ConfigMgr PowerShell Script to check if Application or Program is allowed to run in TS without being deployed

Kind of a long title for a blog post, but I could not come up with something shorter to describe the content of this blog post. The below script shows the status of the “Allow this Application / program to Read More …

PowerShell Script to detect ConfigMgr Task Sequence unfriendly Software Updates

Update: 15 Une 2014 – Added KB2965788 If you’re dealing with ConfigMgr and OS Deployment task sequences you’re probably aware of the KB article recently published by Microsoft called “Task sequence fails in Configuration Manager if software updates require multiple Read More …

PowerShell Script – Get-ComputerGeolocation

28-OCT-2013 Update: I have updated the script to retry when the status of the location provider is in initializing mode. The below script uses the Windows Location provider and the Google Geocoding API to retrieve the geographical location of the Read More …

ConfigMgr–Compliance Baseline for BranchCache on Windows 8

Here’s a ConfigMgr Compliance baseline that checks the BranchCache configuration on Windows 8 clients. With the release of Windows 8 and Server 2012 Microsoft also made available PowerShell cmdlets for BranchCache, so creating a script based configuration item in ConfigMgr Read More …

List ConfigMgr Software Update Group members with PowerShell

The below script allows you to select a Configuration Manager software update group and then lists the software updates that are assigned to it. <# .Synopsis Lists assigned software updates in a configuration manager 2012 software update group .DESCRIPTION Lists Read More …

ConfigMgr 2012 Script for Incremental Collection threshold

As described within the ConfigMgr 2012 Best Practices Wiki on TechNet it’s recommended to keep the number of collections with incremental updates enabled to around 200, this to prevent evaluation delays. So I thought it might be a good idea Read More …