Inventorying SQL Server Editions

May 25, 2012 in Configuration Manager, SQL Server, Uncategorized, VBScript by Jeff Huston

  Well, for many organizations, it is Microsoft Enterprise Agreement true-up time.  That means you need to have accurate counts for each edition of SQL Server (Express, Standard, Enterprise, etc.).  The Asset Intelligence built in [...]

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Logging class object vbs…

April 29, 2012 in Scripting, VBScript by Daniel Belcher

  Ok, so I’ve not posted anything for a few days and I felt the need to throw a brief technical post up with a code snippet from a current project I’m working on. I’m [...]

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Hiding a task sequence progress UI

April 9, 2012 in Scripting, Task Sequence, The Power of Task Sequences, VBScript by Nick Moseley

If you have a custom HTA or dialog box as part of a task sequence, the dialog box could get in the way.  And it’s quite annoying to manually drag it out-of-the-way every time.   A workaround to this is to hide that task sequence dialog box altogether with the following VBScript.  So run this bit of code [...]

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Making Registry Changes for All Users

April 9, 2012 in Scripting, VBScript by R Bennett

    We’ve all had that experience where we need to kick out a registry change to a machine for one reason or another that has to affect each and every user. And of course [...]

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Pre-Caching Domain Profiles in Windows

April 5, 2012 in MDT, MDT 2010, MDT 2012, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Operating System Deployment, OS Deployment, OSD, PowerShell, Scripting, VBScript, Windows 7, WinPE by Jase T. Wolfe

  Often in desktop deployment, many environmental conditions are assumed and taken for granted.  This can result in a great deal of head scratching when those elements are suddenly taken away.  One of the biggest [...]

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Change SCCM Cache Size Package

March 29, 2012 in SCCM 2007, Scripting, System Center Configuration Manager, VBScript by Jay Connor

  I modified the vbs provided by Don Hite (VBS Script To Change A Remote SMS/ConfigMgr Clients Cache Size) so that I could push it out to multiple machines. Download: Change SCCM Cache Size Package [...]

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VBS Script To Change A Remote SMS/ConfigMgr Clients Cache Size

March 29, 2012 in Scripting, VBScript by Don Hite

  This VBS script will take a local or remote machine name from an input box and then will prompt you to enter a Cache size in MB that you want to change the Cache [...]

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MDT 2012 User Driven Installation: Pre-Flight Supported Hardware Check

March 29, 2012 in MDT 2012, Microsoft Deployment (MDT), Scripting, System Center Configuration Manager, VBScript by Jay Connor

  I made a vbs script to check whether the computer model is supported during UDI. It checks against the computers model value letting the wizard know if it isn’t supported and will stop the [...]

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Community solutions: Removing multiple packages with a script

March 20, 2012 in SCCM 2007, Scripting, System Center Configuration Manager, VBScript by Rod Trent

  Joakim was trying to slug through the ConfigMgr 2007 “delete wizard” to remove multiple packages, but because there were so many packages to remove the process was slow, tedious, and almost painful. Sherry Kissinger [...]

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Detect SSD Drives via Script

March 1, 2012 in OSD, VBScript by Dustin Hedges

  This has been a big problem for deployment specialists ever since SSD’s became available.  There was just no good way of reliably identifying SSD’s during a deployment.  A couple of weeks ago a co-worker [...]

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