This week started pretty harsh, a ton of customers reaching out to our team having WSUS issues. Everything from the “traditional” CPU and Memory spikes, to severe network traffic over port 8530 to the WSUS/SUP server. Basically Clients downloading massive amount of info, some customers reporting up to 700 MB per endpoint.
In the Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson [1801] video, Brad Andersson (@Anderson) and http://twitter.com/simonster shared some interesting data points from 2017 about Windows 10, ConfigMgr and some other things. Here is a subset:
In this post you learn how to run MDT Task sequences, for either Computer refresh or Inplace-upgrades, from Microsoft Intune. Using task sequences gives you much better control of the Windows 10 servicing compared to regular features updates. And, as you probably figured out from the title already, there are more posts coming…:)
I recently (well yesterday) stumbled across a ConfigMgr Current Branch setup of a new site server failing due to TLS configuration. Turned out that the ConfigMgr 1702 setup (latest baseline as of today) couldn’t install when TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 had been removed due to server hardening. The server was Windows Server 2016, and the database SQL was SQL Server 2016 Standard with SP1.
In this post you learn to upgrade an existing MDT 8443 environment, with or without ConfigMgr integration, to MDT 8450. The guide is divided in two parts:
Back in ConfigMgr Technical Preview 1706, Microsoft introduced IPv6 PXE, a feature you could enable not only on distribution points running on Windows Server OS, but also on Windows Client OS. Effectively having a Windows client configured as a DP also acting as a PXE server. Microsoft MVP Ronni Pedersen (@ronnipedersen), have a blog post on that:
ConfigMgr 1710 has even more PowerShell cmdlets for creating and editing task sequences compared to ConfigMgr 1706.
Here is a new post by guest blogger Daniel Olsson @danielolsson100 covering a quite exciting network feature in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. Please note that even though LEDBAT was announced already back in July 18, 2016 by the Windows Networking Team. You need to request assistance to enable LEDBAT from either Microsoft or a Microsoft Partner working with that team. That being said, take it away Daniel (and thanks). / Johan
Here are the video recordings and slides from the Naperville System Center User Group (NSCUG) second meetup, November 10, 2017.
Just noted today that my trustworthy Asus external Blu-Ray/DVD external drive (model sbc-06d2x-u) didn’t work after upgrading from Windows 10 v1607 to Windows 10 v1709.
Here is a step-by-step quick guide on building the perfect Windows 10 v1709 reference image using MDT 8443 and Windows ADK 10 v1709. If you are looking for a Windows 7 version of this guide, check this post: https://deploymentresearch.com/521/Back-to-Basics-Building-a-Windows-7-SP1-Reference-Image-using-MDT-2013-Update-2
In order to support Windows 10 v1703, your MBAM 2.5 SP1 server should have the June 2017 servicing update installed.
Here is a quick sample on using PowerShell to create static reservation in DHCP for a given virtual machine. This is for a typical Hyper-V Lab scenario, and it was my better half, @AdaptivaAmi, who requested it 🙂
Earlier this week I got a question on how to have a single MDT Lite Touch task sequence support a dynamic selection of OS Image.
In this guide you learn how to run the Microsoft Network Monitor in WinPE, for example for advanced debugging of OS Deployment issues. This guide is based on the following KB article from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4034393/how-to-get-network-captures-from-a-task-sequence-in-windows-pe. But I’ve added some clarification steps, as well as PowerShell scripts to make the process easier (and automated).
For the tenth time or so this year, I was tasked with moving a ConfigMgr database away from a remote SQL server to where it’s supposed to be: At home! E.g. on the same virtual machine as the primary site server. Why you ask? Because it’s better 🙂 This article is based on a great […]
Earlier this week on twitter I got a question on how to name the logs folder in MDT after date and time. Here is how:
This week I’ve been volunteering at an event called DreamHack, which is the largest digital festival in the world. I’ve been volunteering for this event quite many years, and this time around I was editing videos and providing support to one of the teams. During the event we learned that we needed to upload some video-material, and even though we obviously could have used OneDrive, Dropbox, etc. to share the content, I decided this was a good opportunity, and a real use case, for the cloud. Simply spinning up a VM with a FTP server for the week, and then turn off the VM once we were done at the event. Worth mentioning is that we needed to transfer 2 – 3 TB of data to/from multiple machines running multiple OS platforms during the event.
There are 106 new cmdlets in ConfigMgr, below you find the complete list:
This is what you always wanted to know: The Uber-Guide on how to reduce network impact for not only your Windows 10 deployments, but basically everything that relates to transfer large amounts of data over the network.