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HOW TO CREATE A DELL COMMAND-CONFIGURE PACKAGE IN Locate the install directory and copy the X86 and X86_64 sub folders to the Package share. On an x64 system, the default location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\Command Configure. Create a file in the root of the Package directory called cctk.cmd. Use the following for the contents of the file: 1. 2. DISABLE “CHECK ONLINE FOR UPDATES FROM MICROSOFT UPDATE If you are already managing your Windows 10 systems (currently 1607 and below) with System Center Configuration Manager, then chances are you might want to prevent certain users from also being able to “Check online for updates from Microsoft Update.” before you have had a chance to fully test the latest cumulative update or feature update.. Unfortunately, when users go into Settings HOW TO CREATE A NETWORK SHARE IN AN AAD July 4, 2019 Lately, I have been doing some side projects for a friend's small business (about 40 PCs across 3 locations). The goal was to get them switched over from an old Windows 2008 R2 domain to a domain-less Azure AD environment running on Windows 10 and utilizing Microsoft 365 Business. Every now and CONFIGURATION MANAGER OSD, RECOVERY PARTITIONS AND MBR2GPT As I was preparing for my Midwest Management Summit 2017 session, Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence, I did a full end-to-end run of the In-place Upgrade Task Sequence and started running into issues. This led me to discover a couple of issues around Configuration Manager (specifically the Format and Partition Disk step) and Windows 10 CONFIGURING WOL WITH CONFIGURATION MANAGER Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1. Not only can Configuring Wake-On-LAN (WoL) improve your company’s software distribution success rates, it can also help out in the time of a crisis. With the recent COVID-19 outbreak, more and more companies are encouraging those employees that are able to do so to work from home. HOW TO ADD AAD USERS TO THE REMOTE July 4, 2019. In my last post, How to create a network share in an AAD only environment, I mentioned how I have been doing some side projects for a friend’s small business and using Microsoft 365 Business to manage the Windows 10 environment.There was a need for some of the (non admin) remote users to be able to remote into a Windows 10 system at the main office so they could run a IMPORT TASK SEQUENCE FAILURE Import Task Sequence Failure – CM 1606. materrill / July 31, 2016. UPDATE 9/17/2016: This issue is resolved in Update Rollup 1 for System Center Configuration Manager current branch, version 1606, so be sure to apply this when upgrading to 1606. As soon as I saw the word on Twitter that Configuration Manager (CM) 1606 was released to the fast CREATING SCHEDULES WITH NEW-CMSCHEDULE If you ever did any schedule creation prior to the two new PowerShell cmdlets (New-CMSchedule and Convert-CMSchedule), then you probably already know how tricky it was working with scheduled tokens and are going to welcome these new cmdlets. In this blog post, I am going to show you how easy it is to use New-CMSchedule HOW TO DETECT, SUSPEND, AND RE-ENABLE BITLOCKER DURING A In this blog post, I am going to show some simple steps that you can add to your Task Sequences to be able to detect, disable, and enable BitLocker status. This can be useful (and necessary) when performing activities like flashing the BIOS, running the new MBR2GPT utility, or upgrading to a newer version of Windows. HOW TO DEPLOY DELL COMMAND Dell provides multiple tools for getting and setting their BIOS/UEFI settings. In previous posts, I have talked about Dell Command | Monitor, which can be used to inventory Dell specific hardware settings using Configuration Manager (see How to Inventory Dell BIOS and UEFI Settings with ConfigMgr Part 1 and How to Inventory Dell BIOSand UEFI
HOW TO CREATE A DELL COMMAND-CONFIGURE PACKAGE IN Locate the install directory and copy the X86 and X86_64 sub folders to the Package share. On an x64 system, the default location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\Command Configure. Create a file in the root of the Package directory called cctk.cmd. Use the following for the contents of the file: 1. 2. DISABLE “CHECK ONLINE FOR UPDATES FROM MICROSOFT UPDATE If you are already managing your Windows 10 systems (currently 1607 and below) with System Center Configuration Manager, then chances are you might want to prevent certain users from also being able to “Check online for updates from Microsoft Update.” before you have had a chance to fully test the latest cumulative update or feature update.. Unfortunately, when users go into Settings CONFIGURATION MANAGER DYNAMIC DRIVERS & BIOS MANAGEMENT In Configuration Manager Dynamic Drivers & BIOS Management with Total Control Part 1, I talked about the requirements for the various scenarios when coming up with a solution for driver and BIOS management.I also gave a glimpse of what the Task Sequence steps look like once the solution is in place. In Part 2, I am going to show what it takes to get the solution step up and running (at first CONFIGURING WOL WITH CONFIGURATION MANAGER Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1. Not only can Configuring Wake-On-LAN (WoL) improve your company’s software distribution success rates, it can also help out in the time of a crisis. With the recent COVID-19 outbreak, more and more companies are encouraging those employees that are able to do so to work from home. HOW TO CREATE A DELL COMMAND-CONFIGURE PACKAGE IN Locate the install directory and copy the X86 and X86_64 sub folders to the Package share. On an x64 system, the default location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\Command Configure. Create a file in the root of the Package directory called cctk.cmd. Use the following for the contents of the file: 1. 2. HOW TO INVENTORY DELL BIOS AND UEFI SETTINGS WITH Back on the Deployment Types tab, click the Add button. On the General screen of the Create Deployment Type Wizard, browse to the Application repository for the 32-bit MSI and click Next. Verify the that import succeeded and click Next. On the General Information screen, verify the following information and click Next.FUN WITH POWERSHELL
Recently, I had the need to develop a consistent numbering format in order to maintain character length and ordering for collection names in ConfigMgr. The basic idea was to create 31 collections, each that have the number in the name a keeping all of them to two digits. So, for the numbers less than ten, HOW TO INVENTORY HP BIOS AND UEFI SETTINGS WITH CONFIGMGR On the Add Hardware Inventory Class window, click the Connect button. If the system that is running the ConfigMgr Console is a HP, leave the pre-populated computer name. Otherwise type the computer name of a HP system that is current on the network. For the WMI namespace field, enter: root\hp\instrumentedBIOS and check the Recursive box. HOW TO DEPLOY DELL COMMAND Dell provides multiple tools for getting and setting their BIOS/UEFI settings. In previous posts, I have talked about Dell Command | Monitor, which can be used to inventory Dell specific hardware settings using Configuration Manager (see How to Inventory Dell BIOS and UEFI Settings with ConfigMgr Part 1 and How to Inventory Dell BIOS and UEFI Settings with ConfigMgr Part 2). TESTING REQUIRED PXE BOOTING WITHOUT THE OS DEPLOYMENT Here is a simple three step Task Sequence that you can use to do all of the Required (and Available) PXE boot testing without the OS Deployment. Start by creating a new custom task sequence and add the boot image you want to test with under the Advanced tab of the Task Sequence Properties: Next, edit the Task Sequence and add a ApplyOperating
