As many of you have probably experienced, SCCM and MDT do not always install all of the applications that are in the task sequence list, e...
The DCSU is a great utility that Dell has made available to update the drivers and driver applications on Dell systems. The industry I wo...
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This error is caused by registry key permissions. The first thing I did was to go in and change the permissioning to everyone on the key(s)...
You have been using your company computer for your own private use, especially if it is a laptop. Now you want to securely remove the perso...
You have made changes to your installation package and it does not update on the distribution points, even after validating and redistribut...
Being an SCCM administrator, I often have to log into machines to see if a deployment went ok. Trying to login to machines and getting the...
This script will uninstall an application with just the partial description that is listed in Add/Remove programs. It searches the product...
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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...
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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...
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You have setup an application package and want to initiate a hardware inventory immediately after the software is installed. Here is a pow...
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Here is a script I have written that will uninstall Revit 2013 Building Premium. Autodesk provides the Design Suite uninstall tool, but it...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Here is a script that will display all Add/Remove Program entries with the uninstall string, directly from the x86 and x64 registry keys. ...
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This powershell script will inject all .msu files into a mounted WIM file. The script first scans the relative path of the directory that ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...