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It was time for us to upgrade the Microsoft Orchestrator to the newest 1801 version. We were three versions behind as we have been using 20...
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If you have to track the login times for a specific user, this tool will generate a report for you that scans the event viewer logs for ID...
While planning and configuring the Windows 10 upgrades, we had to also include the transition to UEFI from BIOS. I wanted to make sure that...
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We have started the Windows 10 upgrades and part of this process is installing applications for users that are not included in the standar...
The Windows 10 upgrades required us to move profile contents off of the machines to a file share and then move them back. This was because ...
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While building a new reference image, I always want to make sure every application got installed before the WIM is generated. I have done ...
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If you have the SLShare variable defined in MDT to write logs to the specified UNC path and the SLShareDynamicLogging defined to write to ...
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While in the middle of the planning phase for the Windows 10 rollout, we wanted a report on the size of the My Documents and Desktops of a...
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Dell Command | Configure can be of great use in the WinPE environment. It allows you to configure and/or query the BIOS before an operating...
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Recently, I was reviewing the bitlocker recovery password backups. We still use active directory to store them, and yes, we are planning on...
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While rewriting a PowerShell automation script to move machines in Active Directory, I had been trying to pass the MachineObjectOU task seq...
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It has been four years since I published the last version of the PowerShell script to move systems from one OU to another during a build p...
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Instead of wanting to keep up with the latest Google Chrome installers, I wanted to create a one-liner that can download Chrome from the G...
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If you have tried adding a GPO to create a shortcut to the root network share, \\contoso for instance, then you have probably seen that it ...
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While building the new Windows 10 image with Office 2016 along with exchange 2016 on the backend, I got the following error message every t...
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Here is a video guide on how to remove bulk Facebook content from your Facebook profile. Some will just say to delete the profile and creat...
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The environment I work in entails using MAK activation instead of KMS. This means that we have a set number of MAK activations given by Mic...
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Recently, I upgraded to the new MDT 6.3.8450.1000. It was a fresh install of the new MDT product in which I created an entirely new MDT sha...
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While recently writing an MSI uninstaller script, I needed to be able to associate the GUID with the applications name. In the process, I w...
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I am working on the Windows 10 image, and part of this project is converting to UEFI. We do have several older systems that are still in pr...
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When I installed the new MDT 6.3.8450.1000 to build the deployment package for Windows 10 1709, I ran into issues with the operating system...
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As often as Java must be updated, I wanted to have an auto installer that would make the update a breeze. The way this installer has been w...
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I recently encountered an application that uses the Inno Setup installer. Part of my process when I deploy an application is to also create...
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While building out the Windows 10 reference image task sequence, it dawned on me that I should be making sure the latest Dell Application...
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Recently, Dell released the BIOS updates covering systems starting with the Intel Family 6 Model 42 and later processors. This is the first...
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Ever since the Spectre and Meltdown issues arose, we have been waiting on patching, at least reliable patching. Microsoft has taken it on i...
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While working on the Windows 10 upgrade project, I ran into a situation which I needed the information from an MSU file for the task sequen...
Below is a video on how to add ShareThis to Blogger. It is a very easy process. Apparantly the process has changed since other instuction p...
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This script function will uninstall an MSI installed application by specifying the GUID and the switches. I have included the ability for t...
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Here is a function that will uninstall an MSI installed application by the name of the app. You do not need to input the entire name either...
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As we all know, Mozilla Firefox is not the easiest application to deal with when it comes to deploying it in an enterprise environment. I h...