On the 18th of October, Microsoft released Windows 8.1 to the market. You can now grab the bits from VLSC (Volume Licensing Service Center) and start to create a reference image. In this post we’ll be creating the...
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Nickolaj Andersen
Remove all Deployments for an Application in ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 with PowerShell
This blog post will describe how you can remove all deployments for an application in ConfigMgr 2012 SP1. Perhaps the most easiest way would be to use the built in cmdlet Remove-CMDeployment, but I thought it would be...
Environment setup information
The environment that we’ll be using during the course of installing a ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 hierarchy looks like this: DC01 – Domain Controller (contoso.com) CMSQL01 – Primary Site SQL Server CMSQL02 – CAS...
Deploy Adobe Reader 11.0.4 with ConfigMgr 2012 SP1
Today Adobe released another quarterly patch for Adobe Reader. If you’d like to dig deep into the details, you’ll find the security bulletin here. I you’ve not yet read about how to slipstream Adobe...
Perform a test upgrade of the database before ConfigMgr 2012 R2 installation
Before you go ahead and begin the installation of ConfigMgr 2012 R2 in your ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 hierarchy, it’s recommended that you perform a test upgrade of the database. This post will help you along the way to...
Install SQL Server 2012 SP1 for ConfigMgr 2012 SP1
This post will cover the necessary steps in order to prepare a SQL Server 2012 SP1 installation for ConfigMgr 2012 SP1. Overview Create Active Directory accountsPrepare for the installationInstall SQL Server 2012...
Get Collection Members with a PowerShell GUI
Have you ever thought about copying the system names from a collection to use them for any kind of purpose outside of ConfigMgr 2012? Well, that’s not very easy. You could of course with PowerShell and some smart...
Distribute Packages or Applications in ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 with PowerShell
If you’ve migrated Applications or Packages from an old ConfigMgr hiearchy into a new one, or perhaps you’ve just create a bunch of stuff that you’d like to distribute, distribution can rather quickly...
Update the content path of all Applications in ConfigMgr 2012 with PowerShell
If you’ve been dealing with PowerShell and ConfigMgr 2012 lately, you’ve probably found out that the most interesting properties of an application is stored in XML format in the SDMPackageXML property. On of...
Create Dell Driver Packages in ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 with PowerShell
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...