ConfigMgr WebService – Version 1.1.0 released
A few months ago the first version of ConfigMgr WebService was released. Today, I’m happy to announce that version 1.1.0 is now available. What’s new In this new version there are quite a few [...]
Dell Warranty Tool 3.0 console extension for ConfigMgr – New version released
Some time ago now, Dell changed the way their public asset warranty API works. Up until now, the previous version of my Dell Warranty Tool 2.0 and earlier versions have not been working since this change. [...]
ConfigMgr Web Service – Version 1.0.0 released
Lately I’ve been experimenting with building a web service. It mainly started out with a need for a particular customer of mine that needed to get the primary user and device relationships during [...]
Create a Software Update Group defined by date in ConfigMgr with PowerShell
As a ConfigMgr administrator, one of the main functionality that many of us are working with is Software Updates. Over time, I’ve eventually decided to automate many of the tasks involved in managing [...]
ConfigMgr Prerequisites Tool – Version 1.4.2 has been released
I’ve chosen to update the ConfigMgr Prerequisites Tool to reflect the correct name of the latest version of ConfigMgr. In the previous version of the tool, it said ConfigMgr vNext, which has now been [...]
Updated Clean Software Update Groups script for ConfigMgr
Ever since I released the console extension for ConfigMgr to clean up Software Update Groups from expired and/or superseded Software Updates, many have given me lots of feedback and I’m now pleased [...]
ConfigMgr Content Source Update Tool 1.0.0
I guess most of you that are reading this post have been in a situation where you were dealing with some sort of ConfigMgr migration project. After objects have been migrated, you’re often faced [...]
ConfigMgr Prerequisites Tool – Version 1.4.1 has been released
Now that Windows ADK 10 has been released for managing deployment for Windows 10, I’ve updated the ConfigMgr Prerequisites Tool with capabilities of downloading the latest version of Windows ADK. [...]
ConfigMgr Prerequisites Tool – Version 1.4.0 has been released
It’s almost been a year since I’ve updated my prerequisites installation tool for ConfigMgr 2012 R2. With this new version being released, I’ve chosen to rename it to simply ConfigMgr [...]
Integrate DaRT Remote Viewer in ConfigMgr 2012 R2 console
Many of you have probably heard about integrating the DaRT Remote Viewer component into the Boot Images in ConfigMgr. This functionality enhances the way you can monitor Operating System Deployments when [...]
List Drivers in a Boot Image in ConfigMgr 2012 with PowerShell
During a session at Microsoft Ignite that I attended this week, I saw the speakers had a nifty little PowerShell one-liner that would get all drivers in a WIM file and output it to a GridView. This got [...]
Force a ConfigMgr Client out of Provisioning Mode with PowerShell
I’ve seen many blog posts around the internet regarding the issue where the client may still be in Provisioning Mode after an OSD scenario. Almost all of the posts describe a method of changing a [...]
Remove an User and Device relationship in ConfigMgr 2012 with PowerShell
I received a comment on a post I did some time ago where the visitor asked for how to remove a User and Device relationship with PowerShell, instead of creating one. I thought that I’d put together [...]
Deploy Adobe Acrobat Reader 2015 DC with ConfigMgr 2012
Over the past years I’ve been blogging about how to deploy Adobe Reader with ConfigMgr 2012, leveraging the way of creating a slipstreamed installation packages for each new version that gets released [...]
Get Device Models in ConfigMgr 2012 with PowerShell
I recently had to create a bunch of collections based upon the device models present in ConfigMgr at a customer. Before I could go ahead and create the collections, I needed to know what models was present [...]
How to amend WSUS Scan Retry Error Codes list in ConfigMgr 2012 with PowerShell
In a situation where you’ve multiple Software Update Points in the same site spread across different domains where clients in a particular domain cannot access resources in another domain, you’d [...]
