Category: How-To
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Citrix Fixes – Oxygen XML Editor 19
Issue: Doesn’t stay activated Fix: Copy license.xml and oxyOptionsSa19.1.xml from %appdata%\com.oxygenxml to C:\Program Files\Oxygen XML Editor 19\com.oxygenxml Copy oxygen.vbs to C:\Program Files\Oxygen XML Editor 19\ In Citrix make the location: Path: wscript.exe Arguments: “C:\Program Files\Oxygen XML Editor 19\oxygen.vbs” Download Fixes
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Citrix Fixes – Nvivo 12.2
Issue: Doesn’t stay activated. Checks for updates. To fix this after installing Nvivo, uninstall it. Copy the msi and mst, cab files to C:\ProgramData\NVivo_Install Import the scheduled task ‘Scheduled Task – NVIVO Install.xml’ Copy user.config, Nvivo.vbs, Nvivo.ps1 to C:\ProgramData\NVivo_Install Edit the PS1 file – This script runs on start up of the worker servers, so it will…
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Deploying Office 2019 VL
Office 2019 now uses click-to-run technology instead of ‘setup /admin’ there are a few changes, probably for the best in the long run. Create Config Files First you need to download to Office Deployment tool This is a self extracting file that spits out setup.exe and 2 sample config files – one for 32-bit and…
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Disable the OneDrive Notification/Advertisement
This will popup for each user on first login. There is a registry entry that you can use to trick OneDrive to thinking it has already done this. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OneDrive Name: ClientNotSignedInBalloonState Type: REG_DWORD Data: 2 To put this in your default profile during OSD: reg load HKU\DefaultTemp “C:\Users\Default\NTUSER.DAT” reg add “HKU\DefaultTemp\Software\Microsoft\OneDrive” /v ClientNotSignedInBalloonState /t REG_DWORD…
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SCCM client = None after deploying an operating system
In an environment where you use certificates this can happen. CLientIDManagerStartup.log will mention Regtask: Failed to refresh MP. Error: 0x80004005 alot of times… Below I have the 2 fixes! Fix 1 is to take advantage of the TS Variable SMSTSPostAction to restart the computer once completed with the value ‘shutdown /r /t 0 /f’ This should ensure…
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Setting the Client Status Settings for Client Activity based on AD logon
SCCM will mark a computer inactive if none of the activity checks happen Client policy request Heartbeat discovery Hardware Inventory Software Inventory Status messages sent See technet The default settings are 7 days for each of these settings which can be fine for a lot of businesses. If there are many devices that don’t often…
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Monitoring your fleets event logs – Part 2
Install Splunk – It’s free! https://www.splunk.com/en_us/download/splunk-enterprise.html Modify Program Files\Splunk\etc\system\local\inputs.conf Add the lines [WinEventLog] evt_resolve_ad_obj = 1 Then we need to reboot splunk, in Splunk click Settings, then Server controls and click Restart Splunk Next we need to add our data source, click Add Data from the launch screen, then monitor Choose Local Events then ForwardedEvents and…
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Monitoring your fleets event logs – Part 1
Windows has an amazing feature that let’s you collect logs from remote computers, it’s called Windows Event forwarding and is pretty easy to set up. Once we have this data we can use free tools such as Splunk or GrayLog to analyse the data, find patterns, fix. Below is the way to get started collecting…
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How To: Create Automatic Deployment Rules for Patch Tuesday Software Updates
Automatic deployment of updates is one of the best features of SCCM. Automation in general is awesome. The best way to use Automatic deployment rules (ADR) is to have them run on Patch Tuesday which is the second Tuesday of the month when Microsoft releases their updates generally before 11:00 PST/PDT (I am Australian based so…
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Automate sending out Windows Update Reports for ADR Rules.
Each patch Tuesday a pilot group gets the updates and receives an excel report on what is being deployed, you can automate this with ConfigMgr! 1. Create a collection such as Monthly ADR Report Group – DO NOT REMOVE 2. Next we need to create a dummy ADR rule that is deployed to the collection…