Tag: SCCM
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Using PowerShell to unpin the AppStore in Windows 10 – Workaround
I can’t find a way to unpin the AppStore in Windows 10. So I wen’t about it another way. I reset the taskbar to have nothing and then I added everything back that I wanted. I am using this in my OSD/RunOnce PowerShell script to customize the user’s desktop. First of all I am using…
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SCCM 2012 OSD task sequence, windows 10 drivers missing
Still having problems getting my Windows 10 OSD up and running. Working with a Dell Latitude E7450 and the updated SCCM driver pack, but the drivers weren’t being installed. Ends up that you have to update your WINPE version from 8.1 to windows 10. Here is the article that I followed to update the WINPE…
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Re-imaging a machine, with SCCM 2012 fails with error 0x80070570
I have been working on building a new Windows 10 image. I was testing on a laptop and all of the sudden the OSD Task Sequence started failing, before anything even started! I had only made a minor change to the TaskSequence, so I was pulling my hair out. If you are impatient like me,…
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Problems with TweetDeck and Enterprise Deployment (SCCM)
Been working with @xrobx99 on this one. We had a request for TweetDeck to be installed on a couple of user’s machines. We feared that word would get out and everyone would have to have it. So we have been looking into deploying TweeDeck silently through SCCM. Using my SCCM PowerShell install script (which is basically just a…
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5 PowerShell functions to create a SCCM “trickle install” – i.e. X at a time.
If you look at this post, I describe a my idea of a SCCM trickle install – that is X number of machines at a time. Rather that have the install hit the whole collection at once, I wanted to hit just 20 a night. That way if there is an error, we can put…
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PowerShell script to create a SCCM Package,Program and Queries
I wanted to automate the process of creating a new package. The following code will look at an XML file for values (same xml file I am using here) and create a package based on the values. A lot of SCCM PowerShell was gathered from here. Here is the example of the source XML file:…
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PowerShell, Active Setup and running a SCCM package “before log on”
I have been struggling with the following idea for a while: How to run a package before before a person logs on using SCCM. There is a setting in SCCM that runs when no one is logged on, but if a person reboots and logs on before SCCM fires, the package will never run. Basically…
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Dotted (period) NetBIOS Domain Name issues
I inherited a Dotted Netbios Domain Name. Technically it is allowed, but it is not recommended. With every new version of software, I cringe in fear that it will come back to bite us again. For example: Moving from Exchange 2003 to 2010 was a problem for a while, but it seemed to been resolved…
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PowerShell Query to find a users computer name in SCCM
We rely on Remote Assistance. Usually, I just type “msra /offerra” in to my PowerShell session and lookup a the user’s computer name in the SCCM report named “Computers for a specific user name”. I wanted to make that process quicker. I wrote the following script to query SCCM for the “list of computer’s who’s…
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PowerShell scripts to create a WinPE 4.0 wim/ISO
I have been a WinPE hacker since it was only available to SA subscribers. With Vista it was free to the world, and I started moving all my setup processes to it. I have always used the dos batch scripts found in this forum to create a new WinPE ISO. Since WinPE 4.0 is coming out…