Lately I wanted to modify the appearance of the Start Menu of my users and after some feedback it appears that many of them didn’t liked the folders which appeared on the left side of the Start Menu. My initial thought was that everything is configured in the Start […]
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If you ever want to remove content from distribution points (DP) in SCCM you can use the provided Remove-CMContentDistribution PowerShell cmdlet. However, one important parameter that you must keep in mind is the DisableContentDependencyDetection. If this parameter is not passed, the content will be deleted not only for the application […]
In a previous article I’ve made a quick demo on how you can add an additional source location for your MSI by using VBScript. Recently I had an email from a user regarding this topic and asked me if there is an alternative way to add source locations without the […]
Until recently, there was no possibility to group your applications (formerly known as shortcuts) under a Start Menu folder for MSIX Packages. This feature was requested by many people and Microsoft released a preview of it recently. In this article we are going to have a look on how you […]
A few days ago I’ve stumbled across a situation where an MSIX application was decided to be removed from all users in the infrastructure. However, there were many versions of the applications and some users even had multiple architectures installed on the machine. To make things much easier and in […]
Debugging an MSIX is not such an easy task. The execution is happening in a container so it’s not that easy to find out why an application is crashing. There are many tools out there which can help you debug MSIX apps like Hover, MSIX Commander, Process Monitor, etc. With […]
When you install Java on a device, it automatically comes with some default certificates. To know which certificates are present in Java, you need to navigate to Control Panel > Java > Security > Manage Certificates. Of course you can manually import certificates, but we want to know how we […]
Process Monitor is a great tool when it comes to troubleshooting applications. But what does actually ProcMon show you? Process Monitor displays all the activity that happens on the system. The activity is composed out of file system changes, registry changes and processes/threads. However, there might be cases where Process […]
One main rule that is new in the software packaging world is the use of digital certificates with MSIX packages. MSIX package will not install if they are not digitally signed. Now, if you are just learning MSIX, or you don’t yet have a bought digital certificate, you can create […]
Although these are rares cases, you might have some scenarios where you want to modify something on the system before you install your MSIX package. One example that I’ve stumbled upon was a user who had old MSI versions installed on the machine and these left a lot of user […]
Everybody knew that Flash was getting an EOL (End Of Life) on the 31st of December 2020, and patches to remove the OS Flash were created since October last year. The KB4577586 support page explains that this KB only removes Flash from the Windows operating system, not the additional one […]
In a previous article we had a look on how you can set folder permissions by using VBScript and the Secedit tool which comes natively in the OS. But if you work in PowerShell, it doesn’t make sense to make a separate VBScript just to set permissions. PowerShell adds […]