In this blog post we cover the unusual characteristics of the Intel Optane drive, and how we need to approach task sequence builds to ensure we do not hit an unforeseen issue when it comes to in-place upgrades later in...
I’ve written about this topic previously and also written a small PowerShell based tool to help administrators ease the pain of rerunning a task sequence. Recently, while developing a solution for a Windows 10...
Friday arrived early this week in the ConfigMgr community, with the announcement that the much anticipated 1806 build had hit public availability on the fast ring. This is a feature packed release, Nickolaj has already...
Recently I was working with a customer who was having issues with the latest version of the Dell CCTK configuration utility running on their older legacy systems during OS deployments. Dell have recently updated their...
For some time now the ConfigMgr PowerShell module has been extended to include more cmdlets that allows us to customize and even create or amend a task sequence in any way you want, more or less. Previously, before the...
Notification Service Back in August I created a blog post on using Pushover and powershell for OSD deployment notifications, in the comments section Shawn Esterman suggested that Microsoft Teams could be used too. This...
Notification Service Over the past few months I have seen people create systems to monitor OSD deployments, for example Damien Van Robaeys has a really nice one for MDT (Monitor MDT Deployments) most use email...
Silent Running Option A common request over the past while was to create an option to run the Driver Automation Tool in the background as a scheduled task. So in this release I have added in the functionality, allowing...
In my busy and boring summer holidays I decided to do something more fun and learn how to create ConfigMgr custom Task Sequence action. I started by reading the MS documentation site , most of steps are same but...
I’ve previously written a post on this topic, demonstrating a custom method that could be used before ConfigMgr had native support for the BIOS to UEFI conversion. However, that post should now be deemed obsolete...