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Monitor ConfigMgr Task Sequence with Status Message Query

August 9, 2017July 5, 2020Sandy Zeng6 Comments

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 […]

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

July 10, 2017July 5, 2020Sandy Zeng10 Comments

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 […]

SCCM with iPXE UEFI boot without WDS server

April 5, 2017July 5, 2020Sandy Zeng19 Comments

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 […]

ConfigMgr Task Sequence “Deploy” greyed out

March 31, 2017July 5, 2020Sandy Zeng2 Comments

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 […]

SCCM OSD: Tweak OSDResults without UDI (Part 2)

December 11, 2016July 5, 2020Sandy Zeng14 Comments

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. […]

SCCM OSD: Tweak OSDResults without UDI (Part 1)

November 18, 2016July 5, 2020Sandy ZengLeave a Comment

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 […]

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

September 28, 2016July 5, 2020Sandy ZengLeave a Comment

NOTE: Read this article before you start do anything 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 […]