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Archive for the ‘Configuration Manager 2007’ Category

TimeZoneNames to be used with MDT (2010-10-31)

Index Time Zone Display 000 Dateline Standard Time (GMT-12:00) International Date Line West 001 Samoa Standard Time (GMT-11:00) Midway Island, Samoa

MDT – Apply Network Settings Task Sequence Action Variables (2010-10-30)

  Action Variable Name Description OSDAdapter(input) This task sequence variable is an array variable. Each element in the array represents the settings for a single network adapter on the computer. The settings defined for each adapter can be accessed by combining the array variable name with the zero-based network adapter index and the property name.

Controlling Package Sequence with Multiple Roles in MDT 2008 (2010-10-28)

The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit allows you to assign a “sequence” to package/programs within a role. However, what if you have 3 different Computer Roles and want to preserve an order within them?

Nice to have queries for Configuration Manager (2010-10-27)

All computers that are in a state of pending restart: select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID, SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType, SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name, SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier, SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup, SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from sms_r_system AS sms_r_system inner join SMS_UpdateComplianceStatus as c on c.machineid=sms_r_system.resourceid where c.LastEnforcementMessageID = 9

Populate computers to a collection with the members of a Active Directory group (2010-10-1)

If you want to populate a System Center Configuration Manager collection with the members from an Active Directory group.

You cannot import a driver package into a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 site if one or more driver files in the package are already imported into the site (2010-9-29)

Consider the following scenario: You have a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) site. You try to import a driver package into the site by using the Import New Driver Wizard in the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Configuration Manager console. One or more files in the driver package are imported [...]

Disable IE ESC from command-line (2010-9-24)

To disable IE ESC (Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration) you just do it form the GUI in Server Manager. This is not practical or possible when you are doing a operating system deployment from Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager or any other deployment solution.

Disable Windows Server 2008 firewall from command-line (2010-9-21)

If you want to disable the Windows Firewall on a Windows Server 2008 you can use the “netsh” commands like this.

How to edit boot WIM files in Configuration Manager (2010-9-21)

To edit boot WIM files or other WIM files the easiest way is to ImageX.exe that comes with the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) that you probably already have installed on your Configuration Manager server.

Log Files for Operating System Deployment (2010-9-15)

  Applies To: System Center Configuration Manager 2007, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2