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 […]
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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 […]