Articles
- Cheer up page – Random funny stuff
- Deciding what goes in your SOE
- Exchange inter-forest migration tips
- Group Policy – Good practice
- KMS Guide
- Mame cabinet – my crack at it
- Microsoft product version tables
- SCCM – useful odds and sods
- SCCM 2007 – Inventory troubleshooting
- SCCM 2007 – OSD basic troubleshooting
- SCCM 2007 – Troubleshooting SCCM State Migration Points and Management Points
- SCCM 2007 – OSD driver good practice
- SCCM 2012 – OSD driver good practice
- SCCM and MDT – List of variables
- SCCM and packaging – good and bad practices
- SCCM Collections – The basics
- SCCM Log files
- SCCM OSD Task Sequence Variables – A beginners guide
- SCCM OSD Task Sequence Variables – A beginners guide
2026
- AD and Entra Groups — How Did We End Up With This Mess?
- Latest Exchange health check script and deprecated groups
- Bitlocker recovery key prompt at every restart after HP April 2026 BIOS updates
- The lament of seeing the products you have worked with for 30 years go to shit
- Updating secure boot certificates 2026 – using SCCM
- AADConnect – DeletingLicensedGroupNotAllowed
2025
2024
- Documenting GPPref drive and printer mappings
- Exchange – Can't remove the domain 'xy.com' because it's referenced in an email address policy by the proxy address template 'smtp:@xy.com'.
- Unlicensed OneDrive charges as of Jan 2025 and analysis
- WSUS is now deprecated
- Removing EXO litigation holds and making your mailbox functional again
- Crowdstrike BSOD and GPO no longer updating
- RDS Session hosts don't accept new connections after reboot – despite not being in drain mode
- Pet insurance australia – just shit...
- Moving from Synology to QNAP
- Win RM fails on DC with event ID 142
- AlwaysON VPN breaks after root certificate update
- Documenting AD ACL's
- Removing folders with a trailing space on NTFS volumes
- AADConnect – get Sync'ed and excluded OU's via powershell
- Otherwise healthy DC failing DFS-R, pointing to DC that no longer exists
2023
- Moving off on HostGator
- Error: SWbemObjectEx: Invalid index when trying to update a NIC using SConfig on server core
- Panasonic air con and some stellar support
- Issues with mailbox migration, multiple identities where tenant wide retention policies in use
- Issue with manually created EXO inbound connector in hybrid environment
- Consolidating services into Azure
2022
- Server and SQL upgrades – lessons learned
- Microsoft Edge works best with the latest Windows Updates
- Windows Server 2019 networking fails on Hyper-V 2012 (non R2) host once CU 10-2022 applied
- Disabling "link Azure Active Directory accounts to personal Microsoft accounts"
- Ctrl + Alt + Del in nested RDP/VM sessions
- RDS Farm HA and Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server/SQL native client
- Changing the default sign in for Azure AD joined machines
- Windows 11 start menu configuration
- SCCM – Config baseline to detect Windows optional features
2021
- Office 365 deployment – notes for some painful bits
- Windows 10 version numbers – and how they actually show up in SCCM when added as WIM
- Windows 10 21H2 – getting Enterprise edition and extracting when using M365 licensing
- Screen scaling for Xbox series S/X – and anything else
- Windows 11 – first useful information starts trickling
- SCCM – auto uninstall of applications once removed from collection
- Synology – choppy network performance
- Migrating SCCM to new hardware using active/passive site servers
- SCCM – CAS Collapse feature
2020
- SCCM 2011 TP released
- Removing your last exchange on-premise servers after migrating to exchange online
- Adding F8 command prompt to legacy boot wims
- SCCM reports show "The DefaultValue expression for the report parameter ‘UserTokenSIDS’ contains an error: The user name or password is incorrect. (rsRuntimeErrorInExpression)"
- AADConnect – Proxy Address in conflict
- Powershell fails to download from gallery – Wanring: Unable to download from URI xxx
- SCCM – picking random clients for a collection
- Monitor flicker with AMD Radeon RX590
- O365 ATP recommended config analyser
- Exchange 2010 to 2016 mail flow stops with "421 4.4 2 connection dropped due to socket error"
- SCCM antimalware client policies – do they merge ?
