From time to time, I teach the Microsoft 10747D Administering System Center Configuration Manager class. Many of the students don’t have much experience with writing PowerShell scripts, and one of the labs allways create a lot of noise and frustration. So to make this task easier for some of the students, I decided to publish the script here, so they can copy it, if they don’t want to write the code. The script can be downloaded here: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Class-10747D-Lab-13-0ef106a8 /Enjoy.
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Last week I got a call from a customer, that wanted to automate the naming of new computers, that was beeing deployed using System Center Configuration Manager. They were using the build-in UDI Wizard, that comes with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). But the default computer name for new computers are “MININT-%SomeRandomNumber%”. They want to use the following naming standard: The first 3 characters should be static (The company prefix). In this example well use “ABC”. The next character should be the Device type (D=Desktop, L=Laptop or V=Virtual Machine). The last (up to) 9 characters should be the computer’s serial…
AWESOME!!! Today my guide on “Deploying Microsoft Office 2013 using SCCM 2012″, that I’ve posted on Microsoft TechNet, has now reached +20.000 downloads. It’s only 6 month’s ago that we reached 10.000 downloads, and today this guide is currently the most downloaded and higest rated contribution in the TechNet Gallery in both the System Center and the Configuration Manager Category. Amazing! Download link: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/How-to-Deploying-Office-0f954e7f /Enjoy. +Ronni Pedersen
Last week i had the honor to teach the System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager 10747D class in Århus. As promised, here is a list of the links we used during the week. ConfigMgr Tools Configuration Manager Support Center: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42645 Microsoft System center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Toolkit: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36213 Client Installation Jason Sandy’s startup script: http://blog.configmgrftw.com/configmgr-client-startup-script/ Applications SCCM 2012: Standard Requirement Rules vs. Global Expressions: https://www.ronnipedersen.com/2013/05/sccm-2012-standard-requirement-rules-vs-global-expressions/ How-to: Deploying Microsoft Office 2013 using SCCM 2012: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/How-to-Deploying-Office-0f954e7f Microsoft Orca Download: http://www.technipages.com/download-orca-msi-editor.html IT Ninja (Deployment Tips): http://www.itninja.com/ PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit: https://psappdeploytoolkit.codeplex.com OS Deployment WMI Query Examples: https://www.ronnipedersen.com/wmi-query/ Deployment Research (Johan Arwidmark): http://www.deploymentresearch.com/…
Allmost every time I get a call from a customer, or want to answer a question in the TechNet Forums about OS Deployment, I always start by asking for logfiles. There are MANY log files when it comes to ConfigMgr 2012 R2, and most of them are normally located in the same folder every time you need them. But when you are troubleshooting OS Deployment using, one of the most common log files you almost always want to check, is the SMSTS.log. And this log file is moving around depending on the phase of the deployment process. There are plenty of blogs…
This morning, one of my customers called me and told me that they bought some new Lenovo laptops (Lenovo ThinkPad S540), but they was unable start OS Deployment using SCCM/PXE. Normally when I see this behaivor, it’s caused by a missing driver in the boot image, so I told them to verify that the driver was loaded correct. Here is a guide to verify the network driver in a SCCM Boot Image: https://www.ronnipedersen.com/2009/04/importing-network-drivers-into-the-windows-pe-boot-image/ But the driver was loaded correct, so I requested the SMSTS.log and found another common issue. The SMSTS.log file can be found here: https://www.ronnipedersen.com/2014/08/sccm-2012-r2-smsts-log-located/ In the SMSTS.log…
Today I had to make a new ConfigMgr application for an “old” version of Microsoft Office. I almost forgot how to customize this version of Office, so I just used my normal Office 2013 deployment guide, with the default settings I normally recommend for office 2010 and 2013. But in Microsoft Oulook 2007 the user also gets an anoying pop-up about RSS feeds, so even if this is an old version of office I’ll share the fix here… (At lest I’ll know where to find the solution, if I get the question again) To remove (and disable) RSS feeds in…
Today I got a support call from a customer, where all software update was being deployed successfully, except the Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2. About a year ago, I had customer with a similar issue, so I though, it might be worth sharing in a blog post… At this customer all clients was stuck at “Downloading (87% Complete)….” System Center 2012 Configuration Manager had a lot of great built-in reports, and the report; “Management 7 – Updates in a deployment missing content”, will show what deployed updates is missing content in the packages/distribution points. The report showed us, that…
Today I received an email from Microsoft and I am delighted to share that I have been awarded “Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 2013 for the sixth consecutive year in Configuration Manager/Enterprise Client Management. I would like to thank everyone of you who have supported me in any form especially my family, friends, colleagues, all members of the Danish System Center User Group and other community partners. But also my MVP Lead, fellow MVPs and the Configuration Manager team at Microsoft in Redmond. A team of people I really admire and respect for their dedication and knowledge. The following is…
This Step-by-step guide describes how to prepare and add Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus to the Application library of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM), by using the designated functions for doing this in the Configuration Manager Console interface. Download the complete guide here in PDF format or read the the guide here. If I later decide to update this guide, I’ll only update the document. Not this blog post. Prepare Office 2013 for deployment Overview This procedure describes how to prepare Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 to be installed unattended. The aim of this procedure is to create and…