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MECM and Windows 11 23H2

Windows feature update showing as compliant

Recently I was having an issue where a Windows feature update was showing as compliant but not installed. After deploying the most recent Windows 11 feature update 23H2 to a set of test clients, I noticed that the update wasn’t applying. Using the ‘Support Center Client Tools’ app and targeting an effected device I could […]

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Credential guard breaks WiFi

Credential guard can break WiFi when updating to Windows 11 22H2. I noticed that some Windows 11 devices wouldn’t connect to our corporate WiFi. This is secured with 802.1x EAP as per this previous post. This is caused by a feature in Windows 11 called credential guard being enabled by default: ‘Starting in Windows 11, […]

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Enabling Office 365 Modern Authentication (OAuth)

When using office 365 there are a few things that can be done to make using the whole service a little easier. One of these things is enabling and using Modern Authentication (OAuth). Modern Authentication is Microsoft’s next step to allow a better Single Sign On service using the Open Authorisation standards. Modern Authentication has […]

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Microsoft Open Value Subscription and KMS Keys

Year on year our Microsoft volume licensing subscription gets renewed and I have very little issue. In our environment we generally use a KMS server as our means of activating our Windows and Office clients. However, we use the odd MAK key here and there if we have a business device that’s going to spend […]

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Deploying Operating Systems on BIOS and UEFI based machines

Due to UEFI becoming more common in new machines I decided to start looking at building and capturing system images ready to put on any new machines supporting this feature as well as still support any older BIOS based machines. The process of building and capturing a reference machine to be used with both BIOS […]

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DLNA Media Steaming Servers

Now we all love the idea of being able to stream media from one place in the world to another. The ability to sit in our homes switch on a smart TV, console, tablet or smart phone and watch whatever we feel like. Be it from Netflix, SkyGo, Amazon Instant Video or another streaming service. […]

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Setting up an Exchange Account on Windows Phone 8

This is just a quick post on setting up an Exchange account on Windows Phone 8. I am using a Nokia Lumia 920. It’s pretty self explanatory but I thought I would run through it anyway. Firstly you need to navigate to Settings > email+accounts. This will then present you with a list of current […]

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Setting Up Outlook Anywhere

Setting up Outlook Anywhere is a simple task from the client side. Providing that everything is set up on the server side correctly you shouldn’t have any problems. This is easier said then done as it took a fair bit of trial, error and Googling to get mine working properly! I am going to run […]

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