SCCM / ConfigMgr, WDAC, OSD and the occasional trauma dump.
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How I automate patching desktops
It takes a long time to setup but worth it, computers should not get policies they don’t need, at some point things will start stuffing up. I have split desktops into 3 categories that suit our environment. Pilot get updates straight away and will reboot at night. Prod and PUC get updates 7 days later…
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OSD Black screen of death.
After using a new captured image (Win 7 x64) certain machines were not completing OSD and ending up at a black screen with just a mouse cursor. Dell T1700, E6440, E7240, M4800. This was after the May patching, the only update that has been reported to play up (well with flash?) was KB2926765. We removed…
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Changing the 8 hour download modification interval
We noticed when doing some DR tests that if a DP goes down a client would wait 8 hours until it switches to another DP which is silly. This is due to the ‘Download Modification Interval’ being set to 8 hours, if you want to reduce this value you also need to reduce the ‘Download…
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Single Functioning Software updates
We get to package WinZip every version, and it got me thinking they could have probably stopped at maybe version 2 or well when they added Rar and Iso support. It seems they started adding random stuff to it around version 8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinZip#History One version they decided to add a feature that deleted files on…
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Powershell script to clean up IIS’s log file mess
Management Point’s rely heavily on IIS and IIS loves to log a lot which will fill up your hard drive. Here’s a script that deletes logs older than 14 days. Location and amount of days can be changed easily. We have ours scheduled to run monthly on site systems using IIS. Download
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Automate sending out Windows Update Reports for ADR Rules.
Each patch Tuesday a pilot group gets the updates and receives an excel report on what is being deployed, you can automate this with ConfigMgr! 1. Create a collection such as Monthly ADR Report Group – DO NOT REMOVE 2. Next we need to create a dummy ADR rule that is deployed to the collection…
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Orchestrator RunBook Designer Launcher!
Unfortunately Orchestrator only remembers the last server you connected to. I got sick of having to type in different servers for DEV, QAT and PROD so I created a nice GUI with powershell to launch each environment. Source code and PowerShell Studio file download OrchestratorLauncher.zip It edit’s the XML config file then launches the runbook…
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Microsoft Configuration Manager Support Center
Have you ever needed someone to collect logs off a machine and came to find that the vital log you wanted wasn’t collected? Lost in the sea of logs? Microsoft feels your pain! Microsoft has released an excellent support tool to assist in troubleshooting ConfigMgr. It can collect logs, policys, wmi, registry etc; from remote…
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Multicast website component is not installed on Https DPs
We recently logged a case with Microsoft as multicast wasn’t working because the SMS_MCS_AltAuth IIS virtual directory was missing. The work around is to delete the condition in the msi (SMSbinx64mcs.msi) MCSIsapiAltAuth.866DCF8D_BC89_48AE_9AE6_69F1BAAEF805 in the MSI: (SMSSSLSTATE >< 1) and then enable multicast. This is due to the MSI evaluating whether the site is HTTPS instead…