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.

Show Collection Details in ConfigMgr 2012 via PowerShell – Part 3: The Maintenance Windows

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This week another addition to my series about showing the Collection Details, of a device, via a PowerShell form. This week I added another new tab, with more new information! This new tab show all the information about all the Maintenance Windows that affect the device. Collection Details Form This script creates a nice form to show Collection Details of the specified device. At this moment it shows all of the following information about the collections (of which the device is a member): Tab – Deployments The Name of the Collections, of which the device is a member.  The Name of the targeted Deployments. The State of the targeted Deployments. The Type of the targeted Deployments. Tab – Variables The Name of the Collections, of …

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Show Collection Details in ConfigMgr 2012 via PowerShell – Part 2: The Collection Variables

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In my previous post I started a new series about showing the Collection Details of a device via a PowerShell form. This week I did some changes to the look-and-feel and added a new tab, with new information!. This new tab show all the information about all Collection Variables that affect the device. Show Collection Details Form This script creates a nice form to show Collection Details of the specified device. At this moment it shows all of the following information about the collections (of which the device is a member): Tab – Deployments The Name of the Collections, of which the device is a member.  The Name of the targeted Deployments. The State of the targeted Deployments. The Type of the targeted Deployments. (NEW!) …

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Show Collection Details in ConfigMgr 2012 via PowerShell – Part 1: The Deployments

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In my previous post I started with creating a new PowerShell form to show the Collection Membership of a device. Last week I decided that I wanted to do more with it, so I putted it into a new “project” and form. From now on it’s called Collection Details, as that’s what it’s going to show, starting this week with the targeted Deployments. The coming weeks there will be additional parts, to this post and this “project”, with more and more information to be added to the Collection Details. So what can we all expect from the Collection Details? Well, we all know the Collection Properties per collection, the Collection Details will show a lot of those properties (and more) on a device level. In …

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Right-Click Option: Showing the Collection Membership of a Resource in ConfigMgr 2012 via PowerShell

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Last week someone triggered me that it wasn’t possible to ‘just’ see all the collections that a device is a member of. The only thing I could show, and tell, him, at that moment, was the Deployments –tab in the Properties of the device. The problem with this is that it only show the collections, of which the device is a member, with a deployment targeted. So it misses all the collections, either without an deployment targeted, or with client/ antimalware settings targeted. This triggered me to create a small PowerShell script to show the Collection Membership of a specific device in a nice form. Show Collection Membership Form This script creates a nice form to show the Collection Membership of the specified device. It …

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Changing a Site Name in ConfigMgr 2012 via PowerShell

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Already a few years ago, I did a small post about Renaming your ConfigMgr Primary Site. Even though it was not a supported action, as it meant directly editing the site control file, it was sometimes necessary. Since the release of ConfigMgr 2012, I’ve had many questions if that post is still applicable. The answer on that simple, it’s not applicable for ConfigMgr 2012, as it doesn’t use the sitectrl.ct0 file in that form anymore. So, does this mean that we can’t change the site name anymore? Well, the answer on that is also, no. Of course we can still change it! The only thing to keep in mind is that we’re moving into a grey area, of what’s supported, and what’s not. PowerShell and …

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Changing the Deployment Package linked to an Automatic Deployment Rule in ConfigMgr 2012

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This week I want to devote a post to changing the Deployment Package, which is linked to an Automatic Deployment Rule. I came on this subject as I got and read some questions about it. Actually it was not just that, also the fact that the answer was usually, that it’s not possible, at leas not via the console. As I couldn’t imagine that it’s not possible I went on a small research to see where it’s stored and how we can change it. XML and WMI Let’s start with where it’s stored. In WMI it’s stored in the class SMS_AutoDeployment and then the property ContentTemplate. Here it’s stored in XML format, like this: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-16″?><ContentActionXML xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” xmlns:xsd=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema”><PackageID>PTP00027</PackageID><ContentLocales><Locale>Locale:9</Locale><Locale>Locale:0</Locale></ContentLocales><ContentSources><Source Name=”Internet” Order=”1″/><Source Name=”WSUS” Order=”2″/><Source Name=”UNC” Order=”3″ …

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Just Released: Import Computer Form v0.7

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Today I released a public version of my Import Computer Form. Many has been written about scripts to Import Computer Information in ConfigMgr 2012, via PowerShell, but there was never a worked-out example (like all the different HTA’s there where for the previous version). That’s why I thought it would be nice to post an example form to just simply Import Computer Information in ConfigMgr 2012. Again, like with my Approval Manager, I did NOT use the PowerShell Cmdlets for ConfigMgr 2012, but just PowerShell to WMI. The main reason for that is, still the same, that using WMI, via PowerShell, is much friendlier for remote usage. Import Computer Form This public version gives the user the possibility to perform the following actions, without the …

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Updated: Approval Manager v0.8

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After I released the first public version of my Approval Manager, last week, I’ve got some nice comments on it. One of these comments was that it would be very handy to built-in some alerting. And that’s what I did in this updated version! Approval Manager This updated version gives the user the possibility to perform the following actions, without the need of access to and/ or a locally installed ConfigMgr console: Select a User from the specified Collection. Show only Approval Requests, for the selected User, that are Pending Approval. (NEW!) Show an alert when new Approval Requests, are Pending Approval, for the Users of the specified Collection. Approve, the selected, Approval Request. Deny, the selected, Approval Request. Close the form. Alerting As mentioned, …

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Just Released: Approval Manager v0.7

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Today I released a public version of my Approval Manager, which I mentioned a few weeks ago in my post about Managing Approval Request in ConfigMgr 2012. The biggest difference, and maybe even a contradiction with what I mentioned in that post, is that I did NOT use the PowerShell Cmdlets for ConfigMgr 2012 in this release. The main reason for that is that using WMI, via PowerShell, is much friendlier for remote usage. Approval Manager This public version gives the user the possibility to perform the following actions, without the need of access to and/ or a locally installed ConfigMgr console: Select a User from the specified Collection. Show only Approval Request, for the selected User, that are Pending Approval. Approve, the selected, Approval …

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Using Global Conditions to check the State of a Service with ConfigMgr 2012

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This week my post will be about using a Global Condition to check the State of a service. I came to this, as I was once again deploying my UE-V Agent, like here, but this time via a normal Deployment. This installation will only run, without failure, when the Offline Files Service (CscService) is running. So a Requirement for the Deployment Type should be that the service is running. As I like to find ways to do things without the need of scripts/ scripting, I came to using a standard Global Condition. Configuration Now lets take a look at how we can configure a Global Condition, in such a way, that it checks for the State of a service. During the configuration steps I will …

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