I was doing an OSD project about 5 years ago when I came up with the idea of automatically opening the smsts.log file using Trace32 (now replaced by CMTrace). I am always up for a challenge to see if something can be done, so I set out to see if I could make it happen. …
Back in the ConfigMgr 2007 days, I wrote a similar blog called ConfigMgr OSD: Always including certain files in your Boot Images -think Trace32. I figured it was time to create a similar one for ConfigMgr 2012 since some things have changed. Even though CMTrace is now included in the boot image by default, there…
We are planning on having our fifth meeting of 2014. This meeting will be held at ***Interface Technical Training***: 3110 North Central Avenue, Suite 160, Phoenix, AZ 85012, September 11th . The meeting will start at **5:00 PM** with the welcome time at 4:30 PM-come early and socialize a bit. Kent and Mike will be…
I will be presenting the next 1E webinar – Minimize your ConfigMgr Footprint and Maximize Reliability and Performance. So if you are currently planning your new ConfigMgr 2012 design or you are looking at ways to trim back your current ConfigMgr 2012 hierarchy, join me on Thursday, May 22nd at 11:00 ET and learn how this can be easily achieved with…
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…
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