by Alex Verboon
Back in 2011 I wrote a blog post on how to mute Windows System Volume programmatically. This week I found another approach on GitHub using PowerShell. The PowerShell Module WindowsAudioDevice-Powershell-Cmdlet provides a number of cmdlets to control the Windows System volume. Read More …
Let’s assume you’ve just created a larger number of packages within SCCM 2012 and then you’re asked to move the package sources to a different location. I guess no-one on earth would want to visit each package and update the Read More …
4/3/2017 – Update: here’s a better version: https://www.verboon.info/2017/03/configmgr-client-policy-settings-get-cmclientpolicysettings/ To make documenting the configured SCCM Client configuration settings a bit easier I wrote a small script that retrieves all the configured settings for the Default and custom configuration settings. To Read More …
Just recently I went through the CM12 Console Task Sequence media creation wizard several times a day, so at some point I thought, this is a good candidate for automation. If you have CU1 for SCCM 2012 SP1 already installed, Read More …
While creating a new Group Policy object to enable WinRM (Windows Remote Management) on clients, I noticed some Group Policy changes that are introduced with the Windows Management Framework 3.0. The Windows Management Framework 3.0 contains the following updates: Windows Read More …
During the past weeks I spend a bit of time deploying Windows 8 to UEFI enabled clients. With PowerShell 3.0 on Windows 8 you will find some new cmdlets that provide information about the status of your system’s BIOS/UEFI/Secure boot Read More …
I recently came across a FREE utility called IsCommandLineApp from Helge Klein, a little command-line tool that can be used to determine whether a specific executable is a command-line program. To run this against multiple executables manually is a kind Read More …
Want to make a drive disappear in Windows or prevent users from accessing it? then here’s the tool you need. HIDECALC allows you to define the drives to hide or prevent access to. HIDECALC does not apply the change on Read More …
Group Policies are an essential part of every Windows Client infrastructure and it’s therefore critical to regularly spend some effort to ensure that things are in a healthy state. I would define a healthy Group Policy infrastructure as following: All Read More …
Just recently when I created a script using BITSAdmin, I noticed the following text when running the BITSAdmin executable: BITSADMIN is deprecated and is not guaranteed to be available in future versions of Windows. Administrative tools for the BITS service Read More …