ConfigMgr

IPU & Offline Dynamic Updates

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—–  Feel free to read to better understand Dynamic Updates, then do yourself a favor and use OSDBuilder —-

UPDATE 7/23/19 – MS just made Dynamic update for 1809 Available via WSUS again. (Before they were only available via MS Updates)    More info about that, and a great read about Dynamic Updates HERE

UPDATE: 8/20/18 – Adam Gross (@AdamGrossTX) added more info and explain even more!  That guys is awesome, really nice walk through on how to do it with a script to automate!  Check it out HERE

UPDATE: 8/17/18 – Heard back from MS.  Rest of those Dynamic Updates need to be applied offline to your Build Media, they are NOT included in the monthly CU. (Read full article for context)

Dynamic updates, what are those things?  Well, as Microsoft says “With Dynamic Update, if you start a computer from an existing operating system (for example, Windows 8), and then run Setup from that operating system [IN PLACE UPGRADE], Setup [Windows 10 Upgrade Setup] can check for new Setup files, including drivers and other files.”  You can enable it in your TS on the Upgrade OS step: (yes, you want to do this if you have bandwidth, way more info HERE, Thanks Adam)
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WaaS–Post 2–In Place Upgrade TS

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WARNING… WORK IN PROGRESS…  This has been in my drafts for a couple months, I’m pretty busy so I don’t know when I’ll get to polish it, so for now, just publishing it with intent to go back and update it.  Since I wrote this, there has been several changes already, due to advances in CM, finding bugs, etc.  Anyway, because this is really never going to be 100% done, just going to click publish now, so you can start playing with it…
PS.. Mike Terrill is working on a very detailed blog post that will hopefully answer many of your questions as well, but he is waiting for making his more polished, he takes more pride in his blog posts than I do. 🙂

Download the Task Sequences and Content —> HERE <—  I will try to keep that updated as I update my Lab’s TS

Ok, so about a couple weeks ago, I posted the Pre-Cache Compat Scan Task Sequence, in Part 1, now it’s time to go over the IPU.  It’s taken a couple weeks as I keep updating, refining, and finally came to the realization, I could keep tweaking this forever and never get around to posting.  So, I figured, I should just post this, even if it’s not 100% complete.  Just this should be pretty helpful to many.

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Update CCMCache Size via PowerShell

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Super short post, just more for self-documenting. I found tons of scripts out there to do this, but they all required having to reset ccmexec before the cache size updates.  So… if you do it from the control panel, you don’t have to reset the service…  what were those scripts doing wrong, that the control … Read more

Customize SetupComplete.cmd and SetupRollback.cmd

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Why?  Ever want to run a few tasks after upgrade, or more importantly, ensure a few things happen if the upgrade goes south and rollsback?  Why not hitch a ride on what ConfigMgr is doing natively and add a few things you need.

Supported?  Highly unlikely.  Please test, and please don’t say “Gary did it” as rationalization when someone asks why you decided to do this.

Do you do it?  Heck yes I do, in my lab.  Need to get a little more test results before implementing in Production

How do you use it?  I’m not telling! Oh wait, that’s why I’m blogging.  I modify the SetupRollback.cmd to ensure the machine is pulled out of provisioning mode when it the upgrade rolls back, and to set a registry key for our reporting, and trigger hardware inventory.

Update 2020.09.23 – Added Post about how Windows 10 calls SetupComplete.cmd

More background.
ConfigMgr has two files in the c:\windows\ccm folder that it uses:

  1. SetupCompleteTemplate.cmd
  2. SetupRollbackTemplate.cmd

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