Mar 12
Ever wondered how rate limits on Distribution Points in ConfigMgr 2012 work? When I one day accidentally updated all the distribution points at a customer site it was time to learn quickly. There are three modes for rate limits and these are set per Distribution Point. Unlimited sending is self-explainatory, but the pulse mode and …
Jan 14
15.01.2013 UPDATE: New Query As you probably already know Oracle just released a Java update to patch two critical vulnerabilities, including one that had been exploited in ongoing and accelerating attacks. https://blogs.oracle.com/security/entry/october_2012_critical_patch_update So I thought that this was a good time as ever to make a little list of tips that could be helpful keeping Java …
Nov 06
Remember those pesky error codes you had to google the hell out of when trying to troubleshoot Software Updates on clients in ConfigMgr 2007? If your answer is flashing white rage or similar, then you will like this new simple reporting feature in ConfigMgr 2012. The most common error I witnessed when working with Software …
Oct 26
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 …
Sep 27
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. …
Aug 28
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 …
Aug 22
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 …
Aug 10
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 …
Jul 18
The day has finally come that Lenovo also has decided to create driver packs for SCCM. As we all know this has been a Dell thing until now. And lately also HP. A screenshoot from Lenovo’s homepage. This was a Lenovo Thinkpad T 430S. And here is a link to this driver package: SCCM Pack …
Jun 12
I am often frustrated when I deploy machines using VMware. Not because it is VMware, but because it is so slow when using the console. By coincidence I found out that VMware actually has WDDM drivers installed/copied during VMware tools installation. So this led me to investigate if these drivers could speed things up in …
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