Slides and links from TechConnect 2015 in Cyprus
By Johan Arwidmark / March 18, 2015Here are the slides and links from TechConnect 2015 in Cyprus. Big thanks to Microsoft and COMPUTRAIN for arranging this great event!
Here are the slides and links from TechConnect 2015 in Cyprus. Big thanks to Microsoft and COMPUTRAIN for arranging this great event!
Earlier today I was doing a presentation at the TechConnect in Cyprus, and I got a tweet from one in the audience about the script I was using for running the data deduplication processes on my machine. So here it is: Happy Deployment, Johan
Don’t miss the great podcast about how Microsoft is using SCCM internally, with Brad Andersson and Kelly Pranghofer.
When setting up ConfigMgr 2012 R2 in a lab and test, or any type of Proof-Of-Concept you want to automate everything. Luckily the Cumulative Update (CU) 4 download has support for unattended setup: Just add the /Unattended switch to the extracted download and you're good. Note: Don't use the /unattended switch in a production environment […]
As you probably seen the MDT 2013 Update 1 preview was released on March 2, the official announcement by Aaron Czechowski lists the below list of features:
A new feature in USMT 10 (from the Windows 10 ADK technical preview) is it's ability to migrate 3rd part drivers (and apps) via the new provisioning packages in Windows 10. I'm not sure why anyone would migrate drivers this way (yet), but it least it caught my interest enough to play around with the […]
Yesterday was a good day! I finally could lay may hands on not only one, but two Samsung 840 EVO 1TB SSD MSATA cards, and went about to install them in my HP 8570w machines. I bought them at Fry's in Seattle (well Renton, really), and because of their "Match Internet Price" deal, I did […]
Here you find the links, slides and sample files from my Deploying Windows 10 in the Enterprise and OS Deployment at LEVEL 500 sessions at NIC 2015, in Oslo, Norway, NIC 2015, great as always 🙂 Video Recordings of the sessions OS Deployment at LEVEL 500http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7dA1uZrrVo Deploying Windows 10 in the Enterprise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ROpOl5QTnY Slides […]
Haha, run into a tweet from "nohandle" earlier today that made me laugh out loud. Enabling PowerShell Hardcore Mode 🙂 Enabling PowerShell Hardcore Mode Hardcode Mode basically means that you configure PowerShell to shutdown the computer if you type in a command that does not exist. Note: do NOT do this on any production machine, […]
Here are the link from mine and Kent Agerlund's session earlier today at the SCU2015 conference in Irving, TX. Batman and Robin 🙂 Links from Kent's demos. Shutdowntool http://blog.coretech.dk/kea/new-version-of-the-coretech-shutdown-tool/ Dashboard http://www.coretech.dk/dashboard (trial includes the update report) Kenny's blog on notifications http://scug.be/sccm/2015/01/20/windows-7-configmgr-2012-balloon-tips-setting-it-more-then-5-sec-to-display/ SQL Recommendations http://blog.coretech.dk/kea/system-center-2012-configuration-manager-sql-recommendations/ Ola Hallengren http://ola.hallengren.com/ Steve Thompson blog http://stevethompsonmvp.wordpress.com/ OSD Links (my […]
Earlier this morning the technical preview of Windows 10 ADK was released. A nice little 6 GB install if you install features or 2.7 GB you only download the bits (Yes I know the UI says 3.6 GB, but no. The download is only 2.7 GB 🙂 Here is the download: Windows 10 ADK Technical […]
The development of MDT 2013 is still hopelessly behind the technical preview releases of Windows. Until that happens you can still apply some custom hacks to the current version. Like the previous Windows 10 preview builds, in Windows 10 build 9926 you still need to add updated DISM files to the boot image (until the […]
The Intel NUC devices have turned out to be a great machine for a small but efficient Hyper-V host. The challenge is that Intel doesn't get that, and in fact block their network adapter device drivers for Windows Server 2012 R2 (with some exceptions). In this post you learn how to fix this properly: When […]
While in-place upgrades are nice, there are quite a few scenarios when you need to use the old-school deployment scenarios (new computer, refresh computer and replace compute).
Earlier today I migrated my production machine to Windows 10 build 9926, and also recorded the entire process (video available here). On this blog post I will write about my day-to-day findings of using the new platform. January 26 Note #1: Camtasia Studio 8.3 went from 4 – 5 crashes a day, to 4 – […]
Like the MDT 2013 Lite Touch post from yesterday, here is the same info but for ConfigMgr 2012 R2. In this post you find step-by-step guidance on how to deploy the Windows 10 Enterprise x64 build 9926, including driver injection support, with ConfigMgr 2012 R2 (integrated with MDT 2013 of course). Step-by-step guide First, this […]
Turns out that Sysprep is broken in Windows 10 Build 9926, but there is a workaround. When trying to run Sysprep on a virtual machine with Windows 10 build 9926 installed you may be greeted with the following error message: A fatal error occurred while trying to sysprep the machine. Background info This only happens […]
Still the development of MDT 2013 is hopelessly behind the technical preview releases of Windows. Until that happens you can still apply some custom hacks to the current version. In Windows 10 Build 9926 you still need to add updated DISM files to the boot image (until the Windows 10 ADK is released), and due […]
Earlier today I got a question on how to nest sections in CustomSettings.ini to create a computer name. Here is how! Note: For the record, I don't recommend generating complex computer names based on site,laptop etc. Keep the computer names to a syntax PC+sequence or something like that (example PC00075). Easy to read, easy to […]
Last week I was debugging a task sequence that failed with errors 80070002 and 80190191 when it was trying to download the first package used by the task sequence. The first package the task sequence tried do download was the MDT 2013 package, use by the “Use Toolkit Package” action in the task sequence. There are typically three reasons for these errors to happen: