As a Charter customer, it's very annoying to be constantly bombarded by telemarketing calls. Charter is relentless. No matter how much ...

If you are using standard machines as distribution points in your remote offices, the naming might be an issue for you, as it was for us. T...

As you will see, GimpShop is open-source  but full of plugins. It is nearly impossible to do a silent install without something like AutoIT...

Sometimes you need to deploy from a network share instead of a distribution point. The reason I do this sometimes is because of the sheer s...

When you make a minor change to an installer program, the change may not update in SCCM/SMS. This is because if there was a minor change wi...

Last August and September, I was in Africa. While there, I called and texted back to the US using a Voice over IP service called Line2 . It...

Here are several snippets I have created for writing powershell application installation scripts. These make it a lot faster by sta...

There are two ways to update a package on the distribution point: Open up the Application package under Software Library and select the ...

As you have seen, a lot of the functions in SMS are now longer there in SCCM. For instance, you used to be able to re-run and advertisement...

In SMS, in order to update the distribution point, you go to the packages and select the distribution points, and click update distribution...

Here is a powershell script I wrote that adds the registry keys for both reader and acrobat to make them automatically update. This is int...

Say you are deploying a package and need to run it as admin with elevated privileges. Of course if you are running the script manually, yo...

If you are trying to query a list of installed applications using WMIC and want to only display certain headers, here is the list of header...

In order to run a powershell script as a task sequence/application in SCCM or MDT, you will need to use the following command line in MDT/S...

Powershell 3.0 now has a public desktop environmental variable, CommonDesktopDirectory, unlike versions 1 & 2. In order to make the pow...

In Windows 8, you can only open 1 instance of an app at a time by just clicking on the app tile. In order to open multiple instances of it,...

For some Powershell scripts, they need the elevated privileges, even when UAC is disabled. In order to do this, there are two options. R...

Most companies have a security policy enabled that locks a computer after a certain time interval to stop other users from being able to ac...

It is nice having robocopy integrated with PowerShell, but there are some quirks that can make it a pain to deal with. While I was writin...

This error is caused when the working directory no longer exists that is assigned to the application being installed. It would be nice if M...

This error can be caused by several different things. Here are a few suggestions to look for: Have you inserted a new task before the b...

There is a new window in the MDT Wizard. It is Roles and Features. If you are wanting to skip this, you will need to add the following to t...

If you have setup your driver drivers like I have in which they are separated by OS-->Make-->Model, you will see duplicate drivers in...

Once a task sequence has been created, it is grayed out not allowing for it to be changed. There is an easy workaround to accomplish this. ...

If you ever go into the Control folder of the deployment share, you will see every task sequence that has ever been created in there. They ...

After the last update of iOS to 5.1.1, you have probably noticed that it slowed down drastically. This is because of the new features added...

This is a very easy, but also tricky process. The first thing you will need to do of course is setup your SQL database if it has not alread...

You have software already on a network share and want to deploy it to everyone within the local network. You don't have to waste time a...

Deploying Photoshop Elements is different from the rest of the Adobe CS6 applications. The MSI file cannot be executed independently. The s...

This is a really nice feature that MDT has allowing for all updates to be installed during the initial windows setup process. The problem i...

While creating tasks in the task sequencing, you may want to create unique names that are stored in an MDT variable. This can easily be don...