Recently I was writing a Powershell form frontend for SCCM Opearting System Deployment so technicians didn’t need to go into the MMC console to perform refresh, upgrade or new computer SCCM OSD scenarios.  In the new computer scenario, we need to do a computer association between the computer name and MAC address – which needs to be [...]

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I recently had a situation where I needed to migrate network printers during Windows 7 refresh and Windows XP to Windows 7 upgrade scenarios when using USMT 4 hard link, also known as offline mode. According to the Microsoft Technet documentation (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560792%28WS.10%29.aspx#BKMK_4) by design this is not possible. However I still needed to get it done.  [...]

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In their own words – “What is a survival guide? It’s a page we created as a pointer to the best information on the web.  You can use the information below to learn the fundamentals; increase your current knowledge; or stay current on Configuration Manager and events.” See http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7075.system-center-2012-configuration-manager-survival-guide.aspx    

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I’ve often referenced this continuously updated list of recommended SCCM hotfixes for both site servers and clients. I thought that I would share this – http://ccmexec.com/configuration-manager-2007-sp2-hotfix-list/. As of February 2012, I recommend the following client hotfixes be installed, I’ve also included the component version numbers as it is often hard to track these down:   [...]

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I was using the Office Customization Wizard to deploy a MST file for Office 2010 – pretty staight forward – it had some settings in there for for creating Outlook user profiles. It was working without problem. Then I added the Office 2010 Service Pack 1 MSP files to the Upgrade folder (slipstreaming). After this, [...]

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