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My name is Luke, I am an IT Engineer with a fondness for caffeine and American food!
On this blog, I will share my real world experiences, solutions, best practices and many more awesome things that may be of someone’s assistance!
DFS Namespace service not starting after a reboot
/1 Comment/in Windows /by LukeDistributed file System (DFS) has some service dependencies – so if those don’t start the DFS Namespace service will also not start. The dependencies are: Remote Registry Security Accounts Manager Server Workstation I have seen the Remote Registry service become the culprit of the DFS-N service not starting. In my experience – this has been […]
Configuration Manager – Does not have permission to update the prereq or state flag of the package
/2 Comments/in Windows /by LukeWhen attempting an upgrade of System Center Configuration Manager v1511 to 1606 I ran into issues relating to the permissions of the Security Scope in Configuration Manager under the account I was doing the upgrade under. I also had issues enabling Automatic Client upgrade which was grayed out– after some research I found that it […]
Upgrade MDT 2013 to MDT Current Branch
/1 Comment/in Windows /by LukeUpgrading MDT (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit) is generally not an issue – the main points are: Upgrade the Windows ADK before upgrading MDT. Make sure you have a backup (or can restore to a pre-upgraded MDT) of the Deployment Share – the Upgrade will upgrade the schema of the MDT database – including allowing new ADK […]
BgInfo Configuration & User Deployment using Group Policy
/0 Comments/in Windows /by LukeTable of Contents1 Introduction2 How do I create a BGInfo package?3 How do I deploy BGInfo package? Introduction BgInfo is beneficial for Endpoint device support by displaying the Asset number, IP address and logged on username overlaid on top of the wallpaper, it is OS independent and can be used across other Windows Desktop and […]
Microsoft Ignite NZ 2016! What a blast!
/0 Comments/in Misc, Windows /by LukeMicrosoft Ignite NZ 2016! What a blast! #NinjaCat #MSIgniteNZ I was lucky enough to attend Microsoft Ignite this year, so I thought I would do a high level blog post about my experience at this event.