Larus

The Hydration kit is a fantastic way of saving time when building your own test lab, but as I prefer to use my own lab domain I needed to make few changes. Hydration Kit for ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 can be downloaded from here: http://www.deploymentresearch...

SCCM 2007: Reclaiming disk space is of course important when you want to remove Expired Updates from a Update Package. Deleting Updates from Update Package does not appear to remove the actual update files from the source directory, the wizard even...

Uptate lists are nice to have but I wish the query engine behind Update Search Folders were more useful, a very common task is to create an update list from a Reference system but there seems to be no easy way of doing that. WQL would be a nice option...

One thing I'm often asked about is how to type in specific data into SMS/SCCM, add an asset number to a system for example, since SMS/SCCM has no such feature most of us just store the data on the clients registry and pull it back by modifying the...

SCCM has a fantastic feature to achieve the goal of a single image for XP, it is to inject Mass-storage drivers into the image after it has been applied, there is however one snag, SCCM can for some reason only import drivers where the .INF file where...

When deploying a image to baremetal in SCCM you need to create a DDR since the Task Sequence is like any other deployment, that is a an advertisement targetting a resource in SMS. How this works in the background however is that the Task Sequence uses...

There can be many reasons for package replication in a large hierarchy to fail, the compressed package files may not exists anymore on the child site, antivirus may have blocked files in the scheduler on a parent or because of problems fixed with few...

When trying to create a bootable DVD to install a backup of a system I thought the easiest way would be to use BDD 2007 but that turned out to be more difficult than I expected.. When the WIM image file is larger than 4GB OSCDIMG.EXE fails generating...

MPTroubleshooter seems to be case sensitive when it comes to the name of the site system during Post-Installation check, not sure if this began after W2003 SP1 was applied or maybe I have never run it agains this one. I could not find any problems...

"MMC cannot open the file drive:\SMS\bin\i386\sms.msc This may be because the file does not exist, is not an MMC console, or was created by a later version of MMC. This may also be because you do not have sufficient rights to the file." I've...

Not much information can be found about this feature pack for SMS 2003 but I’ve seen some interest on this subject on newsgroups so I though I would share some of my experience with you based on a project I did here in the UK for one of my clients, this...

This might be intersting for anyone who does not have racks of servers available for testing or learning. The VMWare's free Virtual server is an excellent tool to test and develop SMS / OSD / BDD solutions and I wanted to share with you some performance...