Here’s a quick synopsis of two issues I had at my recent customer installing some “packaged” applications during OSD.
ConfigMgr Application Package Recipes – Adobe Reader X
So was Adobe sucking up to Apple when they decided to use the roman numeral for the version number? Anyway, here’s another common package recipe that I see folks struggling […]
OSD and RunOnce
I recently stumbled onto a somewhat major issue during OSD that is the result of a fundamental (bad) assumption made by many including Windows itself and Internet Explorer. That assumption […]
Installing Fonts During OSD
Here’s a simple little script to install fonts during OSD. Note that this is an example of not doing any manual work during OSD: manual work is un-IT.
What’s in a Heartbeat
Questions often come on the forums about Heartbeat Discovery including how often should they be configured to run or indirectly, what updates certain resource information in ConfigMgr like the IP […]
Accessing OSD Troubleshooting Tools
About the only method for troubleshooting issues in OSD is to drop to a command-prompt (by pressing F8) and then running whatever tool you need; e.g., Trace32. The only real […]
ConfigMgr Program Rerun Behavior
So what exactly do each of these options do in an advertisement? The TechNet documentation is actually pretty sketchy and thus this post (inspired by MVP extraordinaire, Torsten Meringer). Note […]
ConfigMgr and Failed Program Retry
Inspired by a recent forum thread (and John Marcum), I put together a little test to verify if ConfigMgr does indeed automatically retry advertised programs that failed.
Build and Capture and Software Updates (revisited)
Recently at a client in production and in my home lab, I ran into the an issue where the Software Updates task in my Build and Capture TS for Windows […]
Recurring Advertisements
We all know (or will now) that if a client misses a mandatory advertisement in ConfigMgr for whatever reason, e.g., the client is powered off, it will happily “run” the […]