When doing OSD in ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 you always have to deal with drivers. When dealing with drivers, you should ask yourself if you’d like to trust the Plug and Play method that ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 uses, or if you...
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Nickolaj Andersen
Backup your Hyper-V Lab environment on Windows 8 with PowerShell
During the past few weeks Microsoft has released a lot of new cool Previews of their upcoming software. For that reason my lab environment has grown quite large, and it’s no longer effective to manually back it up...
Get Dell System Warranty with PowerShell
When you work with Dell systems and its time to replace old systems, it’s always nice to know which one is out of warranty and eligible for replacement. Earlier I’ve used a VB-script for this purpose, but I...
Automate Computer Name during OSD in ConfigMgr 2012 with PowerShell
There are various of methods out there today on how you can automate the process of naming computers during OSD. I’ve previously blogged about how to do it with VB script, you can find that blog here. In this blog...
Upgrade Adobe Flash Player 11.7.x fails with Error 1603 in ConfigMgr 2012
Today I was creating a new application in order to deploy the latest Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.202 that recently got released. I proceeded with my normal workflow and when the application was ready to be test...
Install ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 prerequisites with PowerShell
In order to speed up the installation phase of a ConfigMgr 2012 environment, I’ve created a PowerShell script that will install all necessary prerequisites for different site roles. This blog post will cover the...
Enable Deduplication for your Lab environment in Windows 8
If you’re running Windows 8 and have installed Hyper-V for your lab environment, you’d think that it would be a good idea to enable deduplication. Unfortunately this is not supported in Windows 8...
Get E-mail notification for new Application Requests
Would you like to receive an email when a new Application Request is submitted by an end-user? I’d love to and that’s the reason I created this small PowerShell script to take care of...
Import-CMComputerInformation cmdlet is not working in ConfigMgr 2012 SP1
When I was writing a script to import computer information for use with OSD, I stumpled upon a problem. The command I was trying to run was something like: $CollectionName = "All Windows Server 2012" Import...
Install Prerequisites for SCOM 2012 with PowerShell
For the past 4 days I’ve been diving myself into System Center 2012 Operations Manager. I had the opportunity to participate in a course held at CornerStone here in Stockholm. During my first day I...