“We couldn’t update system reserved partition” error upgrading to Windows 11
DaleWe were upgrading part of our laptop fleet to Windows 11. The Windows 11 Upgrade Verifier said we'd have no issues, yet we did. The root cause of our upgrade…
HP G5 USB-C Dock feature comparison
5TW10AA/5TW10UT/5TW10ET 72C71AA (Essential Dock) 784Q9AA (Essential Dock) 26D32AA Usage Home Business Home USB-C Power output 100W 65W 65W 100W Dimensions (L x W x H) 4.80 x 4.80 x 1.77…
More on the HP USB-C G5 Dock
HP G5 Dock teardown by Dan S. Charlton How do you get the HP USB-C G5 Dock to output dual 4K ?? (Reddit) enabling High Resolution Mode aka USB-C DP…
Saturday Link Roundup–Powershell
Differences between Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7.x I considered upgrading from PowerShell 5.1 to 7 until I read about the incompatibilities. Wanting to automate SCCM Reports? – start by…
On removing ADM files–one small issue
Back in May 2022, I wrote about Sysvol Bloat with Group Policy ADM Template files. I was removing the Office 2010 series of ADM Templates, as I’ve replaced them with…
Things I wish I thought of going in–Open Media Vault 6
So my TrueNAS Server wouldn’t boot any later version than 12U6, and I wasn’t sure if it was TrueNAS or the underlying FreeBSD operating system. A search of the forums…
Saturday Link Roundup
Tracing and Troubleshoot WMI Events Can capture lots of useful information. If your WMI Provider is broken, it may not help with that/ Get-CMDeviceCollectionDirectMembershipRule This got me out of a…
USB and Power Management?
A question rolled in from a customer “We’re having issues with our audio headsets randomly disconnecting, is there a sleep setting for USBs?” Yes there is! USB Selective Suspend. Two…
Smoke Alarm Batteries
It’s the end of Daylight Saving in Victoria, so it’s that time of year to change the batteries. The old battery lasted well and will get re-used for something else…
Restricting an AD user account to particular workstations–one gotcha
We locked down one of our generic user accounts to a particular workstation, for good security reasons. Windows OSHub has a good writeup on how and why you do it.…