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The Situation Office 2010 Professional Plus (32-bit) deployed to Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (32-bit) clients with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 R2 (64-bit). Office 2010 configured with Office Customization Tool (OCT) according to Microsoft guidelines. The Problem Upon completion the installation would initiate a forced reboot without prompting the user or giving …
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OK, so this post is more of a public note-to-self. https://gist.github.com/morgansimonsen/8044861
I wanted to reinstall a Lenovo X1 portable computer. While preparing to wipe the machine I used ProduKey from NirSoft to extract the product keys for the installed software. This particular machine was sold with an OEM license, for which the product key was affixed under the machine. I quickly noticed that the key printed …
reg delete HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftOffice14.0OneNote /v FirstBootStatus
I love Spotify, but recently I have been plagued by poor sound quality. Specifically I experienced clipping, popping and variations in volume level during playback. As far as I could tell this affected all the songs I played in Spotify. At first I thought the problem was specific to Spotify, but after doing some tests …
Here is a quick script to just install, or install and enable the Windows 7 Remote System Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 7 with Service Pack 1. I created it for use with the software deployment functionality in System Center Configuration Manager, but it is not limited to that. ‘ InstallRSAT.vbs ‘ v 1.0 (15.06.2011) …
I often get asked what I recommend for server/client naming schemes. Although there is no definitive answer; this always depends on your organization and what your specific requirement are, here are some pointers: Things you would often want to include in the name of a machine: Your organization name or an abbreviation of it: <org> …
Can the computername in Windows 7 be more than 15 characters? Yup!
With the momentum behind desktop virtualization; both with VDI and Remote Desktop Sessions (formerly Terminal Services), more and more people are looking for ways to access the Windows Desktop from platform other than Windows. Citrix offers the Citrix Receiver which supports virtually all platforms, but if you want to use the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) …
Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) has a Group Policy setting that determines which publishers are to be considered trusted when launching connections (typically .rdp files served in various ways). The publisher is identified by the SHA1 thumbprint of the certificate of the publisher (the certificate used to sign the .rdp file). You get the thumbprint from …
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