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Had an issue today where tasks sequences which had been running fine for months suddenly stopped running fine. After some investigation, I found the content was being delivered, even though the cas.log indicated content locations had been found. Turned out the datatransferservice.log had the following error logged Error sending DAV Request.HTTP Code 500,Status ‘Internal server…
Continue readingI think everyone is well across how to customise the windows 8.1 start tiles - the best article on it (IMO) being http://stealthpuppy.com/customizing-the-windows-8-1-start-screen-dont-follow-microsofts-guidance/ The quick summary is: Customise your start tiles on one machine Run " Export-StartLayout -As BIN -Path CustomStart . bin -Verbose" from powershell If you already have a Windows 8 configuration package…
Continue readinghttp://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/953.microsoft-anti-virus-exclusion-list.aspx I am still very much of the opinion that file level anti-virus does not belong on servers such as exchange, SQL, SCCM etc... however, for places that flat-out refuse to apply logic - and want anti-virus on everything, this is a very good starting point to apply the mountains of exclusions required.
Continue readingAnnouncement - http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2015/01/06/deduplication-of-dpm-storage-reduce-dpm-storage-consumption.aspx The process is a little raw at the moment - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn891438.aspx I imagine it will be one of things that is integrated natively into the next version of DPM - and becomes a bit easier to use when it is.
Continue readingWhile looking around today, I saw this http://www.m4ttmcg.com/2013/05/sccm-2012-client-push-including.html This method is much nicer than the "copy the patch over the call it in the sccm setup command line" method.... It is simply Obtain the hotfix or CU you wish to include ( http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2994331 for CU3 - current at time of writing) Create a "ClientPatch" directory…
Continue readinghttp://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2994331 In our last large project we had a situation where there were two forests with no trust, one forest housed the primary business network and the other forest housed the operational machines which ran a certain utility for our state. This CU contains the following option... This cumulative update introduces a new registry entry…
Continue readingAn announcement over at http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2014/09/30/windows-10-enterprise-management-with-sc-configmgr-and-intune.aspx 3 things of note: Windows 10 will be delivered in a way that allows for more choice and flexibility for businesses Oh shit - here comes a product which is going to limit choice and flexibility and force me down a specific path for something I previously could make a…
Continue readingI logged a PSS call a while ago (as im sure many others did) regarding bootsect.exe in config Manager 2012 R2 not being recognised as a valid win32 application on XP machines..... this caused errors when using 2012 R2 and the boot.wim needed to stage on an XP machine - a common scenario for a…
Continue readingSo - a many of you would have seen in my SCCM driver articles - I'm not such a fan of "Bad" drivers..... Bad drivers are those that are not in an inf/sys/cat format, and are generally packaged and deployed in the same (or a similar) way to applications. These types of applications can really…
Continue readinghttp://blogs.technet.com/b/configurationmgr/archive/2013/10/28/hotfix-an-update-is-available-that-adds-support-for-windows-8-1-and-windows-server-2012-r2-to-system-center-configuration-manager-2007-service-pack-2.aspx Limited functionality - but still handy for those that haven't moved to 2012 or 2012 R2 as yet.
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