ConfigMgr OSD – Enable .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows 8.1

Windows 8.1 has the .NET Framework 4.5.1 enabled by default. If you need .NET Framework 3.5 which also includes support for .NET 3.0, and 2.0, then you must enable the feature as it is not enabled by default.However to enable Read More …

ConfigMgr PowerShell Script to check if Application or Program is allowed to run in TS without being deployed

Kind of a long title for a blog post, but I could not come up with something shorter to describe the content of this blog post. The below script shows the status of the “Allow this Application / program to Read More …

PowerShell Script to detect ConfigMgr Task Sequence unfriendly Software Updates

Update: 15 Une 2014 – Added KB2965788 If you’re dealing with ConfigMgr and OS Deployment task sequences you’re probably aware of the KB article recently published by Microsoft called “Task sequence fails in Configuration Manager if software updates require multiple Read More …

ConfigMgr–Failed to get following optional attributes warning in adsysdis.log

Should you ever get a warning message in your adsysdis.log that starts with WARN:  Failed to get following optional attributes then you have probably added an additional active directory object attribute to your Active Directory System Discovery but the value Read More …

ConfigMgr–Compliance Baseline for BranchCache on Windows 8

Here’s a ConfigMgr Compliance baseline that checks the BranchCache configuration on Windows 8 clients. With the release of Windows 8 and Server 2012 Microsoft also made available PowerShell cmdlets for BranchCache, so creating a script based configuration item in ConfigMgr Read More …

List ConfigMgr Software Update Group members with PowerShell

The below script allows you to select a Configuration Manager software update group and then lists the software updates that are assigned to it. <# .Synopsis Lists assigned software updates in a configuration manager 2012 software update group .DESCRIPTION Lists Read More …