SCCM / ConfigMgr, WDAC, OSD and the occasional trauma dump.
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KB: Temporary partition to stage boot wim on UEFI booted devices fails.
When not using the latest version of bootable media and the system is not partitioned SCCM is meant to create a temporary partition to stage the correct boot wim. What actually happens is it just creates 1 big NTFS partition. What actually happens is it just creates 1 big NTFS partition. Then it checks the…
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Troubleshooting Collection Queries
If you want to see what collections have bad queries use CEViewer.exe from the ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Toolkit, it is installed when you add the server tools. Some things I have found about queries: The OR operator can slow a query down alot when using it for 2 different attributes, just create 2 membership…
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Create a compliance baseline to remove a folder
In this example we are killing the Silverlight start menu folder enabling us to use the Windows Updates while keeping the start menu clean. Create the Configuration Item 1. In the console click Create Configuration Item 2. Name your configuration item, click ‘This configuration item contains application settings’ and click Next 3. Select ‘Always assume application…
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Optimize the ‘build and capture’ time and size (SCCM Build)
Inspired by Johan’s post http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/174/Building-reference-images-like-a-boss.aspx I am probably one of the few that uses SCCM to capture base images. I use it because I create a thick image and it keeps the history of packages that it has installed meaning that newly imaged machines will know that they have already installed software x when…
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Fix for customized Adobe CC Acrobat in base image not activated
If you put Adobe Acrobat in the base image using the steps from http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/packager/deploying-acrobat.html Install Customization Wizard XI msi + mst then Install CC package msi and mst you may find it not activated. To fix this during the OS Deployment add a run command line step to reinstall the CC package mst and mst. …
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KB: PXE boots using the wrong wim file.
If you happen to change the source name of a boot wim the pxe point may boot using the old file. To fix rename <Drive Letter>RemoteInstallSMSImages<WIMPkgID>oldbootname.wim to oldbootname.wim.old Next PXE boot it will then use the new boot.wim file.
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Application Catalog logs
There are 2 operational logs for the App Catalog server side. <Drive Letter>SMS_CCMCMApplicationCatalogLogsServicePortalWebSite.log <Drive Letter>SMS_CCMCMApplicationCatalogSvcLogsServicePortalWebService.log Troubleshooting If the App catalog has an error message “Cannot Connect to the Application Server” this is referring the to the ServicePortalWebService.log. So far I have only seen the error: error: WriteHeadersCallback(WebExceptionStatus errorStatus, ConnectStream stream, Boolean async) in the…
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Versioning and naming your base SOE .wim during OSD
If you replace the base wim (via build and capture) frequently it can be good to set versions and date the wim file that you import. It makes it easy to revert back if a change didn’t go so well. Below are the steps in my build and capture to do versioning and work around…
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MDT UDI Pre-flight checks
One of the best things to come out of MDT is the User Driven Interface (UDI) and the preflight page which allows custom checks. You can control whether a check passes or not with the exit code of the script. The locations to put preflight scripts is MDT Toolkit files packagetoolsArchPreflight Check Hardware Model…
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Setting lockscreen and wallpaper based on resolution for Windows 8.1 during OSD
Lockscreen First you need to create and name files in this convention (we used png files and renamed them to jpg – this somehow works) LockScreen___2160_1440.jpg LockScreen___1024_0768.jpg We used the top 10 resolutions on client machines and also the Surface Pro 3 resolution 1680 x 1050 1920 x 1080 1280 x 1024 1366 x 768…