- A rare nice thing to say about NBN
- Surface Pro X and Pro 7 – SCCM deployment
- Resetting the local admin password on a more locked down server
- Basic auth and exchange online
- Cleaning up DNS after DC demotion
- Powershell – Test Network Connection
- Office 365 installing bing as default search engine from Feb 2020
- Deploying the new chromium based edge via SCCM
- SCEP updates fail on Windows 7 and 2008R2 clients where they are not patched
- Finding the right SQL view for your SCCM report
2019
- BITS / ConfigMgr client install error, no active network connections
- Microsoft Endpoint Manager – potentially SCCM's future
- XBOX game pass for PC
- WAP Server 2019 to 2019 backend issues
- Exchange migration and AdminSDProp
- VMWare guest server CPU and memory issues
- SCCM 1906 release
- ConfigMgr 1906
- Microsoft NCSI – prompt for proxy authentication
- MYOB – finding the current library root for server edition
- HP CM1312 – using the network scanner with Windows 10
- SCCM – Windows 10 no longer ticked as deployment target OS for packages and TS's after upgrade to current branch
- SCCM powershell errors after moving primary site server via site failover
2018
- Draytek – central AP management – not so great
- Microsoft releases security update for new IE zero-day
- Windows and NTP
- Active Directory 2019 and Exchange 2019 – what's new
- Active Directory 2019 and Exchange 2019 – what's new
- Cloud should stay up forever, right? Well, no.
- Deploy Win32 applications with Intune
- Execution status received: 24 (Application download failed)
- Always on VPN – technical follow up
- Always on VPN and DA – a comparison
- Avoiding a Microsoft Teams Nightmare
- Update 1806 for Configuration Manager current branch is now available
- Windows NT is now 25 years old....
- Storing credentials for Powershell scripts – Encrypted Strings or Credential Manager
- Creating large stand-alone media from SCCM – issues when the HP SPP 2018.03 is a package in the TS
- Speed up offline servicing
- Importing updates into WSUS on Server 2016 fails
- The importance of cleaning up WSUS – even if your are only using it for SCCM
- Exchange hybrid – mailboxes missing on-premise
- Windows 10 1709 and installing Hyper-V
- Microsoft products – consolidated table of end of life dates
- Microsoft Surface Laptops and SCCM OS Deployment
- Azure AD Connect – Permissions Issues
- Telstra calling for Skype for Business (Australian focused article)
- Microsoft Surface Pro With 4G in Australia, and the people rejoiced!
- Reducing your Risks
- Meltdown and Spectre patches available
2017
- Project Honolulu
- Server 2016 LTSC vs Server 1709 Semi-Annual
- Preparing to update for Intel® Management Engine Critical Firmware Update (Intel SA-00086)
- KB4038777 fails on some Windows 2008 R2 servers
- SMB 1 no longer installed by default in Win 10 1710/Server 2016 (next release)
- SMB 1 no longer installed by default in Win 10 1710
- www.youracclaim.com – now that's dodgey
- Windows 7 unsupported CPU's starting to hit the market
- The disappointment of lack of Direct Access development
- SCCM – BADMIF error 4
- Importing AD powershell module into Windows PE and then using encrypted creds
- UEV now included in Windows 10 1607 (and above)
- Importing AD powershell module into Windows PE and then using encrypted creds
- Nested task sequences coming in SCCM 1704
- UEV now included in Windows 10 1607 (and above)
- Migration of public folders to exchange 2013/2016
2016
- Windows or Office deployment: it's Microsoft's shout
- ADFS, WAP and updating their public certificates
- Windows 10 Fast Startup Mode – Maybe not so good for enterprise!
- Windows 10 Photos App – Invalid Value for Registry / Repairing Windows 10 Universal Apps
- Microsoft Exchange Federation Certificates – Keep an eye on the expiry!
- Decommissioning Skype for Business 2015 on premise after migrating to O365
- Outlook HTML.... holy shit that's bad.
- Azure AD sync objects not syncing – specifically some room and equipment mailboxes
- Parallels phone spam
- USB Ethernet adapter sniffing credentials
- PS Now... on PC
- Lumia 550 – Good.... until you try and get a replacement battery
- Upgrading Hyper-V integration components via SCCM
- Licensing mode for the Remote Desktop Session Host is not configured
- Windows 10 refresh tool
- Tim Sweeneys opinion on the future of the windows store
- Scripting Office 365 licensing with disabled services
- Scripting Office 365 licensing with disabled services
- Exchange 2013/216 receive connector selection process
- Microsoft culture change to non-sales focused ?
