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August 30, 2011
With the release of version 7.3 of the Deployment Webservice ( Download ) a completely new part has been added, integrating some functions of Roger Zanders awesome SCCM Client Center Automation library for Deployment usage. This library enables you to execute certain SCCM Client related task directly on a client like forcing Software updates or refreshing the Machine Policy. The offered functions are mainly identical to the ones offered in the SCCM Client Center Integration Pack for Opalis . And...
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Filed under: Webservice, Microsoft Deployment, SCCM, MDT
August 30, 2011
With the updated Version 7.3 ( Download ) just being published, the growing number of available functions, covering more and more demands in todays deployments, it’s not only an advantage of having such a huge toolset available. In its default implementation, the Web Service is configured to execute actions under certain user account. While this makes it pretty easy to troubleshoot and verify the functions are working, everyone with access to this web service will now be able to execute actions,...
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Filed under: Webservice, Microsoft Deployment, SCCM, Active Directory, MDT
August 30, 2011
Today I published version 7.3 of the Deployment web service. Beside some small bug fixes and minor additions, three new features have been added: 1. SCCM Client Center support A completely new web service part has been added that’s exposing a couple of functions (55 to be accurate) from the SCCM Client Center automation library written by Roger Zander , giving the possibility to execute certain tasks on a client like pushing Software updates, refreshing the machine policy etc. A full list of functions...
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Filed under: Webservice, Microsoft Deployment, SCCM, Active Directory, MDT
October 01, 2010
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!! Just received the following message: Dear Maik Koster, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2010 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in Setup & Deployment technical communities during the past year. ;-) I’m very proud on receiving this...
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Filed under: Microsoft Deployment, MVP
August 12, 2010
I’m happy to announce the release of Version 7.1 of the Deployment web service . The biggest and probably most useful change in this release is the implementation of NLog as logging provider. As already described in a previous post Add logging to your applications - NLog for beginners it’s now possible to influence the logging at runtime. With this version the Active Directory and the SCCM/SMS parts of the Deployment web service have been updated with this new logging capabilities already. The MDT...
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Filed under: Webservice, Microsoft Deployment, SCCM, Active Directory, MDT
August 07, 2010
If you plan to attend the TechEd Europe 2010 from 8. - 12. November in Berlin you can vote now for your most favorite sessions and so have influence on the selection process. On http://europe.msteched.com/SessionPreference you have the chance to pick up to 50 of your preferred sessions until 12th August. So there are still a couple days left. And if you are reading this blog, you are probably also interested on Deployment related topics so be sure to search for sessions from Johan Arwidmark , Mikael...
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Filed under: Microsoft Deployment, SCCM, TechEd
April 20, 2010
I’ve always been a big fan of the PrettyGoodFrontEnd written by Johan Arwidmark . Originally written as a FrontEnd for ZTI deployments on SMS with BDD 2007 it has recently been updated for ConfigMgr (SCCM) 2007 Deployments with MDT 2010 integration. Similar to the Custom Boot Wizard I’ve mentioned already a couple times on this blog, Johan is now also using webservices to query the necessary information from MDT, Active Directory and ConfigMgr (SCCM). For this he wrote his own webservice reduced...
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Filed under: Custom Scripts, Webservice, Microsoft Deployment, SCCM, Boot Wizard, MDT, Frontend
April 19, 2010
As you might have read already on other Blogs as well, it is quite easy to test the processing of your gather step and the customsettings.ini. What I would like to add here is, that you can also use the same way to test your custom wizards and scripts as well. It’s easy to set up: - Create a folder that you would like to use for Testing/Debug purposes (“MDT_Testing” or similar). You can also create several folders if you require to test different scenarios - Copy the following files from the {MDTInstallationDirectoy...
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Filed under: Custom Scripts, Microsoft Deployment, Debug, MDT, hta
April 17, 2010
While it seems as I can’t make it to this years MMS in Las Vegas due to a huge plume of volcanic ash over Europe ( BBC News: Volcanic ash - Europe flights grounded for third day ) I thought I can at least do something useful and publish an update to the Deployment Webservice with some long requested new functions. I actually just wanted to publish an update to the current version but in the end there were so many new functions requested and added that it makes more sense to increment the version...
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Filed under: Webservice, Microsoft Deployment, MDT
April 08, 2010
In a former article I explained in quite detail how to move computers in Active Directory using a webservice . As I got a couple requests for an updated and more condensed Step by Step guide I also took the opportunity and rewrote the sample scripts to fit to the new MDT 2010 script templates. If you have used this scripts already before, you just need to be aware, that they got renamed so you might want to check your Task Sequence steps if they call the right script. Set up the webservice The scripts...
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Filed under: Custom Scripts, Webservice, Microsoft Deployment, Active Directory, MDT
March 02, 2010
In the Last Post I showed you, how you can easily create a custom Setting in the MDT Database and use it in your custom scripts. In the example shown we added a custom Setting called “ CollectionID ” to the Database to enable some kind of Pre-staging for computers. With the example you would e.g. be able to pre-stage computer based on their SerialNumber in the MDT Database and then add it on the fly to the appropriate collection on the fly when pxe/cd booting the new computer. Very helpful if your...
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Filed under: MDT 2008, Microsoft Deployment, Frontend, MDT 2010, How To
March 01, 2010
Finally it’s done! I’m very happy to announce the release of version 1.0 of the MDT Web FrontEnd . It took a bit longer than expected since the last Beta from November 2009 but a lot of nice things needed to be added. But first, what is the MDT Web FrontEnd ? The MDT Web FrontEnd is a web based alternative for the MDT configuration database. It is 100% compatible to current MDT 2008, MDT 2008 Update 1 and MDT 2010 database installations running on SQL 2005 or 2008. Optionally (and recommended...
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Filed under: MDT 2008, Microsoft Deployment, MDT, Frontend, MDT 2010
January 13, 2010
In some recent posts I wrote about how to create a custom boot wizard. During these posts I used an example which would be able to boot any known and unknown computer from SCCM, reads a list of available Collections having an OSD Task Sequence advertised to choose from, then drop the computer into one of these collections on the fly and wait until the Advertisement would be available for the computer before handing over to the Task Sequence engine which would then query the SCCM Server for an advertised...
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Filed under: Webservice, Microsoft Deployment, SCCM, Boot Wizard, MDT, Frontend
August 31, 2009
Actually I really like the idea of the MDT Database and the flexibility it brings into your deployments. But there are a couple of things which are, let’s say not optimal, and some drove me nuts during the creation of the web frontend. Combined Primary Keys change during time The “Settings_Administrators”, “Settings_Applications”, “Settings_Packages” and “Settings_Roles” tables are all built according to the same schema. They have a combined Primary...
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Filed under: SQL, Microsoft Deployment, MDT, Frontend
August 28, 2009
In MDT 2010 there has been some changes in the scripts. One of these changes was to extract the Classes regarding Data Access (Database, Webservice) into a separate script called "ZITDataAccess.vbs". If you created your own custom scripts which made use of one of these classes you need to update them to reflect this change. I will show the necessary changes by way of changing my scripts used in " Moving computer in Active Directory using a webservice ". As the MDT Team just moved...
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Filed under: Webservice, Microsoft Deployment, Active Directory, MDT 2010
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