What is the Primary User and why does it matter? The primary user of a device in Intune associates a user with a device. If no primary user is assigned the device is referred to as a “Shared Device”. What is the importance of the primary user? Having the correct primary user ensures that the […]
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Updated 23/08/2013 Myself and my good friend Dan Cunningham have been working on an exciting PowerShell project together. Here’s a bit of the blurb: The PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit provides a set of functions to perform common application deployment tasks and to interact with the user during a deployment. It simplifies the complex scripting challenges
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For those of you who have ever attended one of Johan Arwidmark’s talks or classes on OS deployment, you were probably convinced, like me, to capture your reference image using MDT LiteTouch for deployment with ConfigMgr. There are several advantages to capturing your reference image with LiteTouch (speed, compatibility, delegation, features) and there can also
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There are basically two scenarios when business hours come in to effect in SCCM 2012: 1. A user selects to defer required application/software update installations and reboots to take place outside of business hours: 2. A user selects the option in the software center to have SCCM automatically install all required software and restart the
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Problem: You need to restore user migration data from the State Migration Point to a computer other than the destination computer specified in the Computer Assocation in the SCCM database. Some of the possible solutions to this are: 1. Use the Windows Easy Transfer Wizard to open the .Mig file, enter the the recovery key
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Here is a PowerShell script to initiate a task sequence with PowerShell. The script takes one argument – the name of the task sequence. The task sequence must be deployed/advertised to the machine already. It searches the deployed task sequences on the machine and if it finds a task sequence matching the one you specified,
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While SCCM 2012 provides user-centric application deployment, it is only possible to deploy software updates to a device or device collection. Here’s a collection I built in SCCM 2012 to retrieve the primary device of a user who is a member of the “SCCM Software Updates Pilot User Group”. In this way, I can deploy
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I spend a considerable amount of time in the QualysGuard web interface editing remediation tickets. It’s one of those admin tasks that you dread doing, but have to do. If you’ve ever used the QualysGuard web user interface, you’ll know that it’s not particularly fast. Aside from the speed of the UI, there are also
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I’m using Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2 with MDT 2012 Beta 1 to create task sequences for OSD. This error bugged me for days before I found a fix. The error code 0x80004005 is apparently an access denied error. Most of the forums on this error point to certificate issues or permissions issues. Having checked
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Introduction Last week I came across a client-side issue applying Group Policies. It turned out to be a corrupt local group policy database file. Here\’s how I went about troubleshooting and fixing the issue and then automating detection and resolution of the problem using PowerShell. Troubleshooting The Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) indicated a problem
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