Published January 23, 2021
Recently a we ran into a strange problem when we tried to enroll an older laptop in Microsoft Enpoint Manager Autopilot. The fun began when we exported the device serial number and tried to import it into Intune, o sorry I mean Microsoft Endpoint Manager, still can’t get used to that name :-). Pro-tip: If you have any questions regarding the Autopilot onboarding process, I suggest you read this awesome blog by Robin Hobo (https://www.robinhobo.com/how-to-setup-windows-autopilot-and-add-existing-devices-the-quickest-way/). ProblemWhen we imported the CSV that contained the device serial number we where greeted with an error: “Check your .csv file with your device provider.…
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Published November 28, 2020
Problem When logging into an Azure tenant you have the option to switch to another directory (if available). Sometimes you have directories connected there that are not relevant anymore (because of testing etc.). To check if you have more organisations connected to your azure login account. Log into Azure with your acccount and click on your name on the top right. It should have the option to switch direcrtory. Click on this and you should see the subscriptions connected to your account. So if not needed anymore the question remains is it possible to remove them? Solution Off course thats…
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Published March 10, 2018
Microsoft advices to use Teamviewer as the tool for remote assistance when using Azure Intune for managing endpoint devices. The setup process is fairly simple and you can use a trial subscription from Teamviewer for testing. I created this post to show you how to configure this but as Microsoft constantly updates/changes features in Intune this post might be outdated. Setting up the teamviewer trial Go to the teamviewer site (https://www.teamviewer.com), on the top right corner of the site click on login. Click on register for a new account and fill in the required fields verify your not a robot…
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Published September 16, 2015
Most of you might already know of a little undocumented feature Microsoft implemented in Windows 10 (and Windows 8.1) called Godmode. with this feature you can unlock (and centralize) around 260 settings to change! Most fun part is that is centralizes al the features that are scattered around in the control panel, screen settings, task manager etc.! How to obtain Godmode you must create a new folder on the desktop and name it: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} Godmode has arrived if you double click the folder you will find all the settings you can possibly imagine. have fun 🙂
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Published September 5, 2015
I frequently get questions from people about problems with installing .NET 3.5 features on Windows Server 2012 and 2012R2. Most problems are solved when adding the sources directory from the Windows installation media (so mount the ISO) during the GUI installation. Another way to do it, is by using the following command: Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3 /All /Source:d:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess This all works fine, but sometimes the .NET framework installation still fails. you keep getting the following error: 0x800f081f. The source files could not be found. Install Error! The cause for this error can be that you can’t install .NET Framework 3.5…
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Published August 18, 2015
We recently had a customer where we implemented a Windows 2012R2, Citrix XenApp 7.5 environment to replace a Windows Vista/2008 client server environment. After implementing the new Citrix XenApp environment the customer found a strange phenomenon where several applications where performing slower on the new XenApp servers then on the Vista workstations. When we ran several tests on the environment and found that on a server with only the OS installed the applications worked fine. But after installing the terminal server environment and the applications the applications that where using FoxPro databases (e.g. Accountview, Caseware etc.) where running significantly slower andcrashing more often than on the old Vista…
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Published December 13, 2014
After doing a fresh installation of SQL2014 Express on a Windows 2012R2 standard server i got an error while connecting to the server instance. After looking in the eventlog i found these messages stating that the SQL instance service terminated (The SQL server (SQLEXPRESS) service terminated with the following service -specific eror: %%945) System log: Application log: The errors in the application log seem odd because the server had no e drive! During testing i found out that could only start the instance in single user mode and when i tried connecting through SQL management tools the service would crash. So I tried…
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Published October 4, 2014
Recently i was trying to re-establish Hyper-V replica from one Hyper-V cluster environment to the Hyper-V disaster recovery site when this error kept popping up: After googling I found no usable information but upon investigating the disaster recovery environment I found the following VM that was missing: It seemed that during the break of the replication Hyper-V somehow lost track of the name of the old replica. After manually deleting replication I was able to recreate replication of the VM. Hope this simple solution helps 🙂
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