I wanted to install the Configuration Manager PowerShell module on my admin machine. After investigating a little, the module does not exi...

A recent project of mine was to obtain the Dell manufacture and ownership dates from all systems for depreciation and lifecycle purposes. ...

Earlier this year, we had a non-critical SQL server to crash. Come to find out, the backups were successful every night, but the data in t...

Recently, I wanted to revisit the process of installing the SCCM client during an MDT task sequence. At first, I tried to use the SCCM Pow...

I publish new blog postings to multiple Facebook groups regularly. It can be daunting if there are a lot of groups. Although there are seve...

I have wrestled with the issue of managing mandatory reboots for quite a while. Back before laptops were introduced into the environment, ...

I got tired of duplicate systems appearing in SCCM caused by computers being reimaged while using the same computer name. To rid myself of...

I have used the Dell Command | Update in the build for quite some time for managing the drivers on systems because it makes it a hand-off ...

While writing a new PowerShell script for SCCM, I needed to be able to keep track of how many times a system had rebooted when using the SM...

One of the issues I have had when moving the build process from MDT to SCCM has been windows updates. Windows updates are not available in...

One issue, more like a time-waster, I have had as we are migrating to SCCM from MDT is getting the boot image on the WDS server. SCCM is n...

Recently, I wanted a simple batch file to run the ccmsetup.exe file. I could have used PowerShell, but for debugging the parameters, I wan...

One of the things I have wrestled with over the years of using SCCM is verifying if the package on the distribution point contains the new ...

Recently, I have been working on updating several scripts I have written for the build process. One big thing I have wanted is for the scr...

I wrote an article about three years ago on  conditional task sequence reboots . It used the built-in reboot task sequence that was ini...

Over the past two months, I deployed the Windows 10 1809 to all Windows 10 machines. We got through 80% of the machines with successful dep...

Recently, we decided to change the power scheme on machines during the build. This can be quickly done using the powercfg.exe, but I want...

If you have been wanting to wake your Dell systems up from sleep, hibernate, or shutdown states, this is how you do it. Starting out with t...