Tag Archives: Windows

Hide Command Window of Default MDT 2013 prestart command in SCCM

If you want to hide the big ugly black command window of the default prestart command wizard hook. You can fin one way to do that at Alexsemi’s Blog.

His version is to workaround the inject of SCCM MDT with cscript.exe, by wrapping it with an AutoIt exe. This way OSD won’t replace the wscript.exe call with cscript.exe. So there is no window visible.
But because I don’t like to have any unnecessary files, I found a solution with a PowerShell call.

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Active Directory DC did not authenticate and replicate

Yesterday I got a problem in an Active Directory environment. A DC stopped to authenticate users.

The first problem was easy to find and is typical. The time on this DC was several years behind. I know, not really common to have such a time shift, but the symptoms were clear. So this was fixed very quickly. Continue reading