I’ve had a number of cases where it would have been useful to be able to deploy files to a logged-in user’s profile on Windows using Configuration Manager (SCCM), but due to the context in which the ‘installation’ runs (i.e. the local system), using parameters such as %AppData% in a batch file doesn’t work, and this …

Symptoms: Following imaging with Windows 10 1903 using Configuration Manager OSD, the Type Cover doesn’t work at all (keyboard, trackpad). When rebooting the machine, the keyboard and trackpad both work when in the BIOS. When imaging the machine, both the keyboard and trackpad work in Windows PE. The Surface Pro 3 was …

Today we attempted to re-image Rik’s new Surface Pro 6 using the usual set of task sequences that we have configured for all of the PCs that are in use, and hit an issue. The task sequence failed (very quickly) with error 0x80070490. Looking at what was going on onscreen, it was obvious that the partitioning of the …

Previous versions of Visual Studio were typically delivered via ISO files that we could import into Configuration Manager for deployment to workstations. Visual Studio 2017 arrives as a web installer only (although you can create installation media using the –layout option from the command line if you still want to go …

I was recently in the position that I needed to rebuild a workstation at a remote location, but wanted to end up with it joined to the domain, and able to install software via the SCCM Software Center. Enter Offline Domain Join (djoin.exe)! Offline Domain Join allows the creation of a machine account and the …

Some time ago I created an System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) application to deploy FileZilla for users. Recently I created an updated application that upgraded FileZilla (using the usual ‘uninstall the old version, then install the new version’ method), which gave me an error when the application was upgraded: …