When testing and implementing Windows Autopilot as your provisioning solution for Windows 10 devices, you need to import the device hash including other values into the Autopilot service. This can be done through the...
If you have been working with app management for more than a few days, you have probably met the need for having a dependency installed before your main app could be installed. You either have a app the requires for...
PSD (aka PSD Deployment, aka PowerShell Deployment, aka PowerShell Deployment Extension for MDT) was announced at the 2019 Midwest Management Summit in a session featuring Johan Arwidmark and Mikael Nystrom. This new...
Shortly before MMS this week I was starting to work on some PowerShell where I was constantly creating and adding parameters and I realized that the default parameters in VSCode weren’t quite what I wanted them to...
Since the release of Windows 10, it has been common for organization to try and reduce the footprint of built-in apps (or default apps) in their reference images, or even during bare-metal deployment. Over the years...
With the release of the Invoke-CMApplyDriverPackage.ps1 script version 2.2.1 in our Modern Driver Management solution, we now support pre-caching (or pre-staging) driver packages matching the hardware vendor, model och...
With the alarming number of views on part one of automating your maintenance windows, I decided I had better get to work right away on part 2! Part two has a specific focus on creating the membership rules and AD groups...
A long time ago I saw a really cool post on Johan Arwidmarks blog from a contributer Mattias Benninge about how to automate the creation of maintenacne windows with an offset from Patch Tuesday and when I saw it I...
Late last year the Microsoft Configuration Manager team worked with the PowerBI team to release a business template for reporting on information in Configuration Manager. When this report first came out I chuckled a...
ConfigMgr admins have invested countless hours and effort in creating Task Sequences to perform various imaging functions in their environments. These are typically Bare Metal (New Computer), Refresh (Re-imaging of...