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Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1, I cove HOW TO ADD AAD USERS TO THE REMOTE July 4, 2019. In my last post, How to create a network share in an AAD only environment, I mentioned how I have been doing some side projects for a friend’s small business and using Microsoft 365 Business to manage the Windows 10 environment.There was a need for some of the (non admin) remote users to be able to remote into a Windows 10 system at the main office so they could run a CONFIGURING WOL WITH CONFIGURATION MANAGER Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1. Not only can Configuring Wake-On-LAN (WoL) improve your company’s software distribution success rates, it can also help out in the time of a crisis. With the recent COVID-19 outbreak, more and more companies are encouraging those employees that are able to do so to work from home. CONFIGURATION MANAGER OSD, RECOVERY PARTITIONS AND MBR2GPT As I was preparing for my Midwest Management Summit 2017 session, Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence, I did a full end-to-end run of the In-place Upgrade Task Sequence and started running into issues. This led me to discover a couple of issues around Configuration Manager (specifically the Format and Partition Disk step) and Windows 10 IMPORT TASK SEQUENCE FAILURE Import Task Sequence Failure – CM 1606. materrill / July 31, 2016. UPDATE 9/17/2016: This issue is resolved in Update Rollup 1 for System Center Configuration Manager current branch, version 1606, so be sure to apply this when upgrading to 1606. As soon as I saw the word on Twitter that Configuration Manager (CM) 1606 was released to the fast CREATING SCHEDULES WITH NEW-CMSCHEDULE If you ever did any schedule creation prior to the two new PowerShell cmdlets (New-CMSchedule and Convert-CMSchedule), then you probably already know how tricky it was working with scheduled tokens and are going to welcome these new cmdlets. In this blog post, I am going to show you how easy it is to use New-CMScheduleFUN WITH POWERSHELL
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Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1, I cove HOW TO ADD AAD USERS TO THE REMOTE July 4, 2019. In my last post, How to create a network share in an AAD only environment, I mentioned how I have been doing some side projects for a friend’s small business and using Microsoft 365 Business to manage the Windows 10 environment.There was a need for some of the (non admin) remote users to be able to remote into a Windows 10 system at the main office so they could run a CONFIGURING WOL WITH CONFIGURATION MANAGER Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1. Not only can Configuring Wake-On-LAN (WoL) improve your company’s software distribution success rates, it can also help out in the time of a crisis. With the recent COVID-19 outbreak, more and more companies are encouraging those employees that are able to do so to work from home. CONFIGURATION MANAGER OSD, RECOVERY PARTITIONS AND MBR2GPT As I was preparing for my Midwest Management Summit 2017 session, Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence, I did a full end-to-end run of the In-place Upgrade Task Sequence and started running into issues. This led me to discover a couple of issues around Configuration Manager (specifically the Format and Partition Disk step) and Windows 10 IMPORT TASK SEQUENCE FAILURE Import Task Sequence Failure – CM 1606. materrill / July 31, 2016. UPDATE 9/17/2016: This issue is resolved in Update Rollup 1 for System Center Configuration Manager current branch, version 1606, so be sure to apply this when upgrading to 1606. As soon as I saw the word on Twitter that Configuration Manager (CM) 1606 was released to the fast CREATING SCHEDULES WITH NEW-CMSCHEDULE If you ever did any schedule creation prior to the two new PowerShell cmdlets (New-CMSchedule and Convert-CMSchedule), then you probably already know how tricky it was working with scheduled tokens and are going to welcome these new cmdlets. In this blog post, I am going to show you how easy it is to use New-CMScheduleFUN WITH POWERSHELL
Recently, I had the need to develop a consistent numbering format in order to maintain character length and ordering for collection names in ConfigMgr. The basic idea was to create 31 collections, each that have the number in the name a keeping all of them to two digits. So, for the numbers less than ten, RECORDING OSD VIDEOS AND BIOS SCREENS Then simply turn the Webcam on and select the capture device: Click on the Capture button and this will bring up the following menu where you can adjust the screen resolution to the desired size. The following is running on my Surface Book at 3000 x 2000. The device I am capturing at 1920 x 1080 is a Dell Latitude E6430 (getting ready to do a WINDOWS AS A SERVICE IN THE ENTERPRISE OVERVIEW PART 2 Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Table of Contents – this link contains a list of blogs covering different parts of the solution.. Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 2. In Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 1, we talked about the challenges that Windows 10 brings to the Enterprise and covered off ‘why’ we needed to do something and also ‘what CONFIGURATION MANAGER OSD, RECOVERY PARTITIONS AND MBR2GPT As I was preparing for my Midwest Management Summit 2017 session, Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence, I did a full end-to-end run of the In-place Upgrade Task Sequence and started running into issues. This led me to discover a couple of issues around Configuration Manager (specifically the Format and Partition Disk step) and Windows 10 WINDOWS AS A SERVICE IN THE ENTERPRISE OVERVIEW PART 2 Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Table of Contents – this link contains a list of blogs covering different parts of the solution.. Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 2. In Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 1, we talked about the challenges that Windows 10 brings to the Enterprise and covered off ‘why’ we needed to do something and also ‘what FORCING CONFIGURATION MANAGER VPN CLIENTS TO GET PATCHES Forcing Configuration Manager VPN Clients to get patches from Microsoft Update. materrill / March 18, 2020. 3/18/2020. By now IT departments are scrambling to get as many users as possible to work from home as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. What they are finding out is that Microsoft patches chew up a lot of bandwidth when theseclients can
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Recently, I had the need to develop a consistent numbering format in order to maintain character length and ordering for collection names in ConfigMgr. The basic idea was to create 31 collections, each that have the number in the name a keeping all of them to two digits. So, for the numbers less than ten, UPGRADING THE BIOS PART 1 Upgrading the BIOS Part 1. materrill / June 5, 2017. Operating systems and software are not the only thing that needs to be upgraded these days. It is really important that the BIOS firmware gets updated as well. Lately, I have been talking to a lot of IT Pros at conferences and user group meetings and I have discovered that not too many people HOW TO DETECT, SUSPEND, AND RE-ENABLE BITLOCKER DURING A In this blog post, I am going to show some simple steps that you can add to your Task Sequences to be able to detect, disable, and enable BitLocker status. This can be useful (and necessary) when performing activities like flashing the BIOS, running the new MBR2GPT utility, or upgrading to a newer version of Windows. HOW TO CREATE A DELL COMMAND-CONFIGURE PACKAGE IN Locate the install directory and copy the X86 and X86_64 sub folders to the Package share. On an x64 system, the default location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\Command Configure. Create a file in the root of the Package directory called cctk.cmd. Use the following for the contents of the file: 1. 2. DISABLE “CHECK ONLINE FOR UPDATES FROM MICROSOFT UPDATE If you are already managing your Windows 10 systems (currently 1607 and below) with System Center Configuration Manager, then chances are you might want to prevent certain users from also being able to “Check online for updates from Microsoft Update.” before you have had a chance to fully test the latest cumulative update or feature update.. Unfortunately, when users go into Settings BIOS TO UEFI MADE EASIER WITH WINDOWS 10 CREATORS UPDATE BIOS to UEFI made easier with Windows 10 Creators Update. materrill / January 15, 2017. Back in December, Microsoft published a blog ( Windows 10 Creators Update advances security and best-in-class modern IT tools) where they mentioned a conversion tool for making the conversion to UEFI: “In-place UEFI conversion. HOW TO ADD COMPUTERS LISTED IN A TEXT Sorry to hear that – without details about your environment it is a little difficult to understand what the problem could be. I would double check the script you are running to make sure there are not any rogue characters (like smart characters – i.e. double quotes thatget
