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Archive: Script to rebuild Windows WMI repository
The SCCM client relies heavily on a healthy WMI repository, which easily corrupts for various reasons. This has been improved great over the versions of Windows, but it still happens. This VBscript will rebuild the WMI repository on the system you run it on. This should only be done if WMI is broken- it is…
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Archive: Useful Group Policies for Non-Admin User Accounts
I”m going to be posting a series of group policy objects that are especially useful for environments that are pulling administrative rights for their users… or at least waging the political battle of doing so! The truth is that users who are administrators on their local systems are a huge security risk to any environment.…
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Archive: Step-by-step guide to a zero-touch, hardlink OS migration from XP to Windows 7
I promised that I’d post a step-by-step guide on how to create a zero-touch, hardlinking USMT task sequence in SCCM 2007 to help refresh your systems from XP to Windows 7, so here it is. I realize that Windows 8 is the current release, so I will do this same tutorial for a SCCM 2012…
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Archive: Hardlinking
XP end-of-life is among us, and I am being booked on several OS deployment projects to get ready for this! One of the most useful features available in MDT and SCCM is hardlinking– the ability to run a USMT scanstate/capture and keep the files local on the actual system being migrated instead of shooting them…
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Archive: Some tips on exporting drivers for MDT/SCCM
It’s no secret that finding the right drivers for a Windows system can be a challenge. Importing those drivers into MDT/SCCM, deploying a system, and getting those drivers to apply correctly can be an even bigger challenge. Over several projects with some pretty diverse clients, there’s a few tools that I’ve run across that I…
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Archive: Easily add a prompt for a computer name to your SCCM deployment
For those familiar with Microsoft’s OS deployment vision, you know that MDT is intended for lite-touch use, and SCCM is intended for zero-touch use. In the real world, I have configured several deployments with the opposite goals- MDT deployments that are very automated that don’t require much user interaction, and SCCM deployments that take a…
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