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Im just finishing up on a project where i was upgrading a bunch of servers from 2012 R2 to 2019 or 2022 (depending on what the associated app supported), including a bunch of SQL clusters. I've always been SQL adjacent - working wit/upgrading/installing SQL for other products to utilise... so i have some incidental knowledge…
Continue readingWhen installing, seemingly randomly i will get the following in the application event log and msi log for CrEdge Microsoft Edge works best with the latest Windows Updates. Once you download updates and restart your device, rerun the installer. This is particularly frustrating as The device has all current Windows updates applied The install works…
Continue readingDetecting and removing Windows 10/11 optional features via SCCM can be a bit of pain via inventory - as the class is not inventoried by default. One alternative is using a compliance baseline - which provides a quicker turn-around for any remediation you may want to do and wont bloat your database with additional inventory…
Continue readingWindows 10 version numbers when running within Windows are fairly well known are are available from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_version_history However, when adding the WIMs to SCCM as OS images, the numbers don't match up. When aligned with the absurd method of obtaining Windows 10 21H2 which does not give you any information on which version your getting…
Continue readingRecently i had a client which had M365 licensing, but was a little on the smaller side, so did not have an EA or earlier Windows 10 enterprise licensing through the VLSC. In this situation, MS would have you install the Pro version of Windows 10 - and let you upgrade to enterprise via M365…
Continue readingThis would have to be one of the most requested features in SCCM - at least from our clients. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/get-started/2021/technical-preview-2106 To quote the specific part of the article: On the Deployment Settings page of the Deploy Software Wizard, configure the following options: Action: Install Purpose: Required Enable Uninstall this application if the targeted object falls…
Continue readingThe main reason for this article is because a friend asked "we are looking at migrating SCCM hardware for the hierarchy - can the active/passive site server functionality be used for this?" The TL;DR response is "yes". Whether its supported or not is another matter - but i can say for sure that it does…
Continue readingRecently had this twitter exchange around an SCCM feature i didn't know existed - SCCM CAS collapse https://twitter.com/djammmer/status/1350247294319415296 When SCCM 2012 was first around, we had some clients that had previously had other "consultants" design and implement 4 primaries and a CAS for 2000 devices - and other insane rubbish. At the time, we used…
Continue readinghttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/configuration-manager-blog/categorize-community-hub-content-with-configuration-manager/ba-p/1925463 This is worth a mention due to: Based on your UserVoice feedback, task sequence conditions now include a not like operator. This operator applies to task sequence variable conditions. It's also used in the Set Dynamic Variable task sequence step
Continue readingAdding and managing legacy boot wims into SCCM is a pain..... the removal of GUI options for non-current versions makes things more painful than they need to be.... and the instances of newer versions of ADK (such as ADK 2004) being incompatible with certain things, seem to be increasing. Adding command prompt to a legacy…
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