For those of you that might be interested in Moving objects around in your ConfigMgr 2012 Hydration or test labs the following should help guide you on how to Move Console Items in ConfigMgr 2012. There is a decent amount of available options and I will try and provide them in the below table: ObjectType ObjectTypeName 5000…[Read more]

You might notice that the to: field in a SRS Report subscription is grayed out and you cannot alter the field. This may not be desired if you want your users to be able to add other users to the subscription. You could grant the users the administrator role which is overkill or you could modify [...]

I was looking for an easy way to set the display resolution on multiple machines and i happened to come across this Post from http://systemcenterideas.com/ which was just what i was looking for. Chad put together a nice script that works with Video Resolution Changer by Tony Pombo. I am not going to go into detail on how [...]

After completing steps 1-4 in my previous post you can continue on or download the below script to Automatically update your Default Boot Images to WinPE 3.1. Required parameters are auto determined if possible and entered for you. Required Method Parameters: Architecture, ExportImagePath, ImageIndex 1) Supply Architecture Value: x86 or x64 2) If…[Read more]

1) Download the Waik 3.1 Supplement from the following Link. 2) Extract the ISO on your Primary Site Server i.e. “E:Waik3.1” 3) Open an elevated command prompt and enter the following cmd substituting your extracted ISO location and Waik install Directory like below. 4) Once Complete output should look similar to the below screenshot. 5) Next open [...]

PS Script shows last date machine was patched and last patches applied.

$objSession = New-Object -com “Microsoft.Update.Session” $objSearcher= $objSession.CreateUpdateSearcher()$colHistory = $objSearcher.QueryHistory(1, 1)Foreach($objEntry in $colHistory){ Write-host $objEntry.TitleWrite-host $objEntry.Date}

I happened to need a script to set the active nics DNS suffix on all of my machines so i wrote this little script to do just that. I first looked to see if anyone else had already wrote something and found a lot of people looking for this same thing but no one really finding [...]

I needed away to change the Power Buttons on Windows XP Systems during deployment and after searching the internet i quickly found others with the same problem since these settings cannot be set via script easily and are usually handled by third party software from the hardware vendor. to be more specific on XP Laptop systems i [...]

If you have ever needed to offline patch a image you may have asked yourself how do i do that… 1. Find the index you want to patch: dism /get-wiminfo /wimfile:<path of the Install.wim file>install.wim 2. Mount your WIM file: dism /mount-wim /wimfile:<path of the Install.wim image file>install.wim /mountdir:<path of the mount directory>…[Read more]

USMT Hardlink migrations are awesome but if you do not remove them they can persist and cause problems down the road. To manually remove them just use usmtutils cmd line options to remove. usmtutils /rd %systemdrive%statestore

Ever want to programmatically create ConfigMgr Boot media with all your favorite bells and whistles? Well now you can with the below Powershell script. This script will use the local waik installation create a new boot.wim add all required components, pre execution hooks drivers and anything else you may want to add then it will connect [...]

select distinct model0 as ‘Computer Model’, COUNT(0) AS ‘Number of Machines’ from Computer_system_data group by model0 order by count(0) desc

Creation of 8.3 file names is disabled by default in server 2008 and needs to be enabled for configmgr and vNext. fsutil.exe behavior set disable8dot3 0

For those of you that might be interested in automating some of your folder structures for your ConfigMgr 2012 Hydration or test labs the following should help guide you on how to create Console Folder Items in ConfigMgr 2012. There is a decent amount of available options and I will try and provide them in the [...]

Ok so some of you may have found that during a TS joining the domain is no fun if you have GPO’s that cause problems in the middle of your TS or if software starts installing and craps out your build. Well i have ran into that same problem and i wanted a solution that really [...]

Attached you will find a link to download two different tools that come in very hand for the admin on the go who may not be able to install software on his workstation or at a client site. Vbseditor.exe is a freeware tool for editing vbscripts. Queryexpress.exe is a freeware tool for executing queries against databases. Both tools are [...]

The Logic in the ZTIGather.wsf script creates some awesome variables etc… that can be used during the imaging process with MDT Integration. A few of the neat ones are for chassis type and if a machine is a Virtual Machine or not. Wouldn’t it be kinda cool if you could see ahead of time what that [...]

Index Time Zone Display 0 Dateline Standard Time (GMT-12:00) International Date Line West 1 Samoa Standard Time (GMT-11:00) Midway Island, Samoa 2 Hawaiian Standard Time (GMT-10:00) Hawaii 3 Alaskan Standard Time (GMT-09:00) Alaska 4 Pacific Standard Time (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US and Canada); Tijuana 10 Mountain…[Read more]

You may have seen this error in your srsrp.log and similar errors in your component status on your site server. After setting up SRS you will notice that everything for the most part works fine except for these obnoxious error messages. 7403 Failures reported during periodic health check by the SRS Server. Well a fix has finally come for [...]