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Using Windows Expand Tool to Extract CAB Files

Using Windows Expand Tool to Extract CAB Files

If you are a regular user of downloaded CAB driver packs then you are probably using something like 7-Zip to extract them. Well there is an alternative way of extracting the CAB file using a basic Windows tool. Instructions Download your CAB file and make note of the file location. Then open a command prompt […]

SCCM Missing Boot Image Tabs

SCCM Missing Boot Image Tabs

If you’re encountering issues where the Boot Image tabs are missing in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), this guide will help you resolve the problem. The missing tabs can hinder your ability to manage boot images effectively during deployments. Common Issues You may notice that the Boot Image tabs are not visible under the “Boot […]

Updating Active Directory Computer Description Using SCCM and MDT

Updating Active Directory Computer Description Using SCCM and MDT

You may have seen our previous post on how to set the local computer description during SCCM OSD (Operating System Deployment). Now, with the help of a script and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), we can take that local computer description and use it as the Active Directory (AD) computer description. Required Script To achieve this, […]

Setting Computer Name Automatically During SCCM OSD Process

Setting Computer Name Automatically During SCCM OSD Process

We have been looking into getting our OSD process to automatically change the computer name to what we want it to be for a while now but never really had much luck with it. Reading various forums and blogs, many people have said to use WSNAME and many others saying use scripts, all of which […]

SCCM – Add Local User During OSD

SCCM – Add Local User During OSD

If you want to add a local machine user to your deployed machine during your SCCM OSD process then you can do this using a standard “Run Command Line” step. Instructions So, you need to add a “Run Command Line” step in your task sequence towards the end, after the Windows deployment and after the […]

Updates fail or time out when WSUS is used during an MDT or SCCM capture

Updates fail or time out when WSUS is used during an MDT or SCCM capture

This guide assumes that you use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT build 8443) or Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) capturing Windows. You capture a task sequence, and the capture computer does not have Internet access. When the task sequence is running and the computer is checking for updates (pre-application installation), the installation freezes for 2 […]

Windows 10 1709 Fall Creators Update – SCCM Build and Capture Task Sequence Failing

Windows 10 1709 Fall Creators Update – SCCM Build and Capture Task Sequence Failing

We recently had put together a SCCM Build and Capture task sequence to update our images up to Windows 10 version 1709. We copied the install.wim from the sources folder of the Windows 10 v1709 ISO and added this as our operating system capture image. We took our existing task sequence (which has lots of […]

SCCM OSD – Restart a task sequence wizard in WinPE without rebooting

SCCM OSD – Restart a task sequence wizard in WinPE without rebooting

If you have started a task sequence in Configuration Manager and you hit a problem, the last thing you want to do is to have to go through the reboot process back into Windows PE. So, if you want to just restart the task sequence without rebooting, carry out the following steps: Press F8 to […]

Inject Windows Updates into WIM Image Files Using PowerShell

Inject Windows Updates into WIM Image Files Using PowerShell

To inject Windows Updates into custom-built images that you are using in your Configuration Manager OSD environment, you may find that keeping them up to date is a real problem. If you are happy with the image itself and do not want to make any changes to it, why should you need to rebuild and […]

SCCM – Windows 10 Sysprep Capture Errors

SCCM – Windows 10 Sysprep Capture Errors

So today we built a new custom Windows 10 image on a virtual machine and created our new SCCM capture media from the very latest version and every single time we ran the capture it failed at the Sysprep step. Infuriated by this as we have done captures hundreds of times, we started the annoying method […]

Add Local User to Administrators Group During SCCM OSD

Add Local User to Administrators Group During SCCM OSD

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 […]

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