Peter van der Woude

I’m Peter van der Woude, born In 1983 and I’m living together with my wife and two sons in the Netherlands. Currently I work for KPN ICT Consulting. At this moment my main focus is Enterprise Client Management via Microsoft Intune and/ or System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr 2007/ 2012/ CB) and I love it! Since July 2015 I’m awarded with the Microsoft MVP award for Enterprise Mobility. Really proud and honored to have this award.

Running a Service Management Automation (SMA) Runbook during a task sequence in ConfigMgr 2012

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It’s been a few weeks since my last blog post, but here is a new one again. This time my blog post will be about running a Service Management Automation (SMA) Runbook during a task sequence. I will show this functionality by using an example scenario of moving a computer to a different OU.  A bit more than a year ago I did something similar but then via a Orchestrator Runbook, so this time I will take it a level further. For some, maybe even most, people and companies it might be a level to far, for now, but I would like to share it anyway. As I like ConfigMgr, PowerShell and automation, I like to prefer SMA above Orchestrator. Also, SMA will become more …

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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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Install User-targeted Applications during OS Deployment via PowerShell and ConfigMgr 2012

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Let’s start my first post of this great new year with another nice PowerShell script. This post will be about deploying required user targeted applications, to the device of the primary user, during OS deployment. Yes, I know the setting of Pre-deploy software to the user’s primary device, but that doesn’t give enough control. After deployment, the device has to be completely ready for use. A bit more than a year ago I already did a post about pre-provisioning user applications during OS deployment via Orchestrator and ConfigMgr 2012. This time I wanted to make less assumptions. I also wanted to be sure that a user is a member of a collection and what the application is that is deployed to the collection. I first …

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An Application Request with a lot of System Center Power via Orchestrator, ServiceMgr and ConfigMgr

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As it Christmas, I wanted to do something special. That’s why dove into the world of ServiceMgr and came up with this long blog post about a combination of ConfigMgr, Orchestrator and ServiceMgr. This blog post will describe a configuration for a software request via the ServiceMgr Portal. I’m not going to say that I like the ServiceMgr Portal more than the Application Catalog of ConfigMgr, because I really don’t, but I do think it fits better within the processes of a company. Besides that, if it doesn’t fit, it can be customized. High Level Overview Like I stated the software request can be done via the ServiceMgr Portal. The portal will display applications that are imported, and after that filtered, via the ConfigMgr Connector. …

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Setting a Static IP Address during a Deployment via PowerShell and ConfigMgr 2012

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This week my blog post will be about setting a static IP address during a deployment. I’m going to do this via a combination of a PowerShell script, a computer variable and a task sequence. I know it is possible in the Task Sequence Wizard to supply static IP information, but there are two reason why I did not use that solution: I’ve seen a lot of situations where the IP configuration got applied after the policy requests were done to the Management Point. This would cause the task sequence to fail. I wanted a zero touch experience for the persons performing the deployment. PowerShell Script Let’s start with the most important part of my solution, a PowerShell script. This script sets a static IP …

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Deploying Windows Embedded 8 Standard with Write Filter Enabled via ConfigMgr 2012

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Its been a while since my previous blog post, so I had some time to collect information for a couple of blog posts and this is the first one! I like it when this are being done automatically. So this week I’m not going to write a PowerShell script myself, but I use a tool to generate it for me. In this blog post I will show the global steps that can be used to create a complete deployment of Windows Embedded 8 Standard with the Write Filter enabled and configured. Create Windows Embedded 8 Standard Image The first thing that we have to do is to create a Windows Embedded 8 Standard Image. This can be done by following the next three steps: Create …

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Showing Dependent Applications in ConfigMgr 2012 via PowerShell

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This week I want to devote a blog post to finding dependent applications. Via the ConfigMgr Console it’s very easy to find the configured Dependencies of an Application, but what if I want to know which applications depend on a specific Application? Via the ConfigMgr Console this is not possible (out-of-the-box), but this doesn’t mean that the information is not accessible. In this blog post I will show where to find this information and I will show a complete script which will show the results in a nice form. Solution In WMI there is the class SMS_AppDependenceRelation. This class doesn’t contain any methods, but does contain a few interesting properties. These interesting properties are FromApplicationCIID, FromDeploymentTypeCIID, ToApplicationCIID and ToDeploymentTypeCIID. The properties mainly speak for themselves, …

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Getting the Client Upgrade Settings of ConfigMgr 2012 with PowerShell

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This week, my blog post will be a very short one. It will be a post about my tweet about the client upgrade settings, of a week ago. A big part of this information is also available via the Hierarchy Settings in the console. Script In WMI there is the class SMS_ImportedObject, which contains the method Get-ClientUpgradeSettings. This method can be used to get the client upgrade settings and doesn’t need any input parameters. It will give all the information, about the name, version and IDs and can be used via to the following code snippet: function Get-ClientUpgradeSettings { param ( [string]$SiteCode, [string]$SiteServer ) Invoke-WmiMethod -Namespace root/SMS/site_$($SiteCode) -Class SMS_ImportedObject -Name GetClientUpgradeSettings -ComputerName $SiteServer } Result The code snippet will give a result like under here. …

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