Many organizations are using the benefits of Distributed vSwitches (DVS) for simplified network management. However, there are still a lot of standard vSwitches being used. With VLAN segmentation being common, portgroups are being used as a representation of VLANs on standard vSwitches. Creating new portgroups manually can easily lead to errors, especially if the task […]
A quick post with a little script I have created to find out how long it took for the BitLocker encryption to finish the encryption of the harddrive. This script needs to run not too long after the encryption has occured, since it relies on the eventlog: $BitLockerEvents = get-eventlog -LogName system -Source Microsoft-Windows-BitLocker-Driver $BitLockerStart […]
This might come as a shocker to you (irony), but cyber-criminals use e-mail to attack your users. I feel that client security is something that is often overlooked and IT-pros tend to focus on securing the servers rather than focusing on what is possible to do from the clients within the company network. If you […]
Been a while since I have posted anything related to deployment, but I have thought a long time about this post. The reason why I have hesitated blogging about this is the legal issues about it. I have finally concluded that this is okay to publish, since the information is already available on the Internet […]
When using custom scripts for Detection Methods you have the possibility to use a Powershell script. However, if your environment has security in focus, then setting the ExecutionPolicy for Powershell scripts to anything other than AllSigned is not an option. This means you have to sign your scripts before running them. Christian has written an […]
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 […]
This is not the first time I have seen that someone tries to solve how to install fonts on a Windows 7 machine during deployment. Most of the methods use a vbscript of some kind that creates a object on the destination folder (C:WindowsFonts) and uses the copyhere method. An Example can be seen on […]
As you probably know whenever you run a task sequence it will run as system. So you will not be able to query for user related information in a task sequence. You could of course make complex scripts that will check for logged in user and then check against Active directory or SCCM using a […]
I just created a MDT documentation script. I will continue to develop this script and add new functions to it. I also added a little video demonstrating the script in Action. MDT Documentation Script v0.6 If you are interested you can find it in our download section. http://msitpros.com/?page_id=763 I will continue to add updates […]
So I need to add some fonts to my image while I’m deploying it. Copying the font to the windowsfolder is simple but it doesn’t automatically install the font for you unless you use the correct method. You have to copy them using the Shell object. My VBS looks like this: Const FONTS = &;H14& […]