Month: February 2014

Installing Windows Features via Compliance Settings in ConfigMgr 2012

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This weeks’ post will be about Installing Windows Features via Compliance Settings. In most cases the normal route for installing Windows Features will be the application model But what if checking for the installation of a Windows Feature is part of a Configuration Baseline, is it than possible to make the installation of a Windows Feature also part of the baseline? The answer to this question is, yes. In my case, I have a Windows 8.1 Configuration Baseline and one of the Configuration Items in the baseline checks for the installation of the Telnet Client. When the Telnet Client is not installed a script will start to remediate that by installing the Telnet Client. This way I get the complete compliance of a device, to …

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Using Service Management Automation (SMA) for tweeting status messages of ConfigMgr 2012

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Already a bit more then a year ago I did a post about Tweeting the deployment status of a system via Orchestrator and ConfigMgr 2012. Sadly enough, the Integration Pack for Orchestrator, that I used in that post, doesn’t work anymore with the most recent Twitter API updates. As I still do get questions and comments about it, I thought it would be a good time to come up with an alternative. One thing was for sure, it had to be something custom. So easy decision here, PowerShell it is. The next thing is a bit more questionable, how will the script be started… This is the more difficult decision… either run it standalone, via Orchestrator, or via Service Management Automation (SMA). A standalone PowerShell …

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Finally a 1.0 version of the Show Collection Details right-click action for ConfigMgr 2012!

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I do have to admit that it took quite a while before I finally made a 1.0 version of this script/ form. Now it’s there, I also have to admit that I’m even a bit proud of it! It was a nice way of getting familiar with PowerShell and WMI. What does it look like? I won’t go through the list of all the fields that the tool shows, that list can be found here, but I did make a small movie for this final release with an overview about all the functionalities. Show Collection Details of a Device Where is it available? As of now this final version of my Collection Details Form is publicly available via the TechNet Galleries and for a direct …

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