RE: [mssms] RE: [MDT-OSD] Script to edit task sequences?

2013-06-13 Thread Marable, Mike
...with secrets (passwords, product keys, etc.) being more difficult to export and import. Speaking of which. Is there a way to export and import a task sequence including passwords for steps that are run as a specific user? I have about a half dozen steps in my task sequence that

[MDT-OSD] RE: Windows 8.1 RTM and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM available...

2013-09-09 Thread Marable, Mike
Well that figures. I just rebuilt my lab servers with Preview over the weekend. Oh well, I suppose I can start over again. :) Mike From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Johan Arwidmark Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 1:56 PM To:

[mssms] SCCM 2012 - PowerShell Script to Create Migration Job

2014-06-12 Thread Marable, Mike
I've been tasked with seeing if it is possible to script the creation of Migration Jobs to migrate objects from SCCM 2007 to 2012 R2. I've been wrestling with the New-CMMigrationJob command but I'm struggling. I'm given a list of package IDs of packages in SCCM 2007 that need to be migrated.

[mssms] RE: CM12 R2 Upgrade question

2014-06-30 Thread Marable, Mike
It was probably because the R2 installer only knows to expect and look for the older version of the ADK. You had the newer ADK for Update 1, so the R2 installer didn't find what it was expecting. That's my guess. I don't have an SP1 setup to try it against. Mike From:

[mssms] RE: CM12 R2 Upgrade question

2014-06-30 Thread Marable, Mike
PE now too then!? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 2:16 PM To: 'mssms@lists.myitforum.com' Subject: [mssms] RE: CM12 R2 Upgrade question It was probably because the R2 installer only knows

RE: [mssms] Deploy boot images to dp x64 and x86 ?

2014-07-02 Thread Marable, Mike
If you're going to be PXE booting then yes, you are going to need both the x64 and x86 boot images distributed to your DP. If you're going to be using physical boot media only, then you only need the x86 boot image since you can deploy both 32 and 64bit operating systems using it. Mike

RE: [mssms] Deploy boot images to dp x64 and x86 ?

2014-07-02 Thread Marable, Mike
to distribute to pxe dp??? Sccm is 2012 sp1 Sent from iPhonesorry for typos On 02-Jul-2014, at 11:43 pm, Marable, Mike mmara...@med.umich.edu wrote: If you're going to be PXE booting then yes, you are going to need both the x64 and x86 boot images distributed to your DP. If you're going

[mssms] Moving Task Sequences from One CM12 site to another

2014-07-07 Thread Marable, Mike
We have 2 sites set up in SCCM 2012, one is a development site and the other is production. While the production servers were being built we were doing all of our SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012 migration work. Now we have our OSD task sequences in the development SCCM 2012 site and working. Now we

[mssms] SCCM 2012 Task Sequence Saving Problem

2014-07-09 Thread Marable, Mike
We're working on migrating from SCCM 2007 to 2012 and I've run into a problem saving our OSD task sequence in SCCM 2012. I'll make an edit, just a single edit and when I hit Apply I'll get this error: [cid:image001.png@01CF9B75.511CE200] It doesn't matter if I try modifying the task sequence

[mssms] RE: Config Manager 2012R2 and Powershell

2014-07-09 Thread Marable, Mike
I agree completely. PowerShell is great for automation in SCCM 2012. It's great for doing repetitive tasks and ensuring that they are done consistently. There are some things though that you will just have to use the GUI for, like editing task sequences. Mike From:

[mssms] RE: SCCM 2012 Client upgrade

2014-07-10 Thread Marable, Mike
When you say you, ... tried to run the R2 CU1 client upgrade... are you saying you tried to run the full client install or just the CU1 hotfix? It sounds like you attempted just the hotfix but I want to make sure. What about the automatic client update feature? I've never tried it

[mssms] RE: SCCM 2012 Task Sequence Saving Problem [Solved]

2014-07-14 Thread Marable, Mike
reappears. When that happens restarting the SCCM 2012 console on the workstation will get us back up and running. Mike From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 12:57 PM To: 'mssms@lists.myitforum.com

