NSCUG November 10, 2017 Meetup – Video recordings and Slides
By Johan Arwidmark / November 16, 2017Here are the video recordings and slides from the Naperville System Center User Group (NSCUG) second meetup, November 10, 2017.
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.
In SCCM CB 1706 there is a new feature that allows you to direct link an application to Software Center by pasting a link into your browser. This can be achieved by clicking the “Share” icon when you have choose the application you want to link to.
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.
If you are using AppLocker (which you should) and have enabled the function “MSI and Scripts” in AppLocker to whitelist only signed PowerShell scripts you will get some errors in the event log even though your scripts are signed. Checking the event viewer log for AppLocker events you will see that the logged on user tried to run 2 different scripts starting with __PSScriptPolicyTest and the extensions .ps1 and psm1. The full name is something like __PSScriptPolicyTest_bavjba32.xjg.ps1 where the name is __PSScriptPolicyTest_..ps1/psm1
In Part 1 we used the script New-FSRMServer.ps1 to set up a File Screen server from scratch, this part will describe how to update the settings.
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.
There has been a lot of talk of the WannaCry malware last couple of weeks and I will try to describe how you can add another layer of security between a infected computer and your central file storage. There is already a few write-ups within this area, most of them only use the File Screen service to block users from creating new files with know extensions or renaming existing ones. This is a good start but it does not actually prevent the user (or the malware running in user context) from deleting all the files on your servers.
When using ConfigMgr in distributed environments, there are times when you want to limit how much bandwidth a client is using when downloading content. In all fairness, when having techniques like Peer Cache, and BranchCache at your disposal, you may get away by not limiting the bandwidth, but for most distributed environments you probably want to configure BITS to control how much bandwidth that is used over the WAN links. BITS is after all the component that is used for the actual downloads.
In the Windows 10 Enterprise (including LTSB) and Windows 10 Education editions, you can enable the Unified Write Filter (UWF) feature to prevent changes to the hard drive. This is particular useful for kiosk-type scenarios, or classroom environments where you don’t want enthusiastic students to install software etc. on to the machines 🙂
After I upgraded our SCCM to 1702 and the ADK to 1703 the step for converting a device from BIOS to UEFI in our Windows 7 –> Windows 10 Task sequence started to fail with an 0x80070070 error. This had worked without any problems in SCCM 1611 and the 1607 ADK so what had changed?