I wrote a script long ago which actually started in a Technet froum thread that removes the computer from the OSD collection after a successful OS deployment using a status filter rule. I have used it many times since. https://ccmexec.com/2012/07/remove-from-collection-and-clear-pxe-flag-vbscript-using-status-filter-rule/ Now I thought that the time had come to re-write it in Powershell instead, but…

On Monday, at the first day of Teched System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2 was announced! 😀 The same day there was a session called “Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 – Configuration Manager Overview” where they actually talked about some of the new features in ConfigMgr 2012 R2. The great news is that this recording and…

I am so happy I have to post it here! One of the biggest challenges with evaluating Windows Intune/SCCM 2012 for device management was that you need to buy a certificate from Symantec just to evaluate management of Windows Phone 8 devices, not deploying applications, to manage them. As compared to the Windows RT devices…

This is actually an update that has been around for a while it was actually released in March, but as it is a great update which contains many interesting hotfixes for Windows 7 sp1 and Windows 2008 R2 Sp1. Many still haven’t deployed it so I thought I would write this post. The more I…

This is a topic that is discussed in many forums and almost with every customer I meet, how can we do PXE boot on out UEFI devices. This is new technology to many of us and driven by the new Windows 8 tablet’s like the HP Elitepad 900 and the Dell Latitude 10. Configuration Manager…

In Configuration Manager 2012 you can have multiple SMS Providers to achieve a higher availability and load balancing. This is a really great new feature! I ran into this little challenge yesterday, when we moved the SQL database to a SQL Cluster and installed a second SMS Provider in the site to achieve high availability. We installed the…

On Monday 8 of April 2013 the keynote of MMS 2013 was held in the Mandalay Bay Event Center. It’s main focus was the cloud as the name “Cloud Optimize Your Business with Microsoft Management Solutions”. The keynote was divided into to parts basically, first part about private/public cloud and a lot of comparison with “The…

There was a question asked on the forums a couple of days ago about how to verify during the OS Deployment Task Sequence, if the computer failed to join the Active Directory domain or not. I wrote together this little script which will check what domain the computer belongs to and if it isn’t the correct domain…