OSD with Multi Disk Configs

Over the past year, I’ve been asked several times about how I’d manage OSD when a computer has several disk drives. I’ve dealt with this mostly on the server side of OSD, but from time to time, I have a device with a couple of drives. So when it comes to workstations, I go by … Read more

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

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

ConfigMgr Task Sequence – KB5025885: How to manage the Windows Boot Manager revocations for Secure Boot changes associated with CVE-2023-24932

Required Reading: KB5025885: How to manage the Windows Boot Manager revocations for Secure Boot changes associated with CVE-2023-24932 – Microsoft Support Words of Warning Once you’ve applied the mitigations outlined in the KB, the device is difficult to work with when it comes to boot media / reimaging. Personally, I’d only do this on some … Read more