Create an automated ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Client Installation Package for Mac Enrollment
For those of you that are familiar with the process of enrolling a Mac system, you’ve probably experienced the improvements made to the process with ConfigMgr 2012 R2. There are different ways of [...]
Delegate Required Permissions for AADSync in Active Directory with PowerShell
Once you have done a specific task a couple of times, you start to wonder how it can be made easier and faster. This happened to me when I was setting up the required permissions for a service account [...]
Get Lenovo Warranty Information with PowerShell
As many of you have probably already seen, some time ago I released the Dell Warranty Status Tool 2.0 as a console extension for ConfigMgr 2012. I’ve received tweets and comments from the community [...]
Unable to manage Subscriptions in SSRS for ConfigMgr 2012 Reports
When you install a Reporting Service Point in ConfigMgr 2012, you might want allow your users to be able to manage Subscriptions to the reports through the web interface of SSRS. In the default setup, [...]
Clean Software Update Groups console extension for ConfigMgr 2012
A few months ago I created a script that would assist ConfigMgr admins with cleaning up their Software Update Groups from expired and superseded Software Updates. Although this script needed manual interaction [...]
Call to HttpSendRequestSync failed for port 443 with status code 404 Not Found
Today I was playing around in my lab environment with the goal to install a Management Point that would be used for HTTPS and have the ability to support Mac devices. I started with installing the prerequisites [...]
How to Enable Disabled Programs in ConfigMgr 2012 with PowerShell
When you’re doing a migration and migrate Packages and Deployments that are associated with them, the best practice is to not let the migration wizard enable the Program for each Package after the [...]
Create an OSD Manager Security Role for RBA in ConfigMgr 2012
At one of my customers we’ve recently implemented Role Based Administration in ConfigMgr 2012 R2, which is great because they can now start to leverage the many great things that comes with it. One [...]
Dell Warranty Status 2.0 console extension for ConfigMgr 2012 has been released
Over the past year I’ve evolved my PowerShell skills and revisited some of the scripts and tools that I’ve previously created. When I looked at the Dell Warranty Console Extension Tool 1.0 [...]
Install and Configure a Remote Reporting Services Point in ConfigMgr 2012
In this blog post we’ll go through the necessary steps you need to take in order to install and configure a Reporting Services point on a remote Site system. Most of the time, a single Reporting [...]
Use PowerShell to convert an Application CI Unique ID to Display Name
When I was browsing the net, I stumbled upon a script that would convert a ContentID to DisplayName and PackageID. This got me thinking that when you’re troubleshooting Application deployments, you [...]
Uninstall of ConfigMgr 2012 client failed with error code 0x80070643
During a migration project with a customer, we ran into the problem where some of the clients wouldn’t be uninstalled correctly. When using the supported way of uninstalling the ConfigMgr 2012 client, [...]
Migrate Status Message Queries in ConfigMgr 2012 with PowerShell
I’ve been doing ConfigMgr migration projects for a while now and first up until recently one of my customers asked me if we could migrate the Status Message Queries they’ve put many hours into [...]
Remove WSUS configuration before capturing a Reference Image with MDT
While I was configuring MDT for creating reference images at one of my customers, we noticed that in some cases when systems that were deployed through ConfigMgr using the reference image we’ve [...]
Export and Import Reports in ConfigMgr 2012 with PowerShell
When I tweeted that I was working on a script to export reports from a Reporting Service point, I received a lot of response on that subject. In fact, I was only playing around to see if there was a quick [...]
Remove expired and superseded updates from a Software Update Group with PowerShell
If you’re working with patch management in ConfigMgr 2012, you’ve most likely scratched your head about why there’s no simple way to remove the updates that have been expired or superseded. [...]
Creating Global Conditions for the Application Model in ConfigMgr 2012
Most of you have probably used the Application Model in ConfigMgr 2012 and above right about now. If you still haven’t made the switch to Applications instead of Packages, I urge to do so. Something [...]
