Author: jbmurphy
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Using PowerShell to unpin the AppStore in Windows 10 – Workaround
I can’t find a way to unpin the AppStore in Windows 10. So I wen’t about it another way. I reset the taskbar to have nothing and then I added everything back that I wanted. I am using this in my OSD/RunOnce PowerShell script to customize the user’s desktop. First of all I am using…
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SCCM 2012 OSD task sequence, windows 10 drivers missing
Still having problems getting my Windows 10 OSD up and running. Working with a Dell Latitude E7450 and the updated SCCM driver pack, but the drivers weren’t being installed. Ends up that you have to update your WINPE version from 8.1 to windows 10. Here is the article that I followed to update the WINPE…
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Re-imaging a machine, with SCCM 2012 fails with error 0x80070570
I have been working on building a new Windows 10 image. I was testing on a laptop and all of the sudden the OSD Task Sequence started failing, before anything even started! I had only made a minor change to the TaskSequence, so I was pulling my hair out. If you are impatient like me,…
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A better jQuery selector to hide a row in a SharePoint 2010 Edit Form
In the past, I had used this code to hide a row in a SharePoint Edit Form (EditForm.aspx): The problem with this is that if you have two fields that contain the text “Attendees” (For example “NewAttendees” & “OldAttendees”), then it matches both of them (this always seems to to be an issue for us).…
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Using jQuery to change to the Items tab in a SharePoint 2010 list.
In my last post, I showed how to use a query string parameter to start a user out on the items tab of a SharePoint list. This is well documented, I just can’t seem to remember it (that is why I posted it!). I wanted to take it a step further and use jQuery to…
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How to default to the Items tab in a SharePoint 2010 List
I wanted users to see the “Items” tab when the landed on a SharePoint 2010 list, rather than the “Browse tab”. The quick solution was to modify the link that points to the list, and append:
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Replace the New Item button on a SharePoint 2010 list with jQuery
I have a SharePoint 2010 Business Data Catalog (BDC) pointing to our MS CRM 20111 back end. This is a good way to show paged views of the database. But at the top, there is still a “New Item” button. This does not make much sense for a BDC (or External list) without update queries.…
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Quickly install the SQL powershell toolls on your local machine
I wanted to quickly install the 2012 powershell tools on to my machine. I could’t find a simple summary, so here goes: Visit this site: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29065 Download the following: Microsoft® Windows PowerShell Extensions for Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Shared Management Objects Microsoft® System CLR Types for Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Wherever…
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2013 Year in review & Goals for 2014
My blogging fell apart in 2013. I was doing well and reached a goal of 10,000 visitors in a month. Then it fell apart. I spent a lot of time trying to learn Cisco products, and I felt that I did to have anything interesting to add to the internets – it was stuff that…
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How to recursively find all files in OS X Finder
I often want to find all files in a folder and all sub folders. I can never remember this: -kind:folder Seems backwards to me, but it works.