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 customize your image similarly if you agree with…
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 “Special” which returns “True” when it’s a system profile. I was trying…
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 stupid PS quickie I used. This…
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 default application associations. It appears that Microsoft decided, in this version, to…
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 environments is to monitor the time it’s taking your processes to evaluate collection membership…
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 insert the Registry key (obviously if it fails…
Many of you who work in the area of desktop management are likely in the business of building or maintaining images. If you’re like me, you’ve come across the occasional Windows 10 appx package (like Edge or Contact Support) which is built-in to the OS and can’t be removed using PowerShell. One of those is…