RE: [mssms] Build TS complete status should be emailed

2014-07-15 Thread Marable, Mike
I use the script that Johan developed. http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/19/Configure-MDT-2010-to-send-an-email-when-deployment-is-completed.aspx I know the article is geared towards MDT but it works perfectly well in an SCCM task sequence. The only issue I've had

RE: [mssms] PSA: Updating the Windows Update Agent (WUA) via ConfigMgr

2014-07-16 Thread Marable, Mike
That is a sad commentary on some of those in our profession. If one is unwilling to push themselves to try and instead need to be handed the perfect answer for their issue, then I think that they are in the wrong field. If someone is unwilling to learn the product, they need to consider

RE: [mssms] PSA: Updating the Windows Update Agent (WUA) via ConfigMgr

2014-07-16 Thread Marable, Mike
...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: 16 July 2014 12:35 To: 'mssms@lists.myitforum.com' Subject: RE: [mssms] PSA: Updating the Windows Update Agent (WUA) via ConfigMgr That is a sad commentary on some of those in our profession. If one is unwilling to push themselves to try and instead need

RE: [mssms] AUTO: Chuck Spalliero is out of the office (returning 07/21/2014)

2014-07-17 Thread Marable, Mike
He’s going to come back into the office and find an entire email thread devoted to him. To be a fly on the wall of his office when he opens up email Monday morning! “What the…!” From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Ratliff Sent:

Re: [mssms] Microsoft's unified technology event for enterprises

2014-07-21 Thread Marable, Mike
Know much about quilting? LOLLL And what is wrong with quilting? After 50-60 hours a week in the office spending some time doing some English Paper Piecing goes a long way to help with the sanity. What? :) Sent from my iPhone On Jul 21, 2014, at 4:38 PM, Marcum, John jmar...@babc.com

RE: [mssms] Help with task sequence variable logic

2014-07-31 Thread Marable, Mike
I believe what Jason was suggesting was to write a small VB script that would just pull the first two characters from the computer name and assign that to a new variable. Then you’re steps could use logic something like this: IF %CompNamePreFix% = QL IF %CompNamePreFix% = RS Mike From:

RE: [mssms] RE: Re: Windows 7 Aero Theme Not Default at first login

2014-08-06 Thread Marable, Mike
: %windir%\Resources\Themes\Company.theme Thanks Mike From: Marable, Mike Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 11:29 PM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Cc: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [mssms] RE: Re: Windows 7 Aero Theme Not Default at first login Damon, In the morning I'll have to check

[mssms] RE: MDT boot image in ConfigMgr - modify ExtraFiles for existing boot image?

2014-08-13 Thread Marable, Mike
Folders are actually easy. File name=* LocaleNeededfalse/LocaleNeeded Source_ExtraFiles\Monitoring/Source Destination\/Destination /File This takes the contents of _ExtraFiles\Monitoring including all subfolders and copies it to the root of the

[mssms] How best to configure Windows Update for SCCM?

2014-08-19 Thread Marable, Mike
How are people setting up the Windows Update settings when using SCCM to manage software updates? We have what I think is a mash-up of both using Windows Update crossed with SCCM managed updates. What settings are people pushing down via GPO and what are being configured through SCCM client

[MDT-OSD] How best to configure Windows Update for SCCM?

2014-08-19 Thread Marable, Mike
How are people setting up the Windows Update settings when using SCCM to manage software updates? We have what I think is a mash-up of both using Windows Update crossed with SCCM managed updates. What settings are people pushing down via GPO and what are being configured through SCCM client

Re: [mssms] Modifying CM hydration kit

2014-08-29 Thread Marable, Mike
That's really quite easy. You could use some of the older hydration kits that use the older versions of Server and SQL at templates. Pulling the pieces together can be a little tricky but if you're familiar with MDT and are careful it shouldn't give you any problems. Sent from my iPhone On

