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Take advantage of OEM Settings to display OSD state!
I have 2 scenarios that allows techs to determine the computers state. When the task sequence fails or when a Lab computer hasn’t been added to a lab group. It’s easy to enable the oembackground and...
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KB2918614 – UAC GATE
Update 17/09: You can whitelist existing msi’s. Not tested yet, will test and deploy as a dependency for the update. https://send.estate/s?e=8d19fef3f12531a After further discussion with our product...
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Add a Right Click Copy Folder or File path menu option in Windows Explorer
SCCM ConfigMgr doesn’t like quotes around paths when adding packages or Wims, etc so the secret shh shift + right click copy as path isn’t that handy. Here’s a reg file to add a special right click...
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Modular Task Sequence groups – Just an idea
Maik Koster has created a really good tool that monitors/ keeps backup of task sequence changes...
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Adding custom programs to the Set Default Programs UI
Hi, today I wanted the CMTrace tool to be recognised in the Set Default Programs control panel applet. There is a bit of information on the net but it’s confusing. In the registry you can set the...
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Deploy Windows 10 Preview with SCCM 2012 R2 (Unsupported)
Johan Arwidmark and Niall Brady have posted guides on deploying Windows 10 Preview injecting the Windows 10 version of Dism during the task sequence....
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Setting lockscreen and wallpaper based on resolution for Windows 8.1 during OSD
Lockscreen First you need to create and name files in this convention (we used png files and renamed them to jpg – this somehow works) LockScreen___2160_1440.jpg LockScreen___1024_0768.jpg We used the...
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MDT UDI Pre-flight checks
One of the best things to come out of MDT is the User Driven Interface (UDI) and the preflight page which allows custom checks. You can control whether a check passes or not with the exit code of the...
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Versioning and naming your base SOE .wim during OSD
If you replace the base wim (via build and capture) frequently it can be good to set versions and date the wim file that you import. It makes it easy to revert back if a change didn’t go so well. Below...
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Application Catalog logs
There are 2 operational logs for the App Catalog server side. <Drive Letter>\SMS_CCM\CMApplicationCatalog\Logs\ServicePortalWebSite.log <Drive...
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KB: PXE boots using the wrong wim file.
If you happen to change the source name of a boot wim the pxe point may boot using the old file. To fix rename <Drive Letter>\RemoteInstall\SMSImages\<WIMPkgID>\oldbootname.wim to...
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Fix for customized Adobe CC Acrobat in base image not activated
If you put Adobe Acrobat in the base image using the steps from http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/packager/deploying-acrobat.html Install Customization Wizard XI msi + mst then Install CC...
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Optimize the ‘build and capture’ time and size (SCCM Build)
Inspired by Johan’s post http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/174/Building-reference-images-like-a-boss.aspx I am probably one of the few that uses SCCM to capture base images....
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Create a compliance baseline to remove a folder
In this example we are killing the Silverlight start menu folder enabling us to use the Windows Updates while keeping the start menu clean. Create the Configuration Item 1. In the console click Create...
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Troubleshooting Collection Queries
If you want to see what collections have bad queries use CEViewer.exe from the ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Toolkit, it is installed when you add the server tools. Some things I have found about queries: The OR...
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KB: Temporary partition to stage boot wim on UEFI booted devices fails.
When not using the latest version of bootable media and the system is not partitioned SCCM is meant to create a temporary partition to stage the correct boot wim. What actually happens is it just...
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How To: Create Automatic Deployment Rules for Patch Tuesday Software Updates
Automatic deployment of updates is one of the best features of SCCM. Automation in general is awesome. The best way to use Automatic deployment rules (ADR) is to have them run on Patch Tuesday which...
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Format failed (0×80070057) during task sequence.
In this scenario the formatting of the disk fails and then the disk just dissapears even in diskpart until next reboot. Solution is to get the correct SATA driver for the device. This happened on one...
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Yearly clean up for Software Update Automatic Deployment Rules
Each year it is good to clean up the software update packages so they don't grow out of control and cause havoc in your sccm town. Review current Deployment Packages. If not already fix up, rename...
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Creating Collections to deploy ConfigMgr client updates (the easy way)
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