Author Archives: Brian Gonzalez

PSADT Series: Packaging .NET Framework 3.5 application for configmgr

By | April 1, 2023
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Considering this was at least my tenth time packaging this dotnet installer for ConfigMgr, I figured I should share it here for safe keeping. Further help on PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit (https://psappdeploytoolkit.com/). I will not be covering how to use PSADT, just the guts. Detection Method: PSADT install/uninstall command lines: Source files need to be… Read More »

“..Status Messages” in Right-Click Menu

By | February 11, 2021
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TBH I’m not sure when this feature arrived in the SCCM console, but its a huge time saver for me! I no longer have to type Deployment IDs in Status Message Query searches. I only came across this on SCCM’s v2010 release, but I believe it may have arrived in an earlier release. This also… Read More »

Sharing Code Doesn’t Have To Be Ugly

By | December 4, 2020
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I’m constantly sharing Powershell/Python code snippets, I tend to just toss them on gist or github and send links, but I just recently found carbon https://carbon.now.sh/ This site makes even my code look shiny and well formatted. I’m a huge fan!

Disk Wipe Wedge for use with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (Any release)

By | November 28, 2019
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1\Create a folder under the <DeployRoot> named “peFiles” or similar. 2\Populate the folder with the promptForDiskWipe.bat and unattend.xml files from this gist: promptForDiskWipe.bat: https://gist.github.com/brianfgonzalez/dcedc971176ba87551b10ef9f40c332e unattend.xml: https://gist.github.com/brianfgonzalez/d93e4160b03b46885ca187e6bc2fa549 * Click on RAW and then right-click and save-as to save the actual files. 3\Update your MDT boot media to call the promptForDiskWipe.bat script before starting a deployment (litetouch.vbs).… Read More »