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Windows 10 Upgrade won’t continue after reboot

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% work and what might failed. In this case, I was 100% sure nothing wrong with my upgrade task, nothing wrong… 

Monitor ConfigMgr Task Sequence with Status Message Query

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 queries for each deployments of same Task Sequence. So let’s be lazy and just create ONE query. Find you package… 

Fix Windows 10 In-Place Upgrade Task Sequence infinity restart loop

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 DID IT!!! Make a Dart 10 ISO file, upload it to somewhere. Let’s hope you have the bitlocker key for… 

Custom Windows 10 OS Build Number WMI Classes and reporting into SCCM

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 So this post is outdated now.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 that I didn’t know I can do that. I am terribly learning modify mof file, always worry if I make… 

Duplicate users cause user-targeted mandatory deployment issues

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 mostly shows just unknown. So I think, well “maybe people are in holidays, maybe machines are just not online, user… 

SCCM with iPXE UEFI boot without WDS server

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 this video see how my scenario of iPXE works. Just remember, secure boot is not supported, unless you sign your… 

ConfigMgr Task Sequence “Deploy” greyed out

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 I was using at that point. Perhaps after upgrade ConfigMgr builds so many times, some really old TS that was… 

Completely remove Hyper-V Virtual Machines

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, lots of Virtual Machines, it is pain in the ass to clean them up. So I came up this simple… 

SCCM: Workaround for CB1610 replica MP issue (sp_BgbConfigSSBForRemoteService)

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 https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh846234.aspx and https://sccmentor.com/2015/05/19/installing-a-replica-mp-in-configmgr-2012/ many months ago, using CB 1606. Everything works just fine. In this weekend I was trying to… 

SCCM OSD: Tweak OSDResults without UDI (Part 2)

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. Because the script is password involved. When you don’t use UDI to select what applications you want to install, you…