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Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1, I cove HOW TO ADD AAD USERS TO THE REMOTE July 4, 2019. In my last post, How to create a network share in an AAD only environment, I mentioned how I have been doing some side projects for a friend’s small business and using Microsoft 365 Business to manage the Windows 10 environment.There was a need for some of the (non admin) remote users to be able to remote into a Windows 10 system at the main office so they could run a CONFIGURING WOL WITH CONFIGURATION MANAGER Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1. Not only can Configuring Wake-On-LAN (WoL) improve your company’s software distribution success rates, it can also help out in the time of a crisis. With the recent COVID-19 outbreak, more and more companies are encouraging those employees that are able to do so to work from home. IMPORT TASK SEQUENCE FAILURE Import Task Sequence Failure – CM 1606. materrill / July 31, 2016. UPDATE 9/17/2016: This issue is resolved in Update Rollup 1 for System Center Configuration Manager current branch, version 1606, so be sure to apply this when upgrading to 1606. As soon as I saw the word on Twitter that Configuration Manager (CM) 1606 was released to the fast CONFIGURATION MANAGER OSD, RECOVERY PARTITIONS AND MBR2GPT As I was preparing for my Midwest Management Summit 2017 session, Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence, I did a full end-to-end run of the In-place Upgrade Task Sequence and started running into issues. This led me to discover a couple of issues around Configuration Manager (specifically the Format and Partition Disk step) and Windows 10 CREATING SCHEDULES WITH NEW-CMSCHEDULE If you ever did any schedule creation prior to the two new PowerShell cmdlets (New-CMSchedule and Convert-CMSchedule), then you probably already know how tricky it was working with scheduled tokens and are going to welcome these new cmdlets. In this blog post, I am going to show you how easy it is to use New-CMSchedule RECORDING OSD VIDEOS AND BIOS SCREENS Then simply turn the Webcam on and select the capture device: Click on the Capture button and this will bring up the following menu where you can adjust the screen resolution to the desired size. The following is running on my Surface Book at 3000 x 2000. The device I am capturing at 1920 x 1080 is a Dell Latitude E6430 (getting ready to do aFUN WITH POWERSHELL
Hi, I know this is an old post but I am trying to achieve 2 digit formatting when renaming files using Powershell. I have the files being renamed correctly except that I need the format to be 123456-01 then 123456-02 With the command below I am achieving 123456 1 and 123456 2 How do I add your {0:D2} into this. WINDOWS AS A SERVICE IN THE ENTERPRISE OVERVIEW PART 2 Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Table of Contents – this link contains a list of blogs covering different parts of the solution.. Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 2. In Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 1, we talked about the challenges that Windows 10 brings to the Enterprise and covered off ‘why’ we needed to do something and also ‘what HOW TO CREATE A NETWORK SHARE IN AN AAD July 4, 2019 Lately, I have been doing some side projects for a friend's small business (about 40 PCs across 3 locations). The goal was to get them switched over from an old Windows 2008 R2 domain to a domain-less Azure AD environment running on Windows 10 and utilizing Microsoft 365 Business. Every now and CONFIGURING WOL WITH CM FOR HP DESKTOPS4/12/2020 In
Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1, I cove HOW TO ADD AAD USERS TO THE REMOTE July 4, 2019. In my last post, How to create a network share in an AAD only environment, I mentioned how I have been doing some side projects for a friend’s small business and using Microsoft 365 Business to manage the Windows 10 environment.There was a need for some of the (non admin) remote users to be able to remote into a Windows 10 system at the main office so they could run a CONFIGURING WOL WITH CONFIGURATION MANAGER Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1. Not only can Configuring Wake-On-LAN (WoL) improve your company’s software distribution success rates, it can also help out in the time of a crisis. With the recent COVID-19 outbreak, more and more companies are encouraging those employees that are able to do so to work from home. IMPORT TASK SEQUENCE FAILURE Import Task Sequence Failure – CM 1606. materrill / July 31, 2016. UPDATE 9/17/2016: This issue is resolved in Update Rollup 1 for System Center Configuration Manager current branch, version 1606, so be sure to apply this when upgrading to 1606. As soon as I saw the word on Twitter that Configuration Manager (CM) 1606 was released to the fast CONFIGURATION MANAGER OSD, RECOVERY PARTITIONS AND MBR2GPT As I was preparing for my Midwest Management Summit 2017 session, Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence, I did a full end-to-end run of the In-place Upgrade Task Sequence and started running into issues. This led me to discover a couple of issues around Configuration Manager (specifically the Format and Partition Disk step) and Windows 10 CREATING SCHEDULES WITH NEW-CMSCHEDULE If you ever did any schedule creation prior to the two new PowerShell cmdlets (New-CMSchedule and Convert-CMSchedule), then you probably already know how tricky it was working with scheduled tokens and are going to welcome these new cmdlets. In this blog post, I am going to show you how easy it is to use New-CMSchedule RECORDING OSD VIDEOS AND BIOS SCREENS Then simply turn the Webcam on and select the capture device: Click on the Capture button and this will bring up the following menu where you can adjust the screen resolution to the desired size. The following is running on my Surface Book at 3000 x 2000. The device I am capturing at 1920 x 1080 is a Dell Latitude E6430 (getting ready to do aFUN WITH POWERSHELL
Hi, I know this is an old post but I am trying to achieve 2 digit formatting when renaming files using Powershell. I have the files being renamed correctly except that I need the format to be 123456-01 then 123456-02 With the command below I am achieving 123456 1 and 123456 2 How do I add your {0:D2} into this. WINDOWS AS A SERVICE IN THE ENTERPRISE OVERVIEW PART 2 Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Table of Contents – this link contains a list of blogs covering different parts of the solution.. Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 2. In Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 1, we talked about the challenges that Windows 10 brings to the Enterprise and covered off ‘why’ we needed to do something and also ‘whatMIKE'S TECH BLOG
