1. Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redist Broken After Windows 10 1607 Upgrade

   I've been deploying the Windows 10 build 1607 feature upgrade (also known as the Anniversary Update) via WSUS to a test lab at work. The machines are upgrading from 1511. Today I was informed that Autodesk 3ds Max & AutoCad would not launch on those machines. 3dsmax.exe gave an error: "The procedure entry point __crtCreateSymbolicLinkW could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\MSVCP110.dll."

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2. Deploy Application Updates with Ninite with a Cache on your LAN

   Recently we purchased Ninite Pro for our organization and have implemented silent application updating via a scheduled task with PowerShell. This process uses a cache on our LAN to store updates and speed the whole process along. After some thinking I decided I wanted to get this working off-site so that when students take their laptops home over the summer, they can continue to receive updates.

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3. Remove All Drivers from a Windows Image by a Certain Vendor

   For when you find that you just need to remove all of the drivers from a captured image, or only those of certain makes. PowerShell makes it easy to script this removal so you aren't manually typing a ton of dism commands. I found myself needing to purge some problematic Intel drivers from an image in order to get USB working on some of our older machines. I found that it is possible to remove all drivers from a mounted Windows image and then commit the changes back to the captured WIM completely in PowerShell. Read on if you need the skinny.

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4. Getting Adobe Creative Cloud Enterprise to Install from a Network Share

   I've been fighting geting Adobe Creative Cloud to install properly from a LiteTouch deployment share. In my troubleshooting, I was always able to install the exceptions just fine, but the MSI package created by Adobe's Creative Cloud Packager would not run successfully from a network share.

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