In April 2014 I wrote a blog post on how to use PowerShell and Data DeDuplication in Windows Server 2012 R2 to create small VHDX archives, very useful for transfer large content of virtual machines. In the example from 2014 I stored 183 GB of VMs in a 25 GB VHDX archive (which I also further compressed with 7-zip into a 16 GB file).

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In a presentation earlier today, the deploying Windows 10 with ConfigMgr (SCCM) 2012 R2 SP1 session, I run a script that created a basic folder structure.

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Here are the links from the ConfigMgr vNext Virtual Conference

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This turned out to be a somewhat interesting Saturday afternoon. I finally got some time to play around with the Virtual Secure Mode feature that is available in Windows 10 Enterprise (only). Since that feature requires the Hyper-V hypervisor to be installed, and I’m still running Windows Server 2012 R2 on my main Hyper-V hosts, testing this in a virtual machine was not an option. Instead I used a Dell XPS 13 (4393) Core i7 box, which is a quite nice machine.

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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.

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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.

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If you ever need to list all the variables in a ConfigMgr task sequence you can run the following VBScript.

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Seems like there is a bug in the ConfigMgr 2012 R2 SP1 release in terms of driver import: You cannot import Windows 10 drivers.

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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.

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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):

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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

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Here is a quick guide on how to install Windows 10 using ConfigMgr 2012 R2 SP1 (SP2).

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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  🙂 ).

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Here you find info from the various breakout session I presented at Microsoft Ignite.

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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).

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Having a great time at the Enterprise Management pre-day Microsoft Ignite (2015) with Kent Agerlund in Chicago. Here are the links and slides.

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Here are the links and sample scripts demonstrated during the ConfigMgr Summit event in Stockholm, April 23, 2015.

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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:

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When troubleshooting OSD in SCCM 2012 it’s quite useful to enumerate the various task sequence variables. Here is a script that does that:

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Here is a quick summary of commonly used network commands in PowerShell

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