been upgraded. SCCM Collection … Read more
If you want to add a local machine user to your deployed machine during your SCCM OSD process then you can do this using a standard “Run Command Line” step. Instructions So, you need to add a “Run Command Line” step in your task sequence towards the end, after the Windows deployment and after the … Read more
How to automatically uninstall Spotify installations using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).
Problem Scenario When using SCCM, you may find that you want to either add or remove application deployments based on what administrative categories each application has assigned. As an example, we had a number of applications for the Marketing department that were only distributed to a Marketing collection we had set up with only Marketing … Read more
Problem You have a requirement to update host DNS servers IP addresses on a VMWare ESXi host. However, because Adobe Flash Player is no longer available and the option is not in the newer HTML5 version, you have to make the changes using an SSH connection to your VMWare host. Resolution Connect to your VMWare … Read more