Back in my MMSMOA session Hacking the Task Sequence 2014, I presented on what at the time was a unique situation – speeding up Task Sequences that were running in disconnected states. Earlier that year, I was creating a demo on how to OSD (Wipe-and-load) over Wi-Fi, only I ran into a problem in the…
Recently, my team has been doing a lot of testing for our next big Windows 10 In-place Upgrade. We are designing and developing a new process that I call Windows as a Service in the Enterprise (and we plan on sharing this at MMSMOA in May). As part of our testing, we need to test…
A few months ago, I noticed that Nomad had become really slow almost to the point that I thought I had a serious problem with my home lab. It did not matter if it was a virtual machine or a physical machine. Downloading content from a distribution point using Nomad had become painfully slow (averaging…
Lately, we have been ramping up our OSD in one of our test environments. One of the servers that hosts some of our test VMs sits behind a pretty solid firewall with only the required ports open for Configuration Manager traffic. OSD was rocking and rolling along and then we started to ‘Nomadize’ the Task…
In Configuration Manager Dynamic Drivers & BIOS Management with Total Control Part 1, I talked about the requirements for the various scenarios when coming up with a solution for driver and BIOS management. I also gave a glimpse of what the Task Sequence steps look like once the solution is in place. In Part 2,…
When approaching any solution, it is a good idea to come up with a list of requirements that the solution needs to be able to meet. This way you will be sure to start off on the right foot and not have to rip and replace, add to, or redo over the solution in the…
At the Midwest Management Summit 2017, I gave a session called Building the Ultimate Windows 10 UEFI Task Sequence. In this session, I covered both types of BIOS to UEFI Task Sequences – Wipe-and-Load and In-place Upgrade. This blog is going to cover the In-place Upgrade version of the BIOS to UEFI Task Sequence. This Task…
