We recently rolled out Windows 11 to newly purchased laptops and the helpdesk requested some of the useful applications be pinned to the start menu for better end user visibility. Easy task I thought! Microsoft’s documentation is conflicting (as per) and took a while to find a solution that actually worked in my environment so […]
Author: confusedtech
Forgot to set a backup..
I can’t believe I forgot to set a backup on my own site… My host had database issues and lost everyones data. Luckily for me I have sweet feck all content on this site and was able to retrieve it using internet cache services. New Years Resolution: Create more content Backup is now in place.
Strange Account Lockouts
A local windows user account kept triggering the lockout of a user’s AD account. Obviously a cached credential of some sort but after going through the usual measures of deleting cached passwords the user was still getting instantly locked out when logging in as the local user. I queried the locked out username in the […]
Generate new GUID for SCCM client
Recently I stumbled across multiple VMs with a healthy SCCM client but were showing no activity in the console. They also had a habit of disappearing on their own accord too. After ensuring they were in boundary groups and included in discovery I dug deeper. After an hour of utter confusion I ran a query […]