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Hi all, For many of you that switched off over the xmas break (like me), you may have missed that there are now patches (released Jan 3rd 2018) for the creatviely (almost bond movie like) named vulnerabilities of "meltdown" and "spectre". You can find more detail on these Vulnerabilities here - https://meltdownattack.com/ Advice for Microsoft…
Continue readingIntel released a security advisory yesterday (22/11/2017) advising of vulnerabilities with their management engine firmware - which can he found here The reason why this is concerning for corporate customers is that basically every PC, Server and laptop that you have, most likely will be exposed, as the vast majority of corporate level hardware contains…
Continue readingPowershell makes life much easier than vbscript…. however it does have its downsides… signing policy can sometimes be a bit of pain and the modules you need have to be available…. which is an issue in particular for Windows PE. Mick (good aussie name there) was nice enough to write a blog on how to…
Continue readingUser Experience Virtualization (UEV) use to be part of the MDOP packs…. however MDOP’s last update was in 2015…. leaving some of us wondering what was happening to awesome tools contained within. Given Microsoft’s strong movement towards cloud platforms, it seemed likely that these tools were dead. Fortunately for UEV, its now included in Windows…
Continue readingPowershell makes life much easier than vbscript.... however it does have its downsides... signing policy can sometimes be a bit of pain and the modules you need have to be available.... which is an issue in particular for Windows PE. Mick (good aussie name there) was nice enough to write a blog on how to…
Continue readingThanks to ccmexec.com ..... Run a task sequence, within a task sequence..... http://ccmexec.com/2017/04/news-in-configuration-manager-1704-tp/
Continue readingUser Experience Virtualization (UEV) use to be part of the MDOP packs.... however MDOP's last update was in 2015.... leaving some of us wondering what was happening to awesome tools contained within. Given Microsoft's recent desire to destroy anything and everything that isn't cloud - irrelevant of its ability to fill gaps that cloud services…
Continue readingKeeping Hyper-V integration components up to date on all your hyper-V guests has a few options, Powershell and SCO being the common ones.... but im one of these whacky people that likes to keep deployment tasks within my deployment tool - SCCM. Unfortunately, the integration services version doesn't seem to be exposed via properties exposed…
Continue readingNot much more to say really.... https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2016/07/12/windows-server-2016-new-current-branch-for-business-servicing-option/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/systemcenter/2016/07/12/system-center-2016-to-launch-in-september/
Continue readingThis is a fairly uncommon thing.... but, its still there. When using SCCM, sometimes its necessary to use software inventory and the "Software Files" class - to determine the versions of software that is in your environment. Normally, we would use Software Files - File Name and Software Files - File Version and that would…
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