If you are using Out Of Band (OOB) Management in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 SP1 (or greater) to manage your Intel vPro clients, you may have noticed that computer objects are created in your Active Directory domain during provisioning of the Intel vPro firmware. These computer objects …
If you are using Microsoft ConfigMgr 2007, you may be familiar with the ProgramFlags bit that controls the “Allow this program to be installed from the Install Software task sequence without being advertised” setting on a Program configuration. Someone on the MyITforum “mssms” mailing list recently asked how to disable this …
A couple of weeks ago, a colleague of mine asked me how I would determine a process’ CPU utilization as a percentage of total CPU time. I came up with this PowerShell code, but it’s not quite complete yet, because it doesn’t dynamically determine the number of cores that a …
Hello everyone, Since I’m not aware of any tools that visually log print server information, I wrote a script that parses the log entries from the system event log of a Windows 2003 print server. Apparently I never got around to posting this online, but I hope that someone is …
You may have come across the following messages in the execmgr.log file on your SCCM clients: Failed to open to WMI namespace ‘.rootccmPolicyMachine’ (8007045b) Failed to ConnectSettings for ICcmPolicyAgent in CSoftDistPolicyNamespace::ConnectToNamespace Failed to ConnectToNamespace in CSoftDistPolicyNamespace::GetMachinePolicy Failed to connect to machine policy name space. 0x8007045b Failed to connect to user …
I was using the 8.9.2.1002 iaAHCI driver (dated 08/07/2009) from Intel in WinPE 3.0, on a Lenovo T60 (and other models), and when I tried to browse the fixed disk (c:), I get this message: “The volume does not contain a recognized file system. Please make sure that all required file system …
Update (2010-08-25): I have posted a newer version of this script. A little while ago, I posted a PowerShell script that detects old machine accounts in Active Directory, and disables or deletes them, based on certain ages (in days). I’ve continued work on this script, such that it now logs …
Hello, I just wanted to take a few moments to share the thought process that I use to troubleshoot failing software updates in Configuration Manager. On several occasions for me, this has been the most straightforward method of figuring out why an update is failing, and determining how to resolve …
After upgrading from MDT 2008 to 2010, I recently experienced an issue with MDT / WinPE 3.0 that was simply a driver issue. The initial symptom reported to me was: Driver detection / copying (ZTIDrivers.wsf) is taking a long time in WinPE on a Lenovo T60. The build completed, but …
I just installed the Windows AIK for Windows7, and MDT 2010 on my 64-bit Windows 7 Release Candidate system, and attempted to open the Deployment Workbench. It opened just fine, but when I selected the Deployment Shares node in the snap-in, I got this error: “The file C:Windowssystem32wimgapi.dll(version 6.1.7100.0 (winmain_win7rc.090421-1700)) is …
