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Device prompts for Bitlocker recovery key at every restart If the device is a HP Elitebook 840 G9 (my example - but from what im seeing, this is affect other models as well) - and running BIOS version 1.18 The event log “Applications and services -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Bitlocker API -> Management” shows…
Continue readingIm coming up to 30 years in IT - and am now towards the end of my career.... On one hand, i've liked designing and implementing solutions... and like solving issues.... but on the other, IT is not a great industry.... not really respected (probably fairly), many very poorly skilled people around that get paid…
Continue readingI've seen a few guides around the about this - but they seem to mainly focused on using Intune - which has the significant downside of not being able to handle systems which aren't supported by Intune, such as servers and air-gapped systems. Now - this is just the way ive been doing it…
Continue readingA while back, one of the main vendors for the organisation im now working for had a bit of an indignant chuckle when i asked for their supposed enterprise-grade software to have a silent install.... "Just use the click-once version - its fine for everyone else" Well - needless to say, i saw red, what…
Continue readinghttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/windows-server-update-services-wsus-deprecation/ba-p/4250436 Not really surprising - there hasn't been any meaningful updates to WSUS for a very long time... there are improvements that could be made - but no appetite to make them.... i imagine because the cloud solutions have a direct cost (and are therefore revenue producing) whereas WSUS does not. The argument could be…
Continue readingAfter the Crowdstrike BSOD's on 19/07/2024 - we have seen a significant uptick on clients not refreshing group policy. The machines in question can be identified via: The last update file date on C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\registry.pol being on or around 19/07/2024 (some were on the 20th or 21st for us) Event ID 1096 in the system event…
Continue readingWhen using SConfig on a server core install, i was getting the following error had similar issues when trying to configure the NIC using powershell. Thanks very much to Mike and his post @ https://mikeconjoice.wordpress.com/2017/01/24/windows-server-core-error-swbemobjectex-invalid-index/ for pointing out that it was because IPv6 was not bound to the adapter. Using the following powershell worked for…
Continue readingWhen installing, seemingly randomly i will get the following in the application event log and msi log for CrEdge Microsoft Edge works best with the latest Windows Updates. Once you download updates and restart your device, rerun the installer. This is particularly frustrating as The device has all current Windows updates applied The install works…
Continue readingNow that the useless marketing fluff has subsided a little, more useful information about Windows 11 is making its way around the web. Some keys parts for enterprise customers i believe will be: Yearly update cycle (as opposed to currently twice-per-year updates.... "semi-annual channel") Reference : https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/windows-lifecycle-and-servicing-update/ba-p/2493043 I might be out on a limb here…
Continue readingHad a client who was using the full office 2013 suite - but didn't want users to get confused between the default "one note" that comes with Windows 8.1 and the Office 2013 one note. Fair enough. A bit of googling found this handy script already written by the deployment guys in order to help…
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