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a blog site for IT professionalsHow One Organization Is Handling This New Reality
Today, I'll start to tell you the story of how our company began, and continues, using Microsoft Endpoint Manager #MEM (formerly known as System Center Configuration Manager #SCCM). When our Governor's stay-at-home order was declared more than two months ago, our...
Coming soon: Image Build Recipe
I'm working on a post that will highlight all of the customizations to our company's base image. I'll document the changes that our organization makes to the out of the box install of Windows 10 Enterprise and will have files you can download that will help you...
PowerShell Quickie: Filtering “special” profiles
Again... why was this seemingly so difficult to Google/Bing... I frequently have to write PowerShell code where I need to get the profiles on the computer and then manipulate it somehow... so I noticed that there's a property in the Win32_Userprofile class called...
Powershell Quickie: Get logged on user then “do (or don’t do) something”
Good day, friends: Today, I spent waaaaaay too much time trying to figure out the answer to a simple question of "when you query WMI for the logged on user and no one is logged on, is the result <blank> or <null>?" Simple answer is "Null." And here's the...
Error 5 (Access Denied) while trying to apply default app associations in Windows 10 1809
Hello friends: It seems that with every release of Windows 10, Microsoft throws us a curve ball that we must "figure out." What mysterious "change" from the previous version is now causing our typical image customization to fail? This time, it's customizing the...
Coming Soon: Building your perfect Start Menu and Taskbar for an image
Collection Queries based on Organizational Units (OUs) in Active Directory (AD)
Hi everyone. Thought I'd throw a quick piece of advice (and some background, of course) for you to help reduce the time it takes for overall collection evaluation in your Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) environment. One of the best practices in ConfigMgr...
Publish one or more APPV applications with PowerShell
When I'm building an APPV application, as best practice, I do so in VMs, right... and I need to quickly test it in the VMs to make sure the app functionality is all there... so my config is this... take the script below, copy it to your client VM you use for testing...
Enhanced PS script making CMTrace default log reader
Credit to Jörgen Nilsson for the original post but this didn't quite meet my need as we absolutely abhor using ActiveSetup actions in our environment -- instead what we do is add a profile parse to grab the existing profiles and mount the Registry for the user and...