I recently had an issue with a Windows 10 upgrade task sequence which was hanging after the last boot. In foreground I could see my poorly designed installation step which was obviously not completing. In background, the cmd that had started it was running: C:\WINDOWS\SMSTSPostUpgrade\setupcomplete.cmd. The process obviously kicks in after a restart at the… Read More »
In case you are getting error 801c0003 (This user is not autherized to enroll) when joining your computer to Azure Active Directory, it is likely that you need to modify the default device settings in Azure AD. Log on to https://portal.azure.com, go to Azure Active Directory->Devices and check the device settings, in particular the options Users… Read More »
Version CB 1802 introduced the Management Insights in the Management tab which has been extended in the recent Technical Previews. Most helpful are to my mind the options to identify empty collections (to increase the performance of the system by eliminating unnecessary updates) and applications without deployment (to reduce disk space consumption). Unfortunately, the results… Read More »
Ever had the problem that a user needs to install a software for his home printer or a freeware tool for his job but can’t do because of missing admin rights? Providing a package in SCCM is of course an option but single-user installations are usually not worth the effort. Giving the user full admin… Read More »
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 »