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Tag: automation

  • Take advantage of OEM Settings to display OSD state!

    Take advantage of OEM Settings to display OSD state!

    I have 2 scenarios that allows techs to determine the computers state. When the task sequence fails or when a Lab computer hasn’t been added to a lab group. It’s easy to enable the oembackground and rename a jpg picture. Group policy reg can disable the background picture. For the first scenario you enable ‘Continue…

  • SCCM USB Boot disk creator

    I made a little program that sets up usb drives to be bootable into OSD winpe. I made it because we are getting devices without dvd drives that can’t pxe boot and our techs don’t have access to create bootable usb’s from the console as they need the dp cert and password. You generate a…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…