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How can I use the new Community hub in SCCM Technical Preview 1904

Posted on May 21, 2019 by ncbrady

Introduction A few weeks ago Microsoft release SCCM Technical Preview version 1904 and it had many interesting features, one of which is dedicated to community involvement. After installing SCCM Technical Preview 1904, open the console and browse to the Community … Continue reading →

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How can I deploy Windows with a custom blocksize using SCCM ?

Posted on May 21, 2019 by ncbrady

Introduction I had the task to figure out how to install Windows 10 with a blocksize of 16k in order to align with the deduplication of data on a HPE 3PAR Thin Technologies when used with VMWare ESXi 6.5 Update … Continue reading →

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How to find and extract VMWare ESXi drivers

Posted on May 17, 2019 by ncbrady

Introduction I use VMWare ESXi virtual machines at work and occasionally I need to add drivers to a new boot image. VMWare doesn’t make it easy. Here is an example of that. I needed to add NIC drivers for ESXi, … Continue reading →

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Update now to protect yourself from the next WannaCry

Posted on May 14, 2019 by ncbrady

Update: 2019/5/31. I’m adding this information as it’s just so critical BlueKeep is a term for a security vulnerability (CVE–2019-0708) (noted as “critical” by Microsoft)[1][2] affecting computers using older versions (Windows 8 and Windows 10 are not affected) of the … Continue reading →

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ConfigMgr log files help you when you least expect it, oh and SCCM 1904 TP is out !

Posted on April 30, 2019 by ncbrady

Introduction Another month has gone by and Microsoft have just released SCCM 1904 TP (Technical Preview). Technical Preview releases are released for testing new features for SCCM and are only applicable for LAB environments. To get TP 1904 you can … Continue reading →

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Upgrading the SQL Server 2012 Client Agent with PowerShell to support TLS 1.2 for SCCM installations

Posted on April 28, 2019 by ncbrady

Introduction This is a quick post to highlight a small update to my Install SQL Server 2017.ps1 script used to install SCCM 1902 with SQL Server 2017 on Windows Server 2019 published recently. I’ve added a new section to deal … Continue reading →

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How can I install System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) version 1902 on Windows Server 2019 with SQL Server 2017 – Part 5

Posted on April 24, 2019 by ncbrady

Introduction This multi-part guide will show you how to install the latest baseline version of Configuration Manager from Microsoft. The latest available baseline version is System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) version 1902 as of April the 10th 2019. I … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 version 1903 comes with a new desktop background !

Posted on April 20, 2019 by ncbrady

Introduction Microsoft released Windows 10 version 1903 yesterday to MSDN and I upgraded one of my VDI machines with it, using an In Place Upgrade task sequence (SCCM) and it went very well. I was pleasantly surprised to see that … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 version 1903 is available on MSDN

Posted on April 19, 2019 by ncbrady

This is a very short post to let you know that Windows 10 Version 1903 is now available on MSDN for download (both consumer and enterprise releases). It is not yet available on VLSC.

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How can I install System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) version 1902 on Windows Server 2019 with SQL Server 2017 – Part 4

Posted on April 18, 2019 by ncbrady

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How can I install System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) version 1902 on Windows Server 2019 with SQL Server 2017 – Part 3

Posted on April 16, 2019 by ncbrady

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How can I install System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) version 1902 on Windows Server 2019 with SQL Server 2017 – Part 2

Posted on April 13, 2019 by ncbrady

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How can I install System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) version 1902 on Windows Server 2019 with SQL Server 2017 – Part 1

Posted on April 13, 2019 by ncbrady

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What version of the Windows ADK is supported with System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) version 1902 ?

Posted on April 12, 2019 by ncbrady

Introduction System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) version 1902 was released recently (2019/3/27). You can read the official announcement here and for a detailed list of what’s new, please see the following blog post. I blogged about how you can … Continue reading →

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How to fix “There is not enough available disk space on” when upgrading the ConfigMgr AdminConsole

Posted on April 6, 2019 by ncbrady

Introduction I was upgrading my Technical Preview 1902.2 lab to 1903TP and all went well, except for the AdminConsole upgrade (which now takes place a couple of minutes after the upgrade is done). After the site server upgrade is complete, … Continue reading →

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