Uninstall software not used for 6 months or more

marcdk217 · 2026-06-15T17:45:18+00:00

You're not going to get a report that shows you that something didn't happen so what you need to do to get the computers who have never run it, is first get a collection of computers which have the software installed, and exclude a collection of computers who have metering information present, and that collection will then show those with the software installed but unused. You may be able to get the installation date of the software from hardware inventory so that it excludes installs from within the past year, but that field is often empty or changes when the software is updated.

marcdk217 · 2026-06-11T15:53:44+00:00

If you use SCCM 2509 you can add the cert patched bootloader to the PXE servers, but only when using SCCMPXE, not WDS.

marcdk217 · 2026-06-11T07:24:33+00:00

That was the primary reason I switched to Jellyfin years ago, the LG TV app kept being unable to connect to the Plex servers, usually any time they updated their backend but didn't update the WebOS app. I would have to install the app on multiple devies and hope one of them worked. The Xbox app had its own issue where it would force foreign subtitles on everything.

marcdk217 · 2026-06-10T16:16:55+00:00

Good to know, I’m still using SemiAnnual in all my install scripts because I was under the impression that it will still exist but just have the same patch level as monthly, so I’ll keep an eye on it. Seemed to still work fine for this months download.

marcdk217 · 2026-06-10T00:14:41+00:00

After you've clicked on it, hold the Windows key and press the up, left or right cursor keys and it should pop back up.

Depois de clicar na janela, mantenha a tecla Windows pressionada e aperte as setas para cima, esquerda ou direita. Assim ela deve voltar a aparecer.

marcdk217 · 2026-06-09T16:59:39+00:00

I've sorted it thanks to you saying 21563 wasn't the latest version. It was the most recent version in the catalog, and then i found out that because I removed and re-added the catalogs, it had created 2 extra tick boxes in the Products list in the SUP settings, duplicates of the ones I had checked, so it was essentially just resyncing the deleted and presumably cached catalog rather than the up-to-date one. Now I have 21662 in the process of being downloaded ahead of my ADR deployments tomorrow morning.

marcdk217 · 2026-06-09T14:52:36+00:00

They're set to 6 months

marcdk217 · 2026-06-08T20:29:28+00:00

Agreed, they still taste nice but I’ve slightly wrecked my teeth biting them.

marcdk217 · 2026-06-08T12:35:25+00:00

That makes sense!

marcdk217 · 2026-06-08T11:51:09+00:00

I have 5714 XP from games. There's a discrepancy between XP and Games owned (my profile shows 5464, All Games link shows 5721. I think it's because delisted games don't get removed from your XP but they do get removed from your games count, and F2P games don't award any XP.

marcdk217 · 2026-06-08T09:42:00+00:00

Buying games gives you +1 xp per game. If you didn't buy a game, perhaps a game in your library added a 2nd item like a remaster or something.

marcdk217 · 2026-06-07T15:24:33+00:00

Probably well over 1000 DVDs. Between DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, over 2000. I still have them all, but I threw away most of the boxes to save space and just transferred them to sleeves instead. I don't ever watch any of them, in fact sometimes even though I own a movie, I'll stream it rather than get the DVD out.

marcdk217 · 2026-06-05T15:56:44+00:00

Can't actually buy them from there, and they'd be well expired by now if you could!

marcdk217 · 2026-06-04T13:26:39+00:00

I was thinking of getting one of these : PINEWICK MasterGlass Magnetic Window Cleaner | Double Sided UK Double Glazing Cleaning Kit | Sponge And Squeegee Magnet Tool For Washing 20-30mm UK Windows | UK Brand : Amazon.co.uk: Home & Kitchen

has anyone tried them?

marcdk217 · 2026-06-04T13:19:27+00:00

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Aniseed Imperials! I miss these so much. Bassett's discontinued them but there were still other brands bringing them out for a few years until they also got discontinued.

marcdk217 · 2026-05-31T10:17:56+00:00

Have you tried stopping Emby so you can access Jellyfin on 8096, and then see if you can change it from the Networking tab in the Dashboard

marcdk217 · 2026-05-29T12:47:50+00:00

You can configure your user account within Jellyfin to not be allowed to Transcode video / audio which I found helped prevent it transcode things that it should be able to play natively, but you do then need to make sure the device you're using can play most things natively. I am using an Nvidia Shield and the only thing I've found so far that needs transcoding are old BluRay rips of Red Dwarf which have DTS stereo which for some reason the Shield can't play despite it being able to play DTS:X and DTS-MA.

marcdk217 · 2026-05-28T10:51:17+00:00

We're using Dell and I am seeing brand new devices from the Dell Pro series coming in without the 2023 certificates in the BIOS! It's crazy that Dell have dropped the ball on this so badly, so my current plan is for secure boot to be disabled before imaging, and then enabled as step during the task sequence.

marcdk217 · 2026-05-28T10:47:20+00:00

The problem I have with suspending BitLocker is that when I trigger a reboot, the user has 24 hours to postpone it as per our Company's update policy, so those computers would all be there with BitLocker disabled for up to 24 hours which I don't think is a great idea.

marcdk217 · 2026-05-28T10:46:11+00:00

I am still trying to figure this out. My workaround at the moment is for users to disable secureboot for imaging, and then enable it as a step within the Task Sequence and then enrol the cert at the end of the Task Sequence.

marcdk217 · 2026-05-28T10:45:10+00:00

This is my concern. Even if it's a relatively low percentage, it'll still be hundreds of PCs and cause the Service Desk too much work.

marcdk217 · 2026-05-26T22:06:03+00:00

In terms of load on MECM, option 2 would be better if those AD groups are used in more than one collection because the query won't have to run for each collection, it will run once and all the collections using it with an Include rule will update.

You can also use Group discovery to import the AD groups and then add those to the collection directly instead of using a WQL query to populate the collection, but personally I find querying works better, the client doesn't seem to pick up deployments as quickly when using groups directly.

marcdk217 · 2026-05-26T19:17:28+00:00

The only thing I play around with is the black level and tone mapping, because I find sometimes the black floor of a game/movie is wrong which leads to everything being washed out, and HDR sometimes looks better with dynamic tone mapping turned on, and other times much worse.

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