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Compare Active Directory computer accounts with Configuration Manager resources

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...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: Custom Scripts, Active Directory, Database, ConfigMgr

MDT Database version history

  As you might know, there is a whole bunch of settings/properties in MDT that drive the processing of MDT. And with every new version of MDT, the amount of settings typically just grows, but sometimes, they also drop the usage of some of them. Most of these settings are also available in the Database, that comes with MDT, and most of the new settings will also be published to the database, as soon as you upgrade it. However, sometimes, they also get rid of deprecated ones and you typically...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: MDT, Database

Installing the new MDT Web FrontEnd Beta

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...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: Microsoft Deployment, Frontend, Database, ConfigMgr, MDT 2012

Easily access information from any database and publish it via a web service – Part 1 – The Database

OK, (probably) my two last post regarding my MMS 2011 sessions, if I haven’t missed something important . To be able to make our Deployments more dynamic and as unattended as possible, we need to have all the information available, that we need to take decisions automatically . We typically use information from the local hardware, the customsettings.ini and maybe the MDT Database. If we are really advanced, we also make use of some web services like the Deployment Web Service to drive our deployment...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: Webservice, MDT, Entity Framework, Database, Development, MMS

Enabling versioning in the MDT Database or how to handle different Task Sequences, versions, architectures, etc.

One thing I really like about MDT 2010 is the implementation of Search Folders. By this highly flexible solution one can create a complete structure for several different scenarios at the same deployment share and group it for specific requests. It allows to e.g. handle 32 and 64 Bit applications in the same structure but giving a specific Task sequence only “access” to some of the folders. While this feature gives a great amount of flexibility to the Deployment workbench, the MDT Database is lacking...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: MDT, Frontend, MDT 2010, Database