Create a Deployment Package in ConfigMgr 2012 with PowerShell
During a migration project at one of my customers, we needed to create a few Deployment Packages and wanted to do that with PowerShell. So I imported the ConfigMgr PowerShell module, and to my surprise [...]
Updated script to Slipstream Adobe Reader with PowerShell
Time flies by and it’s already almost a year ago I released my PowerShell script to slipstream Adobe Reader for deployment with ConfigMgr 2012 as an application. During this time, I’ve received [...]
Upgrade Windows 7 SP1 to Windows 10 Technical Preview with ConfigMgr 2012 R2
During TechEd Europe 2014 this week, a lot of new information regarding Windows 10 deployment and the supported ways of deploying it has been made available. Since I was not able to be on-site myself, [...]
Update a Collection Membership Query Rule with PowerShell
A member of the Swedish System Center User Group, also known as SCUG, asked for some help with updating all the collections that had membership queries matching a specific pattern/text. I figured that [...]
Prestage Computer Tool 1.0.0 – Import Computer Information into ConfigMgr and MDT
When you’re dealing with Operating System Deployment, you have most likely heard of that MDT can be integrated with ConfigMgr. If you’d combine the best from two worlds, meaning using ConfigMgr [...]
Interpret cryptic SMS_Advertisement object properties with PowerShell
For quite a while now, I’ve been thinking about creating a PowerShell script to help with identifying Package or Task Sequence deployment settings, for instance if any of the deployments have been [...]
Automatically distribute Applications to a Distribution Point Group with PowerShell
In an earlier post, I wrote about how you can leverage PowerShell to distribute application and packages to a Distribution Point Group. The script that I’m using in that post may work, but the code [...]
Remove multiple Packages in ConfigMgr 2012 with PowerShell
Lately I’ve been involved in a migration project where the customer is moving from legacy Packages to the new Application Model. During our analysis we came to the conclusion that some packages would [...]
MDT Factory Tool – Version 1.0.1 has been released
Today I’ve released a new version of my MDT Factory Tool. Since this version include some fixes for WSUS and Application import, I suggest that you grab it right away if you’ve been using the [...]
MDT Factory Tool 1.0.0 – Create Reference Images
During the past 2 months I’ve been working on a new tool that will assist ConfigMgr administrators with creating reference images. You may know that there’s various methods that you could use [...]
How to get MSI file information with PowerShell
If you’re an ConfigMgr administrator like me, you will often find yourself in the situation where you may want to get the Product Code from a MSI file. Or perhaps you’re interested in the Product [...]
Create an User and Device relationship in ConfigMgr 2012 with PowerShell
A colleague of mine asked me to help him with creating a relationship between an user and a device in ConfigMgr. He had been trying to use the Add-CMUserAffinityToDevice cmdlet but experienced some intermittent [...]
How to Add a Product to an ADR in ConfigMgr 2012 R2 with PowerShell
With ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 we received a bunch of new cool cmdlets for PowerShell, and as well for the R2 release, that we could use. This post will concentrate on how you can add a Product as search criteria [...]
Show Applications with Logon Requirement for a User to be logged on
A friend of mine asked me on Twitter today if I had a script that would list all applications in ConfigMgr 2012 where the Logon Requirement under the User Experience tab was set to Only when a user is [...]
Prompt for OU location during OSD with PowerShell
I read a post on the TechNet forums the other day where a member asked for help regarding to choose the location of where the computer object would be created in Active Directory depending on region and [...]
Create Windows Firewall rules for Migration in ConfigMgr 2012
When you’re going to perform a migration from either ConfigMgr 2007 or between two ConfigMgr 2012 environments, there’s always a bit of hassle with the Windows Firewall. The Windows Firewall [...]
ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Prerequisites Installation tool – Version 1.3.0 has been released
Today I’ve released the newest version 1.3.0 for my ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Prerequisites Installation tool. Whats new: Re-designed the user interface to feature tabs instead of buttons Validation checks [...]
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