Here is a script that will disable and then re-enable the network interface on your pc. It will also verify if the network connection is r...

In order to deploy the Revit 2013 through SCCM, you will need to have the detection method setup. I used the msi product codes listed belo...

You have setup an application package and want to initiate a hardware inventory immediately after the software is installed. Here is a pow...

Here is a script I have written that will uninstall Revit 2013 Building Premium. Autodesk provides the Design Suite uninstall tool, but it...

I recently wanted to add the feature to MDT to be able to verify if a Windows feature is enabled or disabled, and then write a registry ke...

This was an observation I noticed today. If you have multiple monitors, when you open up the properties window of an SCCM object, the windo...

Sometimes when checking the status of a deployment, you will need to export a list of machines from one of the asset details list. In the S...

Here is a script that will install all Microsoft Office updates within the same folder. It queries the folder for all of the filenames and...

First thing to do is to download the DMG file from Apple. Once you have downloaded it, here is how to push it to your iPhone Extract th...

Here is a script that will automate the installation of the new DLL files that replace the old ones. Sadly, Autodesk expects for all users...

Here is a script that will display all Add/Remove Program entries with the uninstall string, directly from the x86 and x64 registry keys. ...

This powershell script will inject all .msu files into a mounted WIM file. The script first scans the relative path of the directory that ...

The first thing that has to be done is to make sure you have a device that can transmit NMEA data across WiFi, such as the Verizon MiFi 462...

Here is the scripting code in both powershell and VBScript to initiate a hardware inventory in both SMS and SCCM. The backend calls are ...

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. ...