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Managing Automatic Deployment rules when you don’t live in the USA
Update: Starting with SCCM 1802 Automatic deployment rules can be scheduled to evaluate offset from a base day. Meaning, if patch Tuesday actually falls on Wednesday for you, the evaluation schedule can be set for the second Tuesday of the month offset by one day. …
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Disabling Windows File Explorer banner advertising
Microsoft has soo much advertising power with Windows 10, they can now put banners up in Windows Explorer via updates. You may see one such as this: ‘Save your documents and photos to OneDrive’ or ‘Get the best deal on your cloud storage with OneDrive’ The setting is called Show Sync Provider Notifications however it has…
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Creating Alerts for High-Risk Deployments
When you want to deploy Operating Systems zero-touch it can be scary the thought of all systems being added to the collection, so you can it’s best to provide as many safe-guards. We currently have a runbook that adds a variable to let the computer go zero-touch however we want to know if there is an…
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Stopping the ‘Download language typing features’ Action Centre Alert
We have deployed quite a few keyboards / Language Features however if you are missing any related features for a language this action centre prompt will keep coming up until they are installed, what’s worse is that they require admin rights to install. To deploy a fix you need to work out what’s missing. The…
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Deleting 30000 drivers and re-importing 162 Driver packs
We started noticing our driver packages were really big and consuming a lot of time during OSD. This was due to the bug mentioned in KB3084586 The longer we left it the worse it got! What happens is any drivers added to the database before the fix will still have issues being re-imported unless they…
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Windows store apps like Calc don’t open if you enable ‘Delete cached copies of roaming profiles’
If you enable the group policy ‘Delete cached copies of roaming profiles’ apps like calc, calendar, weather stop working. If you try to launch them from the start menu they just don’t open, if you try from command the message is ‘You’ll need a new app to open this calculator’ This will also happen with mandatory…
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Using Dell Command Update vs Driver Packs
I really want to do less work, more automation so I tested out using the Dell Repository Manager as my source of drivers instead of using driver packs. I tested this by setting up 2 quick task sequences. TS A used only the basic Dell Winpe Driver pack (to provide network and storage) then once in Windows it…
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Distribution point not updating – Rare situation to do with missing INI files in SCCMContentLib
Recently we had a problem google couldn’t fix! 1 package would not go on to all but 1 Distribution point. Even creating a new package it would fail. The DPs smsdpprov.log displayed [B84][Sun 03/13/2016 06:31:48]:MoveFileW failed for G:\SCCMContentLib\FileLib\EB90\EB90C09879C4D86BB5FD5EAB 7245DC68C9588661A38AC76945A4E6F99789CCE9.INI to H:\SCCMContentLib\FileLib\EB90\EB90C09879C4D86BB5FD5EAB 7245DC68C9588661A38AC76945A4E6F99789CCE9.INI [B84][Sun 03/13/2016 06:31:48]:CFileLibrary::AddFile failed; 0x80070002 [B84][Sun 03/13/2016 06:31:48]:CFileLibrary::AddFile failed; 0x80070002 [B84][Sun 03/13/2016 06:31:48]:CContentDefinition::AddFile…
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Set up keyboard language bar for all users in Windows 10
Previously when deploying Windows you could use the command ‘control.exe intl.cpl,,/f:”languages.xml’ with some funky xml identifying what keyboards you wanted, with Windows 10 this half works so you don’t really want to use it. So what do you do? Well there is a powershell command Set-WinUserLanguageList, however that only applies for the current user logged in.…
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Revoke the eDellRoot Certificate using Group Policy
While most enterprise machines should not have the software installed that adds the Dell certificate it’s better to be safe than sorry. Without revoking this attackers will be able to perform man in the middle ssl attacks as Dell ships the private key with the cert. Download a copy of the Cert and extract https://mega.nz/#F!kwgAQB7K!K6g2PSLyNmpWhQxne5NLfw In…