This week I tried to get SCUP up and running behind a proxy server. SCUP has a nice option to define the proxy server in the GUI. This works great for the download of updates, but the signing with a timestamp still fails with the following error: PublishItem: InvalidException occurred
This week I had to optimize the PXE boot time because it took nearly 2 minutes to load the WinPE file over the network. I found different blogs with solutions to do that in SCCM 2007. In this blog I will explain the most powerful settings in a SCCM 2012
With Service Pack 1 for SCCM 2012, Microsoft introduced a few new task sequence variables. The one in the spotlight for this post is: SMSTSPostAction. The SMSTSPostAction variable can be defined anywhere in the task sequence with a “Set Task Sequence Variable” step. Its value can be any command you
Yesterday the SCCM 2012 SP1 CUS was released. Detailed information under http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2854009/en-us.
Today I tried to update an SCCM 2012 environment to 2012 SP1 according to the manuals from Microsoft and the checklist from Jason Sandys. Then we got a lot of questions about the TESTDBUPGRADE Step, because we had no test environment and have to run it in the production on
In the past, we detected the hardware type of a computer with WMI queries in a Task Sequence step. When you deploy multiple Operating Systems or Task Sequences, you have to manage the WMI Query on many locations. Andreas Kuperschmied and Roman Andres have created an abstraction layer for this
In most SCCM 2012 projects, the engineers try to define a folder structure during the concept phase. At the end of the project or already during the implementation they find out, that they have forgotten some cases. Therefore we created a folder structure concept which is tested an already in
If you have deployed an application to clients and you get a call from the user that the application is not correctly installed. Or an installed application get corrupted during operation then you need to repair the application on the client. With SCCM 2012 and mandatory advertisements you have the
In my last projects I could replace many of my old VBS and CMD scripts with new PowerShell version. So PowerShell is now my primary scripting language. The only scripts which I couldn’t migrate where the one which I run during the WinPE phase. It was very hard to integrate
If you are using SCCM 2012 with SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services you will run into a problem when you would like to create your own reports. The following Error Message will be displayed: “Report Builder 2.0 is not installed as a click-once application on report server” SQL 2008