It smells like snow up in Redmond-town and you know what that means? A big ole pile o’ features to keep us company during SNOWpocalyse! Microsoft this week, released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14986 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. What’s new in Build 14986Making Cortana awesomer: Turn off your computer, change volume with voice commands: Being able to control your computer with just your voice is one of the top requests we get with Cortana, so we’re excited to say that we’v

What's wrong ?? the date and time are just fine on the client computer.    

Introduction You may have inadvertently installed your new hierarchy using the Evaluation edition setting shown below when manually installing the site.     Or, if you automated the installation using a method such as as this, perhaps you forgot to change the ProductID line (in the ConfigMgrAutoSave.ini file) to include the key.     But it’s ok you still have the same functionality as the licensed edition for up to 180 days. The amount of days remaining is listed at the top of your Co

Hi all,   I'm going insane trying to resolve this.   I keep getting the 'Specify User Credentials' as soon as the Gather step runs in the task sequence.   In my customsettings.ini i've specified the correct UserID, UserPassword and UserDomain variables.   I can even type them in to the box as they are, and it the continues through the whole TS without problems.   Updated all boot images, deployment shares, the lot. my bootstrap.ini has the information in too, and i've verified that the

I sccm updated to 1610 but now the SQL server will not start and the SMS_site_Notification_server. what to do?

Hi Guys,   Installed this hotfix last friday around 10:30am. All seemed to go well but on Monday the other sysadmin said he could add devices to a test collection. Same issue with other collections. I took a look at the hotfix and the status showed that it had completed but under "updates and servicing" it was still "installing."   I then noticed that most logs hadn't been updated since I installed the hotfix. Also noticed that I can't query most of the components in configuration manager se

Dear Sir/Madam,   I just performed a new installation of SCCM 1606. The installation went smoothly, but I cannot deploy any PC’s. The system is giving this error notification: An error occurred while retrieving policy for this computer (0x80004005). Do you know how I can solve this? Would it be possible for you to assist me on TeamViewer?

Update: please see this updated guide for SCCM 1802 CB, with SQL Server 2017. Introduction In a previous guide I showed you how to install System Center Configuration Manager version 1511 (Current Branch) on Windows Server 2012R2. Times are changing fast in this cloud-first mobile-first world, and as a result the System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) releases are being released rapidly. In addition to these releases are new Windows Server and SQL Server releases.