[mssms] RE: Windows TH Technical Preview

2014-09-30 Thread Marable, Mike
Mary Jo Foley is as well: https://twitter.com/maryjofoley From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Shaun Cassells Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 12:42 PM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [mssms] RE: Windows TH Technical Preview For

RE: [mssms] RE: Windows TH Technical Preview

2014-09-30 Thread Marable, Mike
I don't know about it being available in the TechNet Evaluation Center. Everything seems to imply that it is soft of a members only type of thing and not something really open to the public. At least that's the vibe I'm getting. That this is a very controlled preview from Microsoft's

Re: [mssms] RE: Windows TH Technical Preview

2014-09-30 Thread Marable, Mike
Yes. According to the website Windows is at a threshold (hence the code name) and is embarking on a whole new direction. So it's so big of a shift in the way that Microsoft treats Windows that they're jumping over version 9. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Hun boy

[MDT-OSD] RE: MDT USMT scripts

2014-10-07 Thread Marable, Mike
I could very easily be wrong, but I don’t think those exist any longer. When I Google those filenames I get a hit on an old TechNet article dating back to 2008 that references MDT 2008. What is it that you’re trying to set up? We use Nomad as well. Thanks Mike From:

[mssms] RE: SCCM Staffing

2014-10-27 Thread Marable, Mike
We have a mix. We have a small group dedicated to administration of SCCM. They create deployments and maintain the infrastructure. OSD is handled by a separate group, application packaging by another, and patch management by yet another. SCCM Admins - keep the lights on OSD Admins - anything

RE: [mssms] RE: ConfigMgr 2012 Dashboards in SCOM 2012

2014-10-30 Thread Marable, Mike
Nice work guys. I’ve been on the fence thinking about starting a blog myself. I think maybe I’ll just go for it. Mike From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Paul Winstanley Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 7:43 AM To:

RE: [mssms] Fixing firmware on Hyper-V after multiple OSD

2014-10-30 Thread Marable, Mike
I don't know the background of what you're working with, but would deleting and recreating the VM be an option? You could script deleting the existing VM, recreate it with the same settings (including MAC), and then kicking off a rebuild. I know it's kind of heavy handed approach. Mike

[mssms] OT: TechEd Europe Windows 10 Sessions Missing?

2014-11-06 Thread Marable, Mike
I know this isn't really the proper place but I thought I'd at least try in case anyone here may have an idea. TEE has been over now for more than a week and it looks like none of the Windows 10 sessions are available? For example: Windows 10 Deployment - Michael

RE: [mssms] Standalone media password forgot

2014-11-10 Thread Marable, Mike
life Because we can't reach or recreated sccm in a day or two with all age settings and apps... Sent from iPhonesorry for typos On 10-Nov-2014, at 7:38 pm, Marable, Mike mmara...@med.umich.edumailto:mmara...@med.umich.edu wrote: You’re going to have to go back to the documentation

Re: [mssms] RBAC

2014-11-11 Thread Marable, Mike
That would match my experiences with RBA. Everything is merged. Mike Sent from my iPhone On Nov 11, 2014, at 8:41 PM, sccmfun sccm...@hotmail.commailto:sccm...@hotmail.com wrote: Can someone confirm the following: Group 1 is assigned security role of Application Author I create a scope

RE: [mssms] Windows 10 In-Place upgrade. ConfigMgr client fails to install

2014-11-14 Thread Marable, Mike
I knew I should have taken today off to work on the new build! Are you doing this “in-place” upgrade: http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2014/10/29/how-to-upgrade-to-win-10-using-the-task-sequence-in-sc-2012-r2-configmgr.aspx I used the sequence from that posting a while back and

RE: [mssms] Windows 10 In-Place upgrade. ConfigMgr client fails to install

2014-11-14 Thread Marable, Mike
-PassThru Create-LogEntry Return code: $($process.ExitCode)' I'm not sure where it's grabbing the -arguementlist /remediate:client details from but it seems to be including details from the original install, which includes the patch. On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Marable, Mike mmara

