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Start, Cancel or Delete a SCCM Client Operation

In my last post, I demonstrated how to call the InitiateClientOperation method from the SMS_ClientOperation WMI class to run a SCEP Full Scan. However, this call itself is pretty limited for daily administration, as it requires “internal” information like the CollectionID, ResourceID or some TypeID for the Operation itself. Probably...

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Initiate SCEP Full Scan by script using SCCM Client Operations

Lets assume you have a security device that detects computers possibly infected by some malware. Wouldn’t it be nice to automatically initiate some immediate action for remediation? I recently had such a requirement where we wanted to automatically start a definition download and full scan on those computers. It’s pretty...

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Immediately see what your PowerShell script does – move the main code to the top

I’m currently updating/rewriting a whole slew of PowerShell scripts that I have created over the last couple years into something less “hacky”. As scripts grow larger they become harder to read or understand the logic. A typical and recommended approach is to break it up and separate certain functionality or...

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Finally, debugging VBScript and JavaScript for free! – Visual Studio Community 2013 published

One of the most popular posts I’ve written so far was about using Visual Studio Express to debug VBScript and JavaScript in local scripts, hta files etc. Probably not popular in terms of the absolute count of visitors, as the target audience of my blog is pretty straightforward due to the...

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Announcement – The most advanced OSD book yet

I’m very proud to announce the most advanced OSD book yet, available on November 20, 2014. This is Stealing with Pride – Volume 1! Written by the Deployment Artist Johan Arwidmark and some contribution by me, this is the ultimate source for the working IT Pro who wants to customize...

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Time for a new start – time for a new blog …

After spending quite some time on non-public projects and also a lot of private stuff, it’s now time to come back to the surface again. The first change is pretty obvious. If you are reading this, you are already aware, that my personal blog has been moved from myITforum.com to...

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UEFI and ConfigMgr 2012 issues I – Bootable media

Recently, I had to prepare some UEFI based Windows 8 deployments to tablets using ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 CU2 and ran into a couple issues that I would like to write down, as I wasted quite some time to get those resolved. Some of those issues have already been mentioned in...

Approving updates from ConfigMgr SCUP to WSUS 0

Approving updates from ConfigMgr SCUP to WSUS

Even if I’m deploying images using ConfigMgr, I’m still a big fan of creating my reference images using MDT LiteTouch. It’s faster, easier to automate, easier to tweak and if using thin images, there is even not much duplication involved (but that’s a different discussion ). In such cases, I also...