Nomad Software Update LsZ File Purge aka whack-a-mole. In short, there is an issue in Configuration Manager CB 1806 where an additional file (*express.cab) gets included with some software updates. This causes Nomad to generate a LsZ file that contains download instructions for two files as seen below: ; Format=0003 (UNICODE) with alt hash CONFIGURATION MANAGER OSD, RECOVERY PARTITIONS AND MBR2GPT As I was preparing for my Midwest Management Summit 2017 session, Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence, I did a full end-to-end run of the In-place Upgrade Task Sequence and started running into issues. This led me to discover a couple of issues around Configuration Manager (specifically the Format and Partition Disk step) and Windows 10FUN WITH POWERSHELL
Recently, I had the need to develop a consistent numbering format in order to maintain character length and ordering for collection names in ConfigMgr. The basic idea was to create 31 collections, each that have the number in the name a keeping all of them to two digits. So, for the numbers less than ten, FORCING CONFIGURATION MANAGER VPN CLIENTS TO GET PATCHES Forcing Configuration Manager VPN Clients to get patches from Microsoft Update. materrill / March 18, 2020. 3/18/2020. By now IT departments are scrambling to get as many users as possible to work from home as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. What they are finding out is that Microsoft patches chew up a lot of bandwidth when theseclients can
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HOW TO CREATE A DELL COMMAND-CONFIGURE PACKAGE IN Locate the install directory and copy the X86 and X86_64 sub folders to the Package share. On an x64 system, the default location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\Command Configure. Create a file in the root of the Package directory called cctk.cmd. Use the following for the contents of the file: 1. 2. BIOS TO UEFI MADE EASIER WITH WINDOWS 10 CREATORS UPDATE BIOS to UEFI made easier with Windows 10 Creators Update. materrill / January 15, 2017. Back in December, Microsoft published a blog ( Windows 10 Creators Update advances security and best-in-class modern IT tools) where they mentioned a conversion tool for making the conversion to UEFI: “In-place UEFI conversion. DISABLE “CHECK ONLINE FOR UPDATES FROM MICROSOFT UPDATE If you are already managing your Windows 10 systems (currently 1607 and below) with System Center Configuration Manager, then chances are you might want to prevent certain users from also being able to "Check online for updates from Microsoft Update." before you have had a chance to fully test the latest cumulative update or featureMIKE'S TECH BLOG
Nomad Software Update LsZ File Purge aka whack-a-mole. In short, there is an issue in Configuration Manager CB 1806 where an additional file (*express.cab) gets included with some software updates. This causes Nomad to generate a LsZ file that contains download instructions for two files as seen below: ; Format=0003 (UNICODE) with alt hash HOW TO CREATE A NETWORK SHARE IN AN AAD July 4, 2019 Lately, I have been doing some side projects for a friend's small business (about 40 PCs across 3 locations). The goal was to get them switched over from an old Windows 2008 R2 domain to a domain-less Azure AD environment running on Windows 10 and utilizing Microsoft 365 Business. Every now and CONFIGURING WOL WITH CM FOR HP DESKTOPS4/12/2020 In
Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1, I cove HOW TO ADD AAD USERS TO THE REMOTE July 4, 2019. In my last post, How to create a network share in an AAD only environment, I mentioned how I have been doing some side projects for a friend’s small business and using Microsoft 365 Business to manage the Windows 10 environment.There was a need for some of the (non admin) remote users to be able to remote into a Windows 10 system at the main office so they could run a CREATING SCHEDULES WITH NEW-CMSCHEDULE If you ever did any schedule creation prior to the two new PowerShell cmdlets (New-CMSchedule and Convert-CMSchedule), then you probably already know how tricky it was working with scheduled tokens and are going to welcome these new cmdlets. In this blog post, I am going to show you how easy it is to use New-CMSchedule WINDOWS 10 BIOS TO UEFI IN-PLACE UPGRADE TASK SEQUENCE At the Midwest Management Summit 2017, I gave a session called Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence. In this session, I covered both types of BIOS to UEFI Task Sequences - Wipe-and-Load and In-place Upgrade. This blog is going to cover the In-place Upgrade version of the BIOS to UEFI Task Sequence. This Task HOW TO DETECT, SUSPEND, AND RE-ENABLE BITLOCKER DURING A In this blog post, I am going to show some simple steps that you can add to your Task Sequences to be able to detect, disable, and enable BitLocker status. This can be useful (and necessary) when performing activities like flashing the BIOS, running the new MBR2GPT utility, or upgrading to a newer version of Windows. HOW TO CREATE A DELL COMMAND-CONFIGURE PACKAGE IN Locate the install directory and copy the X86 and X86_64 sub folders to the Package share. On an x64 system, the default location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\Command Configure. Create a file in the root of the Package directory called cctk.cmd. Use the following for the contents of the file: 1. 2. FIRST LOOK – DELL 64-BIT FLASH BIOS UTILITY Update 2/14/2017: Dell has publicly posted a download link to the 64-bit BIOS Installation Utility (now called Flash64W.exe) and you can find it here: Now that the cat is out of the bag that Dell h DISABLE “CHECK ONLINE FOR UPDATES FROM MICROSOFT UPDATE If you are already managing your Windows 10 systems (currently 1607 and below) with System Center Configuration Manager, then chances are you might want to prevent certain users from also being able to "Check online for updates from Microsoft Update." before you have had a chance to fully test the latest cumulative update or featureMIKE'S TECH BLOG
Nomad Software Update LsZ File Purge aka whack-a-mole. In short, there is an issue in Configuration Manager CB 1806 where an additional file (*express.cab) gets included with some software updates. This causes Nomad to generate a LsZ file that contains download instructions for two files as seen below: ; Format=0003 (UNICODE) with alt hash HOW TO CREATE A NETWORK SHARE IN AN AAD July 4, 2019 Lately, I have been doing some side projects for a friend's small business (about 40 PCs across 3 locations). The goal was to get them switched over from an old Windows 2008 R2 domain to a domain-less Azure AD environment running on Windows 10 and utilizing Microsoft 365 Business. Every now and CONFIGURING WOL WITH CM FOR HP DESKTOPS4/12/2020 In
Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1, I cove HOW TO ADD AAD USERS TO THE REMOTE July 4, 2019. In my last post, How to create a network share in an AAD only environment, I mentioned how I have been doing some side projects for a friend’s small business and using Microsoft 365 Business to manage the Windows 10 environment.There was a need for some of the (non admin) remote users to be able to remote into a Windows 10 system at the main office so they could run a CREATING SCHEDULES WITH NEW-CMSCHEDULE If you ever did any schedule creation prior to the two new PowerShell cmdlets (New-CMSchedule and Convert-CMSchedule), then you probably already know how tricky it was working with scheduled tokens and are going to welcome these new cmdlets. In this blog post, I am going to show you how easy it is to use New-CMSchedule WINDOWS 10 BIOS TO UEFI IN-PLACE UPGRADE TASK SEQUENCE At the Midwest Management Summit 2017, I gave a session called Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence. In this session, I covered both types of BIOS to UEFI Task Sequences - Wipe-and-Load and In-place Upgrade. This blog is going to cover the In-place Upgrade version of the BIOS to UEFI Task Sequence. This Task HOW TO DETECT, SUSPEND, AND RE-ENABLE BITLOCKER DURING A In this blog post, I am going to show some simple steps that you can add to your Task Sequences to be able to detect, disable, and enable BitLocker status. This can be useful (and necessary) when performing activities like flashing the BIOS, running the new MBR2GPT utility, or upgrading to a newer version of Windows. HOW TO CREATE A DELL COMMAND-CONFIGURE PACKAGE IN Locate the install directory and copy the X86 and X86_64 sub folders to the Package share. On an x64 system, the default location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\Command Configure. Create a file in the root of the Package directory called cctk.cmd. Use the following for the contents of the file: 1. 