4/5/2020 Not only can Configuring Wake-On-LAN (WoL) improve your company’s software distribution success rates, it can also help out in the time of a crisis. With the recent COVID-19 outbreak, more and more companies are encouraging those employees that are able to do so to work from home. This presents challenges for IT as there…
3/18/2020 By now IT departments are scrambling to get as many users as possible to work from home as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. What they are finding out is that Microsoft patches chew up a lot of bandwidth when these clients can download the patches directly from Microsoft Update (yet still be managed…
Have you ever had (or wanted) the need to PXE boot from different Configuration Manager sites? Maybe your test machines are all on the same network and can talk to your ConfigMgr lab site, your ConfigMgr Technical Preview site, or your production ConfigMgr site. Heck, maybe you want to PXE boot from stand alone MDT…
In short, there is an issue in Configuration Manager CB 1806 where an additional file (*express.cab) gets included with some software updates. This causes Nomad to generate a LsZ file that contains download instructions for two files as seen below: ; Format=0003 (UNICODE) with alt hash ; Package Version = 1 . ; Data Format…
Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Table of Contents – this link contains a list of blogs covering different parts of the solution. Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 2 In Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 1, we talked about the challenges that Windows 10 brings to the…
This page is intended to be a table of contents for blogs that myself, my colleagues, or members of the IT community have published that we use in our Windows as a Service in the Enterprise process. Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 1 Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview…
If you are involved in patching Windows 10 systems, then you might be familiar with the Servicing Stack Update (SSU) dilemma that has been going on in the Configuration Manager (or SCCM as some like to call it) world lately. If you read the notes at the bottom of a KB for any of the…
Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Table of Contents – this link contains a list of blogs covering different parts of the solution. Windows as a Service in the Enterprise Overview Part 1 Windows 10 brings several new challenges to the Enterprise – one of the major challenges is deploying Windows 10 and then…
If you are using the full Win10 media to perform OS upgrades (like using a Configuration Manager Task Sequence), then you are going to want to put the install.wim on a diet. In addition, if you are servicing your WIM with the latest patches, you want to make sure that you are doing it in a way that…
At MMSMOA 2018 in my Hacking the Task Sequence 2018 that I presented with my good friend Andreas Hammarskjöld, one of the demonstrations that I did was to show how to unload a disk filter driver in WinPE without doing a reboot. The number one reason for wanting to do this is to provide a…
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