After upgrading a number of systems to Visio 2016, I started to hear more and more about old pre-2010 Visio files in VSD format that would no longer open and would throw the following error: The strange thing was that the files were still launching without issue for users who were still on Visio 2010 and 2013. The …

A recently had a requirement to bundle a number of applications together into a few different task sequences to make available to a user collection. After a bit of research, I discovered that this is a pretty common question, and that there is no built-in method to make this available. Below, I'll walk through how I …

After pasting some content into Excel 365 (2016), I found that I had brought along thousands of little objects from the source data. These were tiny invisible objects, but they'd constantly get in the way of me clicking into a cell, because I'd inadvertently click on one of the objects instead. While I should have just …

I've written the following three PowerShell functions to build a mapping of Office 365 ProPlus version numbers (e.g. 16.0.10205.2009) to more reportable build numbers (e.g. 1806). I've created the following three functions to start: Get-Office365BuildToVersionMap Get-OfficeBuildListToCase Get-OfficeBuildListToSQLTable …

Those enterprises who jumped on the Windows 10 bandwagon early and didn't like the idea of the Windows Store being installed by default may have taken it upon themselves to force the removal of the Windows Store before reading some of the best practices for either disabling it, or setting up a Windows Store for …

If you're trying to automate the deployment of the SCCM Console through Configuration Manager, you may find that running it quietly throws something like this in AppEnforce.log: Process 9976 terminated with exitcode: 6 For some reason, Microsoft has decided not to define a default installation path when running the …

How it is possible in mid-2018, with 2.6 million results in google when searching, that we don't have a policy where we can prevent shutting down a system but allow rebooting? There are dozens of workarounds, some of which I'll go over below, but no actual ability to set this policy. My Problem: First, there are two …

When it comes to data in SCCM, there is no shortage of what you can get access to, but where exactly do you find it? Below I'll outline three methods I've used in the past. First, the TechNet documentation. I'm going to be honest, I haven't actually looked here in quite some time. It's available, but since I've been …

I was having a discussion last week about how if you want to add a new product to an existing Office 365 ProPlus installation (such as adding Microsoft Access after already laying down Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), you need to supply an XML with the apps you want to exclude (no longer including Access) but you don't …

Last week I Fred Bainbridge and Ryan Ephgrave's MMSMOA session where they showed us that we shouldn't be using the pipeline anymore. Before beginning the session, I was as confused as you might be about why. The guys did a great job explaining it and I'm going to show you why in the same manner they showed me. Let's …