2. FIRST LOOK – DELL 64-BIT FLASH BIOS UTILITY Update 2/14/2017: Dell has publicly posted a download link to the 64-bit BIOS Installation Utility (now called Flash64W.exe) and you can find it here: Now that the cat is out of the bag that Dell h DISABLE “CHECK ONLINE FOR UPDATES FROM MICROSOFT UPDATE If you are already managing your Windows 10 systems (currently 1607 and below) with System Center Configuration Manager, then chances are you might want to prevent certain users from also being able to "Check online for updates from Microsoft Update." before you have had a chance to fully test the latest cumulative update or featureMIKE'S TECH BLOG
Nomad Software Update LsZ File Purge aka whack-a-mole. In short, there is an issue in Configuration Manager CB 1806 where an additional file (*express.cab) gets included with some software updates. This causes Nomad to generate a LsZ file that contains download instructions for two files as seen below: ; Format=0003 (UNICODE) with alt hash CONFIGURATION MANAGER DYNAMIC DRIVERS & BIOS MANAGEMENT In Configuration Manager Dynamic Drivers & BIOS Management with Total Control Part 1, I talked about the requirements for the various scenarios when coming up with a solution for driver and BIOS management.I also gave a glimpse of what the Task Sequence steps look like once the solution is in place. In Part 2, I am going to show what it takes to get the solution step up and running (at first WINDOWS 10 BIOS TO UEFI IN-PLACE UPGRADE TASK SEQUENCE At the Midwest Management Summit 2017, I gave a session called Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence. In this session, I covered both types of BIOS to UEFI Task Sequences - Wipe-and-Load and In-place Upgrade. This blog is going to cover the In-place Upgrade version of the BIOS to UEFI Task Sequence. This Task CONFIGURATION MANAGER OSD, RECOVERY PARTITIONS AND MBR2GPT As I was preparing for my Midwest Management Summit 2017 session, Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence, I did a full end-to-end run of the In-place Upgrade Task Sequence and started running into issues. This led me to discover a couple of issues around Configuration Manager (specifically the Format and Partition Disk step) and Windows 10 ADDING WINDOWS 10 VERSION, BIOS MODE AND SECURE BOOT STATE The friendly version of Windows 10 is actually easy to get since it is stored in the registry value ReleaseId under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion. Simply add a new custom user defined field and call it Version pointing to that registry value. Next, add a field called Manufacturer and another onecalled Model.
DISABLE “CHECK ONLINE FOR UPDATES FROM MICROSOFT UPDATE If you are already managing your Windows 10 systems (currently 1607 and below) with System Center Configuration Manager, then chances are you might want to prevent certain users from also being able to “Check online for updates from Microsoft Update.” before you have had a chance to fully test the latest cumulative update or feature update.. Unfortunately, when users go into Settings HOW TO INVENTORY DELL BIOS AND UEFI SETTINGS WITH Back on the Deployment Types tab, click the Add button. On the General screen of the Create Deployment Type Wizard, browse to the Application repository for the 32-bit MSI and click Next. Verify the that import succeeded and click Next. On the General Information screen, verify the following information and click Next. HOW TO INVENTORY HP BIOS AND UEFI SETTINGS WITH CONFIGMGR On the Add Hardware Inventory Class window, click the Connect button. If the system that is running the ConfigMgr Console is a HP, leave the pre-populated computer name. Otherwise type the computer name of a HP system that is current on the network. For the WMI namespace field, enter: root\hp\instrumentedBIOS and check the Recursive box. BIOS AND SECURE BOOT STATE DETECTION DURING A TASK In BIOS and Secure Boot State Detection Part 1, I talked about the various states a system can be in for the BIOS Mode and Secure Boot state.Having these states defined as OSD variables can be useful in determining what actions need to be performed in order to switch a system to UEFI Native with Secure Boot enabled. HOW TO ADD COMPUTERS LISTED IN A TEXT Sorry to hear that – without details about your environment it is a little difficult to understand what the problem could be. I would double check the script you are running to make sure there are not any rogue characters (like smart characters – i.e. double quotes thatget
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Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1, I cove HOW TO ADD AAD USERS TO THE REMOTE July 4, 2019. In my last post, How to create a network share in an AAD only environment, I mentioned how I have been doing some side projects for a friend’s small business and using Microsoft 365 Business to manage the Windows 10 environment.There was a need for some of the (non admin) remote users to be able to remote into a Windows 10 system at the main office so they could run a CONFIGURING WOL WITH CONFIGURATION MANAGER Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1. Not only can Configuring Wake-On-LAN (WoL) improve your company’s software distribution success rates, it can also help out in the time of a crisis. With the recent COVID-19 outbreak, more and more companies are encouraging those employees that are able to do so to work from home. CONFIGURATION MANAGER OSD, RECOVERY PARTITIONS AND MBR2GPT As I was preparing for my Midwest Management Summit 2017 session, Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence, I did a full end-to-end run of the In-place Upgrade Task Sequence and started running into issues. This led me to discover a couple of issues around Configuration Manager (specifically the Format and Partition Disk step) and Windows 10 IMPORT TASK SEQUENCE FAILURE Import Task Sequence Failure – CM 1606. materrill / July 31, 2016. UPDATE 9/17/2016: This issue is resolved in Update Rollup 1 for System Center Configuration Manager current branch, version 1606, so be sure to apply this when upgrading to 1606. As soon as I saw the word on Twitter that Configuration Manager (CM) 1606 was released to the fast CREATING SCHEDULES WITH NEW-CMSCHEDULE If you ever did any schedule creation prior to the two new PowerShell cmdlets (New-CMSchedule and Convert-CMSchedule), then you probably already know how tricky it was working with scheduled tokens and are going to welcome these new cmdlets. In this blog post, I am going to show you how easy it is to use New-CMSchedule RECORDING OSD VIDEOS AND BIOS SCREENS Then simply turn the Webcam on and select the capture device: Click on the Capture button and this will bring up the following menu where you can adjust the screen resolution to the desired size. The following is running on my Surface Book at 3000 x 2000. The device I am capturing at 1920 x 1080 is a Dell Latitude E6430 (getting ready to do aFUN WITH POWERSHELL
