You’ll often need a quick way to get the names of users in a particular Active Directory group into a text or Excel file for reporting or other reasons. You can use dsquery to achieve this easily: dsquery group -name “group name” | dsget group -members -expand | dsget user -fn -ln Of course you [...]

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I’ve often used a very simple query to find if a processor is 64 bit capable. Open up a command prompt and enter the following: wmic cpu get datawidth I doesn’t matter the version of the Operating System you are running, this WMI query will return the actually hardware processor capability. If it returns a [...]

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You will often see the below error or similar in SCCM: MP has rejected a policy request from GUID:2904FFA9-C49D-48B3-BE9B-D4B4FFEF7C96 because it was not approved. The operating system reported error 2147942405: Access is denied. I have written a SCCM report to pull back the resource name so you can then go and approve it or investigate [...]

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We’ve had a constant frustration where clients would try to PXE boot more than once within an one hour period with the result being that the PXE boot fails. This problem occurs because of a PXE cache limitation (1 hour) set by default. You can also confirm this configuration by looking in the smspxe.log file: [...]

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An oldie but a goodie – this came about again when creating Windows 7 WIM files for SCCM. It really does save a lot of time – otherwise you would need to deploy your image, make changes to the registry and then recapture. This process is much quicker! I use the DISM tool from the [...]

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I wanted an easy way to know if OS deployments were failing or succeeding. We’ve come up with a good way of sending an email outlining task sequence completion status. In SCCM, create a Status Filter rule by going to Site Database – Site Management – Primary Site – Site Settings – Status Filter Rules. [...]

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