Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1702 includes a lot of new features, amazing how much features that are put into each Technical Preview version of Configuration Manager. For a complete list of news in Configuration Manager 1702 TP see the documentation here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/get-started/capabilities-in-technical-preview-1702 Here are some notes and screenshots of the new features. Improvements to Software…
UE-V Windows 10 1607 Powershell and UE-V Template share
To follow up on my post earlier this week about how to enable UE-V during OSD and get it to sync Internet Explorer favorites I will cover UE-V templates Powershell and a template share. In UE-V we can define a central template share where we can drop a UE-V template and the clients will automatically…
Synchronizing IE Favorites with UE-V in Windows 1607
User Experience Virtualization(UE-V) is builtin Windows 10 1607 and no longer a standalone installer as it has been before. This is great as UE-V is a very powerful solution to Synchronize application settings like for instance Outlook signatures; IE favorites, Windows themes and so on. When we design and build our new Windows 10 platform…
Error 0x80070490 when converting BIOS-UEFI in ConfigMgr 1610
I should have written this post a while ago but haven’t had time yet. When using the new BIOS-UEFI conversion solution in Configuration Manager 1610, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/osd/deploy-use/task-sequence-steps-to-manage-bios-to-uefi-conversion If you are still on 1606 or earlier you can still use this method: https://ccmexec.com/2016/07/switch-from-bios-to-uefi-seamless-using-configuration-manager-ts-in-6-simple-steps/ I have seen the below error 0x80070490 when the computer tries to restart the first…
ConfigMgr 1701 TP new features
After playing around a while with Configuration Manager 1701 Technical Preview build I thought it was time to share some info and some nice screenshots. The biggest new feature without competition is the fact that SCCM clients will now select Software Update point using Boundary Groups just like it would with an MP, DP ……
Winpe 1607 Dot3svc fails to load – Workaround
In WinPE 1607 Dot3svc fails to load as I and many others have noted before. https://ccmexec.com/2016/09/dot3svc-does-not-load-using-winpeadk-1607/ Today on the comment to my post “Robert” posted the following workaround which seems to be working just fine! Copy the following files from a windows 10 1607 installation to winpe: %windir%\l2schemas\OneX_v1.xsd %winpewindir%\l2schemas\OneX_v1.xsd %windir%\system32\l2gpstore.dll %winpewindir%\system32\l2gpstore.dll %windir%\system32\onex.dll %winpewindir%\system32\onex.dll %windir%\system32\en-US\onex.dll.mui %winpewindir%\system32\en-US\onex.dll.mui…
Configmgr 1612 Technical Preview main new features
Configuration Manager 1612 Technical Preview was released a couple of days ago and I have been playing around with it all the time I could spare since! Many new features that makes us long for 1701TP already now to see how the new features have improved. I cannot help seeing a picture before me where…
Error handling in TS without MDT using OSDBackground
I promised last week I would write a blog post on how I use OSDbackground in case of a Task sequence failure, so here it is. OSDbackground gives us the possibility to show an error in case a Task Sequence fails and when doing so it also provides us with the option to read all…