Tag: configmgr
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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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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
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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…
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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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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…
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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…