Did you move to using Standard Packages instead of the native driver packages in ConfigMgr years ago? Why use standard packages, and the DISM command instead of importing drivers and using the built in native functions? I’ll tell you why I do, Flexibility and Automation, and the cool people like Johan are doing it. TLDR: … Read more
Hey Team, I’m working on building out a safeguard hold database to easy lookup safeguard hold IDs. Currently I’ve scratched together 100 safeguard hold ids with information. What is a Safe Guard hold? Microsoft uses quality and compatibility data to identify issues that might cause a Windows client feature update to fail or roll back. … Read more
In the last post, I talked about using Reference files to lock in a set of updates for deployment. In this post, I’m going to show you how to deploy Updates using HP Image Assistant (HPIA) with a ConfigMgr Task Sequence. The Task Sequence I’ve created is pretty dynamic, so you can either create packages … Read more
You ever wonder if all your packages in your TS are cached? How about a Configuration Item that checks for all of the references in the Task Sequence, then checks the CM Cache to see if there are there? Sure, lets do that. Script for CI on GITHUB HERE (includes Detection Method & Discovery Script) … Read more
Ever wonder what triggers the SetupComplete.cmd file after Windows Installs / Windows Upgrades? It’s actually just a couple of registry values. When you run an upgrade, you can use the postoobe switch to set that value to a different location, which is what ConfigMgr does to use it’s own custom SetupComplete.cmd file. Lets now consider … Read more