Tag: client
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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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Setting the Client Status Settings for Client Activity based on AD logon
SCCM will mark a computer inactive if none of the activity checks happen Client policy request Heartbeat discovery Hardware Inventory Software Inventory Status messages sent See technet The default settings are 7 days for each of these settings which can be fine for a lot of businesses. If there are many devices that don’t often…
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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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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…
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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…
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Microsoft Configuration Manager Support Center
Have you ever needed someone to collect logs off a machine and came to find that the vital log you wanted wasn’t collected? Lost in the sea of logs? Microsoft feels your pain! Microsoft has released an excellent support tool to assist in troubleshooting ConfigMgr. It can collect logs, policys, wmi, registry etc; from remote…