My dear colleague Johan Schrewelius has created some awesome tools for making it easier to upgrade/service Windows 10 to Windows 10 releases using a Task Sequence. We will start this blog series with a post on one of the tools UPGBackground. For those of you who use OSDBackground we can call it OSDBackgrounds little sister
I have worked with SMS/SCCM for many years now and the last 20 years a common question has been “we need to know which computers have a specific file present now!” or “we need to know which computers that have this software installed and we need to know it now”. We have never been able
It is still vacation time in Sweden but nothing can pull you from the hammock like a Technical Preview of Configuration Manager! in this case 1807. Some great additions in this one, like a long awaited repair option which will enable us to basically do what we did back in SCCM 2007 where many of
System Center User Group Sweden celebrates 10 years with a two-day event on the 8-9 of October in Stockholm Sweden. To make this a truly special event David James,Director Software Engineering, Configuration Manager will be joining us for the first day! A great opportunity to hear David present the news and roadmaps for Configuration Manager going
My colleague Johan Schrewelius has put together a Windows 10 Upgrade Tools kit that is available for download on TechNet Galleries https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Windows-10-Upgrade-Tools-431094ca It contains two tools to assist with the upgrade to Windows 10 and Servicing of Windows 10. TSLaunch which is run as a Package/Program and is used to do pre-flight checks and kick
I had the great pleasure of presenting “Configuration Manager Community tools 2018 Edition!” together with fellow MVP Ryan Ephgrave, @ephingposh at MMS 2018 in Minnesota. It is always great fun and the amount of great community tools out there for Configuration Manager is simply amazing! Thank you to everyone who contribute to the Community, you
I wrote a script before on how to remove builtin apps in Windows 10 that was based on Ben Hunter’s script to do the same https://ccmexec.com/2015/08/removing-built-in-apps-from-windows-10-using-powershell/ As always, make sure you uninstall what you really need some apps can be reinstalled from the Store some are harder or impossible to get back. Not everything we
I wrote a post back in 2012 on how to tattoo the registry with OSD information from Task Sequence variables and OS versions. https://ccmexec.com/2012/08/script-to-tattoo-the-client-registry-during-osd/ We can then inventory that information using Configuration Manager and create collections and create reports based on Task Sequence used, media type and originally installed Windows 10 build which can be
