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.… 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… Read More »
I ran into a need from a customer to run an application installation that resulted in MDT cleanup scripts to fail. In this event, I figured, the best bet is to perform this installation after the MDT CleanUp process is complete. 1. Remove the portions of LTICleanUp.wsf and Litetouch.wsf scripts that remove the “AdminAutoLogon” values:… Read More »
Using the Wizard Editor is fairly self explanatory for adding simple wizard panes. In 90%+ deployment scenarios, a simple wizard pane including a couple of radio buttons suffice. Here is a simple “Department Name” Wizard Pane, which include 2 radio buttons; “IT Department” and “Sales”. After the Wizard is answered, a “DepartmentName” variable is created… 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… Read More »