RE: [mssms] 2012 sp1 aw distribution success but not really

2014-11-20 Thread Marable, Mike
How do you have your TS configured to install these applications? Are you using the Install Package step and using it to install multiple packages? If so, do you have the option to continue should any single package fail enabled? Even if an application install fails, the TS would continue

RE: [mssms] last logon information - OSD Process

2014-12-09 Thread Marable, Mike
What last logon info are they looking for? The login time? Who last logged in? What specifically are they wanting displayed? Mike From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Rajkumar Bhoopathy Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 8:00 AM To:

Re: [mssms] last logon information - OSD Process

2014-12-09 Thread Marable, Mike
I think the last logged on user might not be possible, or at least pretty difficult. Since BGInfo runs in the user’s session the script will pick up that user’s login. Essentially it would show the currently logged in user. I haven’t had to pull that sort of info before so I could be wrong.

Re: [mssms] last logon information - OSD Process

2014-12-09 Thread Marable, Mike
and places it on screen. Mike From: Marable, Mike Marable mmara...@med.umich.edumailto:mmara...@med.umich.edu Reply-To: mssms@lists.myitforum.commailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com mssms@lists.myitforum.commailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at 9:51 PM To: mssms

RE: [mssms] OT: Using 1E Nomad during OSD Task Sequences

2014-12-16 Thread Marable, Mike
You know I’d be all in. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael Mott Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:45 PM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [mssms] OT: Using 1E Nomad during OSD Task Sequences Careful what you wish for

RE: [mssms] RE: [ConfigMgrMVPs] Blogpost: Is Intune going to re place Configuration Manager?

2014-12-29 Thread Marable, Mike
“Windows 10 will change OS and software deployment…” I’m sorry but I’d have to beg to differ. So far I have had little luck with using the in-place upgrade that Microsoft is pushing in the real world. To be honest I’m finding it just as problematic as it was in prior versions of Windows. We

Re: [mssms] RE: [ConfigMgrMVPs] Blogpost: Is Intune going to re place Configuration Manager?

2014-12-29 Thread Marable, Mike
That is true, but the road to a smoothly running in-place upgrade is too long to travel in just a handful of months before Windows 10 is to be released. When asked, years ago, why Windows crashed so often compared to Macs the answer from Microsoft was that they had no control over the

RE: [mssms] Can a Task Sequence determine if the client is in a slow boundary?

2015-01-22 Thread Marable, Mike
We had to use a script to sort it out. We have a number of slow site boundaries, all IP range based. What we have done is to export out the boundaries into a CSV with starting address, ending address and name. During the task sequence we run a script that takes the IP address of the machine

RE: [mssms] CM Powershell provider not available in current PS-session

2015-02-02 Thread Marable, Mike
I had a similar thing with some lab build scripts. Once the primary server was built I had to open the admin console first before any of the SCCM PoSh cmdlets would work. Almost like it had to be initialized first. Mike From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

RE: [mssms] Vm create with desired NIC model

2015-02-04 Thread Marable, Mike
No. Typically a virtualization product like VMWare or Hyper-V will just have a pre-defined network card model. Usually it's some flavor of an Intel network card because often the drivers would be included in the default drivers included in the OS. So, you couldn't create a VM with a

Re: [mssms] RE: CM12 - No Task Sequences Available?? - Partially Solved

2015-01-14 Thread Marable, Mike
Well, we have a theory as to what was knocking the OS deployments offline. It looks like the Management Points were overwhelmed and couldn’t field policy requests. Looking at the status messages we see a HUGE spike of 5101 messages. This indicates a policy update in progress. There were

[mssms] CM12 - No Task Sequences Available - Finally Solved

2015-01-16 Thread Marable, Mike
We finally got this one solved. Here is what happened. We use Nomad Branch in our environment. On the properties of a task sequence 1E adds a tab that allows you to set the Nomad settings for all packages directly referenced by that task sequence. At each outage someone (that would be me)

[mssms] RE: CM12 - No Task Sequences Available - Finally Solved

2015-01-19 Thread Marable, Mike
...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 2:12 PM To: 'mssms@lists.myitforum.com' Subject: [mssms] CM12 - No Task Sequences Available - Finally Solved We finally got this one solved

[mssms] RE: CM12 - No Task Sequences Available - Finally Solved

2015-01-19 Thread Marable, Mike
troubleshooting! Daniel Ratliff From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 9:54 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.commailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [mssms] RE: CM12

[mssms] CM12 - No Task Sequences Available??

