Hi! How many times you have been looking for SMSTS.LOG checking all possible locations, finally finding the wrong version, because time in Win PE is off? Finally, the pain is over! Attached script, ZTITrace32.wsf will open them for you automatically...

Next version to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alex_semi/archive/2011/12/15/increase-cm-cache-and-clean-it.aspx Now the script goes to WMI, and checks, if each cached package required by any of mandatory assignment, and if it’s in a future, or recurring...

Sometimes it's hard to accommodate all needed packages in SCCM cache, so admins usually increase the size of the cache to a few gigabytes. Since SCCM does not clean cache unless it needs to fit some new packages, you will end up with old versions of packages...

Update - I've found a bug and fixed it. Now you can call this script from PE in OS Refresh scenario as well. The well known name in Deployment world, Johan Arwidmark wrote an excelent article on adding remote control to MDT/SCCM Boot...

Recently, I asked Michael Niehaus would it be a good idea to send Events, that normally go to EventShare, to SCCM as a status message. Michael's response was that the challenge was Windows PE. But still, if you're using MDT Scripting framework for...

Instead of maintaining endless Update Lists with patches from each month, I created this custom report, breaking down by Months. Creterias: 1. Category: Security patches 2. Prodcuts: All 3. Severity: Critical and Important 4. One missing...

Creating faster OEM Images with OSD and MDT. Introduction OEM scenario is where you prepare the reference computer and duplicate the hard drive using any tool or hardware duplicator. Microsoft offers two products to accomplish OEM image creation...

Sometimes it may be usefull to see when the last time computer account contacted domain, so you could see which records are old and long time gone. First you need to add an attribute to AD discovery. Go to site management, open your site, Site Settings...

It's always a good idea to have Trace32.exe copied to every computer to be able to take a look on the logs, and I usually do it by adding it to the image copying it to \$OEM$\$$ under deployment share, so it's always in %WINDIR% on any computer. Plus...

ZTIWindowsUpdate.wsf is the script that goes to Microsoft Update or internal WSUS server and install all approved updates from there. It is a part of automated image build process I've been creating for all of my customers. In MDT 2010 this script...

Script to add some packages to all distribution points As your SCCM hierarchy grows, you might found that you spend more and more time adding packages to new distribution points. In SCCM, for BDP, there is a way to add a package automatically. ...

It's always been challenging to choose either to check "Hide all deployments from end users" in "Software Updates Client Agent Properties". If you decide to suppress it - you won't be able to patch the computers manually. It may be challenging for servers...

Here is an SCCM report, that takes computer name and shows all collections that computer belongs to Query used in this report: select C . Name0 , B . CollectionID , B . Name from v_ClientCollectionMembers A , v_Collection B , v_R_System C...

After you have fixed the problem with scanstate.exe can't access down level manifests, ( http://blogs.msdn.com/alex_semi/archive/2009/12/10/when-upgrading-or-reinstalling-windows-xp-to-windows-7-using-usmt-4-0-to-migrate-system-and-user-state-settings...

Update: MDT 2010 Update 1 addresses this issue. Frank Rojas came up with much simpler idea of just adding an extra step to the task sequence, here is how: http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/archive/2010/02/10/solution-when-using-usmt-4...

BUG: when after implementing this solution the customsettings.ini is not getting processed. Download updated version. Uninstall old one before installing this one. Recently, I was moving my customer from MDT to OSD with MDT extensions, and I was puzzled...

As you could notice at this post by Michael Niehaus, on a back there is a big "dos" window with a script being running. This happens because OSD always runs windows scripts in pre-exec hook with CSCRIPT.EXE, even if you specify WSCRIPT.EXE in the...

Here is how I do it for OS and Service Packs select Caption0 , CSDVersion0 , COUNT ( 1 ) from ( select distinct SerialNumber0 , ( select top 1 Caption0 from dbo . v_GS_OPERATING_SYSTEM where v_GS_OPERATING_SYSTEM . ResourceID = v_GS_PC_BIOS...

My customer asked me for a solution, and he described the process like this: 1. Technician walks to the desk with the USB key 2. Runs some batch file from the USB key 3. Data gets backed up to this key 4. Tech images new computer with this key and data...

There is a known issue when you're setting Legal Notice text and caption in GPO and when deploying in MDT, the Legal Notice is popping up during auto logon. I fix it by saving JoinDomain to another variable SavedJoinDomain and join to domain before the...

SCCM stores AD organizational unit in the DB exposing it to v_RA_System_SystemOUName view. The problem is, that for each objects you'll find direct and all parent OUs of the computer. I've created a view, that shows direct OU only. Here it is, just change...

I started using Hyper-V to build my reference XP images, and the reason for that - Hyper-V is the first hypervisor that uses the most typical HAL for modern computers - APIC. So, if you build your images on Hyper-V, there is no supportability issues and...

This is a script that works with Hyper-V and MDT and automatically builds WIM images for you. It uses MDT 2010 with fully unattended Task Sequences and saves captured WIM file to any location, which can be SCCM OSD source of OS image. Now your image build...

When you don't have Internet Connection, going through all patches may be a real pain, so, t o make the process absolutely hassle free, similar to connected environment when you just hit "download patches for me" button, I tried to create virtual root...

Network infrastructure is very important for successful SMS deployment. The most network consuming feature is Software distribution, and it would become handy to have network speed information in your SMS Database. To collect this data we use simple VB...