winget is a Microsoft command line tool to install and update applications on the Windows Operating System – effectively Microsoft’s take on Chocolatey. This blog post is intended for those wanting to get started with winget as a quick start or reference guide. Installing winget To get started with winget we must first install it. […]
I came across an issue today where I couldn’t tick the box to automatically upgrade the ConfigMgr client on all devices after an SCCM upgrade. It turns out that to do so, you need to have the Assigned security scope setting of “All instances of the objects that are related to the assigned security roles”.
We had an issue today where a number of servers wouldn’t boot after being patched, they were showing the above error “The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible 0xc000000e”. It actually happened to 3 out of 10 servers. It turns out the fix was much easier than expected. Here are the steps
I had an issue today where I needed to restore a VM as it wouldn’t boot. In this instance the customer was using storage level snapshots of the Nimble datastore, where the virtual machine files were stored. I initially attempted to clone the datastore from snapshot in the Nimble management console, but after connecting the
This is going to be a quick post as fortunately it was a quick fix. One of our clients had a new MABS job setup and the System Protection components of the MABS backup were repeatedly failing. The C: and D: drive backups were working without any problem. The error message was: “An unexpected error
When migrating from Classic (ASM) to ARM in Azure you will end up with a Keyvault that contains some credentials (certificates etc) for the VMs that you moved. This is normal when migrating and does not cause any issues, however when needing to migrate to a different subscription ie. CSP, you will find that you
I was recently setting up an IPSec VPN tunnel between a Sophos UTM and Cisco ASA. When doing so I kept getting the the following error when looking in the ASDM debug logs:“Can’t find a valid tunnel group, aborting…!” Followed by:“Header invalid, missing SA payload!” It turns out when you are creating the VPN, ASAs
Overview I recently had to deploy an Intel VGA driver to a company that was experiencing issues with Skype for Business crashing when a video call was initiated. The driver in question was Intel HD Graphics 520 version 21.20.16.4590. This post explains how to do so using DPInst. We needed to deploy the updated version
I recently had an issue with our own environment where any views created on the primary SCSM server were not visible by Service Desk staff. Also, any changes made to the current views were only visible on the primary Service Manager server. This brought me back to when another customer had this issue in the
Overview In some cases a customer will want to know the Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) status of all of their Office 365 users (or a subset of users). Currently the best way to do this is using Powershell. There are three settings that a user account can be set to: Disabled – MFA is not required