Archive: SCCM collection query for missing software

Today, I found myself creating yet another collection to find systems in Configuration Manager 2012 that were missing a particular piece of software. I have done this in the past several times since it’s particularly useful to target for software deployments, but I always used the sub-collection method using a somewhat unnecessary parent collection. The …

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Archive: Some tips on exporting drivers for MDT/SCCM

It’s no secret that finding the right drivers for a Windows system can be a challenge. Importing those drivers into MDT/SCCM, deploying a system, and getting those drivers to apply correctly can be an even bigger challenge. Over several projects with some pretty diverse clients, there’s a few tools that I’ve run across that I …

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Archive: “The self signed certificate could not be created successfully”

So the other day, I was running some test deployments in my Server 2012/SCCM 2012 SP1 lab environment. I was ready to deploy a Windows 7 image to a test machine, when I hit this error while creating my task sequence media boot.iso: “The self signed certificate could not be created successfully”. My first reaction was …

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Archive: Easily add a prompt for a computer name to your SCCM deployment

For those familiar with Microsoft’s OS deployment vision, you know that MDT is intended for lite-touch use, and SCCM is intended for zero-touch use. In the real world, I have configured several deployments with the opposite goals- MDT deployments that are very automated that don’t require much user interaction, and SCCM deployments that take a …

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