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Category: SCCM 2012

Driver Management: How to detect Hardware Model for Drivers

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

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Best Practice: File and Folder Structure for SCCM 2012

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

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SCCM 2012 SP1 – New Features – Boot Images

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

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Report Builder is “not” installed

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

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Automatically merge conflicting records

Reinstalling a computer can cause Configuration Manager 2007/2012 to create a new computer object for this computer and setting the existing computer object to obsolete. To prevent Configuration Manager from automatically creating new computer objects and instead merging the new record with the existing object you have to implement a

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OSD on Clients with low Disk Space

When you setup clients with low disk space(3-5GB), it could be that the OSD task sequence breaks during the step "Setup Windows and ConfigMgr" with the error code 0x80070070. My first opinion was that we can’t stage these clients, but I found out, that the wim file is not deleted

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Updated: Optimizing WinPE for SCCM

Update 10.5.2016: New PowerShell based Script, Power Management included There are some challenges, when you have to troubleshoot problems in WinPE. To improve the troubleshooting process I created a prestart package which solves these points: Set the current Time. (MiniWebService is required) Set Keyboard Layout Set All Disk Except Disk

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SCCM WDS Service unexpected restarts

If your WDS service unexpected restarts and you have multiple routers with ip helpers defined, the following problem can occure: Multiple router forward the same request to the WDS server The WDS starts a threads per request This threads access the same object at the same time   Error in

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