What is Windows 10 fast startup Fast Startup in Windows 10 is supposed to help boot Windows up much faster. In a complete shutdown scenario, Windows logs off all users and closes all applications. Fast start...
Throughout the years, driver management for operating system deployment in ConfigMgr have been a daunting task that administrators have had to deal with on a regular basis. New computer models are occasionally...
For a little more than one year ago, I posted a script that would automate the process of removing built-in applications when creating a Windows 10 reference image. Since then, the script has been amended a couple of...
Ransomware is big business at present and like the viruses of the mid and late 90’s, it will probably be with us for quite a while. The fact of the matter is that ransomware is a multi million dollar industry and...
System Center Configuration Manager as a system management product does an extremely well job of automating and managing devices in an organization. Especially when it comes to operating system deployment...
It’s been a while since the ConfigMgr Content Source Update Tool got any of my attention lately. Since the release of the tool, requests have been made that I’d add a check box under the Update column...
Many of you would have found at some point you have had to deal with applications not deploying to due client cache directories being full. Typically the way around this is to run a PowerShell command at the machine /...
A few months ago the first version of ConfigMgr WebService was released. Today, I’m happy to announce that version 1.1.0 is now available. What’s new In this new version there are quite a few additions in...
In this second post on how to deal with the scenario of converting from BIOS to UEFI, we’ve come to Dell. This series of post consists of the following: Convert from BIOS to UEFI during Windows 10 deployments with...
Having the misfortune of a sudden battery failure on my laptop the other day, it got me thinking about how we monitor laptop health across our environment. Wouldn’t it be cool if I could monitor battery health for...