Great new tool available from http://blog.coretech.dk/jgs/coretech-package-source-changer-0-3-0-0/ to easily change the source of a package in SCCM.
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Designing & deploying IT infrastructure in the enterprise
29
Mar
HP driver packages for SCCM
Published in SMS / SCCM, ToolsHP have finally released a tool to make it easier to obtain full driver packs for their hardware. In the past we have had to individually download each driver manually from the HP website, this was very painful and time consuming. Hopefully their new tool will eliminate a lot of this pain and time (Dell’s [...]
27
Mar
A quick post on something that’s not overly technical. I was editing a SCCM task sequence and I wanted to run multiple commands on the task sequence ‘Run Command Line’ step without using a batch file. I remember that Command Processor allows the & character to join commands together. I tested this out in the [...]
Tags: commands, join command, multiple, Run Command Line, Running multiple commands in SCCM 'Run Command Line' Task Sequence step, SCCM, sccm command line step
21
Mar
Design changes in SCCM 2012
Published in SMS / SCCMThere are a few newly published articles on Technet that give some nice details of the major changes in SCCM 2012: http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/03/08/the-biggest-changes-in-hierarchy-design-in-configuration-manager-2012.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/03/06/data-replication-in-system-center-2012-configuration-manager.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/02/22/options-for-managing-remote-offices-with-configuration-manager-2012.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/02/29/hierarchy-design-in-system-center-2012-configuration-manager.aspx
14
Mar
I had been distibuting packages to BDPs across a few SCCM enviornments and after monitoring report 136 I noticed that there were lots of packages still ‘Waiting to install package’ even after a few days . I checked the DataTransferService.log on the problem BDPs and noticed: DTS::AddTransportSecurityOptionsToBITSJob – Failed to QueryInterface for IBackgroundCopyJobHttpOptions. BITS 2.5+ [...]
Tags: 2.5, AddTransportSecurityOptionsToBITSJob, BDP, BITS, SCCM, waiting to install package
6
Mar
Capture and deploy Windows 8 with SCCM 2007 R3
Published in Geek, SMS / SCCM, WindowsI had a bit of time this weekend to play around with the latest Windows 8 Consumer Preview release. One of the first things I wanted to try and do was capture a reference image and redeploy it with SCCM 2007 R3. Firstly I tried to do this using the Capture task sequence media (Capture [...]
Tags: 2007, automate, capture, configmgr, consumer preview, deploy, imagex, SCCM, sccm 2007, sccm 2007 r3, WIM, win8, windows 8