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MDT UDI Pre-flight checks
One of the best things to come out of MDT is the User Driven Interface (UDI) and the preflight page which allows custom checks. You can control whether a check passes or not with the exit code of the script. The locations to put preflight scripts is MDT Toolkit files packagetoolsArchPreflight Check Hardware Model…
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Setting lockscreen and wallpaper based on resolution for Windows 8.1 during OSD
Lockscreen First you need to create and name files in this convention (we used png files and renamed them to jpg – this somehow works) LockScreen___2160_1440.jpg LockScreen___1024_0768.jpg We used the top 10 resolutions on client machines and also the Surface Pro 3 resolution 1680 x 1050 1920 x 1080 1280 x 1024 1366 x 768…
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Deploy Windows 10 Preview with SCCM 2012 R2 (Unsupported)
Johan Arwidmark and Niall Brady have posted guides on deploying Windows 10 Preview injecting the Windows 10 version of Dism during the task sequence. http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/193/Beyond-unsupported-Deploying-Windows-10-preview-including-drivers-with-ConfigMgr-2012-R2.aspx http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/11394-how-can-i-deploy-windows-10-enterprise-using-system-center-2012-r2-configuration-manager/
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Adding custom programs to the Set Default Programs UI
Hi, today I wanted the CMTrace tool to be recognised in the Set Default Programs control panel applet. There is a bit of information on the net but it’s confusing. In the registry you can set the program, launch arguments, file types and icon. This can be used for any app by modifying the reg…
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Modular Task Sequence groups – Just an idea
Maik Koster has created a really good tool that monitors/ keeps backup of task sequence changes http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/maikkoster/archive/2011/05/12/versioning-monitoring-sccm-task-sequences.aspx expanding from this it may be possible to mark groups of your task sequences as modules. So say when a task sequence changes the script would then record the xml changes of that module group and replace in…
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Add a Right Click Copy Folder or File path menu option in Windows Explorer
SCCM ConfigMgr doesn’t like quotes around paths when adding packages or Wims, etc so the secret shh shift + right click copy as path isn’t that handy. Here’s a reg file to add a special right click option for ConfigMgr Download
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KB2918614 – UAC GATE
Update 13/11: A new hotfix was released: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3008627 After install above hotfix, you can use below registry key manually as a switch to enable or disable the UAC : Under Key “HKLMSOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindowsInstaller”, create a DWORD: “NoUACforHashMissing” and set its Value to 1. Update 17/09: You can whitelist existing msi’s. Not tested yet, will…
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Take advantage of OEM Settings to display OSD state!
I have 2 scenarios that allows techs to determine the computers state. When the task sequence fails or when a Lab computer hasn’t been added to a lab group. It’s easy to enable the oembackground and rename a jpg picture. Group policy reg can disable the background picture. For the first scenario you enable ‘Continue…
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SCCM USB Boot disk creator
I made a little program that sets up usb drives to be bootable into OSD winpe. I made it because we are getting devices without dvd drives that can’t pxe boot and our techs don’t have access to create bootable usb’s from the console as they need the dp cert and password. You generate a…
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Set Computer Model OEM Information during task sequence.
Make your SOE a little bit fancy To set the Computer Model information during OSD you just need to add a run command line step Powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command $model = Get-WmiObject win32_computersystem model;Set-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionOEMInformation -Name Model -Value $model.model Other Settings you can put in HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionOEMInformation Logo – Pathtologo.bmp Manufacturer…