In the last time I had more and more Intune projects. Like in any other projects at some point you should start documenting the implementation. This is taking a lot of time and often doesn’t reflect the real settings for a long time, because the settings were changed again. Therefore I created a documentation script,…
Today I could extend my MiniWebService (Which is freeware !!!) with a new great feature which will help ConfigMgr Admins to maintain their devices. Typically we write some information, like the Staging date and all the device variables to the local registry during OSD. The new feature allows administrators to update these Device Variables from…
Today, there was the great event of the Swiss ConfigMgr User Community in Zürich. As promised I share my slides and some of my scripts. Slides Scripts Check Domain Join (As Andrew said you can also extend it to check if the client is in the correct OU) Tattooing OSD End Message Basic Password Management…
Many times I saw site server with a full C:\ drive. The most common problem is that the internet information services (IIS) logs are growing without a limit. These log files are normally stored under c:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles. What options do we have to solve this problem and get a solution for the future? Delete…
How often do you have a problem with a single application and would like to reinstall it easily? With SCCM you have to add the client to an uninstall collection, wait until the client has received the deployment and then remove it from the uninstall collection and add it back to the install collection. Or…
In the past, we detected the hardware type of a computer with WMI queries in a Task Sequence step. When you deploy multiple Operating Systems or Task Sequences, you have to manage the WMI Query on many locations. Andreas Kuperschmied and Roman Andres have created an abstraction layer for this problem. Now we only have…
Reinstalling a computer can cause Configuration Manager 2007/2012 to create a new computer object for this computer and setting the existing computer object to obsolete. To prevent Configuration Manager from automatically creating new computer objects and instead merging the new record with the existing object you have to implement a few changes. Download the PowerShell…
If you have multiple MSI files which belong to one application, then you have problems to install them as single application in SCCM 2012. First of all it’s important that you check these MSI files are really one software and not components which could also be used from other applications. When there are components you…
Changing the Software Update Package reference of an Automatic Deployment Rule is not possible through the console. With the following PowerShell script you can change the PackageID through WMI:
Scripts which are startet during the WinPE can’t write a log file to the client. It’s hard to troubleshoot them witout logging infromation. A easy way to get back information to the sccm server are status messages. Use the following commands to get a log directly to the status messages. Powershell: Write-Host "Text" VBS: Wscript.Echo…
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