- Windows Server 2016 and SCCM 2016 release dates – End of September 2016
- SCCM 2012+ – Bug when building query using values selector for Software files – File modified date
- Automating Mailbox Regional Settings in Exchange Online
- Automating Mailbox Regional Settings in Exchange Online
- Using Azure RM Site to Site VPN with a Dynamic IP
- Using Azure RM Site to Site VPN with a Dynamic IP
- Doom (2016)
- Common Windows 10 config requests – via SCCM or group policy
- KB3148812 breaks WSUS, KB3159706 fixes but requires manual intervention
- EOP IP addresses – TMG subnet definitions
- Microsoft Partner technical support
- Lumia 930 to 550
- KB3124557 sets exchange 2013/2016 services to disabled
- Strider maps
2015
- SCCM 2016... errrr 1511!
- Making your software product too hard to obtain....
- DA, force tunnelling and www.msftncsi.com
- Windows 10 – forcing tablet mode
- ADK 1511 – don't use it quite yet
- Java 8 update 60 install with SCCM
- Elance – some odd behaviour
- Skype for Business to Skype – adding contacts
- Legacy of the void – Prologue missions
- Removing one note from windows 8.1u1
- SM951 – my experience
- SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 – Unlocking objects "in use"
- Windows 8.1u1 – Power button does not show up on start screen
- You cannot import a Windows 8 signed driver on a Windows Server 2008 R2-based WDS server
- SCCM 2012 R2 SP1.... must have SP2 installed ?
- Exchange 2016 architecture
- Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS)
- Updates for SCCM 2012 and R2 coming next week...
- Adding .net 3.5 to 8.1 and 2012 R2 – the easier way
- despair.com sums up the IT industry nicely
- Direct Access – routing non internal domains through the corporate network
- SCCM – Error sending DAV Request. HTTP Code 500,Status ‘Internal server Error’.
- Windows 8.1 – Customising the Metro tiles – IE shortcuts
- SCCM console cannot connect from Windows 8.1
- Skype for business tech preview client available
- HP 250 G3 – avoid it
- ED – Capital ships
- Skype for business – some more details on what will be in it
- Windows 8 – We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one
- Windows 10 server delayed until 2016
- Drip pricing – JetStar
- Nokia Lumia 930 – update to 8.1
- Handy list of antivirus exclusions for MS products
- Elite Dangerous – Trading rare commodities
- A good rundown on USB 3.1 and the Type-C connector
- DeDup for DPM
- List of Direct Access hotfixes
- Something most techs can appreciate
- Elite Dangerous – my getting started suggestions
- KMS Guide
2014
- Blog hosting – SiteGround
- Elite Dangerous docking guide
- 8TB drives.... awesome price point
- KB 3004394 for Windows 7 – casuing issues
- Elite Dangerous – what can't it do ?
- Windows 8.1/10 to go – on non-certified USB device
- Welcome to www.hayesjupe.com
- SCCM 2012 R2 CU3 – easier way of getting CU3 into your TS
- IT support for family and friends
- Online (at home) MS exams.... interesting idea
- Finding the "right" motherboard for the Samsung XP941
- Lynkype, skync, Lype ?
- Windows 10 – Wireless with web page auth doesn't seem to work
- Nokia Lumia 930
- Windows 10 – 2 weeks in
- Windows 10 – First thoughts
- SCCM 2012 R2 CU3 released, allows specification of MP's
- Windows 10 and SCCM
- Windows 10 announced
- hotmail/outlook.com/LiveID constant security prompts
- Far Cry 3 (Getting through the steam backlog)
- Downloading using FTM with IE11
- XP/2003 clients cannot run logon scripts from 2012 R2 U1 servers
- Home audio distribution – a solution... ish
- SCCM 2012 R2 bootsect.exe hotfix now available
2013
- A good way of handling your "Bad" drivers
- SCCM 2007: Windows 8.1 support
- SC 2012 R2 now on technet downloads...
- Windows 7 SP1 sxs cleanup – now built into disk cleanup!
- SCCM 2012 SP1 installation reboot behaviour on 3010 return code
- KB2817630 – for when you dont want to be able to sort your mail or see your folders
- Lync Connectivity Analyzer crash on startup
- Win 2012 R2 and 8.1 RTM now on Technet downloads
- Logon enabled for comments due to spam
- SCCM 2012 reference build updates fail due to proxy error when WPAD in use
- Wow – thats impressive – even for government
- MS monitoring agent 2013
- MS Exams..... how much worse can they get ?
