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Group Policy – Removing Internet Explorer Maintenance Settings

In the last few posts we’ve looked at moving away from Internet Explorer Maintainence within Group Policy as it has been deprecated from Internet Explorer 10 and above. There are two clean methods to...

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SCCM 2012 SP1 – Enable Command Support Console in WinPE

Troubleshooting SCCM Operating System Deployments can be tough, to ease the pain you can enable the command support console for use within the Windows Preinstallation Environment. Doing so will give...

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SCCM 2012 – Failed to Resolve Selected Task Sequence Dependencies

Problem When PXE booting and deploying a task sequence you receive the error “Failed to resolve selected task sequence dependencies” and no dependency or package IDs are displayed. Solution 1. Press F8...

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The IT Crowd

It’s been around a while, but the IT Crowd is well worth watching if you haven’t seen it before- all 4 seasons are up on Netflix. Here’s one of my favourite clips. The post The IT Crowd appeared first...

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SCCM 2012 – SCEP UNC Definition Updates Automation with Powershell

One of the choices for SCEP (System Center Endpoint Protection) definition update sources in SCCM 2012 is from a UNC file share, however in typical SCCM fashion there is a bit of leg work required to...

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Get Default Gateway from List of Remote Servers

Problem Find the default gateway on a list of remote servers. Solution Create a textfile with a list of servers you would like to query, use a new line for each server. If you have an OU of servers you...

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Group Policy – GPResult Examples

GPResult is a command-line utility for determining the resultant set of policy for a given user and/or computer. In other words, it shows you what Group Policy Objects have been applied and their...

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Remote Desktop iOS 8.1.0 – Error 0x03000008

Issue In a recent update to the iOS Remote Desktop client (8.1.0 and above) you receive the following error when connecting using a Remote Desktop Gateway: Can’t connect to the Remote Desktop Gateway....

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Unifi Wireless – 1. Installing the Controller

This mini-series will guide you through installing and configuring Ubiquiti’s Unifi Wireless solution using 802.1x, Windows NPS (radius) and Group Policy. This post will cover the installation of the...

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Deploying XenClient Enterprise Engine with SCCM

This post will explain how to automate the deployment of XenClient Enterprise Engine 5.5.5 using SCCM 2012 R2. There is very little information on how to achieve this, so hopefully this will help those...

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Deploying Microsoft LAPS – Part 1

What is LAPS? A lot of organisations will use the same local administrator password across all machines, which is a bad idea for a number of reasons. At a basic level, if this password is learnt, it...

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Deploying Microsoft LAPS – Part 2

We recently covered preparing Active Directory and deploying the LAPS CSE/Client to the machines you wish to manage in part 1 of deploying Microsoft LAPS. Part 2 covers “Turning on” LAPS via Group...

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Internet Explorer 11 – HTML5 Black Screen

Issue You are unable to play HTML5 videos in Internet Explorer 11, the HTML5 player displays a black screen only. Fix A post on the MSDN Blog states: In order to play HTML5 videos in the Internet Zone,...

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Group Policy – Removing Internet Explorer Maintenance Settings

In the last few posts we’ve looked at moving away from Internet Explorer Maintainence within Group Policy as it has been deprecated from Internet Explorer 10 and above. There are two clean methods to...

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SCCM 2012 SP1 – Enable Command Support Console in WinPE

Troubleshooting SCCM Operating System Deployments can be tough, to ease the pain you can enable the command support console for use within the Windows Preinstallation Environment. Doing so will give...

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SCCM 2012 – Failed to Resolve Selected Task Sequence Dependencies

Problem When PXE booting and deploying a task sequence you receive the error “Failed to resolve selected task sequence dependencies” and no dependency or package IDs are displayed. Solution 1. Press F8...

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The IT Crowd

It’s been around a while, but the IT Crowd is well worth watching if you haven’t seen it before- all 4 seasons are up on Netflix. Here’s one of my favourite clips. The post The IT Crowd appeared first...

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SCCM 2012 – SCEP UNC Definition Updates Automation with Powershell

One of the choices for SCEP (System Center Endpoint Protection) definition update sources in SCCM 2012 is from a UNC file share, however in typical SCCM fashion there is a bit of leg work required to...

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Get Default Gateway from List of Remote Servers

Problem Find the default gateway on a list of remote servers. Solution Create a textfile with a list of servers you would like to query, use a new line for each server. If you have an OU of servers you...

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Group Policy – GPResult Examples

GPResult is a command-line utility for determining the resultant set of policy for a given user and/or computer. In other words, it shows you what Group Policy Objects have been applied and their...

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