I am unsure what changed in recent months, but I have personally seen this popup dozens of times and it is getting on my nerves. To disable this message: In Internet Explorer, click the TOOLS Cog icon (in the top …
If you are trying to deploy the SCCM agent I found one PC that that just would not install the SCCM Agent but instead would error out with: ERROR: Some of the selected resources are not assigned to any site when …
If you have corporate laptops that you manage over night (when they are left in the office), you may want to disable SLEEP and HIBERNATE (yes, you can try WAKE ON LAN, but it is flakey at best). Disabling Hibernate …
If you find that system windows and text (like the START menu, THIS PC, CONTROL PANEL) are perfectly clear, but some programs like Word and Outlook have fuzzy text, AND you are using a tablet (like a Microsoft Surface or …
This was an ugly little problem for a newbie to Failover Clustering like me. If you see the: An Error Occurred While Moving Virtual Machine(s) Storage – General Access Denies 0x80070005 the most likely cause is that the path you …
If you are sick of seeing the “cars and connect” page for Microsoft logins, good news! You can now customize and brand the log in page if you have a corporate Office365 or Azure account. To be clear, if you …
“Clutter” is a feature enabled in all Office365 hosted email addresses as of summer 2015. Clutter uses Microsoft’s machine learning named Delve to figure out what is not important to you and moves those messages into a Clutter folder. If you …
If you see Unable to Determine Monitored Services I have found three reasons this may occur: The guest VM operating system does not support Monitored Services. I found this occurred with Linux VM’s. The guest VM is on an different …
The short answer is no. Even the latest version of SCCM 1551 in 2016 cannot turn on BitLocker for more than a specific drive. Worse, if you manually turn on BitLocker for other disks after SCCM has enabled it for …
I had a bad VHD that I was unable to copy, I would get CANNOT READ SOURCE… after about 30%. Then I tried to build a new VHD using the COPY CONTENTS… function in HyperV but that failed at about 30% …
UPDATED: March 2018 If you have worked on Windows 8 or newer, you will know that Microsoft has removed the F8 boot functionality. They did this to decrease boot times. What is odd is that they applied this logic to …
If you need to change to boot order on a Windows Server HyperV Virtual Machine (VM): Launch HyperV Click on your VM to select it Click SETTINGS in the menu on the right Click BIOS Make your change and save …
I was taking a quarterly survey from our friends at the research company IDC and found that they had developed a very clean set of definitions for what they named Deployment Models, so I stole them and put them below. …
“Best” is a relative word so let me be clear that I think the Lumia 650 will be the best cell phone buy of 2016. In January Microsoft announced Lumia 650 which has amazing spec’s… for the price. At just …
The 3 Windows Insider rings are: Fast – Best for Insiders who enjoy being the first to get access to builds and feature updates, with some risk to their devices in order to identify issues, and provide suggestions and ideas …
UPDATE: July 2023 – If this does not work for you, you may find this updated article more useful: How To Easily Convert Windows Server Evaluation To Standard / Datacenter If you are having problems activating Windows 10, Server 2016, …