Start Task Sequence from CD on ConfigMgr Enabled PC!
Running task sequences of the boot media, will give you more trouble shooting info and logs to work with. So here is a guide on how to run off the boot media while in full OS mode.
Category: Boot Media, Configuration Manager, OS Deployment, Tips and Tricks | 1 Comment
Posts tagged ‘ConfigMgr’
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
Category: OS Deployment, Personal Notes, Tips and Tricks | 2 Comments
Finding and adding only the correct device driver to the Boot image
How to figure out the exact drivers necessary for the WinPE 3.0 boot image for SCCM to work properly, and keeping the amount of drivers to a bare minimum.
Category: Boot Media, Drivers, OS Deployment, WinPE | 6 Comments
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 [...]
Category: OS Deployment, Tips and Tricks | 1 Comment
Set default keyboard settings based on Running OS
While doing refresh scenarios, its possible to have USMT set the current Keyboard settings for the existing users on the reinstalled OS. The problem however, is setting the same default keyboard settings for new users on that machine.. By default the Keyboard settings will be that of the reference image, so if the keyboard settings [...]
Category: Language, OS Deployment | Comment
Can’t find the Intel(R) 6 Series storage driver!
Finding the Intel 6 series driver for an XP OS deployment
Category: Drivers, OS Deployment | 10 Comments
VBScript: Cleanup all computer objects for local PC
When we are deploying OS via ConfigMgr, we usually do a cleanup of all old objects before creating the new object. This helps prevent errors and mistakes, and is pretty easy to do. We are able to use both SMBOIS GUID and Mac addresses for the cleanup. usually I recommend using mac addresses, since I [...]
Category: Configuration Manager, OS Deployment, Scripting, VBScript | 1 Comment
Coretech Package Source Changer 0.3.0.0 Beta
This is the post that describes the tool and configuration. Please view this guide http://blog.coretech.dk/kea/updating-the-package-source-in-configuration-manager-2007/ by my colleague Kent Agerlunds, on how to use it in a ConfigMgr Migration 1. Introduction As we start migrating from CM2007 to CM2012 one of the requirements is that the package source used for packages must be a UNC. [...]
Category: Config Mgr. Tools, Configuration Manager, Configuration Manager 2012, Recommended Tools | 3 Comments
How to list ConfigMgr package structure in Powershell
This post show how to do a list of all package structure in ConfigMgr 2007, via standard PowerShell.
Category: Configuration Manager, Powershell, Scripting, Software distribution | 1 Comment
Coretech SCCM Manager 1.0.4 – Freeware Download
This week a customer contacted us, claiming that the tool did not work on sundays! I thought that was pretty strange, so I asked for log file/event log messages, and it was true. It did fail! It was even “Kernelbase.dll” or “kernel32.dll” that was throwing the exception! I tested it on our test environment, and [...]
Category: Client Installation, Config Mgr. Tools, Configuration Manager, OS Deployment, Recommended Tools | 3 Comments
