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Quite a while back I posted on my difficulties in getting a Win7/8 PC to act as a hub for distributing audio through-out the house... http://hayesjupe.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/home-audio-distribution-another-thing-that-seems-to-be-way-harder-than-it-needs-to-be/ I ended up going down the route of 3 x USB sound cards plugged into a USB hub, hanging off a Intel NUC, then running VMware workstation - assigning…
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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Continue readingIts taken a while, but its nice to see a helpful feature added to win 7 SP1. http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/10/07/breaking-news-reduce-the-size-of-the-winsxs-directory-and-free-up-disk-space-with-a-new-update-for-windows-7-sp1-clients.aspx
Continue readingRecently, we had a situation where we deployed a small client via SCCM 2012 SP1. All tested fine and the pilot group appeared fine - but upon deploying the client widely, the customers helpdesk started getting calls about a reboot message popping up. Sure enough, the msi has a /noreboot switch and wasn't causing a…
Continue readingSomething that seems to be widely reported (such as http://www.zdnet.com/update-for-outlook-2013-breaks-folder-pane-7000020512/ ) i had this issue yesterday on a few of my machines, declined the update in wsus, uninstalled it (it seemed to be listed twice, if i only uninstalled one of them, it didnt fix the issue) and all was good. MS patching, with the…
Continue readingThe Lync Connectivity Analyser is a handy tool for troubleshooting some issues - and is available from http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=36535 Recently i found it was crashing on startup, seemingly from a recent patch. Uninstalling KB2840642v2 (.net framework 4.5 update) made it work again for me. Obviously this might not be an issue for everyone.... either way, i…
Continue readingwell, it was there yesterday... but you get the idea.
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