Over time Software Update Packages (read Deployment Packages, but with a proper name) most of the time are filled with unwanted Software Updates if no regular maintenance is performed, leading to unwanted [...]
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 [...]
Ever since I released the console extension for ConfigMgr to clean up Software Update Groups from expired and/or superseded Software Updates, many have given me lots of feedback and I’m now pleased [...]
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 [...]
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I created a script that would assist ConfigMgr admins with cleaning up their Software Update Groups from expired and superseded Software Updates.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 [...]
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you’ve most likely scratched your head about why there’s no simple way to remove the updates that have been expired or superseded. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Using an Automatic Deployment Rule in ConfigMgr 2012 helps automating your Software Update deployments a lot. In the case where you configure the ADR to run at a specific time after Patch Tuesday, lets [...]
If you’re looking to install a Software Update Point on a remote system fast and easy, this is the post for you. In my lab environment I’ve installed a Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual machine that we’ll [...]
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...