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Updated 2012-May-14: Found subinacl did not work on Windows 7 x64. Found superior working tool (SetACL.exe) from the following site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/setacl/files/.  I confirmed it worked and updated the script accordingly. This sample script utilizes a Microsoft tool “subinacl.exe”. This can be downloaded and extracted using 7-zip or equivalent (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=23510). It uses this tool to take ownership of a vital registry key. There are no other pre-requisites to support using this tool. It has  [ Read More ]

In many Organizations, the AD support team is separated from the team in charge of Imaging.  The AD team naturally is protective with their setup and fight any GPO setting that would result in more responsibility to their staff.  So that leaves us in some occasions having to turn to Local Group Policy to apply the settings we want.  I’ve recently come across some great tools provided by Microsoft (very quietly) for Government usage.  [ Read More ]

Received the “SMS Collection Evaluator failed to process Collection Settings changes” error in SCCM on the “SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR” Component. The fix was simple and simply overlooked during the SCCM installation: 1. Open the ADSI editor. 2. Browse to the “System Management” container. Should be listed under the “System” container. 3. Right-Click on the “System Management” container and click on the “Properties”. 4. Click on the “Security” tab and review if the  [ Read More ]

The built-in CustomSettings.INI variables are very useful, but in some occassions they are simply not enough. For instance, the “Model” variable contains the FULL model number (ie. CF-19K4RAX2M). What if I want to create a section breakout for all CF-19 laptops? Here is a method I found to perform this task: 1. First you must tell your “ZTIGather..” script to look out for a new variable, which is ShortModel in  [ Read More ]

Here are all of the blogs, forums and pages I visit and subscribe to with Google Reader.  All very reputable sources,  I bolded the most active and strong writers: Raphael: Your System Center Configuration Manager portal http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/dotraphael/rss.aspx AlexSemi’s Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alex_semi/rss.aspx Ask the Core Team http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/rss.aspx Brian Jackson’s IT Blog http://feeds.feedburner.com/brianleejackson CCMEXEC.COM – System Center blog http://ccmexec.com/?feed=rss2 [Deploy_Windows (TRUE)] http://deploywindows.net/feed Deployment Research – Johan Arwidmark http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Blog/tabid/62/rssid/1/Default.aspx Michael Niehaus’ Windows and Office  [ Read More ]