Application Guard came with the 1709 release of Windows 10 to make internet browsing more secure. The Edge browser is running in a hidden virtual machine that is built from the OS files of your physical machine and that has a limited life time: When the user logs off, the machine gets deleted. The level… Read More »
There seem to be two common issues with Outlook after the upgrade of Windows 10: Users may experience that mails are hanging in the Outbox forever. Users are basically not able to send anything anymore although receiving mails continues to work. The Send to mail recipient function doesn’t work. When you right-click a file and… Read More »
The issue came up when upgrading to Windows 10 to 1709 and it was the same when installing 1709 from scratch: Although we thought that we had provided all language components (Language pack ja-jp, Language Features Basic, Handwriting, OCR, Speech, Text to Speech, Office 2013 MUI), Skype came up with displaced buttons and text fields… Read More »
In general, the UDI wizard is relatively easy to handle and the configuration is straightforward. The exception is the Install Programs option. Install Programs allows the installer to select software that shall be installed during the task sequence. If you consider to use… Read More »
Here are some warnings and errors that the prereq check which runs before the SCCM setup starts may show: 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… Read More »
Windows 10 comes by default with the latest PowerShell version which is 5.x. This is fine but the problem is that for downward compatibility reasons, version 2 is also still included and active. Version 2 was released in 2009 and a deprecation was announced in August 2017 but it’s unclear when it’s actually going to… Read More »
The Windows 10 Deployment and Management Lab Kit is really great to get familiar with Microsoft’s latest deployment and management solutions and is being updated and extended every 90 days. It is based on 90 and 180 days evaluation versions (Server 2016 Standard, SQL Server 2014 SP2, SCCM CB). In case you have access to… Read More »
The idea sounds so good: Instead of installing your virtual lab on your local hard disk put it on a USB 3.0 stick and have it always in your pocket with you. I wanted to try that and bought a 256 GB USB stick with “sensational read/write speed values” (read speed of more than 350… Read More »
If you are running a virtual environment with a DC and DNS server you are likely to encounter a problem with the internet connection or the network connection between your machines. The issue is that your machines can either get an IP address from the DHCP server in your environment or from your router. In… Read More »
Although the prerequisite check and the installation ended with success two components did not install and the SMS_SITE_COMPONENT_MANAGER retried the installation every 60 minutes. The main problem was that the restart the WMI service (winmgmt) failed and stopped the SMS Agent Host which is vital for the Management Point. In case you experience the same,… Read More »