Because I wanted to configure Device Guard with Windows 10, I need the Hyper-V Hypervisor to be enabled on Windows 10. I tried to do this with DISM and an answer file, but it’s not possible to enable Hyper-V during the Task Sequence Deployment because Hyper-V requires a couple of reboots. Solution: Create a new “Set Task Sequence Variable” task in your Task Sequence. This will run the PowerShell command after the Task Sequence ends.

This video, presented by Mark Russinovich and Matt McSpirit, gives you a great overview about the design and architecture of containers. Mark will show you how to create and use the containers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoA_MMlGPRc Don’t forget to subscribe to the Microsoft Mechanics YouTube Channel.

Recently I connected System Center - Virtual Machine Manager with WSUS. The WSUS server is installed on the primary site server of my SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 CU2 installation. After I configured my SCCM WSUS server as an update server for VMM, the distribution point in the office stopped working. You will see HTTP ERROR “12030” in your logs and the PXE request on a client will fail. Browsing to the website of the SCCM Primary Site server will fail too.

Recently I found the following error in the SMSPXE.log log file on my newly created distribution point: CryptVerifySignature failed, 80090006 SMSPXE <REMOVED TIME> 2500 (0x09C4) untrusted certificate: <REMOVED CERTIFICATE> SMSPXE <REMOVED TIME> 2500 (0x09C4) Failed to get information for MP: https://SCCMPRIMARY.DOMAIN.TLD. 80090006. SMSPXE <REMOVED TIME> 2500 (0x09C4) After recreating my certificate template for the IIS Service on the primary site server, it fixed the problem. Check the online documentation of SCCM for the details of this certificate template.

I had a problem with Spotify on my notebook, connected with HDMI to my Pioneer receiver. I’m using Windows 10 with the 10586 Build. When I wanted to play music after I paused Spotify for a couple of minutes, the music doesn’t play again. So I created a small PowerShell script that kills all the Spotify instances, but it’s a workaround, not a solution: Get-Process *spotify | Stop-Process Solution Right click the Speaker in your taskbar.

Today I created a user policy in an OU where Loopback Processing was applied and where Security Filtering was set to my account to test the policy. The policy didn’t show up in the RSOP data (gpresult /h report1.html) and the policy was not getting applied. Solution: Give the Domain Computers (or the group with the computer accounts from the OU) permission to read the GPO. Because of Loopback Processing, the computer account will be used to read the GPO, instead of the user account.