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September 28, 2012
Despite all discovery methods, Health scripts and other cleanup efforts it might be helpful from time to time to simply compare all the computer account objects that we have in Active Directory with our resources in ConfigMgr. There are a couple posts available, that demonstrate how to integrate information from Active Directory into SQL reports. See e.g. “ How to add AD data to ConfigMgr reporting ” from Garth Jones. As you can see, in his post, Garth shows already how to compare AD accounts with...
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Filed under: Custom Scripts, Active Directory, Database, ConfigMgr
June 18, 2012
There are a couple things, that are quite common in most deployments. Very often you need to delete a couple files, copy some folders, remove or update some registry keys, maybe update a XML or INI file etc. What a lot of people typically do is to write some kind of cleanup-script that runs at the end of their task sequence and removes unnecessary shortcuts, updates the registry to disable some auto-update features or whatever. Group Policy Preferences or Group Policies would probably often be a...
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Filed under: Custom Scripts, MDT, vbscript, ConfigMgr, XML
April 18, 2012
As written in my last Blog Post , the first Beta of the MDT Web FrontEnd Version 2 has just been published. If you plan to test this version (what I really would appreciate), keep in mind, that it’s a Beta version. It shouldn’t be used in production. It’s provided “AS IS”, you know the game. The Beta has been tested on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 64 and 32 Bit. The only real requirement is the .Net Framework 4. Just follow these few steps, to get the Beta running: - Download...
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Filed under: Microsoft Deployment, Frontend, Database, ConfigMgr, MDT 2012
April 17, 2012
A long time ago in a Deployment galaxy far, far away … only a few Jedi were left to fight the dark forces of manual operating system installations. They created powerful tools to support their fight and hardened them in tough battles against habit and ignorance. New young Jedis saw their heroic efforts, and joined their fight and over the years the light forces got stronger and stronger. Now its time for YOU to join. Today the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 has been released (Download at http...
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Filed under: Microsoft Deployment, MDT, Frontend, ConfigMgr, MDT 2012
November 10, 2011
Back in May this year I released a small tool that monitors and tracks all changes on Task Sequences on your SCCM Server and exports a copy for backup purposes each time a change happens. Today I just published an updated version of this script, that enables the same functionality for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager . Please have a look on the original Blog Post for some further reference about the usage etc. Find the updated Download on CodePlex .
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Filed under: SCCM, SMS, vbscript, Task Sequence, WMI, ConfigMgr
May 12, 2011
One thing I’m really missing in SCCM is some kind of versioning or history especially for those quite complex Task Sequences, sometimes consisting of hundreds of steps, each with a bunch of properties. And how often did it happen that you came back to the office and one of your Task Sequences suddenly behaved differently, just to figure out that “someone” changed “something” without telling anybody, especially not you? Or have you ever been working on a Task Sequence, just to recognize that...
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Filed under: SCCM, SMS, vbscript, Task Sequence, WMI, ConfigMgr