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April 20, 2012
I just released Beta 2.0.2 of the MDT Web FrontEnd . As promised, I will keep on publishing new releases in short cycles, so you can have bug fixes and new features as soon as possible. This it going to be a very important update and I urge you to download Version 2.0.2 as soon as possible, as it contains a whole bunch of fixes. Especially the MDT Database configuration, ConfigMgr Discovery and Active Directory Site discovery were pretty flaky if using an Internet Explorer < 9. IE9 and FireFox...
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Filed under: Microsoft Deployment, SCCM, Frontend, 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
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
May 30, 2011
This could be called part 4 of WMI magician Kim Oppalfens 3 part series about WMI eventing in SCCM . In his series he first covered the basics of WMI eventing using wbemtest to create the event query and dig a bit through the returning objects. Then he guided us through a simple VBScript that monitored folders in SCCM to implement “securable” Configuration Manager folders . A pretty neat solution as folders aren’t securable objects within SCCM. However one drawback of his initial script is, that...
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Filed under: SCCM, SMS, vbscript, WMI, Step by Step
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
October 12, 2010
Two of the administrative tasks you often have to do after a SCCM based Deployment has finished is removing the computer from the OSD Collection it has been added to start the Deployment (you don’t really want to leave a computer in a collection with an active OSD advertisement, do you?), and to clear the last PXE Advertisement flag in cases the Deployment has been started via PXE. The latter is mainly interesting for testing purposes, where you need to re-image the same computers over and over again...
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Filed under: Webservice, SCCM, PXE
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
July 30, 2010
If I have to make a change to an existing Task Sequence (no matter if MDT or SCCM) I typically create a copy of the existing Task Sequence and apply the changes to this copy for further testing. This way you can easily test and improve it until everything is working as expected without having a negative effect on your working Task Sequences. Now after you have verified that everything is working as expected, you need to redo all the changes applied so far to the original Task Sequence. The easiest...
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Filed under: SCCM, MDT, Administration, Task Sequence
April 26, 2010
Wow, great title. What does it mean? Well, yesterday I was watching a couple of the recorded sessions of last weeks MMS . One of them was held by Michael Niehaus about dynamic Deployments and he mentioned a problem you might experience mainly in ConfigMgr OSD using collection variables and presented a solution in form of a script that exists already in MDT. As I wasn’t able to find much information about this I try to summarize this in case somebody else not being able to attend his session runs...
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Filed under: SCCM, MDT
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
March 21, 2010
MDT has a built-in feature that allows you to install packages from SCCM on the fly during the Deployment process. More or less similar to installing applications from MDT . While this is great for dynamic deployments, it’s not that easy to use as you have to define the package with it’s package id and the program of the package to be run. A typical entry looks like MKO0023E:MDT – Install Microsoft Office 2007 I`m pretty sure that most of you that used this feature have spent already some time on...
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Filed under: SCCM, MDT, Frontend, How To
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
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