SCCM / ConfigMgr, WDAC, OSD and the occasional trauma dump.
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KB: Software Updates That Require Multiple Reboots may Cause Task Sequence Failure
If a task sequence is not continuing after the Install update step it is probably due to component based servicing. You can easily find it by searching this text in the relevent log. The update will be mentioned 5 lines above. Look in %windir%logsCBS CBS has signaled TrustedInstaller that a reboot is required. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2894518 list…
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BDEDrive size
It helps to set a bit more space for this partition if you add more components to the boot wim, I chose to use 1GB. SCCM uses the drive with the most space that isn’t encrypted to copy the boot wim down. We had issues in operating system deployment if the boot wim needed…
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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…
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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…