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Updates fail or time out when WSUS is used during an MDT or SCCM capture

2nd November 20179th July 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

This guide assumes that you use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT build 8443) or Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) capturing Windows 10. You capture a task sequence, and the capture …

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Windows 10 1709 Fall Creators Update – SCCM Build and Capture Task Sequence Failing

31st October 20174th July 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

We recently had put together a SCCM Build and Capture task sequence to update our images up to Windows 10 version 1709. We copied the install.wim from the sources folder …

Guide / OSD / SCCM

SCCM OSD – Restart a task sequence wizard in WinPE without rebooting

6th July 20179th July 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - 6 Comments.

If you have started a task sequence in Configuration Manager and you hit a problem, the last thing you want to do is to have to go through the reboot …

Guide / Microsoft / OSD / SCCM / Windows

Using Windows Expand Tool to Extract CAB Files

3rd July 201715th May 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

If you are a regular user of downloaded CAB driver packs then you are probably using something like 7-Zip to extract them. Well there is an alternative way of extracting …

Guide / Microsoft / SCCM / Windows

Inject Windows Updates into WIM Image Files Using PowerShell

22nd December 20166th October 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - 7 Comments.

If you have custom built images that you are using in your Configuration Manager OSD environment, you may find that keeping them up to date is a real problem. If …

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HP Driver Pack Matrix

11th November 201611th February 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

If you are looking for HP driver packs then you can use the HP Driver Pack Matrix below: Notebooks & Tablets Windows 10 64-bit Windows 8.1 64-bit HP Elite x2 1012 …

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SCCM – Windows 10 Sysprep Capture Errors

22nd April 20169th July 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

So today we built a new custom Windows 10 image on a virtual machine and created our new SCCM capture media from the very latest version and every single time we …

SCCM / Guide / Microsoft / OSD

Setting Computer Name automatically during OSD Process – SCCM/ConfigMgr 2012

17th April 201611th April 2020 - by A.J. Armstrong - 9 Comments.

We have been looking into getting our OSD process to automatically change the computer name to what we want it to be for a while now but never really had …

SCCM / Guide / Microsoft / OSD

SCCM – Add Local User to Administrators Group During OSD

22nd February 20165th November 2020 - by A.J. Armstrong - 19 Comments.

You may have seen our previous post about adding a local user to a machine during SCCM OSD using a “Run Command Line”. Well in this guide we will show …

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SCCM – Add Local User During OSD

22nd February 20169th March 2020 - by A.J. Armstrong - 7 Comments.

If you want to add a local machine user to your deployed machine during your SCCM OSD process then you can do this using a standard “Run Command Line” step. …

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SCCM – Set Time Zone During OSD

19th February 201616th June 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

If you are using SCCM for your operating system deployments across different countries, then you may want to set the time zone within the task sequence. To do this, you …

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SCCM – Missing Boot Image Tabs

12th January 20166th May 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - 1 Comment

If you have recently upgraded your SCCM to version 1511, you will have had to have upgraded your ADK to the Windows 10 version. However, did you first note down …

Guide / Microsoft / OSD / SCCM / Windows

SCCM OSD Policy Retrieval Error

10th December 201517th June 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

If you are using System Center Configuration Manager for Operating System Deployment (OSD) then you may come across an error like this even after a successful PXE boot:

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Windows and Office Activation Proxy Whitelist Websites

18th November 201526th October 2020 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

We recently came across an issue where our Configuration Manager Operating System Deployments (OSD) were failing at the activating Windows step. Having spent far too much time looking into why it was doing this, we eventually found out that it was our proxy servers that were blocking access it the Microsoft activation servers.

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SCCM OSD – “A required device isn’t connected or cannot be accessed”

5th October 201524th June 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - 5 Comments.

We today ran into an issue where our SCCM OSD PXE boot was not working. It was coming up with a very confusing message stating: “A required device isn’t connected …

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Restart SCCM OSD Task Sequence within Windows PE

29th May 201521st October 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

If you want to restart SCCM OSD Task Sequence from within Windows PE without having to reboot the machine and start the PXE boot sequence again, you can quickly press …

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How to identify a missing NIC driver during SCCM OSD

28th May 20157th July 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

If you have a new model of computer and you have PXE booted it and you do not get a network connection or IP address, then this is because the …

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Configuration Manager 2012 – How to Capture Task Sequence Error Logs to a Network Share

7th August 201431st August 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

We have recently been doing some big OSD projects and with testing for such big projects comes the point where some of your testing will fail, so to find out …