As the Windows XP End-Of-Life approaches (April 8th), let’s take a look at some other technology that was released the same year as Windows XP: The original iPod was released in 2001. The Nokia 8310, released in 2001. Smartphones didn’t exist yet. The original Xbox was released in 2001. Halo, anyone? To be fair, XP has seen hundreds …
For those who are considering the upgrade to SCCM 2012 R2, make sure that you have already upgraded your workstations Windows XP to Windows 7! Configuration Manager 2012 R2 requires the WIndows 8.1 ADK (formerly WAIK) which does not natively support migration from Windows XP (or even Vista) using USMT6 or WinPE. You will receive …
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The SCCM client relies heavily on a healthy WMI repository, which easily corrupts for various reasons. This has been improved great over the versions of Windows, but it still happens. This VBscript will rebuild the WMI repository on the system you run it on. This should only be done if WMI is broken- it is …
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I promised that I’d post a step-by-step guide on how to create a zero-touch, hardlinking USMT task sequence in SCCM 2007 to help refresh your systems from XP to Windows 7, so here it is. I realize that Windows 8 is the current release, so I will do this same tutorial for a SCCM 2012 …
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