Hi, I know this is an old post but I am trying to achieve 2 digit formatting when renaming files using Powershell. I have the files being renamed correctly except that I need the format to be 123456-01 then 123456-02 With the command below I am achieving 123456 1 and 123456 2 How do I add your {0:D2} into this. WINDOWS AS A SERVICE IN THE ENTERPRISE OVERVIEW PART 2 Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Table of Contents – this link contains a list of blogs covering different parts of the solution.. Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 2. In Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 1, we talked about the challenges that Windows 10 brings to the Enterprise and covered off ‘why’ we needed to do something and also ‘what HOW TO CREATE A NETWORK SHARE IN AN AAD July 4, 2019 Lately, I have been doing some side projects for a friend's small business (about 40 PCs across 3 locations). The goal was to get them switched over from an old Windows 2008 R2 domain to a domain-less Azure AD environment running on Windows 10 and utilizing Microsoft 365 Business. Every now and CONFIGURING WOL WITH CM FOR HP DESKTOPS4/12/2020 In
Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1, I cove CONFIGURING WOL WITH CONFIGURATION MANAGER Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1. Not only can Configuring Wake-On-LAN (WoL) improve your company’s software distribution success rates, it can also help out in the time of a crisis. With the recent COVID-19 outbreak, more and more companies are encouraging those employees that are able to do so to work from home. CONFIGURATION MANAGER OSD, RECOVERY PARTITIONS AND MBR2GPT As I was preparing for my Midwest Management Summit 2017 session, Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence, I did a full end-to-end run of the In-place Upgrade Task Sequence and started running into issues. This led me to discover a couple of issues around Configuration Manager (specifically the Format and Partition Disk step) and Windows 10 CREATING SCHEDULES WITH NEW-CMSCHEDULE If you ever did any schedule creation prior to the two new PowerShell cmdlets (New-CMSchedule and Convert-CMSchedule), then you probably already know how tricky it was working with scheduled tokens and are going to welcome these new cmdlets. In this blog post, I am going to show you how easy it is to use New-CMSchedule IMPORT TASK SEQUENCE FAILURE Import Task Sequence Failure – CM 1606. materrill / July 31, 2016. UPDATE 9/17/2016: This issue is resolved in Update Rollup 1 for System Center Configuration Manager current branch, version 1606, so be sure to apply this when upgrading to 1606. As soon as I saw the word on Twitter that Configuration Manager (CM) 1606 was released to the fast RECORDING OSD VIDEOS AND BIOS SCREENS Then simply turn the Webcam on and select the capture device: Click on the Capture button and this will bring up the following menu where you can adjust the screen resolution to the desired size. The following is running on my Surface Book at 3000 x 2000. The device I am capturing at 1920 x 1080 is a Dell Latitude E6430 (getting ready to do aFUN WITH POWERSHELL
Recently, I had the need to develop a consistent numbering format in order to maintain character length and ordering for collection names in ConfigMgr. The basic idea was to create 31 collections, each that have the number in the name a keeping all of them to two digits. So, for the numbers less than ten, WINDOWS AS A SERVICE IN THE ENTERPRISE OVERVIEW PART 2 Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Table of Contents – this link contains a list of blogs covering different parts of the solution.. Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 2. In Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 1, we talked about the challenges that Windows 10 brings to the Enterprise and covered off ‘why’ we needed to do something and also ‘what HOW TO ADD AAD USERS TO THE REMOTE July 4, 2019. In my last post, How to create a network share in an AAD only environment, I mentioned how I have been doing some side projects for a friend’s small business and using Microsoft 365 Business to manage the Windows 10 environment.There was a need for some of the (non admin) remote users to be able to remote into a Windows 10 system at the main office so they could run aMIKE'S TECH BLOG
Nomad Software Update LsZ File Purge aka whack-a-mole. In short, there is an issue in Configuration Manager CB 1806 where an additional file (*express.cab) gets included with some software updates. This causes Nomad to generate a LsZ file that contains download instructions for two files as seen below: ; Format=0003 (UNICODE) with alt hash CONFIGURATION MANAGER OSD, RECOVERY PARTITIONS AND MBR2GPT As I was preparing for my Midwest Management Summit 2017 session, Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence, I did a full end-to-end run of the In-place Upgrade Task Sequence and started running into issues. This led me to discover a couple of issues around Configuration Manager (specifically the Format and Partition Disk step) and Windows 10 WINDOWS AS A SERVICE IN THE ENTERPRISE OVERVIEW PART 2 Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Table of Contents – this link contains a list of blogs covering different parts of the solution.. Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 2. In Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 1, we talked about the challenges that Windows 10 brings to the Enterprise and covered off ‘why’ we needed to do something and also ‘what WINDOWS 10 ENTERPRISE LTSB TO CB/B Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB to CB/B. In this video I will show you that it is possible to go from Windows 10 Enterprise 2015 LTSB to Windows 10 Enterprise CB or CBB. This process is simply an in-place upgrade – much like going from Windows 10 1507 (July 2015 release – build 10240) to Windows 10 1511 (November 2015 Update – build 10586 HOW TO CREATE A DELL COMMAND-CONFIGURE PACKAGE IN Locate the install directory and copy the X86 and X86_64 sub folders to the Package share. On an x64 system, the default location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\Command Configure. Create a file in the root of the Package directory called cctk.cmd. Use the following for the contents of the file: 1. 2. HOW TO INVENTORY DELL BIOS AND UEFI SETTINGS WITH Back on the Deployment Types tab, click the Add button. On the General screen of the Create Deployment Type Wizard, browse to the Application repository for the 32-bit MSI and click Next. Verify the that import succeeded and click Next. On the General Information screen, verify the following information and click Next. HOW TO DETECT, SUSPEND, AND RE-ENABLE BITLOCKER DURING A In this blog post, I am going to show some simple steps that you can add to your Task Sequences to be able to detect, disable, and enable BitLocker status. This can be useful (and necessary) when performing activities like flashing the BIOS, running the new MBR2GPT utility, or upgrading to a newer version of Windows. BIOS TO UEFI MADE EASIER WITH WINDOWS 10 CREATORS UPDATE BIOS to UEFI made easier with Windows 10 Creators Update. materrill / January 15, 2017. Back in December, Microsoft published a blog ( Windows 10 Creators Update advances security and best-in-class modern IT tools) where they mentioned a conversion tool for making the conversion to UEFI: “In-place UEFI conversion. DISABLE “CHECK ONLINE FOR UPDATES FROM MICROSOFT UPDATE If you are already managing your Windows 10 systems (currently 1607 and below) with System Center Configuration Manager, then chances are you might want to prevent certain users from also being able to "Check online for updates from Microsoft Update." before you have had a chance to fully test the latest cumulative update or feature HOW TO ADD COMPUTERS LISTED IN A TEXT Sorry to hear that – without details about your environment it is a little difficult to understand what the problem could be. I would double check the script you are running to make sure there are not any rogue characters (like smart characters – i.e. double quotes thatget
