ARDAMIS

MENU

Skip to content

* Home

* About

* Portfolio

* Colophon

* Contact

I WANT THIS XBOX ONE SPECIAL EDITION LUNAR WHITE WIRELESS CONTROLLER

Leave a reply

I super-duper want this Xbox One Special Edition Lunar White Wireless Controller. I haven’t felt this strongly about wanting a space-related object since my space shuttle lunch box in elementary

school.

This entry was posted in Materialism

on 28 December 2016

by Oliver Baty .

WINDOWS SERVER 2012 R2 DATACENTER OFFLINE SERVICING WITH SCCM

Leave a reply

System Center Configuration Manager can be used for offline injection of updates into the install.wim file within a Windows Server ISO. The newly updated install.wim file can be used with SCCM as part of a operating system image, or it can be baked into an ISO to produce a “slipstreamed” ISO containing most of the This entry was posted in IT , System Center Configuration Manager and tagged desktop engineering

, SCCM 2012

on 24 December 2016

by Oliver Baty .

SILENT INSTALLATION OF INTEL DRIVERS WITH MUP.XML

Leave a reply

While packaging a few Intel drivers (video driver, USB 3.0, chipset, management engine components, etc.) for our HP laptops, I noticed that each of the driver downloads contained a file named “mup.xml”. This file contains, among other things, information about valid command line switches for the setup.exe installer. A snippet of the

mup.xml file for

This entry was posted in IT , System Center Configuration Manager and tagged ConfigMgr 2012 , desktop engineering ,

Intel , Microsoft

, SCCM 2012

, troubleshooting

, Windows 10

, Windows 7

on 4 December 2016

by Oliver Baty .

CONFIGURATION MANAGER COMPONENT STATUS LOGS RETURN 0 MESSAGES DUE TO BACKLOG IN STATMGR.BOX RETRY DIRECTORY

Leave a reply

While working on a new System Center Configuration Manager 1511 server that I was building, I noticed that each of the Component Status logs were returning 0 messages for the previous 1 day. If I set the threshold back to 1 week, I could see events, but they had completely stopped a few days earlier. This entry was posted in IT , Microsoft , System Center Configuration Manager and tagged ConfigMgr 2012 , troubleshooting on 23

February 2016

by Oliver Baty .

WINDOWS 10 SYSTEM EVENT LOG ERROR 40

1 Reply

I have found error ID 40, with the description “The event logging service encountered an error when attempting to apply one or more policy settings.” is written to the System event log when the Group Policy setting “Specify the maximum log file size (KB)” under “Windows Components/Event Log Service/System” is configured (either enabled and set This entry was posted in IT , Microsoft , System Center Configuration Manager

,

Uncategorized and tagged desktop engineering , SCCM 2012 , troubleshooting

, Windows 10

on 21 February 2016

by Oliver Baty .

CONFIGURING A DEFAULT APPLICATION FOR PROTECTED FILE TYPES IN WINDOWS

10

6 Replies

I have been working on some unattended installation scripts for applications to be deployed through an SCCM OSD task sequence that builds our Windows 10 workstations. Happily, many of the lessons learned with Windows 7 are directly applicable to Windows 10. However, Windows 10 has made a significant change to the way applications are

able

This entry was posted in IT and tagged desktop engineering

, Microsoft

, Windows 10

on 1 December 2015

by Oliver Baty .

WINDOWS 10 UPGRADE AND TEMP PROFILES

1 Reply

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I upgraded one of my computers from Windows 7 to Windows 10 using Windows Update. It had been nagging me to upgrade for awhile and I finally gave in and did it. The upgrade appeared to go smoothly, but when I logged on to Windows 10 for the

first time, I

This entry was posted in IT and tagged Microsoft , troubleshooting

, Windows 10

on 29 November 2015

by Oliver Baty .

MICROSOFT EDGE AND ENTERPRISE MODE SITE LIST

4 Replies

Today I learned that Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 does work with an Enterprise Mode Site List after all. I had been trying in vain for weeks (off and on) to get it to redirect into Internet Explorer those sites that I had configured to do so through the Enterprise Mode Site

List XML file.

This entry was posted in IT , Uncategorized and tagged desktop engineering , Microsoft , troubleshooting

, Windows 10

on 24 November 2015

by Oliver Baty .

TROUBLESHOOTING SCCM 2012 TASK SEQUENCE FAILURES

6 Replies

A resource for troubleshooting System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Task Sequence failures through analysis of errors reported in the smsts.log file. When an SCCM task sequence fails, errors are written to the smsts.log file. Sometimes the error is descriptive and it’s possible to quickly identify the cause of This entry was posted in IT , System Center Configuration Manager and tagged ConfigMgr 2012 , desktop engineering , Microsoft , SCCM 2012

, troubleshooting

on 7 November 2015

by Oliver Baty .

WINDOWS EVENT LOG QUERY FOR DOMAIN JOINED NETWORK CONNECTION

2 Replies

This Windows Event Viewer query looks through the Network Profile/Operational log for network connection events (EventID=10000) where the “Category” equals “2”, which equates to “Domain Authenticated”. The neat part about this XML query is that it looks into the event details for additional criteria, which isn’t available through the filter GUI. I use it as This entry was posted in IT and tagged desktop engineering

, Microsoft

, Windows 10

on 9 September 2015

by Oliver Baty .

POST NAVIGATION

← Older posts

Search for:

RECENT POSTS

* I want this Xbox One Special Edition Lunar White Wireless

Controller

* Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Offline Servicing with SCCM * Silent Installation of Intel Drivers with MUP.XML * Configuration Manager component status logs return 0 messages due to backlog in statmgr.box retry directory * Windows 10 System Event Log Error 40

RECENT COMMENTS

* David Thornton Sr on Getting a list of logical and physical drives from the command line * Alexe on Windows event log query for domain joined network

connection

* Dodo on Windows event log query for domain joined network

connection

* G564738 on Adding an insert datestamp or timestamp macro to

Notepad++

* Miguel on Resolving common Citrix issues

ARCHIVES

Archives Select Month December 2016 February 2016 December 2015 November 2015 September 2015 August 2015 June 2015 April 2015 January 2015 November 2014 October 2014 June 2014 May 2014 March 2014 October 2013 June 2013 April 2013 December 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 February 2009 October 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 January 2008 December 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 April 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 February 2006 August 2005 July 2005

CATEGORIES

* Android

* Google

* Hardware

* IT

* Linux-Fedora

* Linux-Ubuntu

* Materialism

* Microsoft

* Nonsense

* Projects

* System Center Configuration Manager

* Thriftiness

* Tutorials

* Uncategorized

* VBScript

* Web Site Dev

* WordPress

* World of Warcraft

Ardamis is powered by WordPress and can be followed by subscribing to the Entries Feed (RSS) and Comments Feed (RSS) . � 2005–2019 Ardamis . All rights reserved. Designed and developed by Oliver Baty .