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System Center Configuration Manager 1602 Released

System Center Configuration Manager 1602 has now been released and you can easily upgrade to it by going into your Configuration Manager 1511 console and browsing to: Administration > Cloud Features > Updates and Servicing Then in there you should see the new version available for pre-req checks and installation: To install, simply highlight the update and click the Install Update Pack. …

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Add Local User to Administrators Group During SCCM OSD

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You may have seen our previous post about adding a local user to a machine during SCCM OSD using a “Run Command Line”. Well in this guide we will show you how to add a local user into the Administrators Group on the local machine. This means that you can add a local user and then make them a local …

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SCCM – Set Time Zone During OSD

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If you are using SCCM for your operating system deployments across different countries, then you may want to set the time zone within the task sequence. To do this, you can take advantage of the built in Windows tool call tzutil.exe. In this example we will set the time zone for a computer deployment based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands which …

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SCCM Collection Query – Virtual Machines

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If you are looking for a SCCM collection query for virtual machines in your environment, then you can use this query below:

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System Center Configuration Manager PKI Setup

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If you are looking at setting up your System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) with PKI, then there is an excellent step by step guide that you can follow from SCCMGuy. The link to this guide is below: https://sccmguy.com/2013/11/26/pki-certificates-for-configuration-manager-2012-r2-part-1-of-4-web-server-certificate/ We have used this in the past our various labs and it details well what you need to do.

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SCCM 1511 – New Software Center

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If you have upgraded to SCCM 1511 recently then you may have not yet noticed that their is a new Software Center available and included within the Software Center itself is an area when users can download the applications directly instead of having to have Silverlight installed and use Internet Explorer. The old Software Center looked something like this: You …

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SCCM OSD – “A required device isn’t connected or cannot be accessed”

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We today ran into an issue where our SCCM OSD PXE boot was not working. It was coming up with a very confusing message stating: “A required device isn’t connected or cannot be accessed” This led us to start looking at the hard drive and the drivers, however, the solution was completely different. The problem was that the RamDiskTFTPBlockSize we …

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WMI Query for Internet Explorer Installations with Version

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If you need a WMI query for Group Policy or for Configuration Manager for machines that have Internet Explorer installed and even a version filter, then you can use the following: SELECT * FROM CIM_Datafile WHERE Name = “C:Program FilesInternet Exploreriexplore.exe” AND Version LIKE “11.%” You can then change the “11.%” part to the version number that you would like …

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SCCM R2 SP1 Deployment Task Sequences Bug

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Have you deployed a Task Sequence in SCCM R2 SP1 and then cannot see it when you PXE boot your machine? Well, this is a bug and it is very easily fixed. All you need to do is go through your normal process of creating and deploying a Task Sequence, but after you have created the deployment, you need to …

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Housekeeping for SCCM Application Catalog Requests

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If you are looking at doing some housekeeping on your Application Catalog within SCCM for user requests then you will find that there is not a Microsoft supported why of doing this. This has been causing us problem recently having approved software for a user and then the users going onto different machines and installing the software on various machines. …

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Restart SCCM OSD Task Sequence within Windows PE

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If you want to restart SCCM OSD Task Sequence from within Windows PE without having to reboot the machine and start the PXE boot sequence again, you can quickly press F8 to bring up a command prompt and enter the following command: x:smsbini386TsmBootstrap.exe /env:WinPE /configpath:x:smsdata This will then restart the task sequence process for you without having to reboot. Comments …

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How to identify a missing NIC driver during SCCM OSD

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If you have a new model of computer and you have PXE booted it and you do not get a network connection or IP address, then this is because the network card driver for that model is not available either within Windows PE or the boot image you have used to PXE boot the machine. To fix this can be …