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
ConfigMgr “All instances of the objects that are related to the assigned security roles” Greyed Out
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
Server 2008 R2 Won’t Boot – The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible 0xc000000e
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
Restore Hyper-V VM From Nimble Storage Snapshot
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
MABS – An Unexpected Error Occurred While the Job Was Running (ID 104)
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
Azure – Move from ASM to ARM to CSP Subscription
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
Cisco ASA Site-To-Site VPN “Can’t find a valid tunnel group, aborting…!”
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
Deploy Intel Drivers With ConfigMgr After OSD Using DPInst
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
SCSM Views Not Replicating To Other Consoles
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
MFA Status CSV Report of Microsoft 365/Azure AD Users – Bulk Enforce MFA
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