KB3102810 has been published by Microsoft to address two issues that are affecting Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 clients. First issue: Windows Updates run slower than usual when using SCCM for patch management. Second issue: When trying to deploy an in-place Windows 10 upgrade from Windows 7, svchost.exe takes 100% CPU utilization and the upgrade might …
There are two very important updates that you should apply to every universal Windows 7 image that you use for OS deployment in MDT or ConfigMgr. These also apply to Server 2008, 2008R2, and Vista. User-Mode Driver Framework – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2685813 Kernel-Model Driver Framework – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2685811 These assist with driver injection on several newer models from HP, Dell, and …
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Bookmark this site! http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery Microsoft has launched this Software Recovery site to let consumers grab fresh ISOs to install Windows 7. This will be extremely useful, as most retail users don’t have their original ISOs on hand. Hopefully this gets expanded for all version of Windows in the future.
The SCCM client relies heavily on a healthy WMI repository, which easily corrupts for various reasons. This has been improved great over the versions of Windows, but it still happens. This VBscript will rebuild the WMI repository on the system you run it on. This should only be done if WMI is broken- it is …
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I promised that I’d post a step-by-step guide on how to create a zero-touch, hardlinking USMT task sequence in SCCM 2007 to help refresh your systems from XP to Windows 7, so here it is. I realize that Windows 8 is the current release, so I will do this same tutorial for a SCCM 2012 …
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