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Nomad Software Update LsZ File Purge aka whack-a-mole. In short, there is an issue in Configuration Manager CB 1806 where an additional file (*express.cab) gets included with some software updates. This causes Nomad to generate a LsZ file that contains download instructions for two files as seen below: ; Format=0003 (UNICODE) with alt hash HOW TO CREATE A NETWORK SHARE IN AN AAD July 4, 2019 Lately, I have been doing some side projects for a friend's small business (about 40 PCs across 3 locations). The goal was to get them switched over from an old Windows 2008 R2 domain to a domain-less Azure AD environment running on Windows 10 and utilizing Microsoft 365 Business. Every now and HOW TO ADD AAD USERS TO THE REMOTE July 4, 2019. In my last post, How to create a network share in an AAD only environment, I mentioned how I have been doing some side projects for a friend’s small business and using Microsoft 365 Business to manage the Windows 10 environment.There was a need for some of the (non admin) remote users to be able to remote into a Windows 10 system at the main office so they could run a CONFIGURATION MANAGER OSD, RECOVERY PARTITIONS AND MBR2GPT As I was preparing for my Midwest Management Summit 2017 session, Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence, I did a full end-to-end run of the In-place Upgrade Task Sequence and started running into issues. This led me to discover a couple of issues around Configuration Manager (specifically the Format and Partition Disk step) and Windows 10 CREATING SCHEDULES WITH NEW-CMSCHEDULE If you ever did any schedule creation prior to the two new PowerShell cmdlets (New-CMSchedule and Convert-CMSchedule), then you probably already know how tricky it was working with scheduled tokens and are going to welcome these new cmdlets. In this blog post, I am going to show you how easy it is to use New-CMSchedule RECORDING OSD VIDEOS AND BIOS SCREENS Then simply turn the Webcam on and select the capture device: Click on the Capture button and this will bring up the following menu where you can adjust the screen resolution to the desired size. The following is running on my Surface Book at 3000 x 2000. The device I am capturing at 1920 x 1080 is a Dell Latitude E6430 (getting ready to do a IMPORT TASK SEQUENCE FAILURE Import Task Sequence Failure – CM 1606. materrill / July 31, 2016. UPDATE 9/17/2016: This issue is resolved in Update Rollup 1 for System Center Configuration Manager current branch, version 1606, so be sure to apply this when upgrading to 1606. As soon as I saw the word on Twitter that Configuration Manager (CM) 1606 was released to the fastFUN WITH POWERSHELL
Hi, I know this is an old post but I am trying to achieve 2 digit formatting when renaming files using Powershell. I have the files being renamed correctly except that I need the format to be 123456-01 then 123456-02 With the command below I am achieving 123456 1 and 123456 2 How do I add your {0:D2} into this. HOW TO CREATE A DELL COMMAND-CONFIGURE PACKAGE IN Locate the install directory and copy the X86 and X86_64 sub folders to the Package share. On an x64 system, the default location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\Command Configure. Create a file in the root of the Package directory called cctk.cmd. Use the following for the contents of the file: 1. 2. DISABLE “CHECK ONLINE FOR UPDATES FROM MICROSOFT UPDATE If you are already managing your Windows 10 systems (currently 1607 and below) with System Center Configuration Manager, then chances are you might want to prevent certain users from also being able to "Check online for updates from Microsoft Update." before you have had a chance to fully test the latest cumulative update or featureMIKE'S TECH BLOG
Nomad Software Update LsZ File Purge aka whack-a-mole. In short, there is an issue in Configuration Manager CB 1806 where an additional file (*express.cab) gets included with some software updates. This causes Nomad to generate a LsZ file that contains download instructions for two files as seen below: ; Format=0003 (UNICODE) with alt hash HOW TO CREATE A NETWORK SHARE IN AN AAD July 4, 2019 Lately, I have been doing some side projects for a friend's small business (about 40 PCs across 3 locations). The goal was to get them switched over from an old Windows 2008 R2 domain to a domain-less Azure AD environment running on Windows 10 and utilizing Microsoft 365 Business. Every now and HOW TO ADD AAD USERS TO THE REMOTE July 4, 2019. In my last post, How to create a network share in an AAD only environment, I mentioned how I have been doing some side projects for a friend’s small business and using Microsoft 365 Business to manage the Windows 10 environment.There was a need for some of the (non admin) remote users to be able to remote into a Windows 10 system at the main office so they could run a CONFIGURATION MANAGER OSD, RECOVERY PARTITIONS AND MBR2GPT As I was preparing for my Midwest Management Summit 2017 session, Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence, I did a full end-to-end run of the In-place Upgrade Task Sequence and started running into issues. This led me to discover a couple of issues around Configuration Manager (specifically the Format and Partition Disk step) and Windows 10 CREATING SCHEDULES WITH NEW-CMSCHEDULE If you ever did any schedule creation prior to the two new PowerShell cmdlets (New-CMSchedule and Convert-CMSchedule), then you probably already know how tricky it was working with scheduled tokens and are going to welcome these new cmdlets. In this blog post, I am going to show you how easy it is to use New-CMSchedule RECORDING OSD VIDEOS AND BIOS SCREENS Then simply turn the Webcam on and select the capture device: Click on the Capture button and this will bring up the following menu where you can adjust the screen resolution to the desired size. The following is running on my Surface Book at 3000 x 2000. The device I am capturing at 1920 x 1080 is a Dell Latitude E6430 (getting ready to do a IMPORT TASK SEQUENCE FAILURE Import Task Sequence Failure – CM 1606. materrill / July 31, 2016. UPDATE 9/17/2016: This issue is resolved in Update Rollup 1 for System Center Configuration Manager current branch, version 1606, so be sure to apply this when upgrading to 1606. As soon as I saw the word on Twitter that Configuration Manager (CM) 1606 was released to the fastFUN WITH POWERSHELL
Hi, I know this is an old post but I am trying to achieve 2 digit formatting when renaming files using Powershell. I have the files being renamed correctly except that I need the format to be 123456-01 then 123456-02 With the command below I am achieving 123456 1 and 123456 2 How do I add your {0:D2} into this. HOW TO CREATE A DELL COMMAND-CONFIGURE PACKAGE IN Locate the install directory and copy the X86 and X86_64 sub folders to the Package share. On an x64 system, the default location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\Command Configure. Create a file in the root of the Package directory called cctk.cmd. Use the following for the contents of the file: 1. 2. DISABLE “CHECK ONLINE FOR UPDATES FROM MICROSOFT UPDATE If you are already managing your Windows 10 systems (currently 1607 and below) with System Center Configuration Manager, then chances are you might want to prevent certain users from also being able to "Check online for updates from Microsoft Update." before you have had a chance to fully test the latest cumulative update or feature WINDOWS 10 BIOS TO UEFI IN-PLACE UPGRADE TASK SEQUENCE At the Midwest Management Summit 2017, I gave a session called Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence. In this session, I covered both types of BIOS to UEFI Task Sequences - Wipe-and-Load and In-place Upgrade. This blog is going to cover the In-place Upgrade version of the BIOS to UEFI Task Sequence. This Task HOW TO CREATE A DELL COMMAND-CONFIGURE PACKAGE IN Locate the install directory and copy the X86 and X86_64 sub folders to the Package share. On an x64 system, the default location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\Command Configure. Create a file in the root of the Package directory called cctk.cmd. Use the following for the contents of the file: 1. 2.FUN WITH POWERSHELL