2015-01-14 Thread Marable, Mike
For the third week in a row something has knocked out OS deployment offline. We can PXE boot a machine but during the boot it will suddenly reboot out of WinPE and back into the full OS. We can pop a command window to prevent the reboot and the SMSTS log has this right before it bailed out and

RE: [mssms] CM12 - No Task Sequences Available??

2015-01-14 Thread Marable, Mike
Hi Mike, We don't have any Maintenance Windows. Our deployment is advertised to both All Systems and Unknown Computers and it is only available to PXE and Media. Yes, both unknown machines as well as known machines are seeing this problem. This morning I was doing some build tests. I started

[mssms] RE: CM12 - No Task Sequences Available??

2015-01-14 Thread Marable, Mike
it as Required unless you want to wipe everything. Rich From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: 14 January 2015 14:53 To: SMS Subject: [mssms] CM12 - No Task Sequences Available

[mssms] RE: CM12 - No Task Sequences Available??

2015-01-14 Thread Marable, Mike
itself to SCCM. Have you been able to PXE the same device half a dozen times and get it to flap between the two states? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 9:50

Re: [mssms] RE: Tracking down Device Collection

2015-01-22 Thread Marable, Mike
PowerShell could help too. Sorry I'm working from memory but I think it would be something like: Get-CMDeviceCollection -Name name of your collection Sent from my iPhone On Jan 22, 2015, at 10:45 AM, Daniel Ratliff dratl...@humana.commailto:dratl...@humana.com wrote: Click All Subfolders in

RE: [mssms] Can a Task Sequence determine if the client is in a slow boundary?

2015-01-22 Thread Marable, Mike
...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 9:23 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.commailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [mssms] Can a Task Sequence determine if the client is in a slow boundary? We had to use a script to sort it out. We have a number of slow site

[mssms] RE: SCCM 2012 R2 and PXE boot

2015-01-21 Thread Marable, Mike
What exactly is happening when it fails? Are you getting a PXEAbort, or is it attempting and the boot process is failing at some point? Some basics to check. 1. Do you have both the 64bit and 32bit boot images on your PXE enabled DP? 2. Is one of those boot images the one

[mssms] RE: SCCM 2012 R2 and PXE boot

2015-01-21 Thread Marable, Mike
: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 8:27 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [mssms] RE: SCCM 2012 R2 and PXE boot What exactly is happening when it fails? Are you getting a PXEAbort

[mssms] RE: SCCM 2012 R2 and PXE boot

2015-01-21 Thread Marable, Mike
with WDS being down. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 8:27 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [mssms] RE: SCCM 2012 R2 and PXE boot What exactly is happening when it fails? Are you

RE: [mssms] RE: (OT) Vendor list for Ignite?

2015-02-19 Thread Marable, Mike
I have to second that. My request was turned down because I couldn't show any value in going. The promise/hope of adding more System Center sessions didn't justify the cost so the request was denied. Unfortunately at this point it's too late. I wish the final session catalog had been

[mssms] RE: (OT) Vendor list for Ignite?

2015-02-19 Thread Marable, Mike
+1 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Andreas Hammarskjöld Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 11:37 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [mssms] RE: (OT) Vendor list for Ignite? Hey Ivan, If you are looking for ConfigMgr integration

[mssms] RE: vmware build

2015-02-05 Thread Marable, Mike
What version of VMWare are you using? If you have the option of Windows 7 for the guest OS then you should be good. The key hardware is the NIC, which if you select Win7 as the guest OS VMWare will use a standard Intel NIC (a default driver included with Windows). You can get by without the

