One of the biggest time drains for managing SCCM can be managing third party patching for SCCM. Not only do you have to try and keep track of new releases but then you have to go through packaging and testing. There are plenty of ways to do it, this is just one example of a …
Servicing Stack Updates can cause headaches for those with limited maintenance windows. These updates can be required as a pre-req for some monthly cumulative updates. Which means that your server will only see the SSU as an applicable update when the maintenance window rolls around. Since there is no required reboot it won’t see this …
There are a ton of different ways to help automate third-party patching for SCCM, community tools, vendor etc which can help save time. This example is a pretty basic powershell script that you can use for the FileZilla Client which should also be helpful if you want to adapt it to another application. This script …
I was recently tasked with creating a solution that can enforce temporary group membership on a group in Active Directory. We don’t have a Server 2016 functional level so cool new features like “Privileged Access Management” are out of the picture. I settled on some kind of scripted/automated solution. More on Privileged Access Management here: …
With our upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 we have been faced with a few challenges. One of them being our USMT solution to backup data from Windows 7 and restore it to Windows 10. We have a few requirements here we need to meet: Data needs to be copied off of the machine …