This is part 2 of my posts about Onevinn SCCM Extensions that my colleague Johan Schrewelius has written and posted on TechNet Gallery: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/SCCM-Extensions-for-driver-be30b298 It includes Modern driver management features but also an extension to execute Server Side commands during OS deployment in the Task Sequence to replace Scripts and Webservices. This functionality is a direct
My co-worker Johan Schrewelius has written a cool extension to Configuration Manager that adds some great features. In this post I will cover how it can dynamically manage drivers and driver software as we often must install that as well to get everything working. The end goal is to be able to add hardware models
Configuration Manager 1801 Technical preview contains some really cool features. The biggest one is defiantly the Phased Deployment option that we see the first version of. It basically adds a new deployment option to Task Sequences (I just assume it will be for applications in the future as well) called Phased deployment. It is similar
I wrote a post on a couple of tools to manage Configuration Items and Baselines in Configuration Manager over at 4SysOps. I covered four tools in that blog post. Registry to PowerShell converter (Reg2CI) by Roger Zander PowerShell Policy Editor by Roger Zander Configuration Manager Remote Compliance by Trevor Jones Create ConfigMgr Configuration Items from
Troubleshooting driver issues when the computer stops during OSD when booting with the infamous circle showing or nothing at all showing is a big challenge. With all the modern 2-in-1 devices and devices using USB-C docking stations I have seen this a couple of times the last month. One option that at least gives us
Back in November during the Configuration Manager MVP Summit 2017 we did a hackathon that week which was amazing fun! Some of the features that was being worked on during that week is now in the Configuration Manager 2712 Technical Preview that was just released. The official documentation is here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/get-started/capabilities-in-technical-preview-1712 There are some really great
I wrote a post way back where I used a Powershell script to query AD group description for Applications to install dynamically during OS deployment in Configuration Manager. There was a couple of comments and recently a request to extend that script to also install packages dynamically during OS Deployment. The old post can be
..and it was shipped by the MVP’s attending the Configuration Manager MVP Summit 2017! It was me and Kim Oppalfens(@TheWMIguy) who got to ship it as a reward for our competition on Twitter the last year on who’s is the fastest to test the new features in each Technical Preview! A great honor! As we
