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
Recently someone was reading over a blog post I wrote about using BGInfo with ConfigMgr. Leverage BGInfo in WinPE – Recast Software, and they were getting the error “The code execution cannot proceed because oledlg.dll was not found…” Quick Fix: Add HTML (WinPE-HTA) Optional Component to your Boot Media. I pointed to the optional items … Read more
HP is about to release an update to the HP Client Management Script Library, (1.6.5) and with it, a new Commandlet, New-HPDriverPack. This fills a void with driver packs that has been plaguing us for years. The issue HP tackled? Stale driver packs! Typically driver packs get updated… rarely, lets go with that, but individual … 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
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