When installing SCCM 2012 R2 you might see this error: Required SQL Server Collation Configuration Manager requires that you configure your SQL Server instance and Configuration Manager site database (if already present) to use the SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS collation, unless you are using a Chinese operating system and require GB18030 support. For
Still working with Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 Not that long ago I needed the KMS keys for Windows 2008 R2, but realized that I only had posted the keys for Windows 2012 and Windows 8.1 on this blog. http://larslohmann.blogspot.dk/2013/10/windows-81-and-windows-2012-r2-kms-keys.html Time to change this. The default KMS keys used
And once again were have new updates breaking OSD http://larslohmann.blogspot.dk/2014/11/hotfixes-that-breaks-osd.html Microsoft has updated the support case: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2894518 The new problematic updates are: 3036493 MS15-030: Description of the security update for Remote Desktop protocol: March 10, 2015 3039976 MS15-030: Vulnerability in Remote Desktop protocol could allow denial of service: March 10,
Microsoft has released a new update for the System Center Endpoint Protection client. Revised February 2015 anti-malware platform update Endpoint Protection clients The update are available from Windows update ad explained here: Anti-malware platform updates for Forefront Endpoint Protection/System Center Endpoint Protection will be released to Microsoft Update. Newly deployed
I often need to know the current version of a SQL 2012 installation to determine if it need an update. This KB includes a number of ways to do the work How to determine the version and edition of SQL Server and its components Latest update is Cumulative Update 4
Update Please note this update released after RU 5 Hotfix for known issues in Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Original Post Microsoft has release Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Description of the security update for Update Rollup 5
Please note that there are know issues with this update on Windows 8.1 clients: http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2015/02/19/known-issue-endpoint-protection-blocks-internet-explorer-downloads.aspx Fix: http://larslohmann.blogspot.dk/2015/03/system-center-endpoint-protection.html Original Post: Microsoft has released a new update for the System Center Endpoint Protection client. February 2015 anti-malware platform update for Endpoint Protection Clients The update are available from Windows update ad explained
Cumulative Update 4 for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 has been released http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3026739/ So once again it’s time to take a closer look at how to determine the installation status of this cumulative update, this time for CU4. After upgrading to System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 CU4, you
Sometimes I need to test program, scripts and so on running in system context, just to see if its working. For this I always use an old friend from sysinternals PSEXEC. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553 So let start a command prompt as SYSTEM: Use the command: psexec -s cmd.exe First time you start
I often need a quick way to see how long a Windows box has been running, or actually when it was last restarted One way is to use the command net statistics workstation and find Statistics since: And of course PowerShell is nowadays also an option: Get-CimInstance -ClassName win32_operatingsystem |
Sometimes I need to change the standard Login Screen background to for example a corporate logo. Windows 7 We can easily do this from a SCCM task sequence during OSD. First we need a jpg file with the image we want to use, this file must not be greater than
Citrix has released a new version of Citrix Receiver for Windows, new version reported is 4.2.0.10 Download installation file : http://www.citrix.com/go/receiver.html Changes is this version: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX138197 And finally documentation: http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/receiver-windows-42/receiver-windows-42-wrapper.html Author Lars Lohmann
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