There was a request a couple of days ago for a script to change the Power Management setting in Software Center so that the “Do not apply power settings from my IT department to this computer” is selected by default instead of letting the power settings automatically apply to the computer. I wrote a script…
Software Updates OS deployment and Unknown Computers
This topic is not new but it has been asked a lot lately on the forums so a post is in order. To use the “Install Software updates” step in a Task Sequence to install Software updates requires that the computer that is being deployed/reimaged is a member of one or more collections with the…
Modifying the default SC Endpoint Protection 2012 report
I got a request from a customer that they want to be able to subscribe to the built in report “Antimalware Activity Report” in Configuration Manager 2012. As this report requires a start date and end date to run the report will be be emailed for the dates that are entered when you create the…
Uninstalling WSUS on Primary Site server causing HTTP Error 500
I have ran into this a couple of times now when moving site roles in Configuration Manager 2012. When uninstalling the WSUS server components from in this case the Primary Site server to move it to a dedicated server instead the Management Point on the Primary Site server started giving HTTP Error 500 Internal Server…
TechED 2014 Houston
I have the great honor to be speaking at TechED 2014 in Houston together with Stefan Schörling. The session is called “Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Community Jewels”. We will present and demo many of the cool tools that are available created by the community and show how they can help you solve day to…
Configuration Manager book: High availability and performance tuning
Just realized I missed a release of a Configuration Manager book, “Configuration Manager book: High availability and performance tuning” by fellow MVP Marius Sandbu. A good introduction to High-availability. You can find it here on
Building OS images? Bookmark this!
When building a new OS image it is a really good idea to include Visual C++ Redistributable packages in the image as well as .NET framework versions so that we don’t need to handle these software components as dependencies for all applications but have it included in the standard image instead. I also copy Cmtrace.exe to…
Eject the CD/DVD if media is present
When enabling Bitlocker using Configuration Manager the step fails if there are a CD/DVD inserted. There are many great solutions to eject the CD/DVD before enabling Bitlocker out there. As CD/DVD are not used at all that much anymore I was kind if annoyed that it ejected the CD/DVD every time and when enabling Bitlocker…