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Requirements Not Met ~ Program Rejected (wrong platform)…What Witchery is This?

Ran into a challenge yesterday that found me chasing apparitions into the SCCM DB and in the process, discovering some interesting insights into the fatal, Failed to download policy (Code 0x80004005) Task Sequence (TS) error. Besides being interesting as Hell, we also found a “clean” resolution that was not available through countless Goog searches.  As if all that was not enough, there is a quick lesson on using a SQL Search tool that I was completely unfamiliar with until good friend, Adam Gross (follow this cat on the Twit: @AdamGrossTX), hipped me to what all the cool kids were doing!  [...]

By |2019-07-25T13:25:47+01:00juli 24th, 2019|Configuration Manager (SCCM), OS Deployment, SQL, Training|4 Comments
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Disable Onedrive Updates from a Task Sequence

In order to fully control OneDrive updates I was tasked to find a method to disable OneDrive from doing updates on its own. Given that there is no registry setting or GPO that allow you to disable automatic updates from happening I was forced to look for other methods. The update check is performed by a Scheduled Task that runs once every day If you look in the Scheduled Task manager you will find one or two tasks related to OneDrive. So in order to prevent OneDrive from doing any updates I first tried to delete any tasks related to [...]

By |2017-08-22T10:30:37+01:00april 18th, 2017|Configuration Manager (SCCM)|Kommentarer lukket til Disable Onedrive Updates from a Task Sequence
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A couple of nice little OSD tweaks in ConfigMgr 1702

ConfigMgr 1702 have a wealth of new features and client management improvements. This one might not be the reason you upgrade, but it’s still nice and worth a blog post. With 1702 you can customize your task sequence information and control what’s being displayed to the end-user. in this example you should notice a few changed in software center. Looking at my Upgrade task sequence, I now have information about download time/size and restart. when I start the task sequence, I have interesting information from my IT department telling me why the company is upgrading to Windows 10 All of [...]

By |2017-03-28T15:39:25+01:00marts 28th, 2017|Configuration Manager (SCCM), General info, OS Deployment|Kommentarer lukket til A couple of nice little OSD tweaks in ConfigMgr 1702
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Unlock BitLocker Encrypted Drive From WinPE the Secure Way!

I have seen several blog posts on how to unlock a BitLocker encrypted drive from Windows PE, using the recovery password stored in the Microsoft Bitlocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) SQL Server database. What's the problem with these solutions? All of these have one thing in common: they query the SQL database directly, requires changing SQL Server configuration and granting access to the database directly. Why is this a problem? Well, in my opinion this is a bad design approach, as the core purpose of implementing BitLocker volume encryption and MBAM is to secure our data from being compromised. By [...]

By |2016-10-12T08:49:13+01:00oktober 12th, 2016|Configuration Manager (SCCM), OS Deployment, Security|9 Comments
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Auto activate Trusted Platform Module on Fujitsu computers using DeskView and MDT/SCCM

Recently I have been working on a way to auto activate the TPM chip on Fujitsu computers during the Operating System Deployment. Until recently, this has been limited to customers that have purchased DeskView advanced client from Fujitsu. Now, it is possible to work around this issue, and the way I have done it before is to use manage-bde.exe to activate TPM and BiosSet.exe to set a BIOS-password. However, using the manufacture own software to do everything is always considered best practice and with a script it is now possible. First the challenge: When using DeskView to activate TPM you [...]

By |2017-08-22T10:35:41+01:00januar 27th, 2014|Configuration Manager (SCCM), OS Deployment|7 Comments
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Extending OSD progress UI Info in SCCM

While running a task sequence, info on what is happening is shown in the progress UI, well the name of the Task Sequence, and the step that is running anyway!! But what if we could extend that info to let us know other things as well! Turns out that is as easy as typing a little extra text in the Task Sequence editor. Example 1: Let say you are administrating a large environment, doing several OSD tests against a number of MPs, and DPs. Now wouldn’t it be nice if we could actually see where data is picked up, right [...]

By |2012-02-27T08:51:00+01:00februar 27th, 2012|Configuration Manager (SCCM), General info, OS Deployment, Windows Client|3 Comments
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Making file copy easy.

I often run into questions concerning simple file copy during a SCCM/MDT Task Sequence.  There are many ways to accomplish this, but it seams most people wind up using the good old XCOPY command, and in general there is nothing wrong with that. When copying from a DP though, you might run into problems when copying all files and folders in the root on your source, as that points to the root of X:\windows and not the root of the package specified.. Well to work around any issues I created a small VBS script, that takes care of the copying [...]

By |2011-01-17T13:54:24+01:00januar 17th, 2011|General info, OS Deployment|29 Comments
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