Reuse old PC name during Standalone OSD
In the situation where you want to reinstall a PC using a Standalone media, you will have to incorporate some way of naming the PC, or it will pick up a random name like MININT-XXXXX. In a reinstallation scenario however, the PC will already have a Name assigned, and this name can quiet easily be [...]
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Enable LENOVO TPM Security Chip (and other stuff) from a TS
I have some customers who run strictly Lenovo Computers (laptops and Desktops). On a lot of these computers the security Chip has been disabled or is in Inactive mode, thus not allowing the use of Bitlocker. I just finished messing around with activating the TPM Chip in the BIOS From a Task sequence on [...]
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Personal note no 6: Create Local User and add to Local group
Personal note no 6: Easy way to add create a local account and add it to administrators as a part of a Task Sequence
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Personal note no.5 : Make driver available for none admin user!
Staging driver in the driverstore, makeing it available for none admin user!
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Power management trough the TS (No more automatic Sleep!)
I have a number of customers who wants to set the power settings trough the TS, as opposed to using GPO’s. I guess that makes sense if you want to allow you users to change the settings them self… By default windows 7 will set the following power options: Sleep/standby in 15 min on [...]
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Personal note no 4: Pause a task sequence
Pause a task sequence for a specified number of seconds before continuing with the next step!
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SCCM Admins guide to preparing your environment for Bitlocker Drive Encryption – part 2
In part 1, I talked about the requirements for Bitlocker and showed you how to extend your Active Directory Schema if you run Windows Server 2003 SP1/SP2 Windows Server 2003 R2 domain controllers. We then sat the permission so that a Windows 7 machine was able to write its own TPM owner password to Active [...]
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Set up a SCCM test environment in no time!
If you need a full blown Test environment, here is how to set that up in no time at all
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There may be to many steps in the task sequence!
There may be too many steps in the task sequence Error caused by faulty MDT integration
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Getting a Hardcopy of the TS progress report.
I guess everyone uses the report showing how fare along a Task Sequence actually is, or if one of the steps has failed. But sometimes this report disappears after the TS finishes, so wouldn’t it be nice to always have it available afterword to see it one or more steps have failed, or to [...]
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