RAP Assessment

Key benefits Having RAP  Assessment tooling, multiple submissions, and access to an online portal Regular updates to best practice guidance and online portal features Use of the online portal and tools for one year with an active Microsoft Premier Support contract Knowledge transfer of issues found Remediation plan Technical Findings report   Read more: https://services.premier.microsoft.com/raas Active … Read more

Life cycle end of life dates

On July 14, 2015 Microsoft Windows 2003 SP2 Extended Support will go End of Life (in the same way Windows XP desktop will on the April 8, 2014) Win 2003 server has been in Extended Support mode since July 13, 2010.  Extended Support allows us to receive security patches and support from Microsoft, however, bug … Read more

SCCM Drivers Management best Practices

The original article is here – https://hayesjupe.wordpress.com/sccm-osd-driver-best-practices/ read here more on  https://hayesjupe.wordpress.com/sccm-2012-osd-driver-good-practice/ Driver types Drivers can very broadly be split into two categories: Good Drivers: Drivers which come in an inf/sys/cat format and can be installed on systems easily Bad Drivers: Drivers which come with a setup program and must be installed (common examples are laptop … Read more

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Support Center

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Support Center has been released on the Client Management Connect site to the ConfigMgr Open Beta community. You can download Configuration Manager Support Center here:https://connect.microsoft.com/ConfigurationManagervnext/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=52192. Configuration Manager Support Center helps you to gather information about System Center 2012 Configuration Manager clients so that you can more easily address issues with … Read more

SCCM 2012 Free tools

Infrastructure and Client  Management Johan Arwidmark ConfigMgr R2 Hydration Kit – https://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/113/The-Hydration-Kit-for-ConfigMgr-2012-R2-is-available-for-download.aspx Mikael Nyström System center Hydration Kit – https://deploymentbunny.com/2013/01/04/hydration-kit-v3-is-out/ Startup Script –https://blog.configmgrftw.com/?page_id=349 Right Click tools – https://psrightclicktools.codeplex.com/releases/view/104529 Right click took – https://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2012/09/21/sccm-rctools/ Client Center – https://sccmclictr.codeplex.com/ David’s Inventory Script PowerShell – https://www.david-obrien.net/2014/01/30/update-inventory-script-makes-configmgr-life-easier/ Garth’s Inventory Script vbSript – https://www.enhansoft.com/pages/downloads.aspx CM12Healthcheck toolkit – https://www.rflsystems.co.uk/sccm-2012-r2-healthcheck-toolkit/ ConfigMgr 2012 Registration Request – https://configmgrregistratio.codeplex.com/ PowerShell Right Click tools – https://blog.coretech.dk/kaj/sccm-client-actions-tool-powershell-edition-aka-poshcat/ … Read more

USMT sample Examples

Custom XML configuration For example, perhaps you know users have mp3 files in folders that you might otherwise be migrating. The solution would be to include all files from C: except .mp3 files. For example, to get all files excluding mp3 files, you can use the following custom XML configuration file contents: <migration urlid=”https://www.microsoft.com/migration/1.0/m”>     … Read more

USMT Samples

Custom XML configuration For example, perhaps you know users have mp3 files in folders that you might otherwise be migrating. The solution would be to include all files from C: except .mp3 files. For example, to get all files excluding mp3 files, you can use the following custom XML configuration file contents: <migration urlid=”https://www.microsoft.com/migration/1.0/m”>     … Read more

To download multiple files from internet with Powershell

below script would be useful to download files from a text file which has  a url list.. it like your powershell download manager….:) $folder = “E:ThinkPad T420s” $userAgent = “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1” $web = New-Object System.Net.WebClient $web.Headers.Add(“user-agent”, $userAgent) Get-Content “E:WIPScriptsurls.txt” |     Foreach-Object {         “Downloading … Read more