I recently worked on a project where we needed to resize VMs in Azure to be able to scale up or down during different periods of the month. Since these VMs where created using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) we needed to use the new AzureRM PowerShell cmdlets. So naturally I tried Set-AzureRmVMSize, but to my…
Install .Net 3.5 on Server 2012 without internet connection
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /all /Source:D:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess D:\ in this case is the path to the Windows Server 2012 installation media.
Collection membership rule to check for clients that are members of multiple AD groups
The following collection query will list all clients that are part of the following AD groups: “APP-1” and “APP-2”. 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 where SMS_R_System.ResourceId in (Select ResourceID from SMS_R_System where SMS_R_System.SystemGroupName LIKE “%\\APP-1”) and SMS_R_System.ResourceId in (Select ResourceID from SMS_R_System where SMS_R_System.SystemGroupName LIKE “%\\APP-2”) The following query does the same and also excludes all…
Configure IIS Response Buffering Limit on ConfigMgr reporting points
If you get a HTTP 500 error when trying to watch a report e.g “History – Specific task sequence advertisements run on a specific computer” With show friendly HTTP error messages enabled in IE:The website cannot display the page HTTP 500 This error (HTTP 500 Internal Server Error) means that the website you are visiting…
Setup PXE service point on Windows Server 2008 R2
Install Windows Deployment Services (WDS) Start Administrative Tools \ Windows PowerShell Modules (Run as Administrator) > Add-WindowsFeature WDS > WDSUTIL /initialize-server /reminst:<X>:\Remoteinstall If WDS is running on the same box as DHCP: > WDSUTIL /set-server /DHCPoption60:yes > WDSUTIL /set-server /usedhcpports:no Add the PXE service point Distribute both x64 and x86 Boot Images to both SMSPXEIMAGES$…
Some packages will not download from BITS enabled distribution points in ConfigMgr 2007
If a package has folders that contains characters like “+” or “-” there can be problems on BITS-enabled distribution Points. The package will not download and only the folder structure will be created in the client cache. To troubleshoot on the client from a command prompt run: “bitsadmin /list /allusers” {92C8E35D-7B11-4B1B-885A-350C7B2AFE32} ‘CCMDTS Job’ ERROR…
Limitations in ConfigMgr 2007 object names
Packages 50 characters Programs 50 characters Collections 127 characters Folders 127 characters
Starting a CMD prompt as system in Windows 2008 R2
PSEXEC -i -s -d CMD
Minimum permissions required to run reports in ConfigMgr console
SMSAdmins local group to run console Read on site instance/class Read on reports class.
How to extend the MDT 2010 database with custom settings
Add a new column to the settings table (can be done with SQL Management Studio) Give it a name and specify a datatype Run the following stored procedure against the MDT database EXECUTE sp_refreshview ‘[dbo].[ComputerSettings]’ EXECUTE sp_refreshview ‘[dbo].[LocationSettings]’ EXECUTE sp_refreshview ‘[dbo].[MakeModelSettings]’ EXECUTE sp_refreshview ‘[dbo].[RoleSettings]’ Edit the customsettings.ini with the new column Under the…