I have run in to the situation a few times where a customer has a CM instance on an air gapped network and need to get update content. In the case they are the ones responsible to transfer the data over from an internet facing network, they follow the instructions here. Assuming they downloaded all […]
UPDATE: v1.1.1 is live to fix the reported application tab issue. Version 1.1 of the SCCM extension for Windows Admin Center went live today. You can read about the original release here. Bugs Fixed:Software Metering client action not triggeringCustomers with certain versions of the Microsoft SCCM Client health offering were unable to get the general […]
A while back I had a customer that had to do a computer rename project to change some systems with their previous naming standard to their new naming standard. They wanted to do this without requiring someone to log on to each system. Yesterday I saw a Reddit thread asking how to rename a computer […]
Update: It was pointed out that the new script function required PowerShell v5 to use the New-GUID cmdlet. I have updated the function to use [guid]::NewGuid() so people do not have to upgrade the WMF, even though they should. +You can create a script within a script to import the inner script into ConfigMgr. I […]
During a recent engagement where I was downloading files for an offline CM upgrade, I ran into a number of issues that all stemmed from the redist files not having downloaded properly. In this case, the cab files all downloaded, but only a couple of the exe or msi files. Strangely, if I tried downloading […]
What packages are pending removal from DP?
The requirements for a ConfigMgr DP role are listed here. However, if you’d like to see/get the actual command line used for the installation you can follow the below steps.
The following PowerShell script will extract machine names from all the MIF files in a given directory
There are several means to add users / computers to a collection in ConfigMgr. I had a question come in around how to speed up the addition of direct user rules to a given collection. This blog will discuss some options.
There are several solutions out there to handle some of the situations requiring direct logon, but since I am using WAC anyway, I wanted the ability right within that for the convenience and for the added security.