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SCCM CB: Create a simulation environment for your Powershell scripts
This post should have been released four years ago, but often, life is more surprising that you’d expect ! Anyway, the wait is over, so:Following my very old previous post for MDT, here is how to...
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SCCM CB: Looping thru a task sequence step
If you work a lot with task sequences and want to perform advanced things, you’ve probably been a bit frustrated of not being able to branch your task sequence execution to a particular step...
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ConfigMgr/MDT : How to dynamically install Active Setup.
This post is a translation from my old previous blog. As I am sometime relying on this technic in other blog post, I through that is was a good idea to have it somewhere for reference purpose.Just to...
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Windows 10: Build a network teaming with intel adapters and MDT.
Windows 10 and NIC teaming… the never ending story… Before starting let’s remind the situation: Attempt to use PowerShell to build a network teaming based on Microsoft stack doesn’t work since early...
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Windows 10 Kiosk Mode:Fix unable to add Edge with system error 1376
A quick post to share a fix I just found while testing Windows 10 Kiosk Mode on build 1803. One of the thing every one want to do with Kiosk Mode is to leverage Edge so users can only log to a...
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SCCM CB: Make your task sequence survives a full shutdown on a Lenovo...
This is so shocking that you won’t believe it: the process to upgrade the BIOS on some Lenovo Thinkcentre series requires a full shutdown (S5) to achieve migration!!?? …Whoot!!..Yes, that’s no joke,...
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MDT: Acronis True Image and Disk Director integration in WinPE – Notes from...
I’ve always been a big fan of Acronis products but had less and less requirement to use them over the last few years. Recently, I came to the idea of using ghost like technology (Acronis True Image) to...
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Toshiba BIOS management: Notes from the field
A few months ago, I was tasked to prepare Toshiba BIOS for a Windows 10 deployment. Here are some of my findings, hoping that they will be valuable and time saving for anyone that needs to take that...
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Powershell: Bulk convert and resize images with a script and how it fits in...
Ever wanted to bulk convert your BMP/GIF/ICO/EXIF/JPG/RAW/PNG/TIF images to standard JPG or PNG? Ever needed to resize them while the conversion occurs? You are in the right place!During the last few...
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Installing Fortinet VPN Free Edition version 6 silently
Quick post/reminder as I’ve seen this case growing a bit lately. But before starting, let’s be clear about that: in a perfect world, this blog post would not have to exists. Every well enough educated...
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Powershell Web Service/Rest API with Asynchronous request handling.
Quick ‘I put this here’ post to let you know that I’ve put together (stealing with pride style…) a basic web service that can handle request asynchronously. I’ve found a lot of PowerShell Web service...
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Powershell: Build your own web service for SCCM and MDT
Seriously, I have no idea how the hell I didn’t came across this before as this technology have been exposed for a few year by now(2006 actually)… Anyway, I would like to thank my dear co-worker...
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PowerShell: Create Simple GUI without forms or WPF in a minute
Paraphrasing Bill Gates, I will say that laziness sometimes leads to great solution. Perhaps ‘great’ is a bit much for what we will be talking about here, but at least it’s unexpected, geeky and quite...
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MDT : Solving the 4 GB file limitation of UEFI and USB Flash drives for good.
If you have deployed Windows 10 with USB flash drive, you may know the limitation on UEFI based systems: the USB device must me formatted in FAT32 to be able to boot. This is super painful for two...
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Use DISM to make old school Ghost like imaging!!!
As probably a lot of other goodies, the news passed under the radar, but yes, you can do old-school Ghost like imaging since release 1709 of windows 10 and ADK.Why did Microsoft came back to a...
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MDT: unable to apply servicing stacks updates on Server 2016/2019
Lately I was stopped by a «new» bug while updating my Hydration kit. As I wanted to deploy the latest security updates with Windows Server 2019, the process always failed unless Servicing stack update...
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MEMCM/SCCM: PXE Server in 2020, notes from the Field
Long time ago I wrote a blog post about PXE server installation for MDT. Recently a customer asked me to rebuild his deployment factory using SCCM. As a few things changed over the years I put together...
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MEMCM: Requesting Active directory from WINPE
This blog post is a quick reminder for a question i'm often asked by customers.They usually want to associate a user to a device, leverage user device affinity, ease the managment etc...So when...
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Firefox: Migrating User Settings unattended
Long story short: It's plain boring with traps all along the road but it's doable !!As there are many ways to migrate I won't post a ready to use script, but just pieces of code for the trickiest...
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Powershell: tweaking folder selection dialog
If you are doing Powershell GUI ( WPF or Form) you probably know about the System.Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog class that leverage a builtin folder selector like this:If the tool is good enough in...
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