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SCCM OSD: Tweak OSDResults without UDI (Part 1)

After integrated MDT to SCCM, you can create MDT TS in SCCM. End of the TS, there is “OSD Results and Branding”, it should be use with UDI wizard, you can see in “Options”–“Condition” has set “SkipWizard” is NO. But I don’t want to UDI wizard, because we want “zero-touch”, or we already have our own wizard. What ever reasons they are…So I deleted those conditions. End of the deployment TS, OSDResults show up nicely.… 

SCCM 1606 + SQL 2016: Report subscription failed

Today my lovely handsome colleague Antti told me that SCCM report subscription doesn’t work, when tried to create report subscription send email attach with excel. Errors Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: A delivery error has occurred. —> Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.Utilities.DeliveryErrorException: A delivery error has occurred. —> Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.Utilities.InvalidExtensionParameter: One of the extension parameters is not valid for the following reason: The value ‘EXCEL’ is not valid for setting ‘Render Format’. at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Library.ReportingService2005Impl.CreateSubscription(String Report, ExtensionSettings ExtensionSettings, Boolean isDataDriven, DataRetrievalPlan DataRetrievalPlan, String Description, String… 

Hyper-V: Remove virtual machine firmware file bootmgfw.efi

I often use virtual machines to test OSD, and usually I use same virtual machine again and again, because I don’t want to re-create my virtual machine and add it to my SCCM test collections. Yeah, I know I am lazy. πŸ™‚ After reinstall the same virtual machine many times, you will notice there are many bootmgfw.efi in your VM settings–>Firmware. Here is the simple way delete all the bootmgfw.efi file at once. Use powershell.… 

SCCM package copy file to C:\Windows\System32 folder

I know you are going to laugh why did I write this post, this is not new, but once again I forgot it and spent few hours wonder why my SCCM package didn’t work. (Maybe shouldn’t do any SCCM stuff after vacation. I was on one week holiday trip in Tenerife. :D) The job was simply, copy one file to C:\Windows\System32 folder use SCCM package, not application. What…it didn’t work ?!?! πŸ‘Ώ Why?!?! Well, because… 

SCCM Content Settings Tool 2.1 (PersistCache, BranchCache, FallbacktoDP, DownloadOnSlownetwork)

Fixed: 23.10.2016, Change “PeerCache” to “BranchCache”, thanks for Phil! (I remembered why did I put peercache in the beginning, when using Application SDMPackageXML, it use a keyword “peercache” to define BranchCache settings. πŸ˜€ ) Updated: 23.10.2016, Added Package (Advertised), so please download the tool again. I thought was easy to make this tool when I started to make it, but it took me almost three weeks. Had a bit troubles with those little checkboxes and… 

Updated: SCCM Pacakge AdverFlags, RemoteClientFlags, PkgFlags

As I said in my last post “SCCM Content Settings Tool”, I would like to add packages and OSD in the tool, but didn’t know how to do it. This is second time I write this pos, I was wrong in my last post, which I have deleted it. Here is a updated post, this time should be correct. Here are some links that what you could read:http://2pintsoftware.com/branchcache-enable-task-sequences-sccm http://powerschill.com/uncategorized/bitwise-operators http://www.moyerteam.com/2013/11/determine-bits-set-configmgr-properties Here are the examples: You… 

IE print pdf file error “Bad parameter”

How is this related with SCCM? No, it doesn’t πŸ˜€ But because of Adobe Reader was deployed by SCCM, and there is print problem, so it became “SCCM package” problem, and it became my problem. πŸ™‚ So the problem is when open a pdf file in IE, when you click this little “print” icon in IE, we got an error from Adobe Reader “Bad parameter.” Although I am 100% sure nothing wrong with our Adobe… 

SCCM PXE boot failed after unintall WSUS.

Setup my test lab in this weekend to test SCCM TP 1609, and my PXE boot failed. SMSPXE.log shows: RequestMPKeyInformation: Send() failed. Unsuccessful in getting MP key information. 80004005. PXE::MP_InitializeTransport failed; 0x80004005 PXE::MP_ReportStatus failed; 0x80070490, PXE::CPolicyProvider::InitializeMPConnection failed; 0x80070490   When tried to open MP list, http://my_sccm_server/sms_mp/.sms_aut?mplist, it gave me HTTP Error 500.19 Error Code 0x800700e, unable to load DLL. So what happend? Well, because I uninstalled WSUS (not ask my way, I had my reason. πŸ˜€… 

How to manually enable Bitlocker on Hyper-V Gen 2 Virtual Machine

You can automatic enable Bitlocker on your Hyper-V Gen 2 virtual machine during OSD, please read Niall Brady’s post Here But if you already install a Hyper-V Gen 2 virtual machine, and you want to enable bitlocker, you can do it manually. Here are the steps: Open cmd as administrator Set XTS-AES256 Engryption REG.exe add “HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\FVE” /v “EncryptionMethod” /t REG_DWORD /d 7 Allow enable bitlocker for no TPM chip REG.exe ADD “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\FVE” /v UseAdvancedStartup /t… 

Is this a good way to update ADK 1607 and custom boot image in SCCM?

NOTE: Read this article before you start do anythingΒ  https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2016/09/09/configuration-manager-and-the-windows-adk-for-windows-10-version-1607/ I don’t know if this is a good way to update ADK 1607 and custom the winpe.wim, that is how I did it. Since I have not been any MS events, classes or trainings. Honestly I have been only one day SCCM class in my career as an IT. So don’t trust everything what I said. πŸ™‚ PS. if this it not a correct way…