RE: [mssms] Splitting Domain and SCCM

2015-03-16 Thread Marable, Mike
You could migrate as much as possible between the two sites. We do that to move things between our development and production sites. The package sources will need to be cleaned up but you can use PowerShell to do that easily enough. I’m not positive just what can and cannot be migrated. The

[mssms] RE: UEFI/GPT on Windows 7

2015-03-05 Thread Marable, Mike
We’re the same way. Legacy BIOs for us as well. We do get systems from HP that have UEFI turned on and the techs have to manually switch back to BIOs to build. Like John, we need to get rolling on supporting UEFI here soon. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

Re: [mssms] RE: #ConfigMgr: Automation from Zero to Hero

2015-03-27 Thread Marable, Mike
Yeah, nice bold cover. Should attract a lot of attention. From: dratl...@humana.commailto:dratl...@humana.com dratl...@humana.commailto:dratl...@humana.com Reply-To: mssms@lists.myitforum.commailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com mssms@lists.myitforum.commailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com Date:

Re: [mssms] RE: (OT) Vendor list for Ignite?

2015-02-28 Thread Marable, Mike
For me the biggest fear is access to the technology. Right now I have free and unlimited access to Configuration Manager. I can download the evaluation software and build as many labs as I need. Once I burn an Intune evaluation (and I haven’t tried yet so fear of the unknown…) can I sign up

RE: [mssms] Mdt with sccm

2015-02-20 Thread Marable, Mike
Yes you can. There are a number of ways to accomplish this. You can run a simple script out of your task sequence that prompts for a computer name all the way up to a web front-end. Here are some options to get you started:

Re: [mssms] RE: Exclude VPN computers from Task Sequence application deployment.

2015-04-02 Thread Marable, Mike
Daniel is right, the collections would not be able to keep pace with users roaming. Depending on how your network is set up you could put a check for the IP address at the start of your task sequence. If the client falls in the range of your VPN connected addresses you could exit out of the

RE: [mssms] Add Users To Multiple Collections

2015-04-07 Thread Marable, Mike
: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 7:46 AM To: 'mssms@lists.myitforum.com' Subject: RE: [mssms] Add Users To Multiple Collections Suzzi, Are you looking to add a user to the same set of collections each

RE: [mssms] Add Users To Multiple Collections

2015-04-07 Thread Marable, Mike
Suzzi, Are you looking to add a user to the same set of collections each time? For example, whenever a new employee starts their user ID would be added to these 4 specific collections? Mike From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Suzzi

RE: [mssms] Return Codes - PowerShell - SCCM 2012

2015-04-07 Thread Marable, Mike
The app returns a 15 when it successfully installs? How is it being deployed? If you have a wrapper script that could receive the RC=15 from the application's installer and then return a 0 back to SCCM. Mike From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On

[mssms] SCCM 1511 OSD - Applying Image Agonizingly Slow

2016-06-03 Thread Marable, Mike
We've recently completed upgrading our SCCM environment to 1511 (plus MDT 2013 U2 and ADK 10-RTM). I'm finding that during an OS deployment applying the image is incredibly slow. The WIM file downloads very quickly from the DP to the local SCCM cache, but when it is then applied from there it

[mssms] Does OSDApplyOS.exe log anywhere?

2016-06-11 Thread Marable, Mike
I’m trying to troubleshoot some slow performance when applying the image during an OS deployment since upgrading our site to SCCM 1511. The WIM file is downloaded rapidly from the Distribution Points to the local cache, but when SCCM begins applying it to the hard drive it seems to slow way

[mssms] RE: Guidance on provisioning drivers in Windows 10 upgrade task sequence?

2016-06-14 Thread Marable, Mike
It sounds like you are talking about Johan's post., "Improving the ConfigMgr Inplace-Upgrade Task Sequence" http://deploymentresearch.com/Research/Post/533/Improving-the-ConfigMgr-Inplace-Upgrade-Task-Sequence Hope this helps. Mike From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

[mssms] RE: [MDT-OSD] Does OSDApplyOS.exe log anywhere?

