When you’re going to perform a migration from either ConfigMgr 2007 or between two ConfigMgr 2012 environments, there’s always a bit of hassle with the Windows Firewall. The Windows Firewall should never be...
Author - Nickolaj Andersen
Nickolaj Andersen
ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Prerequisites Installation tool – Version 1.3.0 has been released
Today I’ve released the newest version 1.3.0 for my ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Prerequisites Installation tool. Whats new: Re-designed the user interface to feature tabs instead of buttonsValidation checks...
Console Extension – Start Remote Desktop Connection based upon a Device IP address
This scenario is probably not the most common, but I experienced it at a customer recently where they had the ConfigMgr console installed on a number of Terminal Servers. Unfortunately, DNS was not used broadly and...
Use Compliance Settings to determine if Windows Firewall is enabled
Compliance Settings in ConfigMgr 2012 is a great feature that can be used for a variety of things. It’s used to validate the compliance of certain settings on devices against rules that returns the compliant or...
Use PowerShell to determine if a Task Sequence has successfully completed
Many of you probably know about Status Filter Rules and how you can configure such to run scripts when a certain status message has been sent to the site server. This method is great for e.g. running a script to...
Check if an IP address is within an IP Range Boundary in ConfigMgr 2012
A customer of mine needed to check if a specific IP address was within any of the IP range boundaries that was present in ConfigMgr. I did some research on how this could be scripted, and found out that there’s a...
Show Maintenance Windows information for a device in ConfigMgr 2012
Maintenance Windows in ConfigMgr can help you a great deal to determine when installations will occur on your clients. Since the Maintenance Windows are configured per a collection basis, it’s recommended to have...
Install HP Service Pack for ProLiant during OSD with ConfigMgr 2012
If you’ve ever worked with HP ProLiant servers before, you’re probably familiar with the HP Service Pack for ProLiant (HP SPP). As I’ve only worked with Dell servers before (it’s kind of fun that...
Install ConfigMgr 2012 R2 CU1 in your hierarchy
Microsoft has now released Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) for ConfigMgr 2012 R2. More details about the Cumulative Update is available here. Follow the steps in this guide to install the Cumulative Update in your ConfigMgr...
How to reset BITS transfer queue
While troubleshooting a client that intermittently was reporting Waiting for content back to ConfigMgr, I found that the BITS transfer queue had gone total bananas. In this scenario I was pushing a firewall...