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Nicholas Drew is a Professional Technical Consultant with wide ranging skills from large scale Windows 10, 8.1 & 7 Desktop deployments to detailed problem analysis and lateral thinking. He has knowledge on SCCM installation, configuration, upgradation & problem solving. Follow this blog to get articles on SCCM.
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7h ago
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5M ago
Small businesses are big business for cyber criminals. According to the latest Government statistics, 58% of UK small businesses surveyed have suffered a cyber breach or attack in the past 12 months. Find out what makes your business vulnerable and how to protect it from cyber threats.
Cybersecurity basics
The aim of cyber criminals is to gain unauthorised access to your business’s devices, networks, and programs, and use that access to steal sensitive information and extort money. Cyber criminals could steal your customers’ data, pretend to be you, and defraud your customers into paying ..read more
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6M ago
Source: Manage Windows driver and firmware updates with Microsoft Intune – Microsoft Community Hub
Microsoft announce the general availability of Windows driver and firmware update management policies and reports in Microsoft Intune!
This new functionality in Intune makes it easier to keep drivers on your Windows devices up to date in two main ways. First, you’ll no longer have to do the manual work of downloading, repackaging, and deploying drivers using generic tools. Instead, you can take advantage of driver update management policies and reports built on the Windows Update for Business dep ..read more
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7M ago
Source: Configure Windows Update for Business Reporting (systemcenterdudes.com)
As many enterprises are leaning towards cloud-driven technologies, Windows Update for Business (WUfB) integrated within Intune is gaining a lot of traction. There seems to be only one caveat with it, and it’s the level of reporting available in Intune for Updates compliance. While you can see the status of your expedited quality and Feature updates from the Intune portal, there’s no report for the regular monthly Cumulative Updates compliance. Thankfully, there is a Solution that resides within the A ..read more
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1y ago
Original Post Microsoft Edge for Business FAQ – Microsoft Community Hub
Microsoft Edge for Business, the new, dedicated work experience currently in preview for the Microsoft Edge browser, is planned to be released with Microsoft Edge stable version 116 (scheduled for the week of August 17, 2023). All customers who sign into Edge using Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) will automatically be transitioned to Microsoft Edge for Business as part of the release.
What to expect with Microsoft Edge for Business:
Policies, setti ..read more
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1y ago
Problem: Can’t delete ConfigMgr_OfflineImageServicing folder after a failed offline image servicing. Errors in OfflineServicingMgr.log preventing all scheduled offline servicing.
OfflineServicing
Failed to remove previously existing staging folder E:\ConfigMgr_OfflineImageServicing\DCS00120, GLE = 5
Manually deleting the folder from explorer gives errors stating you don’t have administrative permissions, taking ownership of content doesn’t help either.
Solution: Reboot server. Run DISM /cleanup-wim once completed you’ll be able to manually delete the folder.
Source: Can’t De ..read more
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1y ago
Description
The remote services that accept connections encrypted using TLS 1.1. TLS 1.1 lacks support for current and recommended cipher suites. Ciphers that support encryption before MAC computation, and authenticated encryption modes such as GCM cannot be used with TLS 1.1 As of March 31, 2020, Endpoints that are not enabled for TLS 1.2 and higher will no longer function properly with major web browsers and major vendors.
Solution
Enable support for TLS 1.2 and/or 1.3, and disable support for TLS 1.1 and 1.0
Also See
http://www.nessus.org/u?c8ae820d
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1y ago
The Office Customization Tool creates the configuration files that are used to deploy Office in large organizations. These configuration files give you more control over an Office installation: you can define which applications and languages are installed, how those applications should be updated, and application preferences. After creating the configuration files, you can use them with the Office Deployment Tool to deploy a customized version of Office ..read more
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3y ago
Detect and remediate Windows Speculative Execution on Windows 10 machines using PowerShell and Proactive Remediation in Intune.
Within Intune there is the option to create remediation task, this is basically a PowerShell script that will run against the machine and exit with a 1 or a 0 if the condition is found.
With the Speculative Execution Check the remediation is to set registry setting to protect the machine.
Extra information can be found at the following Microsoft web page.
Windows Server guidance to protect against speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities (microsoft.com)
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