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Ran into a problem today, during windows 10 inplace upgrade, machine didn’t continue upgrade after reboot, it was about 70% of the update, machine shutdown and won’t restart again. Trouble shooting… yes I did find where is the issue. Because I have tested my Task Sequence like hundred times, I know what steps are 100% […]
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This is not about monitor Task Sequence Deployment status, it is about monitor Task Sequence itself. I use package ID instead of Deployment ID, because you might need to deploy same Task Sequence to many collections with different schedule, and you will have many deployments of same Task Sequence. I don’t want to create many […]
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We successfully did Windows 10 In-Place Upgrade for hundreds machines, but few of them went into infinity restart loop at the end. Troubleshoot wasn’t easy, especially do it remotely. Yeah, you are right, how to troubleshoot and fix a computer that reboot itself and also has bitlocker and bitlocker PIN? Sounds mission impossible, but WE […]
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Updated: Since SCCM 1802, inventory is included Windows 10 build version numbers. So this post is outdated now. Additional Note: Since I posted this, I got an excellent feedback from Mike Terrill @miketerrill , he asked me why not just use the registry property provider to inventory the UBR registry. I guess I must admit […]
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Last friday one customer said their users didn’t get any applications from Software Center. So I started to check what is the issue, or if there is any issue. Applications are deployed to user collections as mandatory. Based on reports, applications are installed to some users successfully, there is no errors in the reports, but […]
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This is a long post….hope you have energy to read. 😀 Dell has a really nice post about How to configure PXE booting over UEFI without using Server 2012 and Windows Deployment Services, you can read this here. In that post, sample is MDT. I am going to do a SCCM scenario. You can watch […]
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This is a quick post. Just notice two of my Task Sequence “Deploy” is greyed out. What?!?!?! It is Friday, and I am not really much want trouble shoot anything..So.. I click “Disable”..Then “Enable”. Wow, “Deploy” is green again. The TS was created on beggining of last year, I don’t remember what build of ConfigMgr […]
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Yes, I know, why not use Hyper-V console remove Virtual Machines? Thanks for Jokelainen Jouni gave me this idea about create this script! So as you know, when delete Virtual Machines from Hyper-V console, it left all the checkpoint hard disks and virtual hardisks behin. In a case, if you have lots of Hyper-V host, […]
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Before you read this, please understand Microsoft does NOT supported this kind of direct SQL edit, so please do not use this “workaround” in production. This is also a knowing issue, hotfix from Microsoft will come later. UPDATED: KB4010155 update rollup fix this issue. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4010155/update-rollup-for-system-center-configuration-manager-current-branch-v I have been testing replica MP based on […]
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As I mention early in SCCM OSD: Tweak OSDResults without UDI (Part 1), I will try write a part 2 of how to show up OSDResults without UDI step. Before you start to doing this, I will highly recommend you disable F8 debug mode in winpe boot image for your production environment, for security matter. […]
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