Uncategorized 05 Feb 2018 Customize Banner for PS Application Deployment Toolkit The default banner looks like a bit of an eye sore. To customize simply edit the AppDeployToolkitBanner.png in the AppDeployToolkit directory with MSPaint. fiducheah
Uncategorized 01 Feb 2018 How to scrub / clean / wipe primary disk / partition at the beginning of Task Sequence with Diskpart Often times in a Lite Touch deployment scenario, we want to scrub the primary disk on the endpoint before proceeding with the task sequence. Assuming there is only one drive… fiducheah
Uncategorized 31 Jan 2018 PS App Deployment Toolkit: PowerShell script to detect previously installed application by displayname and displayversion, uninstall and install latest version. Bulk of the script taken from and added detection of version number on top of the display name: https://www.reich-consulting.net/support/lan-administration/check-if-a-program-is-installed-using-powershell-3/ I'm using PS App Deploy Toolkit to detect old version of… fiducheah
Uncategorized 31 Jan 2018 Unable to Add Row(s) to Advanced Configuration Parameters for VMs in ESX 6.5 with Web Client Just deployed a domain controller and wanting to disable timesync at the VM hardware settings on a ESXi 6.5 host. I noticed that there is no ability to "add row."… fiducheah
Uncategorized 24 Jan 2018 MBAM script invoke-mbamclientdeployment.ps1 not able to encrypt with XTS-AES-256 algorithm This drove me nuts, as I used the exact same Task Sequence at another customer site and it encrypted spot on. But for some reason despite setting all the correct… fiducheah
Uncategorized 16 Jan 2018 WSUS Fatal Error: The Schema Version of the database is from a newer version of WSUS While troubleshooting software update point I noticed the WSUS role install is pooched. Looking at the log I see the error message as per subject line. Best way to get… fiducheah
Uncategorized 30 Sep 2017 MDT–“Something Went Wrong (Windows 10 – 1703) All of a sudden getting this pop-up (something went wrong. you can try again or skip for now) during imaging process where it was working perfectly previously. Turns out my… fiducheah
Uncategorized 01 Aug 2017 Export-StartLayout : Element not found. Thrown exception in StartTileData.dll When you try to execute this command you get this obscure message above. Reason for this is because customization of personal settings is disabled when Windows 10 is not… fiducheah
Uncategorized 02 Jul 2017 SERVICEUI.EXE fails to launch PowerShell in WINPE (SCCM / MDT) To save you some troubleshooting time, make sure your WINPE boot image(s) in MDT or SCCM has PowerShell modules enabled. fiducheah
Uncategorized 15 Jun 2017 Fortigate 403 Forbidden Warning (IPS) I have a Exchange 2013 OWA URL that hits the Fortigate, which in turn performs a NAT to my KEMP load balancers. One of the things I want to do… fiducheah