Tag: automation
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How To: Create Automatic Deployment Rules for Patch Tuesday Software Updates
Automatic deployment of updates is one of the best features of SCCM. Automation in general is awesome. The best way to use Automatic deployment rules (ADR) is to have them run on Patch Tuesday which is the second Tuesday of the month when Microsoft releases their updates generally before 11:00 PST/PDT (I am Australian based so…
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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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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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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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Deploy Windows 10 Preview with SCCM 2012 R2 (Unsupported)
Johan Arwidmark and Niall Brady have posted guides on deploying Windows 10 Preview injecting the Windows 10 version of Dism during the task sequence. http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/193/Beyond-unsupported-Deploying-Windows-10-preview-including-drivers-with-ConfigMgr-2012-R2.aspx http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/11394-how-can-i-deploy-windows-10-enterprise-using-system-center-2012-r2-configuration-manager/
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Adding custom programs to the Set Default Programs UI
Hi, today I wanted the CMTrace tool to be recognised in the Set Default Programs control panel applet. There is a bit of information on the net but it’s confusing. In the registry you can set the program, launch arguments, file types and icon. This can be used for any app by modifying the reg…
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Modular Task Sequence groups – Just an idea
Maik Koster has created a really good tool that monitors/ keeps backup of task sequence changes http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/maikkoster/archive/2011/05/12/versioning-monitoring-sccm-task-sequences.aspx expanding from this it may be possible to mark groups of your task sequences as modules. So say when a task sequence changes the script would then record the xml changes of that module group and replace in…
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Add a Right Click Copy Folder or File path menu option in Windows Explorer
SCCM ConfigMgr doesn’t like quotes around paths when adding packages or Wims, etc so the secret shh shift + right click copy as path isn’t that handy. Here’s a reg file to add a special right click option for ConfigMgr Download