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 »
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 »
First off, here are the silent arguments I’m passing to my BIOSXX.exe package: ‘UiMode=2 SetExitCode=1 NoShutdownInTool=1 RequiresACAndBattery=0 LogLevel=2 Log=C:\MININT\SMSOSD\OSDLOGS\BiosUpdate.log’ The important arguments are bolded. Getting these arguments together are the difficult part. Now for the easy part. 1\Create “Applications” for each BIOS update package. In my example, I wrapped the update in a PSADT (https://psappdeploytoolkit.com/)… Read More »
I created a powershell script that outputs a chart displaying a breakdown on Deployment task durations. I tested it with MDT, but it should also work with SCCM. 1\Download the https://github.com/brianfgonzalez/Scripts/blob/master/ZTIDurations.ps1 script. 2\Add the .ps1 to your Deployment share’s script directory. 3\Add a call to the script on the top of your Task Sequence with… Read More »
At the end of running “Update Media” for the 1st run or on any run with the “-force” argument passed, an update script can be called via the “LitetouchPE.xml” file. Here are the dynamic vars exposed that can be called via a custom script. ADKPath | C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Assessment and Deployment Kit CONTENT |… Read More »
