This post is a continuation of my previous post: ConfigMgr Software Update Management and Group Policy. So how do the rest of the settings in the Windows Updates Group Policy […]
ConfigMgr Software Update Management and Group Policy
There is definitely a lot of confusion about how Group Policies interact with, control, and affect Software Update Management (SUM) on ConfigMgr clients. At the outset of this post (or […]
Microsoft.SMS.TSEnvironment
So COM is a huge topic that I can’t even imagine scratching the surface of in a single post; MSDN and CodeProject are two great places to learn about COM […]
Current Directory in ConfigMgr Programs
I run across a lot of questions in the forums and from customers about why their batch files are failing when run using a ConfigMgr program. There is an easy […]
Configuration.mof vs. SMS_DEF.mof
This blog is going to dive into the role of the configuration.mof file and how it changed the way ConfigMgr handles hardware inventory. We’ll explore how inventory data is split […]
Build and Capture and Software Updates
A problem that crops up on the forums every now and then in addition to causing me to pull out some hair is deploying updates during a Build and Capture […]
OSD User Context and Interactivity
As a discovery exercise, I created a small, stand-alone app using AutoIT that displays a dialog box with the current value of the environment variables USERNAME and USERDOMAIN, and then […]
Blank Task Sequence Variables
A new feature of Configuration Manager 2007 R2 is the ability to define a Task Sequence Variable on a Collection or individual resource without a value. Then when the Task […]