Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Relaxing @ radisson blu

Sad Star Trek

We got free admission to star teak exhibit.  Did not realize that props don't have to be exciting. 

Monday, November 10, 2014

OSD driver and tbleshooting

Chaos vs control freak. 
Generic deployment package for drivers that are not specific

Boot image pr 5 
      Nics, VMware mouse, 

Os drivers. 
Everything needs a driver.  No exclamation points

HP soft paq.  Fp vs http download
    Select model 
     Searches for download and dis 
       Dl and extract

Dell
Use cab file downloader

The win pe driver pack works well for other manufacturer



Lenovo
  Use update tool. Can use the tool to export
   Gets an exe   Need to extract
    /very silent. Cmd line switches in xml
    Configman switches are published sometimes

#mmsosd.  For .?


Dpinst.exe.  

Folder specifics, model aliases. On deployment guide. Aliases

MDT driver injection
Rules from custom settings.ini
Task sequence step set variable. %model

Scenario.   Pnp
Mdt copies all the files that go with a pnp I'd

Config man copies files locally but then injects into the oS
Pnp find.exe.  Newer version   Can be run to gather xml pnp info from a machine
pnpenum 
R
To copy the drivers
     Bdd.log.   Smsts.log,   Look for file on C drive
Dism inject the drivers
   Dism.log. Setup act.log
Setup install the drivers
    Setupapi.dev.log
   
Dump totextfielfrompaused.  

Deploy vista. Blog.   Bing drivers powershell is king
If drivers are downloaded you can powershell the import to the site
Shift  F10 in setup window if you delete text file
Driver ranking. Lookup the code 

Drivers as applications

Break the signing if you mod the driver

Deployment artist.com

Stealing with pride. Book

Add updates that require multiple reboots to reference image.  Microsoft may be allowing downloadable patched wims. 

Johann does not believe that offline servicing works
    Core tech has scripting in lite touch to replace this functionality 

Silect.com configmgr extension to create baselines

How to dev web services for configman.  Johann. Coming up

Codeplex.com.   Front end. 

Ramsey. Top ten OSD best practices
http://gregramsey.net/2014/10/31/10-1-best-practices-for-os-deployment-with-configmgr-2012-r2/

















 Book




CI

Compliant gets less info than non compliant
Check for scep service is one that was demoed

Start the service for remediation

Parse the event log for windows installer  gives you the who?

Registry WMi 

Security compliance manager. Can translate a GPO to 
Should be in slide deck. 

Powershell exec policy. Can be set in client settings

View report from actual client in control panel. 

Cmd line in client tools send schedule   To gather baselines. 

Search for a file like Dropbox which gets you rich info about the file
Looking in user space for apps

UI++ - ConfigMgrFTW! http://ow.ly/3u7Lv6




State of configman

Weave pack 
CU5
Maintenance window types


Of are key off info
Toolkit
Servicing extension
Client query

Support center
Connect to machines to troubleshoot

Ceviewer from support tools in toolkit
Deployment troubleshooter

Core tech blog

System center universe usa Dallas

Right click tools.  Now micro
Posh at she'll client action tools

Software update manager
Casum. Auto deploy. Through powershell


Blog.coretech.dk

Import driver tool


UI plus plus
Ad auth
Apptree 

Steventhompsonmvp.wordpress.com

David o brien  update inventory

Binary Wmi explorer
Wmie.codeplex.com.   












Minn snow

Snow after 85 deg is a little adjustment

Thursday, November 06, 2014

Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Shooting

Good grouping

F22 day

Good day after a long drive