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Disable Windows 10 Automatic locking screen

We’ve been upgrading a customers environment… for one of their workstation configurations they didn’t want the computers to lock on idle, which is enforced by default.

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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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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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Office365 Safe Attachment Delay Report

Recently the Helpdesk have been getting cases about slow delivery times due to Office 365 ATP Safe Attachments. We have created a script to retrieve the data from Exchange Online, and then used Power BI to visualize it.

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Windows Backup Mail Report Script

Background Jocha work with a lot of startup companies and small-business owners, which is great in so many ways. While it gives us the possibility to design and set everything up from scratch, with all the best practices, it usually means working with a smaller budget...
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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…

UDI WelcomePage is blank

UDI WelcomePage is blank

After editing the UDIWizard_Config.xml file and updating my Distribution points the UDI wizard would no longer let me through.

I edited the welcome text to something a bit more personal than the standard version, however there seems to be a limitation in UDI…

Configuration Manager 2012 Log Files

Configuration Manager 2012 Log Files

Finding the right log will help you heaps when troubleshooting the clients.
Here’s a list of the files availible in SCCM 2012 (client-side).

Task Sequence error 0x87D01014

Task Sequence error 0x87D01014

When deploying a HP SSM Driverpack via a SCCM 2012 task sequence I ran into the 0x87D01014 error. Which gave me the following error logs in SMSTS.log…

Applications via UDI in MDT 2012

Applications via UDI in MDT 2012

A customer requested a Lite touch installations process with the ability to change the computers name, OU’s and application setup. Here’s a quick guide how to get the applications to work.