You may have some systems which you specifically want to exclude from installing the ConfigMgr client. There are a variety of automated methods in which a system may get the ConfigMgr client installed, desired or not. These methods could include: Client push installation Active Directory startup script Centrally executed management …
Here is a short script I wrote using AutoIT, which enumerates all of the windows, to the StdOut stream: ConsoleWrite(“Enumerating windows”) $AllWindows = WinList() ConsoleWrite(“Found ” & UBound($AllWindows) & ” windows”) for $i = 0 to UBound($AllWindows) – 1 ConsoleWrite(@lf & “Name: ” & $AllWindows[$i][0]) ConsoleWrite(@lf & “HWND: ” & …
There is some free code available on the MSDN Code Gallery, called the Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework, which enables .NET developers to access certain Windows 7 features that are not typically available via the .NET Base Class Library (BCL). Naturally, since this is .NET code, the …
Hey guys! I know it’s been a long time since I have posted anything useful (that is, assuming anything I post is useful! haha). While sitting at Starbucks today, I suddenly came up with an idea for a new post though, and after doing a quick bit of research, figured …
The kind folks at the Microsoft Scripting Guy’s just made me a moderator on the Technet Scripting Guy’s forum! See you all there! Ask lots of questions 🙂 There’s plenty of help to go around.
Hey guys, I just wanted to share a couple of cool utilities to assist with managing processes. ImageCFG (http://www.robpol86.com/index.php/ImageCFG) ImageCFG is a utility that lets you tweak the CPU affinity of an executable. What does this mean? Well, if you have a multi-core system, or even a hyper-threaded (virtual multi-core) …
When running Configuration Manager 2007 on Windows Server 2008, you must enable certain file extensions in IIS, so that a BITS-enabled distribution point (DP) can transfer files correctly. See this Technet article for more information. If you would like to enable all of the file extensions on a BITS-enabled DP, …
If you’re configuring a Windows Server 2008 system to be a ConfigMgr site system, you may have noticed that you need to make some changes to the WebDAV configuration in IIS. Unfortunately, making those changes through the IIS GUI doesn’t always work quite right. Instead of digging around inside of …
Hey guys, For those of you that do actually follow me, sorry for not writing much new content recently. I’ve been really busy with work and haven’t had the time to dedicate to writing that I’d like to. I hope to keep writing more on here (mostly on PowerShell, ConfigMgr, …
If you’ve got a large number of Windows 7 machines that you’ve already deployed, but now need to silently deploy the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT), you’re in luck. It’s quite simple to do, and Microsoft provides the necessary tools to automate this deployment. The RSAT pack is downloaded as …
