Did you know that Windows 10 actually stores the “friendly” build numbers in the registry (1809, 1903, 1909, etc)? I didn’t until Adam Gross pointed it out at last years MMSMOA. Anyway here’s a simple CMPivot to give you a representation of your Windows 10 versions. Which gives you a nice bar chart
At my employer we have some older Dell machines that are somewhat past their prime in terms of end user computers, but work well as generic PCs. So, we have a couple spare OptiPlex 7010 desktop computers that needed to be re-imaged. I’ve now had two of these computers that start to image, reboot after…
If you’re a seasoned veteran of Configuration Manager, or SCCM, or MECM, or MEMCM. This post is exactly for you. First you want to navigate to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/configmgr/core/servers/manage/checklist-for-installing-update-1910. Then you want to read it. Finally install the update from the console. * Optionally you can install this in tandem with drinking a nice cold beer (use…
I’ll preface this by stating I’m not an expert at the different caching methods, I’m simply reporting what I’ve found with peer cache in my environment. YMMV So as most companies are, in the trailing months of 2019, we’re trying to upgrade our remaining Windows 7 clients to Windows 10. We’re using a task sequence…
To preface this post, I am not anywhere near a SQL expert. It’s a weak point in my knowledge, so my below suggestions are to be used at your own risk. I am using Veeam version 9.5.4.2753 and SCCM 1910 at the time of this blog post. Recently in Veeam I kept getting an error…
Preface My company made a global decision to get rid of Radmin and some other products used in the EMEA region, and go with Teamviewer as a way to remotely support our fleet of Desktops, Laptops, etc. Especially for our mainly remote users. Why not just use SCCM to do this? Short answer, I don’t…
I originally saw Terence Beggs post about sending messages through Microsoft Teams. Not having Teams, I wanted to send the message through Slack instead. This pretty much operates in the same fashion but had to be tweaked in order to work properly. These script(s) are a very minor part of our SCCM environment, but I really love getting notified when either in-place upgrades are complete, or computers are imaged.