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I've had a Sharp aquos TV for quite a few years now (LC-70LE650X) - which is mainly used as a media centre via the Intel NUC that is attached. There has always been a screen-scaling issue - where, depending on the NUC, the display doesn't quite fill the TV, or is too big for the…
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 readingThis would have to be one of the most requested features in SCCM - at least from our clients. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/get-started/2021/technical-preview-2106 To quote the specific part of the article: On the Deployment Settings page of the Deploy Software Wizard, configure the following options: Action: Install Purpose: Required Enable Uninstall this application if the targeted object falls…
Continue readingA few months back, my Synology NAS (DS2413+) started having some poor performance over the network - it wasnt horrendous - but it was noticeable. Speeds during transfer were generally fine, but simple cut/paste operations took longer than expected - and moving large files to the NAS seemed to swap between poor and decent transfer…
Continue readingThe main reason for this article is because a friend asked "we are looking at migrating SCCM hardware for the hierarchy - can the active/passive site server functionality be used for this?" The TL;DR response is "yes". Whether its supported or not is another matter - but i can say for sure that it does…
Continue readingRecently had this twitter exchange around an SCCM feature i didn't know existed - SCCM CAS collapse https://twitter.com/djammmer/status/1350247294319415296 When SCCM 2012 was first around, we had some clients that had previously had other "consultants" design and implement 4 primaries and a CAS for 2000 devices - and other insane rubbish. At the time, we used…
Continue readinghttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/configuration-manager-blog/categorize-community-hub-content-with-configuration-manager/ba-p/1925463 This is worth a mention due to: Based on your UserVoice feedback, task sequence conditions now include a not like operator. This operator applies to task sequence variable conditions. It's also used in the Set Dynamic Variable task sequence step
Continue readingOne question that comes up constantly from clients is "Once we move all mailboxes to exchange online, we can remove all our exchange servers, right ?" To which we answer "no - for these reasons...." but its something that has a great deal of trouble sticking.... as the same question gets asked over and over…
Continue readingAdding and managing legacy boot wims into SCCM is a pain..... the removal of GUI options for non-current versions makes things more painful than they need to be.... and the instances of newer versions of ADK (such as ADK 2004) being incompatible with certain things, seem to be increasing. Adding command prompt to a legacy…
Continue readingHad a rare fresh SCCM install recently with a client that has more of a security focus than many of our other clients. Had SCCM 2002 (current at time of writing), Server 2019, SQL 2017 and Reporting services 2017. Reporting services is using the default, "virtual service account", which, under the covers, is "NT Service\SQLReportingServices"…
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