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Slow Software Center search results
Currently Software Center will use WMI to query all available software for the computer, then it will ask the management point for user assigned apps. If your computer is a bit slow/old the wait time checking WMI can be painful. You can check this on the client log SCNotify_DOMAIN@%username%_1.log Please vote for my Uservoice -…
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Apply Operating System: Download() failed. 80072efe
If you get this error try adding this command line to your task sequence cmd.exe /c Wpeutil disablefirewall let me know if this workaround helps.
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Task Sequence can’t find a dependency that doesn’t exit
When I see ‘Failed to run Task Sequence – This task sequence cannot be run because the program files for XXXXXXX cannot be locataed on a distribution point’ I go to Monitoring \ Distribution Status \ Content Status. It’s the quickest way to search all package objects. Today the search came up with no results.…
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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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Edge browser crashes on load – Windows 1703
Update from Microsoft: Fixed in updates – 1709 – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4093105/windows-10-update-kb4093105 | https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=kb4093105 1703 – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4093117/windows-10-update-kb4093117 | https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4093117 We have seen roaming profiles in Windows 10 1703 unable to use the Edge browser if the profile was originally first created with Windows 10 1607. The address bar briefly displays ms-appx-web:///assets/errorpages/acr_error.htm#https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=525773 then closes. In our scenario, enabling the group policy ‘Prevent the…
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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…