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Security related enhancements in ConfigMgr current branch 1806
Friday arrived early this week in the ConfigMgr community, with the announcement that the much anticipated 1806 build had hit public availability on the fast ring. This is a feature packed release,...
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PXE booting without WDS & OSD enhancements in ConfigMgr current branch 1806
In this post we will talk about OSD specific enhancements in ConfigMgr Current Branch 1806, including the much anticipated ability to PXE boot clients without the need for WDS! PXE OS Deployments –...
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CMPivot in ConfigMgr 1806 – Part 1 – What is CMPivot and your first query
Since the early days of ConfigMgr when it was first named ‘SMS’ there was always this background joke that what SMS really stood for was ‘Slow Moving Software’ however with the advent of CMPivot we can...
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CMPivot in ConfigMgr 1806 – Part 2 – Create a Collection/Run Script from...
1806 has a LOT of features and while CMPivot is still early days there are some pretty cool things it can do especially for admins who maybe don’t fully understand how to use SQL or struggle creating...
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MNSCUG OSDDay – Its A Wrap
It seems like yesterday when Maurice pinged me saying the SCConfigMgr group had been asked to speak at MNSCUG OSDDay and asked if I would like to go do a presentation. I don’t think I was done with the...
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Driver Automation Tool 6.1.0 Released
Its time for an improved release of the Driver Automation Tool, once again taking on-board all the community feedback to help you fully automate driver management within Configuration Manager and MDT....
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SCConfigMgr OSD Dashboard Version 1.0
Recently PowerBI had its birthday and I put a tweet out there on twitter asking what type of dashboard people would like to see in celebration. Well the results came in pretty quick and it was almost a...
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Identifying risk in your MDT bootstrap.ini with PowerShell
Recently when working on an engagement with Johan Arwidmark fellow co-worker at TrueSec and we stumbled across something that unnerved both of us. At some point – for testing purposes only – the...
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Configure a dynamic Start Menu layout for Windows 10 during OSD with ConfigMgr
While many are of the opinion that organizations should not customize the start menu during Windows 10 deployments, it’s happening almost in every Windows 10 project anyway. There are several blog...
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How to create WiFi profiles with ConfigMgr run-scripts
I was recently working with a customer when the subject of WiFi profiles came up. Now this was a curious situation because the machines in question needing a WiFi profile assigned to them were not...
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How to back up a WSUS SQL database with PowerShell
Over the years I’ve worked with a few different organizations that all do SQL backups in different ways however I recently ran into a situation where there wasn’t a really great way to perform a SQL...
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Force ConfigMgr client deployment on metered network
10 days ago I was in SCCM User Group Finland event (My presentation went badly, I don’t want to talk about that. :D). We are very happy to have Djam join us and talk about everything about ConfigMgr,...
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Repair a broken trust relationship between a workstation and the domain
I was attending the SCUG Sweden meeting at Microsoft offices in Stockholm on the 8-9 of October. During the second day, one of the session was a copy of the Community Session from MMS 2018. This...
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How to import ConfigMgr powershell cmdlets
A while back I wrote a PowerShell Module that showed some ways to do things in ConfigMgr using PowerShell. Since then I’ve added more and more things to my PowerShell library and thought it was time to...
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Drivers as a Service – Version 1.0.0 Released
About a year ago I published a script which provided dynamic updates for Dell, HP, Lenovo and Microsoft systems which are managed by Intune. The script uses the Intune Management Extension to run the...
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Fix Windows ADK version 1809 issue with crashing WPF applications
Since the release of Windows ADK version 1809 a couple of weeks back now, reports has been coming in on twitter and to me by email that the ConfigMgr OSD FrontEnd, among other WPF based applications...
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Remove Built-in apps for Windows 10 version 1809
Since the release of Windows 10, it has been common for organization to try and reduce the footprint of built-in apps (or default apps) in their reference images, or even during bare-metal deployment....
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How to use a scheduled task to query SQL
Several months ago I created a script that would allow someone to extract information from the ConfigMgr SQL Database and e-mail that data. I wrote this as a workaround to SSRS subscription reports at...
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Detect and remove application from dependent task sequences with PowerShell
I believe most of us use install application steps during operating system deployment, unless you are using fully dynamic scripts to install applications. We often do changes in our task sequence, we...
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ConfigMgr Prerequisites Tool – Version 3.0.4 released
This version and onward uses an updated method for retrieving the Windows 10 ADK installation files from a XML feed hosted here on scconfigmgr.com and now also modified to support the changes that came...
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