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
Sometime I have problem with packages not downloading and in smsts.log I get this error. Download() failed, 80072ee2. The only way I have found to fix this when it happen are to use the variables SMSTSDownloadRetryCount = 5 SMSTSDownloadRetryDelay = 15 Set the at the top in your Task Sequence
You might see this error when trying to publish a Secunia update to WSUS: Failed to publish package Code -2146233079 Publishing operation failed because the console and remote server versions do not match This error can also be seen if you are using SCUP. The problem is that the server
Once again I have found my self in a situation where a customer had problems with a task Sequence stopping, so now it’s time to do a post about this well known situation You might see your Task Sequence stopping with the following error in smsts.log: Failed to set log
Microsoft has release Update Rollup 4 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2992024. Let’s take a look on how we identify the versions installed. First the administrative console, you can see the current version by selecting about in the console: After the RU4 update for the console has
Citrix has released a new version of Citrix Receiver for Windows, new version reported is 4.1.200.13 Download installation file : https://www.citrix.com/downloads/citrix-receiver/windows/receiver-for-windows-41.html Changes is this version: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX138197 And finally documentation: http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/receiver-windows-40/receiver-windows-40-wrapper.html This update includes all updates from 4.1 Cumulative Update 1: (4.1.100) http://larslohmann.blogspot.dk/2014/09/citrix-receiver-for-windows-41.html Author Lars Lohmann
Update 14-11-2014 Build 9879 is available, the update procedure is the same as last time, you just need to change your update pace to fast: This time there the enterprise version is also available as a ISO file, in order to download this go here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-technical-preview-for-enterprise?i=1 Original post Microsoft has
In Windows 2012 R2 we have a very nice feature in the Group policy Management Console were we are able to run GPUpdate on all computers in a OU. On a OU holding for example RDS or Citrix servers this is very useful. But there is just one problem, users
When creating subscription on a report in SCCM 2012 R2, you might not see the email option in Report delivered by: Start Reporting Services Configuration Manager: Connect to your SQL server and Report Server Instance: Enter the from address (sender) you want to use (this might be changed if you,
You might see this error when running a OSD Task Sequence in SCCM 2012 R2: Task Sequence: has failed with the error code (0x80070070). For more information, contact your system administrator or helpdesk operator. If we take a closer look at smsts.log you might see error messages like this:
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