I’ve noticed lately on my personal machine with a I need to upload a file, Google Chrome locks up for a few seconds. In the past this has always been instant. All my other browsers are fine. What the heck! After reinstalling Chrome, repairing it, incognito, removing all extensions the problem persisted. This is when […]
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Recently after updating SCCM we noticed we could no longer pxe for our new UEFI machines. We’re greeted with the error: After some digging turns out wdsmgfw.efi is missing from Boot\x64 directory. To resolve this, I went on our local server and browsed to C:\Windows\System32\RemInst\boot\x64 and inside was the magical wdsmgfw.efi file. A quick copy
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Recently needed to find a way to export all staff into a csv file with only their name and EmployeeID. First I ran the GET-ADuser command below for a single user. This will display all the user’s attributes. Be sure to change username to a domain user. Now that you have a file with all
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Recently rebuilt my Windows 10 (1909) desktop and I’ve been unable to get to my UNRAID shares. It’s been driving me crazy as nothing with my servers or network has changed. I can still manage UNRAID with the root and password I’ve always used so it has to be something with my freshly imaged computer.
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Recently, I received an R710 with iDRAC 6 Express and decided to upgrade to the Enterprise version by purchasing it from eBay. Installing it was a breeze, and after making a minor adjustment in the iDRAC settings under Network/Security, I was able to ensure that the server utilized the dedicated port on the Enterprise card
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We started noticing an inconsistency between Active Directory computer numbers and System Center item counts. After some forum searching I discovered the issue. In SCCM go to Administration > Site Configuration > Sites > Click your site > then in the upper ribbon bar select Site Maintenance. (You can right click your site also). Here
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Recently noticed my SCCM server data drive was running out of space. Didn’t make sense as we haven’t added anything substantial lately or used USMT. Installed WinDirStat and found the culprit to be a 400GB .ldf log file from SCCM. The fix was pretty painless and takes less than 10mins. Backup the database Stop the database service Shrink
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I recently had an issue I couldn’t figure out why client machines were taking forever to install configuration manger updates. I upgraded SCCM to version 1710 in the morning. 24 hours later come back to work and only see 178 machines that are compliant. This didn’t make sense as I can push out software within
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Received a new batch of laptops support UEFI. We’ve previously always used legacy PXE boot. Upon some googling we found a way to support both legacy and UEFI verse only supporting one or the other. This video by BranchCache Bobs shows a great tutorial on how to set it up and the differences between the
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Recently tried pushing out a GP to all machines restarting them once a week at 7pm. Took me a bit to figure out why the policy wasn’t being applied to the machines. Once I checked the Applicaiton evernt log I noticed an error. Group Policy object did not apply because it failed with error code 0x80070005
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