- VMXNet3 drives for PE
- Lync 2010/2013 to Skype
- Direct Access 2012 and Outlook RPC/HTTP
- HyperV in 2012 R2
- SCCM – Install at logoff (or similar)
- Windows 8.1 a free update
- SCOM 2012 RTM wont upgrade to SP1
- Australian Cat Ladies
- OSD driver good practice – updated for 2012
- Lync 2013 client unable to sign in – Kerberos error
- Exchange 2013 Gotcha's
- Intel NUC as a media centre
- Heart of the Swarm
- This made me smile....
- Exchange 2010 recovery scenario – OS disk dead
2012
- Windows 2012 deduplication – turning it off (completely) and recovering your space!
- System Centre 2012 SP1
- Synology Diskstation 2413+
- Beechwood Homes SA – Our building experience
- SCEP 2012 competitive uninstall
- Home audio distribution – another thing that seems to be way harder than it needs to be!
- Group Policy – Disabled SOM – ?
- SCEP 2012 vs others – making my blood boil
- 2012 deduplication savings
- Exchange/Lync/Office 2013 now available
- VOIP config for Billion 7404VGPM and Nodephone (internode)
- Samsung DLNA TV's
- Microsoft and management interfaces....
- Tech-ED Aus 2012
- No more TMG
- Win 8 & 2012 RTM – thoughts and impressions
- Ericsson video compression
- Windows 8 editions – WTF?
- The oatmeal and a Tesla museum
- Win 8 RTM available on technet downloads
- Steve Wozniak isn't a fan of the cloud
- Rise of the triad remake....
- August 15th – Win 2012 and Win 8 available for DL
- Exchange and Lync 2013 – a few more details...
- Win Server 2012 and Win 8 – 1st week of augfor RTM
- MDT 2012 update 1
- Freelancer – not so rosy now....
- First experiences with freelancer.com
- Windows phone 7.8....
- Love it – a retailer to call people on using shitty old stuff
- Doom3 BFG edition
- SCEP 2012
- 64-bit gaming engines – its about time
- Now thats weird
- Blogging and new clients
- Symantec infection report for 2011
- Active Directory in Windows 2012 – domain alias ?
- Avengers....
- MDT 2012 RTW's
- Exchange 2013 – November 2012 – ?
- Xbox wireless receiver
- Game of thrones – season 3
- HP NC382i DP Virtual Bus Device – This device cannot start. (Code 10)
- Logitech Harmony 600
- Online gaming....
- SenderBase reputation is poor...
- Working from home
- Things i was really hoping for in Windows 8 server... or a future version ?
- Current day SPAM
- SOPA
- How to determine which drivers to update
- Exchange 2010 SP2 rollup 1 released
- TMG Malware inspection – blocks google with malware inspection
- Dell Server Management
- If your getting paid like a consultant... act like it
- Action against symantec for scareware...
- System Centre 2012 – unified installer
- MS PST capture tool
- Network TV Tuner
- SCCM 2012 and "private cloud"
- Recognition that calvinball is the most evolved sport ever!
- superfrog and alien breed on GoG!
- RAGE
- Exchange & AD migration – oddities
- Gabe Newell on piracy
2011
- Lync Mobile clients
- Sometimes – i wonder if i write xkcd in my sleep – tyler durden style....
- AD restores
- EA – your a bunch of fucking arse clowns.....
- RAGE
- Domain controller snapshots
- HTC Titan
- System centre RC and beta updates – available to download!
- Testing SCCM packages
- SMB 2.2 – now that sounds cool...
- Syndicate – old is new again
- Windows 8 boot times
- Those random dots....
- Wall mounted tablets/slates and POE
- windows 8 – copy jobs
- Bloody Seagate 1.5TB drives
- Lync & RCC – rumours on reversing the RCC/Video fuckup
- IT Terminolgy for "we dont to do anything – ever"
- Missing stargate....
- Google+
- Xbox 360 – my first impressions
- PST capture tool
- Mobiles....
- Exchange 2010 activesync and Windows Phone 7
- Free speech
- Forefront endpoint protection and logon times
- Symantec Endpoint Protection and UAG SP1
- Scams....
- Lync 2010 add-ons
- SCCM 2012 and FEP 2012 Beta 2
- HyperV and TCP offload
- Lync 2010 and wildcard certificates
- Wordpress and IE9
- Remote desktop gateway step by step guide
- Exchange 2010 SP2 announced
- A very long post on what may have been beyond season 2 of SGU
- New vegas tour – cool
- Lets photoshop out some women...
- MS buys Skype
- Lync 2010 and compatibility
- The wastage of the MS partner program....
- Top ten games of a "generation"
- Classic
- Cisco VPN client with Forefront TMG
- Stargate universe....
- IE9 – first impressions
- WAIK – Win7 SP1 compat issues
- Lync 2010 & RCC
- US Military – Christians good, athiests bad
- Mortal Kombat – refused classification in Aus
- SCOM 2007 R2 – Never ending discovery
- 2008 R2 SP1... Dynamic memory first impressions...
- Lync 2010 – Video conferencing with MSN/Live users
- UAG, direct access and bad cert names
- Finally.... decent.... internet....
- Win 2003 to Win 2008 R2 printer migration
2010
- Stuck in the HP support void
- MS – some DB consistency ?
- Exchange 2010 – cannot create users after demoting DC
- TMG 2010 – slow start ups
- SCCM 2007 R3
- Lync Stuff
- Exchange 2010 – OWA
- Exchange 2010 SP1 – EWS not available externally
- Free Speech
- Exchange 2010 SP1
- StarCraft 2
- Upsidedowndogs.com... WTF
- Thecus N7700 – an update
- SCCM now officially supported on SQL 2008 R2
- Exchange 2010 SP1 videos from teched
- Exchange 2007 SP3
- Cool quake movies
- Internal upgrades
- The A-Team Movie
- Gigabyte X58A-UD7, Sata3
- Bethedsa pack on Steam
- ACT 5.6 released
- Mortal Kombat : Rebirth
- Thecus N7700 NAS
- Fallout: New Vegas release date
- At least organised religion can still provide us a laugh – even if it is at things that aren't funny in reality
- Alien Breed : Impact – how not to do a remake
- Exchange 2010 SP1 – Updated HA features
- Windows 7 touch pack available for download....
- SCCM R3 chat....
- DPM 2010 RTM's
- Office 2010 RTM
- Exchange 2010 SP1 – good stuff
- RDWeb/RDGateway – the nightmare
- Internet eh....
- "Discussion" with Conroy and the Aus internet filter
- Top 10 internet filter lies
- Microsoft announces OCS "14"
- * sigh *
- FIM 2010 has RTM'ed
- Surveys, surveys....
- Now thats cool – a proper amount of storage!
- Exchange 2010 – SIS is gone
- OCS 2007 R2 – archiving report
- Classic....
- Forefront TMG 2010 – internal upgrade
- APPV 4.6 available
- Bioshock 2 play
- Outlook 2010 beta – odd issue
- The Man Behind Windows 7’s Fast Start
- Hitchens
2009
- OCS remote connectivity analyser
- Nostalgia for one of the best game series ever...
- Outlook 2010 connects to up to 15 exchange orgs
- SCCM – FFS!
- kb974571 strikes again...
- AD 2008 R2 – Recycle Bin
- More exchange 2010
- Exchange 2010 AntiSPAM
- Forefront Threat Management Gateway
- Windows 2008 R2 DHCP
- More exchange 2010 progress
- Swine flu – the beauty of pictures
- Exchange 2010 – First impressions
- Hyper-V VDI – 2008 domain functional level for pooled desktops
- RDC 7.0 client available for XP/Vista
- Left 4 Dead 2 Ban upheld in Aus
- SCCM 2007 SP2 – where art thou?
- Frag
- Complete list of SCCM log files
- Moving from 2000 FRS to 2003 R2 DFS-R
- OCS 2007 R2 – KB974571 breaks front end service
- "Corporate lingo clouding communication"
- Isa tmg to support multiple ISP connections
- PC rip offs – a good, but unsurprising bunch of events
- Scan, scan, scannity, scan
- up!
- Exchange 2007 SP2 in an environment running all 2008 R2 DC's
- New chevelle album
- Star Trekking across the universe
- Windows 7 RTM Gaming
- Exchange 2007 SP2 released
- AD Sites – a common misconfiguration
- Windows server compatibility