Demonstration on how to use AppSense Environment Manager to block macros in Office 2016. Microsoft Office 2016 ADMX Template: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49030 Microsoft TechNet Article: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2016/03/22/new-feature-in-office-2016-can-block-macros-and-help-prevent-infection/
Citrix joins list of vendors that strongly advise against in-place upgrading Windows 10 to v1607 Anniversary Update
After reporting to Citrix and Microsoft for several weeks that in-place upgrades break Citrix Reciever, Citrix has finally released a known issues document. Citrix strongly advises not to apply the Anniversary Update (v1607) on existing Windows 10 machines with Citrix Read More …
Troubleshooting AppSense AD Group Condition failing to validate.
We had an issue where one of our conditions was continually failing even though users were in the appropriate AD group. I thought I would share what I found and how I troubleshot this issue to assist you if you Read More …
AppSense Communication Agent (CCA) – Breaks during Windows 10 In-place Upgrade
The AppSense DesktopNow Suite is a really great product that has made my IT administrative life so much more easier. Their product does what it says it will do, and I have had a lot of success removing local administrative Read More …
Visual Studio 2015 – C# – Read Registry without Admin Rights
One of the most difficult issues I find, is when an application requires admin rights because the developers did not code their programs to run without admin rights. If there is a way that a program could accomplish the same Read More …
Nero Autobackup Files are bloating LANDESK Inventory Scan Records
Recently I was troubleshooting why scan files were ending up in the ErrorBigScan folder on my core server. The maximum .scn file that can be read in is 100MB, and finding scan files over that size is rare. What I Read More …
Intel’s Energy Server Service WILLAMETTE is causing LANDESK Inventory Records to get rejected.
I recently came across an issue where the Intel Power Energy Server Service was causing problems with our inventory record data. What we identified was that the service has an extremely long path. To find the problematic record, I ran Read More …
LANDESK – LDMS Agent Firewall Settings Using GPO
The following list is intended for use with Microsoft GPO firewall settings. The list is derived from the community article “Ports used by LANDesk Management Suite – Full List” Since I use AppSense, which applies the MS GPOs via the Read More …
LANDESK Provisioning – Check BIOS Model Against Approval List
The purpose of this AutoIt script is to be called at the start of a LANDESK provisioning template and validate against a list of approved devices before imaging. TODO: Currently this script and the validation gets written to the “C” Read More …
LANDESK Interchange 2016
Sorry for the late follow-up on this years LANDESK Interchange Conference. This year has been one of the best Interchange conferences I have been to. Each successive year the conference appears to be improving. The keynotes were better, the organization Read More …