Creating a Firewall rule through MEM is broken right now
Update as of 11th of July: I can confirm this has been resolved. New rules do not have preset settings anymore and its possible to create rules without issues. Thanks …
Category: Microsoft
DFSR Event ID 5014 Error 9036 with a new Domain Controller
First of all some stats: I stood up my Domain Controller on Fri Sep 13 2013 22:53:26 UTC+0200 (Central European Summer Time). It is a 2012R2 Essentials at first, now …
CCMExec and VCRedist_x64.exe exit code 1638
Recently I discovered an error that I had not seen before with a ccmsetup.log. As long as Articulate 360 was installed it was impossible to install CCM. The software is …
Migrating CCM agents to a new site – 0x8000ffff and SMSSLP
While its not as bad as my last issue with the _same_ error code, the thumbnail picture is still justified here. There’re already some blogs about this error showing up …
Co-Management error 0x8000ffff for AAD joined devices
Whew – not only has it been quite a while since I wrote something, but this issue even took a Microsoft Premier Support case to solve. If you’re following me …
Remove “Lenovo Pen Settings” prompt
I am working at a customer that exclusively uses Lenovo for all their devices (from notebooks to desktops). Recently I stumbled on a request which is all to common these …
Christmas Ads: Microsoft Surface vs. Apple iPad
Hey everyone,so, apparently its just 4 weeks to Christmas and oh what is this? Christmas Ads you say? Lets have a look. And obviously we’re going to start with the …
Microsoft, Windows 10 and the Start Menu and Taskbar management issues I found
Hi all, I think it is time for me to rant a little about how Microsoft is dealing with the Start Menu management currently. Keep in mind that I work …
Create a lock screen slideshow with more than one picture without GPO (because there’s none) Update: Wallpapers!
UPDATE February 2023: This also works with Windows 11.UPDATE February 2020: Updated this article to blocks. Redone code highlightsUPDATE July 2019: I currently need to replicate this with wallpapers on …
hMailServer, IIS 8.5 and Autodiscover – Part 2
[lastupdated] Oh good to see you back. My guess is, that have you installed all of the prerequisites mentioned in the first article. If not, I really don’t know what you’re …