https://chocolatey.org/packages/BatteryBar Chocolately is like apt-get, but for Windows. My favorite thing about chocately is having the ability to reach out and update all of my packages with one command line “choco upgrade all”! Making the package took a bit of trial and error, but it was easy enough. It uses Powershell at it’s base and has… Read More »
MDT Task Sequence’s Inject driver steps do not support specifying folders, so Selection Profiles are the defacto method for bridging this gap. Here is a script I created to ease the process of creating/importing multiple system drivers into MDT at once. If ran more than once, it will not create duplicate selection profile entries. /BG
http://psappdeploytoolkit.com/ ‘s wrapper is my new favorite wrapper for applications I add to MDT or SCCM. As Johan & others have stated, the main reason to use wrappers is how mush it eases testing of creating packages. Here are my 2 edits I make to all of my Deploy_Application.ps1 scripts. 1.Tell PSAppDeploy to copy the… Read More »
First thing you will need to installf Maik Koster’s “Deployment Webservice“. This will give you the ability to do cool stuff like query AD for a list of OUs, or move computers around to different OUs, and add/remove computers from SCCM collections. Any many other actions similar to that. Once you have it installed and… Read More »
I’ve recently come to really appreciate PowerShell as the most versatile and powerful language available natively in any/all Windows OS. i.e. 2 lines of code to ensure laptop battery is plugged in and prompt the user. If ((Get-WmiObject -Query “SELECT * From Win32_Battery”).BatteryStatus -ne 2) { Write-Host “Please plug in your laptop” } An equivalent… Read More »
