Lenovo and BIOS Settings
Lenovo has provided numerous series of devices, which apparently do not have an aligned standard of handling BIOS / UEFI settings or BIOS / UEFI upgrades. As part of this headache and to ease the...
View ArticleEnableFastFirstSignin–howto set it up
EnableFastFirstSignin seems to be a semi-announced feature that is only possible to configure using a Provisioning Package. I think the official documentation states that it is in preview. But, let’s...
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WSUS Cleanup
Despite multiple articles of howto maintain a WSUS database for performance and scalability – there was always a performance issue dragging across which made all the cleanup jobs take forever. An...
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NTUser.dat and last updated
Regardless what type of estate of Windows-devices, there always seems to be a need of clearing out unused profiles from a computer to save diskspace, increase performance and what not. In Windows 7...
View ArticleTroubleshoot Office crashes – quick guide
Wrote these notes on how so many Office issues were solved. Sadly – this still applies – and a recent thread from Twitter reminded me that it might be useful. Printer Temporarily set the printer to...
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CMPivot and SMB1
Ned Pyle has ensured there is a Event-log that details any attempts to communicate with SMB1 (incase this still is enabled on your endpoint). It exists both for SMBServer and SMBClient See his great...
View ArticleDefender for Endpoint – Whats the user count?
Whats the user count for users actually logged onto your devices – looking through Defender For Endpoint? Quick-glance; DeviceLogonEvents | where AccountDomain == "YOURDOMAIN" | where LogonType in...
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Windows 10 20H2 and Edge
To start of this blog-post we have to set a few basics… Windows 10 20H2 includes Edge Chromium. Specifically – Edge Chromium v84 (something something) If you deploy Edge Chromium later version (like...
View ArticleBitlocker and howto make your users love you
This is how you deploy Bitlocker and make everyone fall in love with you. 1. Don’t understand Bitlocker – and read some generic Microsoft guideline which provides you with a generic approach and...
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Pulse Secure and the bells around it
So you have implemented Pulse Secure as a VPN-solution? Well, here are somethings that just about every consulting firm or department eventually will ask you to implement along-side it – so the Pulse...
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ConfigMgr and a Remote Content Library
ConfigMgr has since version 1806 been supporting a Remote Content Library, which in simplified terms means that you can decouple your existing infrastructure and place the Content Library on a...
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Teamviewer and Windows Credentials
Teamviewer has a great article howto handle User Account Control prompts within QuickSupport or similiar solutions, and as part of that you are intended to provide your own credentials when...
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System error 1808 has occurred.
So, after offloading some fileshares to optimized NAS-storage (I think it is EMC? Or Dell? or something else) – we noticed that a new server had issues connecting to (mapping) the fileshare using the...
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