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  • Revisiting how SCCM imports and names images

    Revisiting how SCCM imports and names images

    When capturing the image using build and capture, you have the option of setting a description. This description used to be part of the image name when importing, at some point that changed and no longer worked. This image description was set for the wim, where as when importing the image description SCCM was looking…

  • SCCM Right click script to get current IP Addresses.. because you know DNS

    SCCM Right click script to get current IP Addresses.. because you know DNS

  • Microsoft Orchestrator Error 405: The requested operation requires Publish permissions on the Runbook

    Microsoft Orchestrator Error 405: The requested operation requires Publish permissions on the Runbook

    If you get this error using MDT to run a book or using the SCOJobRunner.exe tool, grant the network access account  Read and List rights at the top Runbooks folder in Runbook Designer. You also need to select Publish rights in the advanced permissions on each runbook you want to give access to.   Thanks https://marcelzehner.ch/2011/11/12/news-in-scsm12-beta-8-permissions-for-triggering-system-center-orchestrator-runbooks/  

  • Moving the Content Library to remote share tips

    Moving the Content Library to remote share tips

    The Move When moving the content library we ran into a few issues, the main one was that the process kept getting aborted: CopyFiles failed; 0x800703e3 SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 10/07/2019 8:52:34 AM 8488 (0x2128) MoveContentLibrary() failed. 0x800703e3. SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 10/07/2019 8:52:34 AM 8488 (0x2128) This was due to backups running every night. So first disable Backups when you…

  • Powershell script to enable Citrix AutoScale

    Powershell script to enable Citrix AutoScale

    The Citrix console is really difficult to use to configure AutoScale on delivery groups, especially using the cloud version. It’s easier to create a script to configure the new AutoScale settings. At the top configure the delivery group settings and then execute. When creating a delivery group the default Autoscale will be Weekdays/Weekend. The script…

  • SCCM Run Script File Copy Example

    SCCM Run Script File Copy Example

    New to the Scripts feature however I’m enjoying it. I needed a script that could copy files from a network folder to the local machine To import this script first download it from https://1drv.ms/u/s!Apq2Xflj18I19CAcc9kmVDFsILIN In the SCCM Console under Software Library \ Scripts Right click and choose Create Script Click Import and select the Script Click Next, then…

  • SCCM Component Manager

    SCCM Component Manager

      SCCM Component manager is a quick way to start/stop/pause SCCM components that you would normally control using the Service Manager. The reason the Service manager is so slow is because it has to connect to every site system’s registry and gather information. SCCM Component manager only connects to the server that you select so…

  • The certificate you specified is already in use. Are you sure you want to use this certificate?

    The certificate you specified is already in use. Are you sure you want to use this certificate?

    The whole point of this message is to say Warning: if you block this certificate tomorrow, you are going to break other things   When creating bootable media or modifying a distribution point you will get this error if you use the same exportable certificate more than once. The cert is used for management point…

  • Managing Automatic Deployment rules when you don't live in the USA

    Managing Automatic Deployment rules when you don’t live in the USA

    Update: Starting with SCCM 1802 Automatic deployment rules can be scheduled to evaluate offset from a base day. Meaning, if patch Tuesday actually falls on Wednesday for you, the evaluation schedule can be set for the second Tuesday of the month offset by one day.                    …

  • Disabling Windows File Explorer banner advertising

    Disabling Windows File Explorer banner advertising

    Microsoft has soo much advertising power with Windows 10, they can now put banners up in Windows Explorer via updates. You may see one such as this: ‘Save your documents and photos to OneDrive’ or ‘Get the best deal on your cloud storage with OneDrive’ The setting is called Show Sync Provider Notifications however it has…