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Recently I upgraded iTunes to 12.5.1 on Surface Pro 3 with Windows 10 Pro build 14393. iTunes couldn't detect connected iPhone. Noticed Windows Device Manager is not showing Apple Mobile Device under 'Universal Serial Bus Controllers', However iPhone was listed under Portable Devices. 10 Steps to fix iPhone detection issues in Windows 10. 1.      Connect iPhone to PC and Open iTunes. 2.      Right Click on Start Menu, Select 'Device Manager ' or Search Device Manager in Cortana.  3.      Expand Portable Devices. 4.      Right Click on Device i.e. Apple iPhone in this case. 5.      Choose 'Update Drive Software'. 6.      Select 'Browse my computer for drive Software'. 7.      Go to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\, Ensure 'Include Subfolders' option  is ticked. 8.      Click Next, Close to finish Installation of driver. Confirm Apple Mobile Device USB Driver are installed successfully

Recently i have attempted to upgrade MobileIron Core from 7.x and Sentry 7.x latest version. Here is my experience with the product and upgrade, i hope this will be useful to MI Admin. Prerequisites: 1. Ensure you have console access to MI Core and Sentry access. 2. Ensure you can connect using Putty to MI Servers. 3. Ensure you have admin credentials to the server. Attempt 1  We decided to upgrade using following plan with the rollback plan i.e Snapshots. Upgrade Core from 7.0.0.1 to 8.0.1.0. Upgrade Sentry from 7.0.1 to 7.5.1 Upgrade Core from 8.0.1.0 to 9.0.0.0 Upgrade Sentry from 7.5.1 to 8.0.1.  Upgrade Core from 9.0.0.0 to 9.1.0.0 Outcome : Failed ! MobileIron Core upgrade failed with schema mismatch error. It seems MI databases have multiple entries that needs to added,deleted, amended to resolve schema mismatch issues. MI Support informed this is issue across the board.  Learning 1 - Never attempt to upgrade without snapshot ! Learning 2 - Keep M

SCCM  1606 Software Centre Changes SCCM (ConfigMgr) 1511 has introduced new software center.  Some organisation might face challenges to deploy new software center. However, you can use run both software center side by side.  New Software Center executable is located under C:\Windows\CCM\ClientUX\ scclient.exe. You can still continue to use old software center and application catalog using old Software Centre. Simply publish another shortcut to all users pointing to C:\Windows\CCM\SCClient.exe. This might helpful to the organisation who is heavily using Software Centre\ Aplication catalog and user training / change management could be daunting task.  You can run both Software Center side by side.

Recently, I am come across the issue where Dell OptiPlex 3010 was unable to load boot image using PXE boot successfully. System was unable to load boot.sdi file. Loading Files, File \SMSBoot\boot.sdi, WDS log shows the message "TFTP download failed". Resolution: This issue might occur if following registry entry added to  SCCM Distribution Point with PXE. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ Software\Microsoft\SMS\DP\RamDiskTFTPBlockSize Type Reg_Dword Value: 16384 Dec          (Do not use higher value than this!)  Recommend that you increase this setting in multiples (4096, 8192, 16384, and so on) and that you not set a value higher than 16384. Please change the value of RamDiskTFTPBlockSize to 8192 or lower to resolve this issue.

Unable to PXE Boot Surface Pro 2 ?  Surface Pro 2 driver pack is available from download from Microsoft Website. This driver pack does not include the Ethernet Adaptor drivers to inject in WinPE boot image for PXE Boot. Initially I had trouble finding the driver to inject in Boot CD, driver is not included in Surface Pro 2 driver pack or any other official Microsoft link . I managed to identify driver from driverstore and inject in SCCM. The same driver package was  injected in Win PE boot image from SCCM 2012 R2 or SCCM 2012 SP1 CU3 using DISM command on Windows 8.1 machine . Driver can be downloaded from here . Thanks Pratik Dave 

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Network Driver for HP Elitebook 840 G1 Issue :  HP elitebook 840 G1 does no PXE boot when network drivers are injected in boot image. environment SCCM 2012 SP1. Answer: To build HP elitebook 840 G1  inject the Windows 8 network driver.  Please see post below from Niall C. Brady on how to inject or test drive during task sequence. Thanks Niall C. Brady for this article:  http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/nbrady/archive/2011/08/31/missing-nic-driver-in-winpe-boot-image-no-problem.aspx . TO\o Download Driver click here   Unzip the file using 7 zip, go to \sp63299\Setup\Win8x64  folders and inject driver in boot image  from SCCM or using drvload command as explain in article.  Happy Days....