2016-06-14 Thread Marable, Mike
istsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2016 8:39 PM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com>; mdt...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mdt...@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [MDT-OSD] Does OSDApplyOS.exe log anywhere? I’m trying to trou

Re: [External] [mssms] RE: [MDT-OSD] Does OSDApplyOS.exe log anywhere?

2016-06-14 Thread Marable, Mike
e task sequence and reduced him image time significantly. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 10:14 AM To: mdt...@lists.myitforum.com; mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [External] [mssms] RE: [MDT-OSD

RE: [External] [mssms] RE: [MDT-OSD] Does OSDApplyOS.exe log anywhere?

2016-06-15 Thread Marable, Mike
...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: den 15 juni 2016 04:39 To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [External] [mssms] RE: [MDT-OSD] Does OSDApplyOS.exe log anywhere? This might be handy. Maybe I’ll give that a try too. The end result is the same, but the one-liner is a little “clearer

Re: [mssms] Lenovo "Deployment Recipe Cards"

2016-07-14 Thread Marable, Mike
They’re actively adding content. When I first checked after Steve’s email came in there was only Win7 and Win10 for most of the models. Now I see Win7-32bit and 8.1 as well. The content is growing quickly. Hey, Dell and HP, this is really good info. Hint Hint…. ;-) From:

[mssms] RE: Windows 10 Branch / Build number in BGInfo

2016-07-27 Thread Marable, Mike
You'll probably need to do a custom script that returns the value. Using the Win32_OperatingSystem class you can pull the Version. PowerShell: PS C:\> (Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $env:computername -Class Win32_OperatingSystem).Version 10.0.10586 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

Re: [mssms] RE: Problems applying GPOs with Windows 10?

2016-08-11 Thread Marable, Mike
@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Wednesday, 9 September 2015 9:42 PM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] Problems applying GPOs with Windows 10? Ha

[mssms] RE: Problems Downloading ConfigMgr 1606 - Fixed

2016-08-04 Thread Marable, Mike
. Why? I don't know. But it is working now. Thanks Mike From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2016 8:45 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [mssms] Problems Downloading ConfigMgr 1606 I've

RE: [mssms] W10 v1607 - new ADMX's ?

2016-08-15 Thread Marable, Mike
Not yet, but I'm downloading them now and will be putting in the request to add them to our domain. Mike From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Shane Alexander Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 3:53 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE:

[mssms] RE: SCCM OSD task sequence - W10 with OS and DATA partitions

2016-07-20 Thread Marable, Mike
How do you have your format and partition action configured now? We've just moved away from a similar setup. I'll dig out an older sequence to get some screenshots this evening if it will help. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

Re: [mssms] RE: SCCM OSD task sequence - W10 with OS and DATA partitions

2016-07-21 Thread Marable, Mike
It is true. I can tell you from experience that multipartitions can be a headache. I only recently was able to convince work to go back to a single partition and it simplifies our build so much. I’ll be in the office shortly, so I can send you what we were doing if that will help. From:

RE: [mssms] RE: SCCM OSD task sequence - W10 with OS and DATA partitions

2016-07-21 Thread Marable, Mike
to migrate data and settings. No special scripts to handle one partition or the other. Hope this helps. Mike From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 6:32 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re

RE: [mssms] RE: SCCM OSD task sequence - W10 with OS and DATA partitions

2016-07-21 Thread Marable, Mike
I think Joe is channeling his inner poet. ;-) From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Joe Sestrich Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 7:29 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [mssms] RE: SCCM OSD task sequence - W10 with OS and DATA

[mssms] RE: Does OSDApplyOS.exe log anywhere?

