Windows Deployment
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Windows 10 1803: winpeshl.ini file is present, but no commands were successfully launched
Yesterday I started a new Windows 10 1803 project with a customer. They want to start deploying Windows 10 1803 to new machines and also start upgrade existing…
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Find the TimeZoneName for your SCCM/MDT Deployments
Today I got a call from a customer that was playing around with OSD in System Center Configuration Manager and the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). He wanted to…
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CM1701 TP: Hardware Inventory Collets UEFI information
Overview Technical Preview 1701 for System Center Configuration Manager has just been released, and a new hardware inventory class (SMS_Firmware) and property (UEFI) are now available to help…
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Notes from Microsoft TechTalks.fi 2016
Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions earlier today @ MS TechTalks in Helsinki. Here are the links that we used during the presentation. Recordings should be available…
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Microsoft Cloud Roadshow, Copenhagen here we come…
This week Microsoft are kicking off the Cloud Roadshow event in Copenhagen, where you have the opportunity to meet me and many of my co-workers. So if you…
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Active Directory Based Activation in an multi domain environment
With the release of Windows 10, more and more customers are starting to move from the traditional KMS based activation model to Active Directory-based activation (ADBA). In a…
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MDT 2013 Update 1 Bug: WinPE-MDAC are not added to the MDT Boot Image
If you upgrade to MDT 2013 Update 1 and then create a new MDT Boot Image in SCCM, you will learn that the WinPE-MDAC component are not added…
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Get Computer Model Info for SCCM Driver Packages
When creating SCCM driver packages I always (99%) use WMI queries to select the correct driver package to be installed. Often I perform these tasks remotely without visiting…
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Windows 10 Administrative Templates Available
Microsoft has released Windows 10, and all over this little blue planet we call earth, Administrators are starting to deploy Windows 10. Microsoft has now released a complete…
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Updating the Windows Update Agent on Windows 7 clients
The last 2 months or so we’ve worked hard with many of our customers to fix a small problem with the Windows Update Agent on Windows 7. More…