In Configuration Manager a new way of waking up computers exists. We can Wake Up a single computer or all computers in a collection using the Client Notification channel, no need to configure Wake-On-LAN in Configuration Manager site settings and no need to ask the network team to turn on Subnet-Directed Broadcast. We tested it…
Tag: Powershell
Copy and associate CMTrace using Intune Win32App and PowerShell
I wrote a blogpost on how to make CMTrace which is included in the SCCM client nowadays using a PowerShell script. I got a question basically instantly if that could not be used for Intune managed clients without the SCCM client. Yes! it can, we only need to add a line to copy CMTrace.exe to…
Launching a task Sequence using an Application link in ConfigMgr 1706
With the new feature in Configuration Manager 1706 that makes it possible to launch Software center and show the correct application from a direct link in Software Center which is great! We can copy the link and email it to the user for instance. I have a customer that wanted to send out a mail…
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…
Enable App-V and UE-V during OSD in Windows 10 1607
In Windows 10 1607 App-V and UE-V are built-in natively in the Operating System (Not in Pro) and no additional setup needs to be run anymore, this is awesome! Both App-V and UE-V can be enabled using a Group Policy or by using the following Powershell commands, Enable-Appv and Enable-UEV. In some scenarios especially for…
Download and deploy Windows Defender Definitions for Windows 10 during OSD
When you are using Windows 10 and Windows Defender in Windows 10 then the definitions are as old as the .WIM file is. It is a good idea to update the definitions during OSD to make sure that the latest definitions are there. I have used Chris Nackers post and script a lot for downloading…
Windows 10 ADK 10.0.10586 solves the Powershell/.Net bug in WinPE.
Earlier this week the new ADK 10, 10.0.10586 was released or made available on Microsoft Download. I downloaded it as I and many others have had some issues with .Net applications and Powershell scripts in WinPE on X64 UEFI Machines when PXE booting them and the new ADK solves that problem 😀 More on the…