So long MDT, Native CM* for Me

*With a few parts of MDT salvaged from the garbage heap. UPDATE: 2024.5.21 – I’ve now replaced MDT Lite’s gather with a Johan’s script: Josch62/Gather-Script-For-ConfigMgr-TS (github.com) Ok, MDT is still a good product if you’re using it to deploy an OS only. (And if you’re doing a build and capture, personally I still like it … Read more

Replace MDT with MDT Lite

UPDATE: 2024.5.21 – I’ve now replaced MDT Lite’s gather with a Johan’s script: Josch62/Gather-Script-For-ConfigMgr-TS (github.com) Save yourself a ton of time.  I’ve moved all of my task sequences to using that to gather basic variables. Quick Technical Post on how to create your own slim MDT Lite Package (Gather, BGInfo, ServiceUI) without having to integrate … Read more

“Fix Windows ADK version 1809 issue with crashing WPF applications” during a Task Sequence

Ok, so basically this information is completely stolen from Nickolaj Anderson, Twitter: @NickolajA, the files required and original blog post and credit can be found HERE. I even stole 75% of the blog post title. I recommend you read that if you haven’t as it gives more detailed information to what is actually going on.   … Read more

Task Sequence Variables

Update 2018.12.24 – Johan Schrewelius has updated the gather.ps1 script on Technet .He has added several more variables, including the ones I was still needing to completely move away from MDT.  I’ve updated the screen captures to included the additional variables. 2024.4.5 – Updated variable script here: Gather-Script-For-ConfigMgr-TS/Gather.ps1 at main · Josch62/Gather-Script-For-ConfigMgr-TS (github.com) —- Recently … Read more

Run PowerShell ISE as System to Test scripts… From Software Center

Yet another post caused by my recent rebuilding of my lab from scratch after I totally hosed my last CM Server.  This time I’m documenting (blogging) a few additional things. So you write a lot of scripts for ConfigMgr?  Notice that they sometimes don’t perform quite as expected because they run as system instead of … Read more