Confirm Domain Join during OSD

I’ve got a small group in my TS that double checks the domain join status, then exit with an error code if the OSD process didn’t join the domain properly. Basically, I’m using PowerShell to do a couple of lookups and writing the information to variables, which I then use to trigger an exit command. … Read more

Low Space on EFI (System) Partition – Clean up

Hey folks, this seems like a topic that keeps coming up, despite the fact I had assumed everyone was creating large EFI volumes (984MB) by now, but I keep finding folks who have 100MB and run into issues. Recent email from customer: GitHub Code: garytown/CM_PowerShell_Snips/SystemVolumeBinFiles.ps1 Microsoft Method for Cleanup: “We couldn’t update system reserved partition” … Read more

ConfigMgr Collection for ARM64 Devices

With ARM Devices coming, and you can manage them with CM, it would be nice to have collections for them, so with this simple Query, you can do that. Also means you might want to make an x64 collection as well, if you don’t already have one from the days you were keeping track of … Read more

BGInfo Bug (and more) in ADK 24H2 – Fix

Update 24.7.11 – Go to bottom to see other bugs I’ve found. Hey folks, I like to use BGInfo in my task sequence to display useful information about the machine and process running, but in ADK 24H2, I found that it wasn’t displaying. I had to make the screen refresh for it to show. Since … Read more

HP BCU to CMSL Part 2

Welcome back, in the first post HP DCU to HP CMSL I went over how you can use PowerShell to manage your BIOS settings, in this post we’ll dig a bit deeper into BCU configuration files, and how you can convert them to PowerShell. [ Script on GitHub ] This would also be a great … Read more