Category: SCCM

  • Simple vbscript (HTA) to install fonts via SCCM

    We have a group of users that need the ability to install fonts (.ttf and .otf). They are not administrators for their machines, so we usually go down there and install the fonts using runas. Since advertised SCCM programs can run as system, I can write a script to copy the fonts into the fonts…

  • Default MAPI profiles after using Office Customization Tool

    We are rolling out a new windows 7 desktop (via sccm task sequence) and one of the packages is the newly released Office 2010. I have been using OCT to modify the outlook profile via a PRF file. We want to take advantage of “cached mode” so that is one of the setting I use…

  • Just discovered TSConfig.INI

    I can now customize my winpe to run a VNC Server from a batch using TSConfig.INI and [CustomHook]. In theory, I can use “Create task sequence media” to create a thumb drive, that will reboot into winpe, and I can connect via WinVNC to continue the lite touch task sequence. I really need to sit…

  • Waking up a SCCM collection from vbscript.

    I wanted to wake up all the machines in a collection using a vbscript. I know that SCCM has this built in, but I could not get it working. To troubleshoot I figured I would write a script to get collection members, and then wake them via the command line with this tool: http://www.gammadyne.com/cmdline.htm#wol

  • SCCM “trickle” install.

    We wanted to deploy software to our environment via and assigned advertisement in SCCM, but we wanted to be able to install packages to a subset of a collection. If there is an issue the next day, the whole enterprise would not down. We already had a collection that identified machines that need the package,…

  • Using a sub-select to find machines that do not have the most recent version of a package.

    Many people have blogged about this – how to find machines that don’t have the most recent version of a package installed. First we write a query to show machines that don’t have the software installed (in this case firefox) Next we write a query to show the machines that have the most recent software…

  • Uninstall old Java Version via vbscript

    Here is my current script from removing previous versions of java via VBScript