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Learn how to PXE Boot both BIOS & UEFI machines with DHCP Policies and Custom Vendor Classes One of the challenges that an IT deployment administrator may face in the field is the ability to boot both BIOS and UEFI machines from the same WDS environment. This is exactly the issue I faced when our organization […]
Continue ReadingIn this article, I will show you how to check the AD Schema version using Powershell. First, you need to log into your Active Directory Domain Controller. If you have more than one domain controller, you should log in to the forest root domain controller. Open PowerShell with Administrator Permission If there is a pop-up screen […]
Continue ReadingIn an ideal world, everything runs as native bitness (64bit program on 64bit OS, 32bit program on 32bit OS) and life goes on. However, sometimes you need to run that legacy 32bit program on a 64bit OS and need to configure things a little differently as a result. How can you detect this WOW64 case (32bit […]
Continue ReadingThis guide will show you how to renew RDS grace period on your hosts. Microsoft gives you 120 days grace period on RDS. I would say that it would be enough to run a pilot or a PoC. I encourage everyone to purchase licenses for your environment and only use this article as a last resort option […]
Continue ReadingState messages contain concise information about conditions on the Configuration Manager client. The state messaging system is used by specific components of Configuration Manager, such as software updates and configuration settings. Configuration Manager clients send state messages to fallback status point or management point site systems to report the current state of operations. You can […]
Continue ReadingFor anyone that has worked with the Quest Migration Manager to perform Microsoft Active Directory Domain migrations, you find that one of the most critical components is the Resource Processing tasks. In a migration, one has the original environment (Source) and the destination environment (target). A migration consists of moving source users, groups, workstations, servers, […]
Continue ReadingIn this post we will be looking at using SCCM dynamic queries to populate collections in our deployments. As a SCCM administrator, you most likely had to plan out mass deployments to all your servers or workstations or even both. How did you go ahead and populate your collections? Queries? Since the introduction of SCCM 2012, […]
Continue ReadingStarting with Windows 10 1809, there is a new way to add RSAT tools to Windows 10. In organizations that use Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (SCCM) or WSUS, this may fail because the Features on Demand are not present on the WSUS server. To work around this, you can use the below process to get […]
Continue ReadingYou can use the following command syntax to trigger a custom SCCM toast notification on a SCCM client. Syntax: “<CCM client path>\SCToastNotification.exe” “<Title Text>” “<Description Text>” Example: “C:\Windows\CCM\SCToastNotification.exe” “Software Change Required” “A system update is being installed. Please do not shut down until the process is completed.”
Continue ReadingBelow is a list of common error codes from Endpoint Configuration Manager. 0x8007000d – there is a file that is needed by Windows Update, but that file is either damaged or missing. This won’t let you install any updates for Windows or any drivers, and it also won’t let you upgrade Windows 10 in case […]
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