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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 So this post is outdated now.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… 

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. 😀 ) 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…