There are several reasons why your legacy VMs running in the cloud may benefit an in-place OS upgrade: end-of-support, compatibility, or enhanced security. It’s always recommended to deploy a new server and migrate the app whenever possible, but many organizations are carrying technical debt that prevents app migration or refactoring to another service. Some examples …
With the new release cycle for Configuration Manager, it can be difficult to know which version of the Windows ADK to use when upgrading to new releases. To further complicate the issue, each time you upgrade the ADK on the server used by SCCM, you must upgrade boot images used for OS deployment to be able …
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KB3102810 has been published by Microsoft to address two issues that are affecting Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 clients. First issue: Windows Updates run slower than usual when using SCCM for patch management. Second issue: When trying to deploy an in-place Windows 10 upgrade from Windows 7, svchost.exe takes 100% CPU utilization and the upgrade might …
Here are two simple troubleshooting steps to try if your Windows installation has been corrupted or is not functioning properly. These commands work in Windows 8 and Windows 10. %windir%\system32\sfc.exe /scannow This command used with SFC.exe is a tool that will scan your system files for corruption and replace them with a cached version if necessary. …
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I recently had a scenario with a client that had no Configuration Manager infrastructure, used Intune to manage workstations, had trouble configuring MDT to support Windows 10 upgrades (there are still several known issues with MDT & Windows 10), but still needed to automate deployment of Windows 10 to end users. Since the Windows 10 …
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