SCCM / ConfigMgr, WDAC, OSD and the occasional trauma dump.
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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…
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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…
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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. …
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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…
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Creating Alerts for High-Risk Deployments
When you want to deploy Operating Systems zero-touch it can be scary the thought of all systems being added to the collection, so you can it’s best to provide as many safe-guards. We currently have a runbook that adds a variable to let the computer go zero-touch however we want to know if there is an…
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Stopping the ‘Download language typing features’ Action Centre Alert
We have deployed quite a few keyboards / Language Features however if you are missing any related features for a language this action centre prompt will keep coming up until they are installed, what’s worse is that they require admin rights to install. To deploy a fix you need to work out what’s missing. The…
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Set the computer name using the BIOS Asset Tag
If you are setting the Asset Tag the same name that the computer is, it makes sense to only have to input it once. I created a powershell script that will do the following: If VM or Mac: Exit 0 If computer exists in SCCM: Exit 0 If AssetTag Exists/Not empty: Set OSDComputerName to AssetTag,…
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Deploying Creative Cloud Packages 2017
Quick Post on the install order of – Use your favourite App Packaging Wrapper / PSADT Update: CloseApp Line for PSADT: Show-InstallationWelcome -CloseApps ‘CreativeCloudPackager,Adobe Application Manager (Updater),PDApp,AAM Updates Notifier,Acrobat,Muse,Bridge,InDesign,lightroom,Outlook,Visio,Winword,Project,PowerPoint,Excel,Visio,AutoCAD,ImporterREDServer,dynamiclinkmanager,LogTransport2,SpeedGradeCmd,SpeedGrade,QuickTimeOoP,PhotoshopServer,Adobe QT32 Server,GPUSniffer,Incopy,Dreamweaver,Coldfusion,DreamweaverHelper,Jrun,Dreamweaver Beta,Dreamweaver Beta Helper,node,Fuse,AfterFX,Photoshop,Animate,CINEMA 4D Lite,CineRenderAE,aerender,SA Color Finesse 3 UI,mocha4ae_adobe,Illustrator,dvaaudiofilterscan,Adobe Premiere Pro,Character Animator,Flash,Adobe Prelude,Adobe Audition CC,CEPHtmlEngine’ If package has Exceptions Exceptions\ExceptionDeployer.exe –workflow=install –mode=pre –installLanguage=en_US Don’t do…
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Disabling (Adobe’s) Office Add-ins
I don’t think outlook should be making PDFs.. You can disable the add-ins with group policy Download Office ADMX files 2013: https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=35554 2016: https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=49030 Copy the files under ADMX to your policy central store Now create a group policy, browse to User Configuration > Administrative Template > Microsoft Outlook 2016 > Miscellaneous > List Of…
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Deleting 30000 drivers and re-importing 162 Driver packs
We started noticing our driver packages were really big and consuming a lot of time during OSD. This was due to the bug mentioned in KB3084586 The longer we left it the worse it got! What happens is any drivers added to the database before the fix will still have issues being re-imported unless they…