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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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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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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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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In case you’re one of the lucky ones waiting on enterprise support for the Microsoft Surface Pro tablet, it’s finally been released. Microsoft released the Surface Pro driver pack for May 2013, which includes a firmware update. You can now use PXE for your OS deployments on the Surface Pro- the only catch being that …
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