I recently had a situation where I needed to script the creation of a Windows service and specify a domain user/password to run the service.  The main struggle was getting the service to grant the user “Log On As […]

Side-loading keys (100 pack for $2500?) are different from the mobile device cert ($299/yr) and the Dev Center account ($99/yr) – and they are all unique to each tenant.

Side-loading keys are way to bypass […]

You can use the following query on your App-V 5.0 reporting server database (AppVReporting) to get application usage information for which users ran which software on which systems and when.

select distinct […]

Ran into a curious situation when automating the installation of Sybase PowerDesigner Viewer 16.  If you just want the answer, then jump to the bottom of this post
The installer was built as a self-extracting […]

Android with Windows Intune
Use this guide to help you get started testing management of Android devices with Windows Intune (Wave D) standalone.  This guide assumes Office 365 has been completely set up, […]

Recently I was helping a friend with her laptop which suddenly stopped connecting to the Internet, despite that the wireless networking could see and successfully connect to wireless hotspots. In further […]

The VMware View agent is deployable as an MSI file and uses basic command line parameters.  However, I recently had significant difficulties with getting it to install within a ConfigMgr Task Sequence as part of […]

Recently built myself a new server for my home lab and decided to build out a new domain. During the setup process of CM12 SP1 (on Win 2012 with SQL 2012 SP1 CU2), the guest VM hung midway through setup and was […]

In assisting a recent customer implement an upgrade from WinXP to Win7, they requested that the names be changed to fit a new standard as part of the in-place imaging process.  In this particular case, all of the […]

I recently had a request from a customer to rename their PCs during an in-place upgrade of WinXP to Win7.  I’ve put together some custom scripts to detect the particular qualifying conditions for when the PC needs […]

I am glad to say that I am going to MMS 2013…
….BUT this time as a speaker!  I’ve been a long time attendee to this fantastic conference, and now it is my privilege and honor to continue to give back to the […]

The following VBScript will disable NIC power save features.
‘==========================================================================
‘ NAME: SetNetworkPnPCapabilities
‘ AUTHOR: Nick Moseley , <span […]

Ran into a situation where all CM07 clients at a particular site were not installed/active within the ConfigMgr primary site.  Digging into the ccmexec.log file on the clients, errors were generated repeatedly […]

A common practice for OSD task sequences is set the advertisement to “run from server”.  Recently there was a situation in which the advertisement needed to be set as “download content locally”.  But there were […]

The application compatibility toolkit (ACT) is a great tool for analyzing compatibility of apps when doing a migration of Windows.  However, the available “reports” are limited in what they display out-of-box.  […]