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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

SCCM Component Manager

  SCCM Component manager is a quick way to start/stop/pause SCCM components that you would normally control using the Service […]

The certificate you specified is already in use. Are you sure you want to use this certificate?

The whole point of this message is to say Warning: if you block this certificate tomorrow, you are going to […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Error message when no Asset Tag Detected

Set the computer name using the BIOS Asset Tag

If you are setting the Asset Tag the same name that the computer is, it makes sense to only have […]