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Step by Step Guide for Extending Active Directory Schema for System Center Configuration Manager
Account Permissions The account that will be used to run the extadsch.exe needs to have appropriate access and be in the “Schema Admins” group. You cannot...
Active Directory Group and ConfigMgr Collection Creation HTA
This information is provided as-is, you at your own risk. Updated my HTA for creating AD groups and collections with a few tweaks and wanted to post the...
Improving Your Image: Sector-Based, File-Based, and Sysprep - What Makes the Most Sense? Part 3: Deploy-time Build Automation and Recommendations
Jeremy Chapman has created the third blog in a series on the benefits of using package based imaging tools. Read the third post here. “This is the third...
Improving Your Image: Sector-Based, File-Based, and Sysprep - What Makes the Most Sense? Part 2: The Pros and Cons.
Jeremy Chapman has created the second blog in a series on the benefits of using package based imaging tools. Read the second post here. “Welcome to blog...
Client Push and Discoveries at Secondary Sites
This is always a good article to review for explaining whether you should enable client push and/or discoveries at Secondary Sites.  I often refer...
Configuring Shared Folder Permissions
I was helping someone configure some shares the other day for Migdata and Logs.  I dug this up from the old BDD 2.5 documentation, it’s a good reference...
Custom Boot Wizard – Maximizing the window
I had previously done a bunch of work on making my custom boot wizard a certain size and centered, and it just didn’t always look as good as I wanted it...
Another Take On Driver Management
Keith over at Xtreme Consulting has a nice post on driver management in MDT.  He explains the typical Make/Model match, then talks about PNP based...
Mini Monster Mof Builder Updated to 1.11
http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/skissinger/archive/2008/10/28/mini-monster-mof-builder.aspx The Mof builder has been updated to 1.11.  This is a fantastic...
Restoring Deleted All Systems Collection
Sometimes things just happen, sometimes you accidentally delete the All Systems collection because you were trying to do too many things at once. ...
Migrating SMS 2003 sms_def.mof customizations to ConfigMgr 2007
I had a question when moving my mof customizations to ConfigMgr, what goes where?  Sherry Kissinger replied back and I wanted to post it for others...
Deploying Windows 7 from A to Z
There is a great article on Microsoft written by Jeremy Chapman.  This is great read. Here is a summary of the contents: Contents Deploying Windows...
How to Prevent Configuration Manager From Installing Files on a Specific Drive
ConfigMgr/SMS will generally put files on the drive with the most free space. This isn’t always where you want items to be put. These are the simple steps...
Changing SMS 2003 Site Description
Recently was working on a ConfigMgr upgrade, in the process the SMS 2003 child site was description wasn’t ideal.  Changing that after the fact isn...
HTA To Verify ConfigMgr Backups Have Run
Nice little HTA by Sherry Kissinger that will check your primary sites to verify that backups have run and give you the status. Basically just reads the...
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