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Azure Backup Job Failed 0x1D4C2

Lately we’ve been getting a lot of inquiries regarding Azure Backup. One customer tried to set up the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (MARS) agent, they experienced a problem where the backup job fails immediately…

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Disable Hardware Acceleration in Outlook 2013

Not all computers work better with hardware acceleration, especially those with incompatible drivers.

A couple of users contacted me asking about “white screens” and freezes in Outlook 2013. The simple solution is to disable the hardware acceleration…

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Breaking into a Windows System

Do you ever get that sinking feeling, when you’ve forgotten the root password to your test lab?  Again?

I hate it too!  So I decided to figure out a way around it, using a work around…

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Get Active Directory pictures in Windows 10

We have been working on migrating a customer from Windows 7 over to Windows 10. Our goal is to have Windows 8 and 10 clients pull the pictures from Active Directory to the users local profiles.

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Installing HP branded Windows on a Virtual server

My customer has bought a Hewlett-Packard server with a Windows Server 2012 ROK (Reseller Option Kit) license.
However this customer had some issues with the installation of the license on the Hyper-V guest server. Since the Windows server does not recognize the ‘hardware’ as a Proliant server, licensing will not succeed.

However there is a simple solution…

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Setting Option 66 and 67 for DHCP

Setting Option 66 and 67 for DHCP

To get PXE working on a server that is running both DHCP and WDS you need to enable option 66 and option 67. These settings will help your connecting clients to find the appropriate PXE server.

SCCM 2012 Back-end scripting

SCCM 2012 Back-end scripting

Here is the back end script that does all of the work. I’ve made some comments on the script in efforts to keep this post less wordy and more scripty.
Again if you have any specific questions please let me know.

MDT 2012 Update 1 released!

MDT 2012 Update 1 released!

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 Update 1 was released yesterday.
Some of the key changes in MDT 2012 Update 1 are added support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012…

Setting ComputerName during OS deployment

Setting ComputerName during OS deployment

Deployment solution based on SCCM 2012 intregrated with MDT 2012. The idea was to set up a User Driven Installation (UDI) so the IT department would have to do as little as possible during the installation process.
Part of this solution was to manage the clients names, we decided to use the serial number as an identifier…

User Device Affinity with MDT 2012 UDI

User Device Affinity with MDT 2012 UDI

As part of MDT 2012 UDI there is a new wizard page for setting User Device Affinity as part of the task sequence as well as a designer page for configuring the UDA page. The User Device Affinity wizard page is…

Installation failed 0x800702E4

Installation failed 0x800702E4

When installing an application on a newly deployed computer we received the 0x800702E4 error from Software Center.

After some troubleshooting we concluded that the application was configured…