Applocker is used more and more so I wrote this little Powershell script that can be run as a Configuration Item which checks that the Application Identity service is running and an Applocker policy is applied. We could also do a remediation script to start the AppIDSvc again if stopped but I normally use a…
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…
Automatically distribute packages to DP in ConfigMgr
I wrote a blog post a while ago where I used a vbscript that will distribute the content of newly added package and check the “copy content in this package to a package share on Distribution Points”. i still use it and it works great… My college Johan Schrewelius re-wrote it to use Powershell instead…
Copy and Zip OSD log files in a Task Sequence using Powershell
My college Johan Schrewelius wrote a script to copy log files from OSD to a network share like the functionality we have in MDT so I thought I would post it here as it is brilliant. It can be downloaded here: Onevinn – Scripts (schrewelius.it) The script “CopyOSDLogs.ps1” can be run anywhere in an OSD…
What’s new in Configuration Manager 1702 TP
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…