Over the years I have gotten in the habit of dropping CMTrace.exe into the System32 directory so that it is in the path and easy to launch. I had also been adding it to WinPE since before it was called CMTrace. In Configuration Manager Current Branch 1802, the ConfigMgr Team granted one of my UserVoice…
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…
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…
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