A while back I had a support case open with MS about some scripting in winPE. In order to debug the problem we wanted to see what variables were declared & what their values were. The support tech came up with the attachted script, I never got round to adding it to my scripts folder, …
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Updated: 2011-08-18 This is the next evolution in the warranty info fight, Dell keep changing their site which is rather frustrating. I have re-written the Warranty Info Scripts in powershell as in my opinion the code is a lot cleaner and more manageable, I’ve tweaked the MOF edit required to read this. One major change …
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Yet another role added to my Job description, Now I am managing our Virtual Servers. So true to form I’ve dived headfirst into powershell / powercli to see what I can do. Some of the posts coming up on this will likely be similar to others around the web as I reinvent the wheel while …
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A quick Report to return all of the computers, the OU they are in and the last time they had a Hardware scan. First we create a temporary table to hold the 1st pass results, then we query that table looking for the longest OU for each computer ( this way we only get 1 …
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This is just a quick one, if you have dell machines (not sure if other manufacturers do it) but one of the BIOS options is ASSET TAG. Now this does not, as you would expect, appear in Win32_BIOS, instead it appears under Win32_SystemEnclosure.
Those of us that installed FEP 2010 are no doubt annoyed that we cannot see the details of the queries used by SCCM to populate the FEP created collections. The following will require acess to the SQL instance that SCCM uses as the querys are to be executed driectly on that instance.
It’s been a while since I posted anything, but I’ve been really busy at home and in work. Although I have beening using OSD for a while it hasn’t been completely automated, things like timezone, keyboard locale etc still need to be changed by an administrator after a rebuild. Now we have sites in America, …
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The snippet allows one to create a collection containing objects that are in some OUs but NOT IN another collection
As per the title. I booked my exam on the 15th of July and passed my exam on the 20th of August. Took me about 6 weeks of studying for on average 4-5hours a night.
When I was building our SCCM environment I decided it would be a good time to clean up WSUS & FCS and bring them under the new system. The problem I ran into was “How do I repoint FCS?” without having to uninstall and reinstall it on every machine. The solution, a bit of VB …
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