Make your Microsoft TechNet signature look real nice!
For everyone posting and answering questions on the Microsoft TechNet forums, you might know that you can add a signature to you profile which will then be added to your Question/reply/answer. This is a nice feature, as you are then able to tell “the world” about yourself, every time you poste something. Now if [...]
Category: Technet | 3 Comments
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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
Personal note no 7: check Office 2010 SP1 version
Today I was doing, some Office 2010 SP1 updating, and to cheek that SP1 got installed as expected, I needed the before and after version numbers: luckily Microsoft has a KB on exactly that http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2121559
Category: OS Deployment, Personal Notes | Comment
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 [...]
Category: OS Deployment, Tips and Tricks | 6 Comments
Finding the correct storage driver for Win XP using WMIC
I already wrote a post on how to find the correct driver, for a Intel 6 Series storage controller, which is sometimes named different in XP and 7. http://blog.coretech.dk/mip/cant-find-the-intelr-6-series-storage-driver/. In that particular case I picked up the correct driver name by installing Windows 7 on the PC, and looking trough device manager.. Today I was [...]
Category: Drivers, OS Deployment | Comment
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Category: OS Deployment, Personal | 2 Comments
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012
The first beta is now available on Microsoft Connect… Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 Beta 1 adds support for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Further info here https://connect.microsoft.com/site14/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=8689
Category: Configuration Manager, OS Deployment | 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
OpsMgr 2007 R2: Script Unit Monitor Comparison Problems!
While making my last Management Pack , I discovered a problem in the Operations Console of OpsMgr. Problem: When i created the Critical/Unhealthy/Healthy Expressions i had to compare to a Integer that was returned by the Script. The problem was that when i compared 50 with 100, it acted like 50 was more [...]
Category: Operations Manager 2007 | 2 Comments
Dude, Where’s my Config Mgr Agent log files?
On my workstation i am running Microsoft Windows Vista 64bit. Today i got a small scripting task, which required me to view the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Agent Log files. On most Operating Systems (aka. 32bit) the log files are placed in “C:\Windows\CCM\Logs\”. But on mine it was not. I had no luck search [...]
Category: Configuration Manager | 2 Comments
