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Task Sequence – Gather User Text Input – PowerShell
This is playing off my last post, I was debating having it all in one post, but landed on making two. I get paid per post, so why not? In this post, I’m going to show how easy it can be to gather user...
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Task Sequence – Gather User Input – List Drop Down – PowerShell
First, let me start by saying, yes, a frontend like UI++ is amazing, and if you’re looking for a really powerful way to do user driven task sequences, a quality community front end is a great way to...
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ARM64 – Creating your WinPE
TLDR: Script on GitHub: garytown/OSD/ARM64/Create-WinPEARM64.ps1 NOTE, this will be the first of a few posts dealing with my ARM devices experience. I now have a single ARM test device (consumer grade...
View ArticleOSD HP Image Assistant Revisited – an Overview
I’m revisiting using HP Image Assistant or HPIA as we call it, during OSD in a Task Sequence. I’ve previous posted a method here: Deploying HP Driver Updates with Image Assistant and ConfigMgr Task...
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OSD HP Image Assistant Revisited – Online – Grab Content from HP Servers
From Series: OSD HP Image Assistant Revisited – an Overview In this post, I’m going to cover the most basic use of using HPIA in a task sequence, and running the defaults, pulling the latest content...
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OSD HP Image Assistant Revisited – Online – Grab Content from HP Servers w/...
From Series: OSD HP Image Assistant Revisited – an Overview So this is pretty close to the last post, but here we’re going to take control over the content getting installed. We’re going to be...
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OSD HP Image Assistant Revisited – Offline – HPIA Repo on NAS / FileShare
From Series: OSD HP Image Assistant Revisited – an Overview So in this blog series, now we’re moving to hosting the HP Softpaqs (Driver / Firmware etc Updates) ourselves, on our network, so we don’t...
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OSD HP Image Assistant Revisited – Offline – HPIA Repo in CM Packages
From Series: OSD HP Image Assistant Revisited – an Overview – Page has link to GitHub & TS Exports This is the last topic I’m covering, because it’s the most complicated one. This can look a lot...
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ConfigMgr Task Sequence – KB5025885: How to manage the Windows Boot Manager...
Required Reading: KB5025885: How to manage the Windows Boot Manager revocations for Secure Boot changes associated with CVE-2023-24932 – Microsoft Support This is what I came up with in my lab for...
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KB5025885 – Updating your USB Boot Media – Leveraging OSD Module
So this was a pain in bum, but I think I have a decent method to making this work for USB Boot Media. Words of Warning Once you’ve applied the mitigations outlined in the KB, the device is difficult...
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PowerShell Script – KB5025885: How to manage the Windows Boot Manager...
Required Reading: KB5025885: How to manage the Windows Boot Manager revocations for Secure Boot changes associated with CVE-2023-24932 – Microsoft Support Related: KB5025885 – Updating your USB Boot...
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HP DCU to HP CMSL
HP BIOS Configuration Utility (BCU) has been around since longer than I’ve been a system administrator, I can’t find the exact date it was released, but it’s been around for a while. Back in 2022, HP...
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HP BCU to CMSL Part 2
Welcome back, in the first post HP DCU to HP CMSL I went over how you can use PowerShell to manage your BIOS settings, in this post we’ll dig a bit deeper into BCU configuration files, and how you can...
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BGInfo Bug in ADK 24H2 – Fix
Hey folks, I like to use BGInfo in my task sequence to display useful information about the machine and process running, but in ADK 24H2, I found that it wasn’t displaying. I had to make the screen...
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ConfigMgr Collection for ARM64 Devices
With ARM Devices coming, and you can manage them with CM, it would be nice to have collections for them, so with this simple Query, you can do that. Also means you might want to make an x64 collection...
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Low Space on EFI (System) Partition – Clean up
Hey folks, this seems like a topic that keeps coming up, despite the fact I had assumed everyone was creating large EFI volumes (984MB) by now, but I keep finding folks who have 100MB and run into...
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Confirm Domain Join during OSD
I’ve got a small group in my TS that double checks the domain join status, then exit with an error code if the OSD process didn’t join the domain properly. Basically, I’m using PowerShell to do a...
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OSD with Multi Disk Configs
Over the past year, I’ve been asked several times about how I’d manage OSD when a computer has several disk drives. I’ve dealt with this mostly on the server side of OSD, but from time to time, I have...
View ArticlePowershell Invoke-WebRequest Fails with SSL/TLS Secure Channel
TLDR make sure your system time is correct in Windows & BIOS Ok, this has been well documented around the internet, and the typical answer is: [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol =...
View ArticleDell Command Update – Leveraging with ConfigMgr – Offline Repo Overview
[You are Here] Part 1: Dell Command Update – Leveraging with ConfigMgr – Offline Repo OverviewPart 2: Dell Command Update – Create Custom Catalog for Offline RepoPart 3: Dell Command Update – Creating...
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