This was a stupendous event. I had a great time connecting with many old friends, speaking while giant pizzas came in the room, and learning great information. The Arizona Systems Management User Group 10-year Anniversary Meeting – A Taste of MMS has come and gone. It was a fantastic way to celebrate 10 years of
Tag: SCCM
In Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Current Branch two new fields were added to keep track of what type of build and version you are on. OSBranch01 and Build01 very useful when planning your next Build update SQL View v_R_System sms_r_system New Columns OSBranch01 0 = CB 1 = CBB 2 = LTSB Build01
Today I had a wonderful time speaking at HASMUG. One of the biggest issues is getting to Windows 10 securely which starts with UEFI configured and Secure Boot enabled. I will write a blog post about the need for that security shortly. This post are the links to resources about compelling events to go to
While working through a TechNet / Docs page recently I spotted a new (no idea how long it has been there) property in a ton of classes. ConfigManagerErrorCode At first I thought it was related to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012 Current Branch (CB). Nope, apparently it is an attribute added to
Recently while working through preflight checks for Windows 10 (W10) Redstone 1607 deployment we realized there were some spinning platter drive failures. To help identify potentially failing machines we were looking for the Hard Drive Smart status field. Turns out it is not gathered by default in SCCM. The following walks you through it. WIN32_DiskDrive
Problem: USMT Estimate tool rounds to a value of Zero if the value is less than 1 meg Background I have been playing with the User State Migration Tool (USMT) Estimate switch recently. USMT Estimate has been around since 2008 at least. I found a scenario where the size returned may be less than 1
The question came up recently on how to identify which collections are based on Active Directory OU membership in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Current Branch There are tons of guides on how to setup a collection based on OU membership.. but now that you have.. how many have you created? This is quite
