May 20, 2012 in OSD, Task Sequence, USMT by Richard Dixon
I’ve been hitting a USMT issue I can’t get around. Can someone assist me with this issue? The following lines are what i’m seeing in the smsts.log Checking if CCM component System Health [...]
by Nick Moseley
May 19, 2012 in Bitlocker, ConfigMgr 07, Hardware, Task Sequence by Nick Moseley
First, let me start by saying there is already a good blog post which outlines how to use HP’s BIOSConfigUtility in an MDT task sequence (which can be easily translated into an SCCM task sequence). I recently implemented this tool for a client to enable the TPM feature in BIOS in preparation for BitLocker. The utility was [...]
by Nick Moseley
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 [...]
by Reed Porter
March 28, 2012 in ConfigMgr 2007, Events, Task Sequence by Reed Porter
Just a quick note to let you know I’ll be opening the SCCM Guru TinyChat for Nick’s awsome presentation about Task Sequences! Register for the webcast: http://info.bdna.com/20120328Webcast-SCCMGuru-NickMoseley_RegistrationPage.html Join the Chat: TinyChat (Preferred): TinyChat Hangout [...]
March 21, 2012 in Task Sequence by Chris Nackers
Posted in ConfigMgrSCCMTask Sequence
I recently had someone contact me that was looking for a way to add a conditional restart to a Task Sequence, but only if an application was successfully installed. Figured this would make a nice blog post, since if someone asked about it, chances are someone else also would like that information. The first thing [...]
February 15, 2012 in Scripting, Task Sequence by Chris Nackers
Posted in ConfigMgrMicrosoftSCCMScriptingTask Sequence
Fellow MVP Greg Ramsey has put up a really great post on injecting drivers from USB during a Task Sequence. Read the full post here. ConfigMgr OSD does a great job of injecting drivers ‘on the fly’ into your OS Deployment process. For example, you can create task sequence steps with conditional statements to apply [...]
by Phil Schwan
February 8, 2012 in Microsoft Deployment (MDT), OS Deployment, OSD, SCCM 2007, Task Sequence by Phil Schwan
Scenario – You are using SCCM 2007 with MDT 2010 integration to deploy your Windows 7 image. You are leveraging the MDT database and CustomSettings.ini to apply packages and settings during deployment (perhaps using [...]
by Nick Moseley
January 26, 2012 in OSD, Software Updates, Task Sequence, VBScript by Nick Moseley
A challenge with installing software updates during a task sequence is that it may occur where not all updates are applied on the first pass. The workaround is run software updates, run a VB Script or PowerShell script to force another scan, then run a software updates task again. Others have posted their scripts on [...]
by Mark Kent
January 24, 2012 in Microsoft Deployment (MDT), Patching, PowerShell, SCCM 2007, Task Sequence, WSUS by Mark Kent
Many people who use SCCM to build OS images have come across a slight issue where subsequent “Install Software Updates” task sequences are not finding any patches. This issue occurs because the machine doesn’t [...]
January 12, 2012 in SCCM 2007, System Center Configuration Manager, Task Sequence by Chris Nackers
When troubleshooting TS’s or when you simply want to know what is all being used in the TS, it can be helpful to log the variables and the resultant values. Use this simple script [...]
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