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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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ContentLib Clean-up in Configuration Manager

In the past I have had problems with the content library (ContentLib) in Configuration Manager taking up more disk space than it should. Orphaned files get left in the library over time as deployment packages are deleted. To remove any unneeded files, we can run a clean-up tool that is included in Microsoft Endpoint Configuration […]

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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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Shrinking Dynamic Virtual Hard Disks

When working with a virtualised server I came across an issue. The virtual server kept going into a suspended state. I noticed that the 2 virtual disks for the VM had managed to outsize the total available physical disk space on the host server. This was causing the server to be automatically suspended due to […]

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Manually Merging .AVHD to .VHD

One of the features in Hyper-V is the ability to take snapshots of your virtual machine. This allows you to revert the machine back to a previous state without the need to use windows backups or an alternative. All explained in this article. However snapshots may be convenient they are not recommended by Microsoft to […]

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Configure Exchange 2013 to Accept Mail for Multiple Authoritative Domains

When first setting up Microsoft Exchange 2013 the default email address for any user in the organisation will normally be the same as the internal domain name e.g. example.info so a user’s email address would look like this: john.smith@example.info. However this may not be the same as your external domain or down the line you […]

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Enabling OSD with duplicate UUID in Configuration Manager

This is a topic I have been meaning to post about for a while. It’s a bit of a gem I found and anyone who works with Configuration Manager especially if deploying operating systems should know about. I first came across this problem when setting up operating system deployment through System Center 2012 Configuration Manger. […]

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