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ConfigMgr Chassis Type Global Condition / Requirement

Working with a customer recently we wanted to deploy a ConfigMgr Application to all all laptops in the organization without creating a new collection of just laptops.  Using the ChassisTypes  property of the Win32_SystemEnclosure  WMI namespace is a great way

Chad February 16, 2018March 24, 2020 ConfigMgr, Scripting Read more

ConfigMgr Package/Program… will retry later

Jason Sandy’s has a great blog explaining ConfigMgr Package/Program retry behavior including the Retry return/exit/error codes and how often the retry occurs.  One bit of info missing from the blog that I couldn’t find anywhere else (documentation, forums, blogs, etc.)

Chad February 1, 2018March 24, 2020 ConfigMgr, ConfigMgr 2007 Read more

Parse env:Path with PowerShell

The environment variable PATH (combined SYSTEM PATH and USER PATH) can be tricky to parse if you want to check for each folder it contains.  This is due to the support of various formatting styles.  For example, this is a

Chad January 30, 2018March 24, 2020 Scripting Read more

ConfigMgr Status Filter Rule with alternate credentials

A recent customer wanted an automated SSRS Report Email Subscription anytime a new deployment was created.  I’d been pondering how do accomplish that for some time, but finally got a catalyst and a bit of time. I found a PowerShell

Chad November 8, 2017March 24, 2020 ConfigMgr, SQL Reporting Read more

The many ways to import the ConfigMgr cmdlet Library module

Over the years I’ve seen and used a variety of PowerShell commands to get the ConfigurationManager.psd1  file location to pass to Import-Module Just for fun, I compiled a list of the different methods.  It’s all about string manipulation.

Chad January 19, 2017March 24, 2020 ConfigMgr, Scripting Read more

GitHub embedding

This is an example of embedding a GitHub repository script in WordPress using the WP-GitHub plugin (with customized prism.js to add PowerShell, Batch, SQL and AutoIt language support) And an example of a custom plugin (not yet published) with shortcode:

Chad January 5, 2017March 24, 2020 Scripting Read more

ConfigMgr and SQL – NTFS allocation unit size

It’s been many years since I read that SQL databases should use an NTFS volume formatted with at 64KB file allocation unit size (block size). So long that I didn’t remember why or if it is still considered best/good practice.

Chad December 23, 2016March 24, 2020 ConfigMgr, Scripting, T-SQL Read more

ConfigMgr Content Source Path migration

Several ConfigMgr scenarios require that the content Source Path be changed.  This typically includes migrating to a new ConfigMgr environment (2007 to 2012, 2012 to Current Branch, etc.), and simply moving the source content to a new location such as

Chad September 28, 2016March 24, 2020 ConfigMgr, Scripting Read more
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