Today I noticed some unexpected behavior when using the ‘Include Collections’ rule in Collection membership (this also applies to the Exclude Collections rule). When you select a collection that is the the only collection in a folder, it will also select the entire folder above. This also selects all of the collections in the above […]
There will come a time when you need to determine who created, modified or deleted a collection. Here is a quick and easy method to get this information from ConfigMgr. Click on Monitoring. Expand Reporting and click on Reports. Right-click ‘All messages for a specific message ID’ and select Run. Click Values. Enter the Message […]
Let’s have some fun and install Windows 10 ADK! Below I will step through how to upgrade ConfigMgr 2012 to Windows 10 ADK and then create new WinPE 10 boot media and a USMT package for Win10. My lab environment is currently running ConfigMgr 2012 R2 SP1 CU2 (build 8239). I would suggest also upgrading […]
In this post I am going to show you how to integrate MDT 2013 Update 1 with ConfigMgr 2012. These two products are generally used together. If you are not already using MDT you are missing out on a lot of additional fire power. For instance, MDT 2013 Update 1 adds about 280 additional enhancements, […]
Have you ever experienced the situation where an Active Directory account is continually locked out? If so then you know how much frustration this can cause. Whether it’s your own account or another user, it must be resolved before you are able to access any network resources. Normally the locked out user is not able […]
I was asked recently to build several Windows 7 32-bit machines for user application testing. Since we don’t currently have an Win7 x86 image we would not be able to use our normal ConfigMgr Lite Touch build process. These would need to be hand built from Windows media. Rather than repetitively clicking through the setup steps […]
Have you ever ran into a situation where you didn’t know the local administrator account name or password on a Windows machine? If you work in an enterprise environment the answer is probably yes. As much as we try to manage the local administrator account there will always be room for error. Whether it’s a […]