April 16, 2026 If you have done any kind Windows operating system deployment using Configuration Manager, or Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, you have probably noticed that when the system boots the WinPE boot image, it gives the computer name MININT-xxxxxxx. This is a randomly generated computer name to prevent naming conflicts. Back in my Configuration Manager…
October 31, 2025 If you are doing operating system deployments or upgrades using Configuration Manager along with BranchCache, with your Distribution Points running on Windows Server 2022 or Windows Server 2025, then you might be experiencing download issues. First off, this is not a ConfigMgr issue, but a Server 2022/2025, BITS/BranchCache issue that happens when…
March 27, 2024 Update: Add {0000111F-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB} for certain Polycom Bluetooth devices. I recently got a request to see if it was possible to disable Bluetooth file transfer without disabling Bluetooth (because that would be bad) using Configuration Manager. Challenge accepted! First things first, read up on the Bluetooth Policy CSP to see if it is…
August 25, 2022 Windows KB5012170 is turning out to be one of those patches that is causing a ton of headaches. The biggest one is for those user’s that got the lovely BitLocker Recovery screen but had no idea what their BitLocker recovery key is or where to find it. This happened to my father-in-law’s…
If you are familiar with the work that Gary Blok and I have done on BIOS and Drivers, you will already know that we like to use extra fields on the Package properties to store meta date that we use for reporting and automation. Four of the fields that we like to use are on…
If you have been involved with any kind of Windows deployments or Windows Update deployments in the last five or so years, you probably heard of the concept of deployment rings. Microsoft has been pushing this concept ever since they have moved to an ‘as a Service’ model for Windows 10 and other Microsoft products…
4/26/2020 [Download exported Configuration Baseline and Configuration Items here. This includes the CIs from Part 2 and Part 3.] In Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1, I covered the settings that are required to enable Wake-On-LAN that are not hardware manufacturer specific. In Part 2 I cover the BIOS (UEFI) specific settings for current…
4/12/2020 [Download exported Configuration Baseline and Configuration Items here. This includes the CIs from Part 2 and Part 3.] In Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1, I covered the settings that are required to enable Wake-On-LAN that are not hardware manufacturer specific. In Part 2, I am going to go over the BIOS…
December 8, 2019 Moving large amounts of content across a diverse network environment happens to be one of my specialties that I have focused a better part of my career on over the last 12+ years. Basically it boils down to how to get the least amount of data from point A to point Z,…
On Monday, May 13th, AZSMUG held their Q2 meeting of 2019. It was broadcast and recorded using Microsoft Teams. A big thanks to the sponsors, Microsoft and HP, Inc. for making this a great day and to all of our speakers listed below. AZSMUG and co-sponsors Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are putting together a half day…
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