There was a question on Technet forum a while ago, requesting a script to configure the “Automatically install or uninstall required software and restart the computer only outside of the specified business hours”. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmanagerapps/thread/08d2f8e9-feaf-4143-af56-7e97ef20267c/ Torsten Meringer, ConfigMgr MVP wrote a blog post and a script a while back on how to modify the Business Hours…
Month: December 2012
Holiday reading tip Configuration Manager 2012: Administration Cookbook
Here is a Holiday reading tip! This book is a great book if you want to get started with Configuration Manager 2012! It is well written by experienced professionals (Brian Mason and Greg Ramsey both MVP’s) with tons of experience, with a focus on getting you started and explaining why you do the things you…
Vbscript: Modify packages to be available on package share ConfigMgr2012
In some scenarios in Configuration Manager 2012 you want your packages, OS images, boot image and driver packages, well everything you use in a task sequence to be available on the package share so that we can use the option to access the content directly during OS deployment. This of course takes up more disk…
Prevent use of computers which failed during OSD
Sometimes an OS deployment fails for different reasons, one thing that can be a problem is that users in some cases don’t see the error message saying that the installation failed and starts using the computer. Even if we use “SMSTSErrorDialogTimeout” to change the default 15 minutes error dialog to 22 hours, the installation can…