Once again thanks to all the members of the ConfigMgr community for their feedback on our Driver Automation Tool. After taking on board your suggestions and issues, version 3.4 is now available. Whats [...]
What is Windows 10 fast startup Fast Startup in Windows 10 is supposed to help boot Windows up much faster. In a complete shutdown scenario, Windows logs off all users and closes all applications. Fast [...]
Driver Download Automation Tool Following on from the success of the Dell, HP and Lenovo Driver Download Tools I have posted over the past couple of months here is the new multi-vendor version. The script [...]
Many of you would have found at some point you have had to deal with applications not deploying to due client cache directories being full. Typically the way around this is to run a PowerShell command [...]
Having the misfortune of a sudden battery failure on my laptop the other day, it got me thinking about how we monitor laptop health across our environment. Wouldn’t it be cool if I could monitor [...]
DeployEverything Lenovo Driver Download Automation Tool This is the third in the series of “DeployEverything Driver Download Tools”, this time focusing on Lenovo hardware. If you are running [...]
DeployEverything HP Driver Download Automation Tool Following on from the release of the Dell Driver Automation Tool in January, I had a lot of requests for a version for other manufacturers including [...]
DeployEverything Dell Driver Download Automation Tool Our previously created Dell Download PowerShell script has been wrapped into a GUI and provides additional functionality that you requested, including [...]
Software Center – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly A few months ago I put up a picture on twitter of my software center setup, I was very surprised by how many people contacted me and ask how I had [...]
In the modern age we live in those of you not working in IT for shall we say, an extended period, will not appreciate the pain of having to watch a disk defragment. The current process of defragmenting [...]
In my organisation only a few members of staff need to have access to the SCCM console, for obvious reasons I want to keep that to a minimum, never too good to let the patients run the asylum. When someone [...]
Up until late last year I had always used the Rebuild Indexes task built into the SCCM Task Maintenance options to “optimise” the back-end SQL database. The would occasionally fire up SQL Management [...]
The majority of SCCM administrators will have included a list of maintenance tasks for ensuring optimum performance of their environment. One area that often gets overlooked however is the maintenance [...]
Back in September back I posted a PowerShell script to allow the automatic querying of Dell client models from your SCCM environment, download the associated drivers and bios updates and import them into [...]
If you still have to maintain Java installations in your environment you will probably come up against having machines with multiple versions installed, unless you are running a clean up script for the [...]
In October of 2016 I released a script that downloaded drivers and bios updates for Dell client systems and created associated driver packs in SCCM (https://modalyitblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/10/sccm-dell-client-bios-driver-autodownload-ps-script/). [...]
I’ve touched very briefly on the subject of this post in a previous post about the Run a script feature in ConfigM...
Notification Service Over the past few months I have seen people create systems to monitor OSD deployments, for example ...
Maintaining Adobe Flash Although as we all know Adobe Flash is a product which has caused quite a lot of security relate...