This is another in a series of blogs about new technologies and services which were announced at Microsoft Ignite. There was a big push on Yammer this year, with Microsoft referring this year to be the Year of Yammer! (the actual branding is #YearofYammer) If you’re not familiar with Yammer, it is Microsoft’s enterprise social … Continue reading The New Yammer
In this post I wanted to provide a quick overview of some of the updates and new features, which are coming to the services across Microsoft 365. Microsoft Teams Private Channels Private channels are now live across all tenants! It is important to provide some background on how private channels works. Creating a private channel … Continue reading Ignite 2019 Recap: Updates coming across Microsoft 365
As I mentioned in my previous blog, Microsoft have announced they will be releasing a new Office app for iOS and Android. This is similar to the Office app which is available on Windows 10 and provides a central portal to access your office applications and documents.This will actually replace the following apps on your … Continue reading Microsoft Office iOS App
This post is the first in a series covering the new services and improvements coming to Microsoft over the coming year following the recent trip to the Microsoft Ignite conference. I wanted to focus on some of the productivity improvements that are coming across Microsoft 365, which I have broken into the categories of Knowledge, … Continue reading Ignite 2019 Recap: Microsoft 365 Productivity Improvements
I am going to take you through the process of deploying the latest Java Runtime Environment installation using SCCM and making that available to your users. Firstly we need to download the latest offline version of Java (currently Version 8 Update 25) and extract the MSI file - http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp. Launch the Executable file you just … Continue reading Deploy Java Runtime Environment Application using SCCM 2012
There are a number of different approaches you can take with managing drivers and deploying those drivers to your workstations. These are Auto Apply Drivers and Apply Driver Packages. Auto Apply Drivers The most common approach is to add drivers in to the central repository and using the Auto Apply Drivers task. This uses the Plug and … Continue reading SCCM 2012 R2: Managing Drivers for your Operating System Deployments
This script will significantly decrease the length of time taken to create device collections in SCCM. I created this script for a college where I deployed SCCM 2012, it allowed the college to mass create the device collections required for their environment. First of all we will need to import the SCCM Powershell Module as … Continue reading Powershell: Create SCCM 2012 Collections Based on Active Directory Security Group
When building golden image for your SCCM Workstation, theres a couple of changes you will need to make to the antivirus client before you deploy the image. The following steps can be incorporated in to the Build Task Sequence or alternatively while building your VDI base image. Software you will need: A copy of the … Continue reading Deploying System Center EndPoint Protection Client to your Golden Image
I was recently asked about a user reporting problems accessing their Out of Office and Shared Outlook Calendars when accessing Outlook from a Non-Domain Computer. Additionally the user was not able to create an Autodiscover record on the DNS for their public Domain. Outlook uses the domain of your smtp email account in outlook to try … Continue reading Outlook AutoDiscover on Non Domain PCs
When faced with a situation where you have an OU full of users who need to be forced to change password at logon your first option may instinctively be the GUI - Active Directory Users and Computer. This may seem a lot easier than powershell as you only need to highlight all the users, select … Continue reading Powershell: Active Directory – Set Change Password at Logon for all Users
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