System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager does a great job of deploying Windows operating systems. We (1E) have been able to hit some pretty high success rates in helping our customers with their Windows migrations. However, if not done correctly, OSD can be very dangerous and can cripple your environment in a short amount of…
Below is a link where you can download the scripts and directory structure that I used in the session No Lab, No Problem! Building the Essential Lab Environment Using Microsoft Technologies (WIN-B365) that I presented at TechEd North America 2014. For some reason they did not get uploaded to the TechEd Schedule Builder, so I…
We are planning on having our third meeting of 2014. This meeting will be held at Microsoft’s Office: 60 East Rio Salado Parkway, Tempe, AZ 85281, 12th floor on Thursday, May 8th. The meeting will start at 3:00 PM with the welcome time at 2:30 PM and will run until 5:00 PM – come early…
I am extremely happy to announce that I will be presenting a session at TechEd North America 2014! The session that I will be presenting is No Lab, No Problem! Building the Essential Lab Environment Using Microsoft Technologies (WIN-B365) on Wednesday, May 14th at 5:00 PM: The days of requiring extensive hardware and resources to build out a…
We are planning on having our second meeting of 2014. This meeting will be held at ***Interface Technical Training***: 3110 North Central Avenue, Suite 160, Phoenix, AZ 85012, March 11th . The meeting will start at **5:00 PM** with the welcome time at 4:30 PM-come early and socialize a bit. Kent will be presenting on…
Using the new ConfigMgr 2012 PowerShell cmdlets, there are three different ways to add computers to a device collection. Just like in the console, you can add computers via a direct membership rule (Add-CMDeviceCollectionMembershipRule), a query membership rule (Add-CMDeviceCollectionQueryMembershipRule) and also an include collection membership rule (Add-CMDeviceCollectionIncludeMembershipRule). In order to use these cmdlets, the collection…
We are planning on having our November meeting of 2013. This meeting will be held at the Microsoft Office: 60 East Rio Salado Parkway, Tempe, AZ 85281, 12th floor on Thursday, November 7th. The meeting will start at 3:00 PM with the welcome time at 2:30 PM-come early and socialize a bit. Are you looking…
It is probably not everyday that you need to create a bunch of collections in ConfigMgr, however, you might find yourself setting up a new infrastructure, lab environment or just doing some load and performance testing that justifies the need for some automation. Using the technique I demonstrated in my previous post Fun with PowerShell…
If you ever did any schedule creation prior to the two new PowerShell cmdlets (New-CMSchedule and Convert-CMSchedule), then you probably already know how tricky it was working with scheduled tokens and are going to welcome these new cmdlets. In this blog post, I am going to show you how easy it is to use New-CMSchedule…
I typically run the PowerShell ISE (x86) (instead of the PowerShell command prompt) when running commands and writing scripts for ConfigMgr. It provides the flexibility to highlight portions of your script and execute just that section. You can also echo out the contents of a variable on the command line below at any time to…
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