Tag: sccm
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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…
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Single Functioning Software updates
We get to package WinZip every version, and it got me thinking they could have probably stopped at maybe version 2 or well when they added Rar and Iso support. It seems they started adding random stuff to it around version 8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinZip#History One version they decided to add a feature that deleted files on…
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Powershell script to clean up IIS’s log file mess
Management Point’s rely heavily on IIS and IIS loves to log a lot which will fill up your hard drive. Here’s a script that deletes logs older than 14 days. Location and amount of days can be changed easily. We have ours scheduled to run monthly on site systems using IIS. Download
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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…
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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…
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Multicast website component is not installed on Https DPs
We recently logged a case with Microsoft as multicast wasn’t working because the SMS_MCS_AltAuth IIS virtual directory was missing. The work around is to delete the condition in the msi (SMSbinx64mcs.msi) MCSIsapiAltAuth.866DCF8D_BC89_48AE_9AE6_69F1BAAEF805 in the MSI: (SMSSSLSTATE >< 1) and then enable multicast. This is due to the MSI evaluating whether the site is HTTPS instead…