The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for my blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 26,000 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 10 sold-out performances for that many people…
Last week Microsoft released Remote Desktop Connection Manager version 2.7 (aka RDCMan). It has some really cool features and supports Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. This tool is essential if you run a lot of virtual machines. One of the new features allows the ability to connect directly to virtual machines (called virtual machine connect-to-console support). …
Recently, I was curious to see if I could get 1E PXE Everywhere (included with 1E Nomad) to boot a MDT Lite Touch boot image. Since PXE Everywhere integrates with System Center Configuration Manager, it automatically creates the necessary BCD files based on the ConfigMgr boot images. So that left me with using the command line…
If you have worked with ConfigMgr much, you know that uses WMI to stores tons of information. WMI uses the CIM_DATETIME format, which looks like this: yyyymmddHHMMSS.mmmmmmsUUU. In order to work with this in PowerShell, you need to convert it into something that the Get-Date cmdlet can understand. Here are two ways that you can accomplish this: Using…
Last month I had the honor of speaking at my first ever IT/Dev Connections in sunny Las Vegas. I had the pleasure of presenting on Building the Ultimate Operating System Task Sequence with my coworker and good friend Troy Martin. As promised, we have completed publishing a series of blogs on all the topics in…
If you spend a lot of time creating ConfigMgr 2012 R2 OSD Task Sequences, you probably have a method for inserting the steps and groups that you like to use in every TS you create. Maybe you open a reference TS up and copy and paste steps into a new TS that you are creating. …
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…
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