Oddvar

Author's details

Name: Oddvar Håland Moe
Date registered: March 30, 2011
URL: http://www.msitpros.com

Latest posts

  1. Hardening your Windows Client — March 10, 2013
  2. WSUS Client getting 80244018 errors — February 15, 2013
  3. Big change — November 16, 2012
  4. MDT Driver Exporter – My own GUI creation! — October 26, 2012
  5. Update group membership without reboot — October 9, 2012

Most commented posts

  1. Using Pictures from Active Directory — 68 comments
  2. Pictures in Active Directory Users and Computers — 32 comments
  3. Looking up passwords in Mremote — 25 comments
  4. Initiate restart of computer from active directory users and computers with right click — 22 comments
  5. MDT Driver Exporter – My own GUI creation! — 9 comments

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Mar 10

Hardening your Windows Client

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Client, Penetration testing, Security

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It has been a while since I wrote a good blog post. So the time has come for me to write a little about Windows security from a Penetration tester perspective. Hope you like it. There is probably a tons of guides and blog posts on how to hardening your Windows clients. In this post …

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Feb 15

WSUS Client getting 80244018 errors

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Administration, Client, Network

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As always it is hard to find out what these darn error messages means. Lately I was getting this error message when I tried to update Windows machines that where connected to my WSUS server: As always I started with the WindowsUpdate.log, but nothing there. Then I browsed through the Event Viewer. Nothing there either. …

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Nov 16

Big change

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Blog

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The time has (almost) come for me to change employer. I have worked for Atea for almost 7 years now. I have been working with a lot different things like Vmware, Exchange, Active Directory, Scripting, networking, Group policy, Application packaging, terminal services and the last years (almost) dedicated with OS Deployment (MDT,SCCM). I will begin …

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Oct 26

MDT Driver Exporter – My own GUI creation!

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Deployment

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This started as a little try and fail project. I wanted to create a powershell script that could export all the drivers inside a folder in the deployment workbench so I could just have all my drivers in the workbench forever and export them when I needed them. This way I could easily build up …

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Oct 09

Update group membership without reboot

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Server

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I often add the servers computer account to an Active Directory Group. And as we all know you have to boot in order to update this group membership. Or maybe not?? In order to update group membership without rebooting you need psexec or another method of starting a CMD as system. Start psexec –s cmd …

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Sep 27

The Driver saga continues – “Washing drivers”

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Deployment

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I thought that I could contribute to the driver saga chapters by writing a little about “washing drivers”. When I say “washing drivers” I mean removing all the garbage from the driver and ending up with a usable driver package for deployment. So the first thing you normally do is downloading drivers for you hardware. …

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Aug 28

SCCM 2012–Unknown machines

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Deployment

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Since you are reading this post you are probably “pissed off” and tired of deleting an object in All systems collection that is named Unknown…. You probably figured out that whenever a deployment fails, for some strange reason you have to find and delete these unknown objects in All Devices Collection. Well, I got tired …

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Aug 22

MDT 2012 Update 1–This is not documented

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Deployment

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Stumbled over something interesting here the other day. It seems that when you create a DB in MDT 2012 Update 1 there are some attributes that are gone. I could not find anything written about this in the MDT documentation. The attributes I am talking about is the SMS 2003 OSD attributes. When you create …

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Aug 10

Jason Sandy’s ConfigMgr Client Startup Script

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Deployment

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Jason has updated the Configmgr Client Startup script to 1.54. I can’t say how much I love this script. Go here to read more about it and download it: http://blog.configmgrftw.com/?page_id=349 I also see that my 2 little contributions has been added to the script. My contribs to Jason’s excellent script was the following: ”Added CheckCacheDuringStartup …

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Aug 09

Where do I get info about new KB and solutions from Microsoft?

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Administration, Tools

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  This is a question I get a lot. How do you know that there is a hotfix or a solution for that problem? Well, for my own part I use RSS feeds to stay up to date. Microsoft has some feeds in regards of new Knowledgebase articles and top solutions. So download your favorite …

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