Spent some time this afternoon writing a PowerShell script that created a Automatic Deployment Rule for ConfigMgr 2012 (SCCM). The script is using the native SCCM cmdlets and also creates a Software Update Deployment Package that the ADR is using.
MDT 2013 Lite Touch has a built-in functions to prompt for deployment share via the LocationServer.xml file. Most times I use the default gateway property to have clients automatically select the right server depending on what subnet they are on, but sometimes prompting can be useful too.
If you ever need to list all the variables in a ConfigMgr task sequence you can run the following VBScript.
Seems like there is a bug in the ConfigMgr 2012 R2 SP1 release in terms of driver import: You cannot import Windows 10 drivers.
Here is a download that builds a complete ConfigMgr 2012 R2 SP1 with SQL Server 2014 SP1 infrastructure. Tested on both Hyper-V and VMware virtual platforms.
By now it’s starting to become public knowledge that most of the the Windows 10 build 10122 upgrades that failed at the 18/62 percent mark can be fixed by opening a command prompt as system (via psexec -i –s cmd.exe), and run the following command (note: case sensitive):
During Microsoft Ignite there was an awesome session on the Windows 10 Setup Engine. It was the “Upgrading to Windows 10 In Depth” session presented by Aziz El Ouaqid which you find here: http://channel9.msdn.com/events/ignite/2015/BRK3307
Here is a quick guide on how to install Windows 10 using ConfigMgr 2012 R2 SP1 (SP2).
In this post you learn to upgrade an existing ConfigMgr 2012 R2 environment to ConfigMgr 2012 R2 SP1 (which is done by running the ConfigMgr 2012 SP2 setup, brilliant 🙂 ).
Here you find info from the various breakout session I presented at Microsoft Ignite.
Earlier today, during the Microsoft Ignite conference, the Windows Server Technical Preview 2 (Build 10074) was released. In the setup, there is also the new Nano Server (available as a WIM file).
Having a great time at the Enterprise Management pre-day Microsoft Ignite (2015) with Kent Agerlund in Chicago. Here are the links and slides.
Here are the links and sample scripts demonstrated during the ConfigMgr Summit event in Stockholm, April 23, 2015.
Only a few weeks left for the biggest Microsoft conference yet, Microsoft Ignite (2015). It’s going to be great fun, and I hope you take the chance to say hi if you see me on the conference. Below you find a list of my sessions at Ignite:
When troubleshooting OSD in SCCM 2012 it’s quite useful to enumerate the various task sequence variables. Here is a script that does that:
Here is a quick summary of commonly used network commands in PowerShell
When deploying machines with MDT 2013 Lite Touch or ConfigMgr 2012 R2 you eventually come across a scenario when not all drivers install, and your device manager looks something like the following screen shot. To troubleshoot the missing drivers you need to know how MDT 2013 or ConfigMgr 2012 R2 goes about injecting drivers. Their process is quite similar but it’s not identical between the solutions, so in this post you find two sections:
Earlier today I needed to take a snapshot of the screen while doing a deployment in the WinPE phase. This was on a physical machine, so either I had the option of hooking up a screen capture hardware (Epiphan DVI2USB3), or, simply use the little known screenshot feature in ZoomIt.
Earlier today I noted a particularly interesting tweet in the stream. It was from Keith Garner, claiming that the latest Rufus version supported UEFI with NTFS based volumes.
Once again I will present at the IT / Dev Connections event which takes place at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas on September 14 – 17, 2015.