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Change the Azure AD Sync Schedule

I finally I got some time to play with the new Azure Active Directory Sync tool and its configuration.

The installation was very straight forward. The step-by-step instruction are provided on MSDN. The administration tools and scripts are located in difference places compared to DirSync which was little confusing in the beginning.

Azure Backup Mail Report Script

Jocha previously released a very popular mail report-script for Windows Backup. A downside with the new Azure backup-agent is that it did not offer mail reports… until today!

Fix for slow “Downloads” folder in Windows 10

In the last couple of weeks I’ve been noticing that clicking the “Downloads” folder in Windows Explorer took a long time to load.
After a bit of research, it turns out Windows 10 tries to guess…

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…

SCCM Client – Manual install and uninstall

You can deploy the SCCM client several ways, the most common being through SCCM, manual install via the ccmsetup.exe. This article describes how to install and uninstall the client manually.

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.

SCCM 2012 Enhancements in SP1

SCCM 2012 Enhancements in SP1

The Product Group have recently announced the Beta of Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 at TechNet 2012 North America.