gwblok You ever want to collect a random holiday to spice up your report? No? Really? Just me? Whatever. In Action: How it works. Based on the website "Checkiday.com", the script grabs their RSS in XML format,(after confirming it can connect) digs through it and returns all of the different events for that day into $EventNames"From ... Read more PowerShell - Random Holiday
You ever need the PowerShell Module for ConfigMgr but don't want to install the full Console? Why? Who knows, I'm not asking you if you don't ask me. While this isn't probably isn't 100% accurate, and includes some extra files, it's a pain in the bum to figure out exactly which files are needed. I ... Read more ConfigMgr PowerShell Module - Package
Why would you do this? OSD Builder is completely capable of automation, creating scripts that can do all of this, and run via scheduled tasks. So why shoe horn it into a Task Sequence? Task Sequences are very comforting to me. They are powerful, have amazing amounts of flexibility, they manage the flow of content, ... Read more OSD Builder in a Task Sequence
BranchCache, it's wonderful. To see some tests and more info, check out this post from Mike Terrill. This post is a bit of an overview of BranchCache, then a script I'm using to trigger downloads of content using PowerShell to populate content into BranchCache from a DP (outside of CM). The idea behind this script ... Read more BITS Download - from HTTP (DP) - BranchCache
Custom Action Scripts were new in Windows 10 1803. My Buddy Adam wrote up a great overview, so I'm not going to replicate that hard work, please check it out at his Blog.Also, this is going to cover the SetupRollback.cmd file CM uses to re-trigger the TS in case of a Rollback. What I'm going ... Read more Windows 10 Upgrade - Custom Action Scripts