I’ve had a number of cases where it would have been useful to be able to deploy files to a logged-in user’s profile on Windows using Configuration Manager (SCCM), but due to the context in which the ‘installation’ runs (i.e. the local system), using parameters such as %AppData% in a batch file doesn’t work, and this …

Today we attempted to re-image Rik’s new Surface Pro 6 using the usual set of task sequences that we have configured for all of the PCs that are in use, and hit an issue. The task sequence failed (very quickly) with error 0x80070490. Looking at what was going on onscreen, it was obvious that the partitioning of the …

Previous versions of Visual Studio were typically delivered via ISO files that we could import into Configuration Manager for deployment to workstations. Visual Studio 2017 arrives as a web installer only (although you can create installation media using the –layout option from the command line if you still want to go …

Some time ago I created an System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) application to deploy FileZilla for users. Recently I created an updated application that upgraded FileZilla (using the usual ‘uninstall the old version, then install the new version’ method), which gave me an error when the application was upgraded: …

There’s a known issue with Update Rollup 7 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 that stops expired recovery points being removed, thus leading (eventually) to DPM consuming all available disk space attached to it. This leads to messages such as: and Which mean that new recovery points are not being created …

Our recent upgrade of Data Protection Manager (DPM) from 2012 SP1 to 2012 R2 generated one issue which wasn’t mentioned by the documentation on Technet. The documentation on Technet is good and the procedure for upgrading DPM was very quick and easy. Pay attention to the Upgrade Sequencing documentation as not …

Rik, Andrew and I will be at some of the upcoming UK TechDays that are being held. I can’t recommend these days highly enough and every attendee that I have spoken to at previous events has found them both thoroughly enjoyable and useful. Rik, Andrew and I will be at the System Center 2012 SP1 IT Pro camp tomorrow …