Recently, I had the need to develop a consistent numbering format in order to maintain character length and ordering for collection names in ConfigMgr. The basic idea was to create 31 collections, each that have the number in the name a keeping all of them to two digits. So, for the numbers less than ten, CONFIGURING WOL WITH CONFIGURATION MANAGER Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1. Not only can Configuring Wake-On-LAN (WoL) improve your company’s software distribution success rates, it can also help out in the time of a crisis. With the recent COVID-19 outbreak, more and more companies are encouraging those employees that are able to do so to work from home. HOW TO DEPLOY DELL COMMAND Dell provides multiple tools for getting and setting their BIOS/UEFI settings. In previous posts, I have talked about Dell Command | Monitor, which can be used to inventory Dell specific hardware settings using Configuration Manager (see How to Inventory Dell BIOS and UEFI Settings with ConfigMgr Part 1 and How to Inventory Dell BIOSand UEFI
UPGRADING THE BIOS PART 1 Upgrading the BIOS Part 1. materrill / June 5, 2017. Operating systems and software are not the only thing that needs to be upgraded these days. It is really important that the BIOS firmware gets updated as well. Lately, I have been talking to a lot of IT Pros at conferences and user group meetings and I have discovered that not too many people HOW TO INVENTORY DELL BIOS AND UEFI SETTINGS WITH Back on the Deployment Types tab, click the Add button. On the General screen of the Create Deployment Type Wizard, browse to the Application repository for the 32-bit MSI and click Next. Verify the that import succeeded and click Next. On the General Information screen, verify the following information and click Next. HOW TO DETECT, SUSPEND, AND RE-ENABLE BITLOCKER DURING A In this blog post, I am going to show some simple steps that you can add to your Task Sequences to be able to detect, disable, and enable BitLocker status. This can be useful (and necessary) when performing activities like flashing the BIOS, running the new MBR2GPT utility, or upgrading to a newer version of Windows. HOW TO INVENTORY HP BIOS AND UEFI SETTINGS WITH CONFIGMGR On the Add Hardware Inventory Class window, click the Connect button. If the system that is running the ConfigMgr Console is a HP, leave the pre-populated computer name. Otherwise type the computer name of a HP system that is current on the network. For the WMI namespace field, enter: root\hp\instrumentedBIOS and check the Recursive box. FIRST LOOK – DELL 64-BIT FLASH BIOS UTILITY Update 2/14/2017: Dell has publicly posted a download link to the 64-bit BIOS Installation Utility (now called Flash64W.exe) and you can find it here: Now that the cat is out of the bag that Dell hMIKE'S TECH BLOG
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HOW TO ADD AAD USERS TO THE REMOTE DESKTOP USERS GROUP July 4, 2019 In my last post, How to create a network share in an AAD only environment, I mentioned how I have been doing some side projects for a friend’s small business and using Microsoft 365 Business to manage the Windows 10 environment. There was a need for some of the (non admin) remote… Continue reading → HOW TO CREATE A NETWORK SHARE IN AN AAD ONLY ENVIRONMENT July 4, 2019 Lately, I have been doing some side projects for a friend’s small business (about 40 PCs across 3 locations). The goal was to get them switched over from an old Windows 2008 R2 domain to a domain-less Azure AD environment running on Windows 10 and utilizing Microsoft 365 Business. Every now and… AZSMUG: PRESENTS INTUNE, RBAC, GRAPH, AUTOPILOT AND MORE… On Monday, May 13th, AZSMUG held their Q2 meeting of 2019. It was broadcast and recorded using Microsoft Teams. A big thanks to the sponsors, Microsoft and HP, Inc. for making this a great day and to all of our speakers listed below. AZSMUG and co-sponsors Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are putting together a half day… HOW TO EASILY LAUNCH CMTRACE Over the years I have gotten in the habit of dropping CMTrace.exe into the System32 directory so that it is in the path and easy to launch. I had also been adding it to WinPE since before it was called CMTrace. In Configuration Manager Current Branch 1802, the ConfigMgr Team granted one of my UserVoice… 1 WDS PXE SERVER AND BOOT IMAGES FROM MULTIPLE CONFIGMGR SITES Have you ever had (or wanted) the need to PXE boot from different Configuration Manager sites? Maybe your test machines are all on the same network and can talk to your ConfigMgr lab site, your ConfigMgr Technical Preview site, or your production ConfigMgr site. Heck, maybe you want to PXE boot from stand alone MDT… NOMAD SOFTWARE UPDATE LSZ FILE PURGE AKA WHACK-A-MOLE In short, there is an issue in Configuration Manager CB 1806 where an additional file (*express.cab) gets included with some software updates. This causes Nomad to generate a LsZ file that contains download instructions for two files as seen below: ; Format=0003 (UNICODE) with alt hash ; Package Version = 1 . ; DataFormat…
January 7, 2019
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WINDOWS AS A SERVICE IN THE ENTERPRISE OVERVIEW PART 2 Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Table of Contents – this link contains a list of blogs covering different parts of the solution. Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 2 In Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 1, we talked about the challenges that Windows 10 brings to the…January 1, 2019
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WINDOWS AS A SERVICE IN THE ENTERPRISE TABLE OF CONTENTS This page is intended to be a table of contents for blogs that myself, my colleagues, or members of the IT community have published that we use in our Windows as a Service in the Enterprise process. Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 1 Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview…January 1, 2019
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HOW TO INSTALL A WIN10 SSU BEFORE THE LCU USING CONFIGURATION MANAGER If you are involved in patching Windows 10 systems, then you might be familiar with the Servicing Stack Update (SSU) dilemma that has been going on in the Configuration Manager (or SCCM as some like to call it) world lately. If you read the notes at the bottom of a KB for anyof the…
December 20, 2018
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GETTING STARTED WITH IOS 12 FAMILY SHARING SCREEN TIME If you are a parent and have kids who have iOS devices, then you have been longing for the day to be able to control screen time on these addictive little devices. My wife and I wanted to make sure that our kids unplugged and got to bed at a decent time on school nights,…October 7, 2018
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WINDOWS AS A SERVICE IN THE ENTERPRISE OVERVIEW PART 1 Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Table of Contents – this link contains a list of blogs covering different parts of the solution. Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 1 Windows 10 brings several new challenges to the Enterprise – one of the major challenges is deploying Windows 10 and then…October 1, 2018
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OPTIMIZING WIN10 OS UPGRADE WIM SIZES If you are using the full Win10 media to perform OS upgrades (like using a Configuration Manager Task Sequence), then you are going to want to put the install.wim on a diet. In addition, if you are servicing your WIM with the latest patches, you want to make sure that you are doing it in a way that…June 23, 2018
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