I’ve been putting off the use of Intune for managing Windows clients for far too long, and I think it’s time to start taking a more serious approach to moving away from ConfigMgr and into Intune What’s been putting me off is, partly, a lack of the understanding of how it works but also just… Read More »
Still the same content but with a new web link, so update your links! New URL: https://www.gattancha.co.uk The old URL will still redirect here for a while, but will eventually be removed once I know everything is working as it should on the new URL.
Had an interesting one in my backup report this week, and it seems to have started after the recent round of updates. I noticed that one of my DCs had failed to backup the AD System State – something it had been doing happily for months. The error in the event log was as follows:… Read More »
If you are still running Server 2012 on any of your ConfigMgr site servers, now might be the time to start upgrading them or you’ll run into soe trouble when you try to upgrade ConfigMgr itself to 2403 ConfigMgr admins should start to see the warnings in their consoles informing them of the new requirements … Read More »
As with Windows 10, Windows 11 comes with a host of apps bundled into it by default, and you may not want all of those apps to be installed As with Windows 10, these apps can be removed with PowerShell – but don’t use the same script from Windows 10 as this has unforeseen consequences… Read More »
With the release of Windows 11, Microsoft changed how you customise the Start Menu in a way that it is the same for all users when they first log in. With Windows 10, this was a case of simply exporting the start menu to an XML file, which could then be re-imported with ConfigMgr during… Read More »
Just spent the whole day trying to re-install DPM 1801 (Server 2016 / SQL 2016 SP2 CU5) after major issues, only for it to fail with the dreaded “4387” error.. Already had SSMS v16.5.3 installed so wasn’t that. spent several hours of retries, including a reinstall of SSMS 16.5 with no luck. Eventually got it… Read More »
To ensure that the same background is applied to all users when they log in, you can add two Task Sequence steps that will automatically set their background to whatever you specificy it to be..
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CMD /C REG ADD HKU\DU\Control Panel\Desktop /v "Wallpaper" /t REG_SZ /d "<PATH>\background.jpg" /f |
Then we can set the style, or how it will apply… There are 6 possible values:
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CMD /C REG ADD HKU\DU\Control Panel\Desktop /v "WallpaperStyle" /t REG_SZ /d "4" /f |
Rermember to… Read More »
I recently updated Windows Admin Center using ConfigMgr ( post here) However, If, like me, you use a CA-Issues SSL Certificate, then be aware that the update process resets the thumbprint back to a self-signed cert for the server. In my case, I had a wildcard cert for *.gattancha.co.uk, but after the update, an… Read More »
Was updating ConfigMgr’s Software Update Product List and came across this: