A colleague of mine recently was working on a Windows image with a specific setting for Microsoft Office 2010. However, the registry key simply would not “sick” and would be stripped out at some point before the user could log
Automating “Click Continue”
A friend of mine mentioned that he expectantly spent a few hours with glazed over eyes clicking “C” on the keyboard to press “Continue” on a dialog box that was being generated a few hundred times. He quickly acknowledged that
SCCM Application Requirement of MSI ProductCode
I had a situation recently where an application needed to be installed on all workstations (desktops and laptops) unless another application was installed. Traditionally I would use collections to accomplish this. create a collection “Deploy Mfg App vVersion – Exclusions”
SCEP 2012 client log files
Looking for client log files I had to do a bunch of digging. This is what I’ve concluded (for now). C:\Windows\Temp\ (technically the System Temp folder) MpCmdRun.log MpSigStub.log C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Microsoft Security Client\Support (technically the %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Microsoft Security Client\Support folder) EppSetup.log EppSetup_#.log MSSecurityClient_Setup_<version>_epp_install.log MSSecurityClient_Setup_<version>_epp_uninstall.log
ConfigMgr Admin Console install notes
This is a FAST-PUBLISH article and is incomplete. A few quick notes on installing the ConfigMgr 2012 Admin Console. The console is a 32-bit (x86) application and it will run on many operating systems Install .NET Framework 4.0 Install the
A Collection of ConfigMgr 2012 Collection Queries
Tommy Gunn started a great post on this same topic at SystemCenterCentral. I’m adding my own here. *note: these are WQL queries for ConfigMgr/SCCM collections, but all will translate to T-SQL queries for reporting. Computers which are joined to a
ReportServerService logs not deleted
I was performing some initial discovery on a SCCM primary site server and noticed a lack of disk space. Using WinDirStat.exe I started digging deeper and discovered almost 100gb of ReportServerService_<timestamp>.log files. These are associated with the SQL Server Reporting
Creating Custom Active Directory Attributes
… how to create custom attributes in AD and link/assign/associate them to object Classes (computers, Users, etc.) First let me give credit to Farhan Kazi for a great article on how to do this with at post at http://fkazi.blogspot.com/2013/04/creating-custom-active-directory_27.html A