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I sometimes need to have access to the latest version of VMware tools or to a version matching a specific ESX version. This is for example the case when packaging the tools for use in a SCCM task sequence. VMware provides all the versions here: http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/index.html You will be able

This is an update I have personally been looking forward to for a very long time. When using Java in an enterprise environment the automatic Expiration Date has been a very big issue for many. Now with Java 7 Update 40 it looks like this warning can finally be disabled.

In Office 2013 the default location of Quick Access Toolbar and Ribbon customizations is still saved in to AppDatalocal folder by default and because of these settings do not roam. In order for Quick Access Toolbar and Ribbon customizations to follow the roaming profile we can set a GPO. User

If you disable protected mode you might see warnings like this when starting Internet Explorer Protected mode is turned off for the Internet and restricted sites zones or Protected mode is turned off for the Internet zone. One way to disable or hide this warning is to set a registry

  When using SCUP 2011 it creates a local database in your user profile. You can verify this by selecting options: And then Advanced as you can se under database file it is placed in the user profile path. It is possible to move the database and share it with

In some situations I want to hide the tray icon from VMware Tools.   The way I use to remove / hide the icon is to set the registry entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREVMware, Inc.VMware ToolsShowTray and set this to 0 (REG_DWORD). You can set this in a SCCM/MDT task sequence by using

  My customers do not always like so many user pop-up messages. One is for example the pop-up in Internet Explorer : Do you want AutoComplete to remember web form entries. The way I use to disable/hide this message is to set the registry entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerIntelliFormsAskUser and set this

After upgrading to System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 CU1, you will be able to identify the update in many different ways. First let us take a look at the console, after the update the console reports version 5.0.7804.1202 The console reported version 5.0.7804.1000 before updating. The Console update is

One reason that could explain why an AppLocker policy is not applying could be that the Application Identity service is not running on your Windows Client. In order to force the service to start you can add it to your policy. Change the startup option of the service: Change the

When trying to merge two baselines in Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM) you might see that the Merge button is missing. Baselines must be associated with the same product before they can be merged. After the baseline has been associated you are able to merge.

When trying to schedule update of a Windows 2012 Server image in System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 no updates are shown even though updates are available. Microsoft has released an update to fix this issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2793237 After updating SCCM 2012 SP1 the updates are shown as expected, nice

By default a KMS client will cache the KMS host that it was able to activate with and will communicate directly with this host when it is time to reactivate (instead of querying DNS). If the client cannot contact the cached KMS host, discovery with DNS will be used. You

Just as UE-V has a ADMX file for Group Policies, the new APP-V 5 beta delivers an ADMX file for APP-V settings. You can find the ADMX and ADML files after installing the sequencer: Copy the files to your policy central store and you will be able to set various

Microsoft User Experience Virtualization includes ADMX file for Group policy settings. When setting the storage path you are able to use the variables %USERNAME% and %COMPUTERNAME%.

I recently wrote that the Group Policy Management Console Sample Scripts could be used to grant the AGPM service account rights to all existing GPO’s. Another way to do this if your running Windows 2008 R2, is to use the Group Policy cmdlets in windows PowerShell. First you must import

When playing around with the APP-V 5.0 Beta I ran into this error when starting the management console: The operation failed as the management server was not found. Please ensure it is properly installed. For me the solution was to register ASP.NET 4.0 (both 32 bit and 64 bit) 32-bit

When you deploy Microsoft Visio 2010 and set the MSP file to use a KMS server, it will by default use a Visio Premium 2010 KMS client key. If this is not the version you intent to use you can change the key in the MSP file to one of

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