Donnie Taylor at myITforum.com

November 2009 - Posts

Find packages not Nomad enabled via Powershell

Here is a quick little script that will search a site server for all packages (software dist, boot image, TS, Image, etc...) that don't have Nomad enabled on them.  The script requires Powershell 2 (comes installed in Win7 and 2008R2 - otherwise get it from here).  The grid-view output shows package id, package class (image-package, boot-image, etc..), Mfg, Name, etc...


Replace the Sitecode and SiteServer variables with the appropriate values for your infrastructure.  Depending on the number of packages, this script might take a minute or two to run.  Watch word-wrap!


cls
$Sitecode = "001"
$SiteServer = "servername"
$completed = @()
(gwmi -Namespace root\sms\site_$sitecode -Class SMS_PackageBaseClass -ComputerName $siteserver | % {
    $obj = New-Object psobject
    $package = $_;$pkgs = [wmi] $_.__Path
    if (($pkgs.AlternateContentProviders|Out-String) -notlike "*nomad*"){
    $obj | add-member NoteProperty Class $package.__Class
    $obj | add-member NoteProperty ID $package.PackageID
    $obj | add-member NoteProperty Name $package.Name
    $obj | add-member NoteProperty Version $package.version
    $obj | add-member NoteProperty Path $package.PkgSourcePath
    write-output $obj;$completed = $completed + $obj}} ) |Out-Null
$completed | where-Object {$_.Class -notlike "*updates*" -and $_.class -notlike "*driver*"} | out-gridview


Dell Win7 Driver Cabs Released!

The Windows 7 Dell driver cabs for currently shipping systems have been released!

They can be downloaded from here directly: http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/Dell+Business+Client+Operating+System+Deployment+-+The+.CAB+Files

They can also be downloaded from ftp://ftp.dell.com/sysman or from http://support.dell.com.

The cabs allow for easy import into ConfigMgr or MDT - simplifying driver management of those Dell systems. 

Check them out and let us know what you think!


Big thanks go out to the Dell Product Group as well as Greg, Warren and Chris for putting a lot of work into getting these into production.

Posted: Nov 03 2009, 11:34 PM by dtaylor | with no comments
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