Today Technical Preview 1708 was released! Great new stuff as always. The Configuration Manager team release 15 releases of Configuration Manager in a year, 3 Current branch releases and 12 Technical Preview releases! That is simply amazing!! The Configuration Manager product team is doing an amazing job and the products capabilities goes beyond my wildest…
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ConfigMgr Windows 10 Baseline, Laps, Applocker, Credential guard
I have written a couple of posts now on Configuration Items and Baselines in Configuration Manager so I thought it was time to collect them all here with a call for action! Create your own CI’s and Baseline to make sure that you don’t have any configuration drift out there. Many settings are configured using…
Data Warehouse feature in Configuration Manager 1702
In Configuration Manager 1702 there is a new feature /site system role(pre-release) called Data Warehouse. This is a great addition as I cannot count the time I have setup and configured another database and then on a schedule moved data to that Database instead to be used both for historical data and by other systems…
New features in ConfigMgr 1703 Technical Preview
Updated!! With the new features in OSD that Aaron Czechowski shared on Twitter! Thanks Aaron, great stuff! Every time a new Technical Preview of Configuration Manager is released is a late night upgrading and playing around with the new cool features! Last night it was time again TP 1703 was released. One of my favorite…
New version of OSDBackground published with support for a specific background on error
I wrote a blog post a while ago on a tool my college Johan Schrewelius has published which sets the OSDbackground during OSD and gives us the possibility to troubelshoot without F8 support enabled which should be avoided. An update of OSDBackground is now published with som bug fixes like: 1. Added Management Point to…
Dump Task Sequence variables during OSD the safe way
I have used Michael Niehaus excellent script for dumping all task sequence variables during OSD which is great for troubleshooting. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mniehaus/2010/04/26/dumping-task-sequence-variables/ However it dumps all TS variables including: _SMSTSReserved variables which for instance contains the Network access account username and password in clear text. The same goes for the Domain Join account used in the…
Web Service for OS Deployment – SCCM, Configuration Manager Current Branch
There are a couple of OS deployment webservices out there like the legendary one from Maik Koster that is great (Should be built-in the product!) We have been using and developing our own OSD webservice at Onevinn which we used a couple of years now. It has been developed by my college Johan Schrewelius who…
Configuration Manager OSDBackground
There are many solutions out there for setting the OSD background to show progress during OS deployment. My college Johan Schrewelius at Onevinn has written a great one that shows: Note: OSDBackground have been replaced with TSBackground which have the same functionality and more. https://ccmexec.com/2019/06/tsbackground-for-configmgr/ Time elapsed Host information Current OSD Step Custom background Yes,…