Tivoli Storage Manager and SQL backup
The script that was used as a template for initiating the SQL backup from the TDP agent is simply a bat-file. It isn’t very complicated and quite basic. Since deploying this backup within a datacenter...
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App-V 4.6 Compliance Baseline for SCCM 2012
Just created a Compliance-baseline for the App-V 4.6 client to be used within System Center Configuration Manager 2012 . Above is a sample screenshot of the items that are beeing checked – some of them...
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Appsense–First letter of username
I had to extract a the first letter of a username using Appsense Policy Configuration within Environment Manager. I would have hoped there was a trim functionality natively available, however none were...
View ArticleDetection logic for MSU in SCCM 2012
I spent the day reading quite a few blog-articles relating to the detection logic for Microsofts new patching format, and howto properly output that into SCCM 2012. Detection Method for MSU in...
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Apply hotfixes during task sequence
If you want to apply hotfixes as part of a task sequence there are of course numerous ways to achieve this. Using PowerShell, MDT 2012 U1 (soon to be 2013??) with SCCM 2012 can make this look a lot...
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Create Application
During a project I created a specific tool to ease the insert of applications within SCCM 2012. It was only tested for SCCM 2012 SP1 CU3 and on Windows 7 x64, with Windows Management Framework 3.0....
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Redistribute Failed Packages in ConfigMgr
Since the topic of redistributing failed packages is quite often surfacing in larger environments and there are quite a few PowerShell scripts out there to achieve this. David O´Brien has written a...
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AppsNotify – Ping the Application Catalog
One downside with Configuration Manager 2012 compared to Configuration Manager 2007 is that applications deployed to users, only made available, will not give a notification on the endpoint. This...
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App-V 5, ConfigMgr compliance and fixes
App-V 5 has recently gotten hit by two odd behaviors relating to an update and .NET Framework 4.5.2. KB2984972 was released as an update for RDC, and caused some havoc both for App-V 4 and App-V 5. The...
View ArticleComputer cleanup – Ask removal
Got a lot of computers with the Ask-suite of toolbars installed? When users are allowed administrative permissions on their end-points this is a likely scenario – here is a minor script bit that will...
View ArticleUninstall Software
Based on the previous post handling the removal of the Ask software (the beloved add-on that everyone joyfully installs along with Java) a more developed script took form to handle any type of...
View ArticleTest-Latency
A need arose to determine the latency to a few different nodes and act on that matter. Someone on the internet had almost already written all the Powershell code I wanted. However the code was...
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Get-VMDKFileNamefromVMX
Working on some minor details to retrieve loads of data (we will see where this stuff ends-up..) Here comes a minor Powershell function to retrieve all VMDK filenames from a VMware VMX-file. Output is...
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