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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
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
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
April 18, 2009
This is the final article of a series creating a custom Boot wizard to dynamically choose the Task Sequence to run on the local computer. (See Create your custom Boot Wizard - some advanced stuff , Create your custom Boot Wizard - Display dynamic data and Create your custom Boot Wizard - Execute the Wizard, process the results and create the Boot Image for Reference). Now we will make this Boot Image available to all our clients no matter if they are already known to ConfigMgr/SCCM or not. We will...
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Filed under: MDT 2008, Microsoft Deployment, SCCM, Boot Wizard, PXE
April 18, 2009
In the last two articles Create your custom Boot Wizard - some advanced stuff and Create your own Boot Wizard - Display dynamic data we created a Custom Boot Wizard which requests a list of available OSD Task Sequences (we actually get the collections the Task Sequences are advertised to) and shows this dynamic list to the user to chose from. In this article we now will create a script which will call our custom Boot Wizard and process the results of the users choice. If you deploy a Boot Image via...
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Filed under: MDT 2008, Custom Scripts, Microsoft Deployment, SCCM, Boot Wizard
April 18, 2009
What we are trying to built here is a Boot Wizard which will show a dynamic list of available OSD Task Sequences from SCCM 2007 to choose from. The chosen Task Sequence shall then be executed on the local computer. To ease our job regarding the final deployment and the management of the Boot Images, we want to have a single Boot Image to be used for WDS/PXE/CD Deployment for all known and unknown computers. In the last article ( Create your custom Boot Wizard - some advanced stuff ) we dived into...
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Filed under: MDT 2008, Custom Scripts, Webservice, Microsoft Deployment, SCCM, Boot Wizard
February 11, 2009
In the first posts I showed how you can create ( Create your own MDT Webservice - Part 1 , Create your own MDT Webservice - Part 2 ) and access ( Calling a webservice from a script using MDT 2008 ) a simple webservice to be used in Deployments to ease access to the MDT Database. In the last post you could find a complete set of stored procedures do manipulate the MDT Database on-the-fly ( Get access to the MDT Database ). Now we are going to combine this. For the ones just interested to download...
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Filed under: MDT 2008, Webservice, Microsoft Deployment, SCCM, SMS, Active Directory
December 29, 2008
One common question regarding the deployment of a new operating system especially on refresh or replacement scenarios is how the user will get his previous applications back. All standard applications are probably already part of your thick image or will be defined as standard applications for all users or a specific location etc. However you will always have a bunch of applications which only a certain amount of users will use. And normally you don't want to spend time after the deployment to...
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Filed under: MDT 2008, SQL, Microsoft Deployment, SCCM, SMS