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.

An overview of my posts about ConfigMgr 2012 SP1

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Let’s start my first post, of this new year, with an overview of my latest post about ConfigMgr 2012 Service Pack (SP) 1. Normally I’m not really the kind of person that looks back, but in this case it’s with a reason, as most of my posts where with pre-release versions of SP1. I also tried to sort all my posts per subject, even though sometimes there is some overlap. The following posts are all tested, this week, with the RTM version of SP1 and I can confirm that they are still working: System Center Orchestrator Tweeting the deployment status of a system via Orchestrator and ConfigMgr 2012 Using a Status Filter Rule to delete a collection membership via Orchestrator and ConfigMgr 2012 New and …

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Setting up the Windows Intune Connector with ConfigMgr 2012

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I thought that my previous post would be my last for this year, but here I’ve got another one! I will still end this year in the cloud, but instead of in Windows Azure it will now be in Windows Intune! The new release. Wave “D”, of Windows Intune in combination with ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 will now allow us to create a connector between these two worlds and in this small post I will show the basic steps for this. Prerequisites Before it’s possible to setup the Windows Intune Connector there are a few prerequisites. Most of them are optional depending on which devices are going to be managed. To name them all: Create a Windows Intune subscription. (Optional) Create a APNs certificate for iOS. …

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Allowing access to Cloud Distribution Points for specific systems with ConfigMgr 2012

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To end this year in the cloud, I would like to devote this weeks post to allowing systems access to cloud distribution points. A bit more then two months ago I already did a post about creating a cloud distribution point, but until now I’ve never posted anything about the client configuration. By default, a system is not allowed access to cloud distribution points. Prerequisites Before it’s even useful to allow a system access to a cloud distribution point, the system needs to be able to resolve the name of the cloud distribution point. There are two ways to achieve this: The proper way – Create a public CNAME –record to map the service name, provided with the certificate for the cloud service, to the …

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Tweeting the deployment status of a system via Orchestrator and ConfigMgr 2012

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Only a few days before Christmas I thought it would be fun to just create something extra cool for this weeks blog post. I thought about something that would be different, but also useful in some way. So I started thinking about how I would like to get my deployment status messages, as I like to start my deployments without checking them al the time, and I came to Twitter. I’ve got my tweets everywhere, on my phone, my tablet, my laptop, etc. So wouldn’t it be cool to get the deployment status messages on twitter? Prerequisites Now I decided that I want to show how to tweet the deployment status of a task sequence, there are two methods to do that and I will …

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Preventing user-targeted applications and policies on specific systems with ConfigMgr 2012

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This week I want to devote a small post to something very nice and, in some situations, very easy. Think about a situation where, in general, applications are user-targeted and only a few exceptions are system-targeted. Usually these targeted systems are then used specifically for that application. So these systems shouldn’t get all the applications (and settings) of every user that logs on, as it might screw-up the specific application. The nice thing is that ConfigMgr 2012, and especially SP1, has a solution for this! The solution is the new setting Enable user policy on clients. Configuration Now lets start with the configuration, which is actually very easy. Like always it’s all about knowing that the possibility exists. This is another new Client Setting in …

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Using a Status Filter Rule to delete a collection membership via Orchestrator and ConfigMgr 2012

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The last couple of weeks I’ve done some posts about using Orchestrator in combination with ConfigMgr 2012. This week I’ve got another one and it’s also another method to invoke a runbook. Until now I’ve used, either Runbook Commander to create right-click actions, or the Execute Runbook –step from MDT 2012 to start an action during a task sequence. This week I’m going to use SCOJobRunner – Command Line Utility, by Robert Hearn, to invoke a runbook as an action for a Status Filter Rule. SCOJobRunner can be used to, either invoke a runbook, or get the parameters of a runbook. For a good informational post about SCOJobRunner take a look at this post of Robert Hearn himself. Prerequisites In this post I want to …

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New and Improved: Pre-provision user applications during OS deployment via Orchestrator and ConfigMgr 2012

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Last week I did a post about pre-provisioning user applications, based on group membership, during OS deployment, which I already thought was pretty cool. I got some nice positive feedback on that post, including a comment of my very well respected colleague and ConfigMgr MVP Kim Oppalfens. He said, “Nice find, but what if you have twenty applications?”. Well, my idea of last week would mean two task sequence steps per applications, so that’s not really an option for a lot of applications… I had to come up with something better. The biggest challenge about this is that Orchestrator can only return static variables, it’s not possible to return dynamically named variables from a runbook. This meant that the only option left, to really achieve …

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Pre-provision user applications, based on group membership, during OS deployment via Orchestrator and ConfigMgr 2012

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This week it’s time for another, in my opinion, very cool post with the combination of Orchestrator and ConfigMgr 2012 (and MDT 2012 Update 1). In this post I want to use the user, set with User Device Affinity, to pre-provision applications, based on group membership, on a device during the initial deployment of the device. Out-of-the-box User Device Affinity can be used to pre-deploy user-targeted application to a device and it can be set during the deployment of a device. This way it will start receiving applications very quick after the deployment. Basically I’m going to show in this post how to set User Device Affinity via a task sequence and how to use that username to install only specific applications for that user …

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Deploying Windows 8 with the UE-V 1.0 Agent via ConfigMgr 2012

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This week I will do a post about deploying the recent released UE-V 1.0 Agent. Even though there is a great guide, named UE-V Deployment Guide, included with the installation files, I noticed that there is a small piece “missing” for a deployment, with Windows 8, via a task sequence. When I just added the agent to my task sequence, to deploy Windows 8, I noticed that the agent wasn’t installing during the deployment. After looking at the Installation log file and after running the installer on a clean system, I saw that the Offline Files Service (CscService) needs to be running before the installation will run (see screenshot). It seems that the Offline Files Service on Windows 8, by default, is set to Automatic …

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How to change the language in Windows PE via ConfigMgr 2012

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A few weeks ago I already did some post about new task sequence variables. This week my post will be about another new (task sequence) variable. This one will probably not be used often, but can be very useful in some specific situations. Think about situations where the company demands that the language of everything that a user can see is displayed in the users’ own language. In this post I will use the German language as an example. Prerequisites The only prerequisite for the configuration is that the task sequence resource file (tsres.dll) exists in, in this case, the German language folder (<ConfigMgrInstallFolder>\OSD\bin\x64\00000407\tsres.dll) before updating the boot image. In case the file doesn’t exist, it can be simply installed/ created by following the next …

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