Have you ever wondered if you could get a report of all your Application Deployments' options? The ones which are in the GUI for things like "User Experience, Show a dialog window instead of a toast", or "Deployment Settings,...
Because of this reddit post, Maintenance Task does not finish, I got inspired to look closer at maintenance tasks. There is already a view for seeing what your tasks are set to, and how long they have taken to run the...
There is a situation which MIGHT happen for you. The default for Cumulative Updates is, I believe 60 minutes now. But many updates are still defaulting to 10 minutes. I don't personally think that default should change,...
Internet Explorer 11 comes with this great new feature, Enterprise Mode, and it saves the day when it comes to most browser related upgrade issues. At least in my case it did a really good job of mitigating them. Unfortunately...
It used to be (prior to 1809 Windows 10) that one could inventory the wmi class win32_optionalfeatures and know if RSAT was installed or not. Apparently that is no longer the case; and from what I could discover online,...
For those of you who attended our last meeting, you might recall our survey about a conference this fall. Well it's now official: The Midwest Management Summit. Watch the Twitter feeds for #MMSMinnesota...
Fred's Notes from the Active Directory Best Practices from Robert Wakefield with NowMicro:
Backup of group policies via GPMC or script. Most GP admins do not backup group policy objects.
It's not a bad idea to backup...
I had this odd request to restore a database from backup, then clear all the data from the database with the excption of a dozen tables. OK, I can do that but there is 1200 tables and I have other work to do too....
I thought this information was already blogged by someone else--I certainly know I stole it from someone else years ago. But now I can't find that blog. If this is your work; please accept my apologies for not crediting...
Do you have a CM hierarchy (CAS and Primary site(s)) deployed, and have inconsistencies with update compliance status reporting? Normally, triggering a "RefreshServerComplanceState" on the troubled endpoints...