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Deployment Web service 7.3 – SCCM Client Center support 2

Deployment Web service 7.3 – SCCM Client Center support

With the release of version 7.3 of the Deployment Webservice (Download) a completely new part has been added, integrating some functions of Roger Zanders awesome SCCM Client Center Automation library for Deployment usage. This library enables you to execute certain SCCM Client related task directly on a client like forcing...

Deployment Web service 7.3 – Basic security 1

Deployment Web service 7.3 – Basic security

With the updated Version 7.3 (Download) just being published, the growing number of available functions, covering more and more demands in todays deployments, it’s not only an advantage of having such a huge toolset available. In its default implementation, the Web Service is configured to execute actions under certain user...

Deployment Web service – Version 7.3 published 5

Deployment Web service – Version 7.3 published

Today I published version 7.3 of the Deployment web service. Beside some small bug fixes and minor additions, three new features have been added:   1. SCCM Client Center support A completely new web service part has been added that’s exposing a couple of functions (55 to be accurate) from...

TechNet Radio Interview 0

TechNet Radio Interview

I recently had an interview with John Baker for TechNet Radio which has just been published. Check it out at http://bit.ly/mMBOr8. Thanks to John Baker and Chris Caldwell for taking the time.  At the end there is a demo of the new version 2 of the MDT Web FrontEnd and...

New Stuff in MDT 2012 – native VHD support 0

New Stuff in MDT 2012 – native VHD support

As probably most of you have seen already, the Beta 1 of the upcoming MDT 2012 has been published to connect (Download link) recently (Announcement by Michael Niehaus). Main intent for this update is enabling support for the upcoming ConfigMgr 2012. But the team also included a couple other updates...

Step-by-Step: Handling WMI Events permanently using VBScript 0

Step-by-Step: Handling WMI Events permanently using VBScript

This could be called part 4 of WMI magician Kim Oppalfens 3 part series about WMI eventing in SCCM. In his series he first covered the basics of WMI eventing using wbemtest to create the event query and dig a bit through the returning objects. Then he guided us through...

Versioning / Monitoring SCCM Task Sequences 5

Versioning / Monitoring SCCM Task Sequences

Update 14.09.2022: Updated links to GitHub repository. Tested script with ConfigMgr CB (2207) and it’s surprisingly still working as intended. Update 29.03.2016: Published new script to import the Task Sequence xml files generate by this script back to SCCM 2012 and above. One thing I’m really missing in SCCM is...

Easily access information from any database and publish it via a web service – Part 1 – The Database 1

Easily access information from any database and publish it via a web service – Part 1 – The Database

OK, (probably) my two last post regarding my MMS 2011 sessions, if I haven’t missed something important .   To be able to make our Deployments more dynamic and as unattended as possible, we need to have all the information available, that we need to take decisions automatically . We...