2016-07-21 Thread Marable, Mike
com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2016 10:39 PM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com>; mdt...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mdt...@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [MDT-OSD] Does OSDApplyOS.exe log any

RE: [mssms] SCCM Current Branch

2016-07-05 Thread Marable, Mike
+1 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jason Sandys Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 9:39 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [mssms] SCCM Current Branch It’s never truly been broken. There are just a lot of caveats due to how the

[mssms] RE: ConfigMgr 1511 PXE Boot Selection

2016-08-08 Thread Marable, Mike
...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Sunday, August 7, 2016 9:49 PM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] ConfigMgr 1511 PXE Boot Selection I'm trying

[mssms] RE: ConfigMgr 1511 PXE Boot Selection

2016-08-08 Thread Marable, Mike
...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Monday, August 8, 2016 9:48 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] RE: ConfigMgr 1511 PXE Boot Selection Unfortunately is

[mssms] RE: ConfigMgr 1511 PXE Boot Selection

2016-08-08 Thread Marable, Mike
istsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Monday, August 8, 2016 11:29 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] RE: ConfigMgr 1511 PXE Boot Selection That turned out to be a rogue boot image on the PXE server. I've pulled tha

[mssms] RE: ConfigMgr 1511 PXE Boot Selection

2016-08-08 Thread Marable, Mike
<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: Monday, August 8, 2016 1:10 PM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] RE: ConfigMgr 1511 PXE Boot Selection No, we have never used that boot

[mssms] RE: ConfigMgr 1511 PXE Boot Selection

2016-08-09 Thread Marable, Mike
m: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marable, Mike Sent: den 9 augusti 2016 04:59 To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] RE: ConfigMgr 1511 PXE Boot Selectio

[mssms] ConfigMgr 1511 PXE Boot Selection

2016-08-07 Thread Marable, Mike
I'm trying to sort out what's going on with our PXE server now that we've upgraded to 1511 and why it's behaving differently from what I'm reading. We've recently upgraded our 2012 R2 environment to 1511. We have not yet upgraded to 1602 or 1606. That is in the works. First some quick

[mssms] Problems Downloading ConfigMgr 1606

2016-08-03 Thread Marable, Mike
I've finished bringing up a development ConfigMgr environment. Started with 1511 and upgraded to 1602 smoothly. Now the 1606 upgrade is stuck "downloading". According to the dmpdownloader log it downloads and extracts the CAB file successfully: "File C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration

RE: [mssms] Microsoft set to change Windows patching in a disasterous way

2016-08-16 Thread Marable, Mike
I totally agree. In fact yesterday we had to pull off a security update because it "broke" an app. So instead of the vendor fixing their app, we're going to allow a potential security threat? In my opinion I think this is a good thing. Give me just a single patch each month so I don't have

[mssms] Airwatch Connect Presentation - SCCM is a dead-end?

2017-01-24 Thread Marable, Mike
Okay, today my supervisor was making the case for the decision to phase out SCCM. His whole argument centers on a presentation he saw at AirWatch Connect a few months back. The presentation was done by a Microsoft employee and in it he stated that SCCM was a dead-end product and that people

RE: [mssms] Horrible food at Ignite

2016-09-29 Thread Marable, Mike
Jumping on the bandwagon... There is nothing worse than having to wait in line to be severed. The anxiety of waiting for it to happen. And then for it to take so long to be severed. Must be dull blades or something. Sorry. :) From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

RE: [mssms] Horrible food at Ignite

2016-09-30 Thread Marable, Mike
Very good points, Michael. The complaints I’ve been hearing about this year’s Ignite are the similar to some of those from last year’s event. Food and crowd management seem to be the top concerns. I have not heard a single complaint about the content. Even though this is a Microsoft event,

[mssms] RE: IP Helpers for PXE

2016-10-07 Thread Marable, Mike
“As for PXE and UEFI, I followed Andreas Hammarskjöld’s white paper on configuring MS DHCP to boot either BIOS or UEFI depending on how the client is set to boot. http://2pintsoftware.com/whitepaper-using-dhcp-uefi-bios-pxe-booting/ It wasn’t too bad to set up and it works.” +1 We are in

[mssms] RE: IP Helpers for PXE

2016-10-07 Thread Marable, Mike
The IP helper (also called a DHCP Relay Agent, or Relay Agent) is a setting on the router that points to the PXE/WDS server. Right now you will have on your routers a Relay Agent that points to your DHCP server (unless you have DHCP servers on all of your networks). That Relay Agent directs

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