SCCM / ConfigMgr, WDAC, OSD and the occasional trauma dump.
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Stopping mandatory SCCM Reboot last minute
Open an elevated powershell window and run the commands: To use it in a run script and get feedback we need to delay the restart of the service using scheduled task Thanks @PotentEngineer and Russ for the code I mismashed together
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Office 2019 Fails to activate – Windows Virtual Desktop
Office will fail to activate because Microsoft sets the KMS server in the registry which overrides any method of finding the on-prem kms. You can deploy a reg to remove these settings. I don’t know how that’s going to play with the multi-user version but might be ok…
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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…
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SCCM Right click script to get current IP Addresses.. because you know DNS
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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/
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Slow Software Center search results
Currently Software Center will use WMI to query all available software for the computer, then it will ask the management point for user assigned apps. If your computer is a bit slow/old the wait time checking WMI can be painful. You can check this on the client log SCNotify_DOMAIN@%username%_1.log Please vote for my Uservoice -…
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Apply Operating System: Download() failed. 80072efe
If you get this error try adding this command line to your task sequence cmd.exe /c Wpeutil disablefirewall let me know if this workaround helps.
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Task Sequence can’t find a dependency that doesn’t exit
When I see ‘Failed to run Task Sequence – This task sequence cannot be run because the program files for XXXXXXX cannot be locataed on a distribution point’ I go to Monitoring \ Distribution Status \ Content Status. It’s the quickest way to search all package objects. Today the search came up with no results.…
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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…
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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…