I ran in to this a while ago and did it again now so I thought I would share it here. There is a hotfix for Windows Installer which solves a problem when for instance a windows 7 computer needs to self-repair an windows installer based installation and the source files are located at the…

Sometimes you want to deploy more that one Windows 7 hotfix with Configuration Manager. The hotfixes for Windows 7 is .MSU files and are installed using Wusa.exe. If you wan to make the hotfix installation silent you simply add /quiet /norestart on the command line aswell. Example command line: Wusa.exe c:\temp\Windows6.1-KB982018-v3-x64.msu /quiet /norestart To simplify the…

There is a great source of Configuration Manager 2012 information in the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Survival Guide on Technet. Make sure to check it out, there are links to blog posts, videos, articles and blogs on System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. It is truly a great place to start looking for information about…

As we all know FEP doesn’t have tamper protection or the possibility to password protect the uninstallation of the FEP client. I normally use the collection query I posted before on my blog to automate the re-installation of the FEP client if it is uninstalled. https://ccmexec.com/2011/11/forefront-endpoint-protection-and-locally-removed/ But in the case where we have users that are local…

There was a question on Technet forum a couple of weeks ago so I thought I would post it here as well. It can in some scenarios be useful to set the computers AD description during SCCM OS deployment. I use a script for this which can be used to set the AD description using…

When you have a task sequence in SCCM with many steps the monitor goes into power save mode before the installation is complete. In some cases the end-user can believe that the computer installation is finished and closes the lid on the laptop and goes home and the OS installation fails. It is also really…

Last week on the 17-18 of January the SCCM Summit 2012 event arranged by Cornerstone took place in Stockholm Sweden. A great event focusing on System Center 2012: Configuration Manager for 1 1/2 days. The event hosted speakers like Johan Arwidmark, Anders Ahl, Niall Brady and Peter Frodin. I had the great opportunity to deliver…

I wrote a post a year ago or more about how to install the SCCM 2007 Admin Console including R2, this is something I use a lot in my projects as it is more and more to install when installing the Admin Console. In the example below I install the Admin Console, the required hotfix(kb977384)…