How to run Secunia CSI scanning without installing the CSI agent
Lately I have done a lot of Secunia CSI installations. One of the questions that keeps coming up is “what client scanning options do we have, if we do not install the CSI agent locally?”. You basically...
View ArticleAwarded Enterprise Client Management MVP 2013
Dear Kaido Jarvemets, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2013 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high...
View ArticleNew System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 book
It’s truly with great pleasure and excitement I can announce that my new book System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 Mastering the Fundaments, 2nd edition is finished, and will be available later...
View ArticleNew Content on CM12SDK.Net
I just posted new content on CM12SDK.net How to modify Configuration Manager Client Cache Size How to Create a Software Update Deployment Template How to Create/Add Alerts for Software Update...
View ArticleSCCM Client Actions Tool PowerShell Edition aka PoshCAT
Description SCCM Client Actions Tool PowerShell Edition aka PoshCAT is a practical and simple PowerShell application for performing most common day-to-day administrative tasks on System Center 2012...
View ArticleHow to install PoshCAT
1. Download and Unzip PoshCAT_v0.1.zip 2. Right-Click Start-PoshCAT.ps1, WorkerFunctions.ps1, SharedFunctions.ps1 and Commands.xml and select properties. 3. Unblock the files if needed and click OK. 4....
View ArticleBuilding PoshCAT Part 1 – Create different Client Actions lists
Last week I published our new tool PoshCAT and in the upcoming weeks I will cover different things. In this blog post I will show how to create different Client Action lists for different support...
View ArticleBuilding PoshCAT Part 2 – Adding your own custom functions
Last week I showed how you can create different Client Actions lists for different support groups in your organization and in this post I will show how you can add/create your own custom functions for...
View ArticleBuilding PoshCAT Part 3 – Enabling PowerShell Remoting through Group Policy...
You may want to read these posts before: · How to install PoshCAT · Building PoshCAT Part 1 – Create different Client Actions lists · Building PoshCAT Part 2 – Adding your own custom functions One of...
View ArticleAutomate importing and creating driver packages in SCCM 2012 R2
I take that you are familiar with drivers and manually creating driver categories and driver packages in Configuration Manager. Here I will show you how you can optimize the process by running a very...
View ArticlePoshCAT 0.2 version released
I just published PoshCAT 0.2 version and the changes are as follows: · New Client Actions o Desired Configuration Manager Cycle o Application Machine Policy Cycle o Application Global Evaluation Cycle...
View ArticleSlides and scripts from the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2...
As promised in the session here are the scripts and links that I was using. Video and slides available on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NewZealand/2013/WCL307 Blog: Management Point...
View ArticleThe Coretech Software Update Management Tool
As demonstrated @TechEd in Australia and New Zealand our latest free tool is the Software Update Management Tool. The sole purpose of the tool is to automate the creation of software update...
View ArticleCase of the missing Hardware Inventory
I recently played around with adding registry data to SCCM Hardware Inventory using RegKeyToMof, but during the tests I ended up with a big problem, no clients were delivering any hardware inventory at...
View ArticleConfiguration Items and Baselines, Example: SCEP Client Compliance
This example will show you a way to get compliance data from your clients regarding the System Center Endpoint Protection 2012 Client. Now, I’m aware that we through CM2012 reports and console views...
View ArticleConfiguration Items and Baselines, Using Scripts (Powershell Example)
In the previous blog post i used file and registry settings for my Configuration Item. Another way to define your Configuration Item setting are scripts. And in CM2012 we have 3 scripting options:...
View ArticleCoretech Application E-Mail Approval Tool
A little over a year ago we released the first version of our Application E-mail approval utility. Ever since our first release we have received lots of positive feedback and ideas to new features....
View ArticleCan you combine Get-WmiObject with ConfigMgr cmdlets? Yes, you can
Last week I discovered that you can create a Refresh Schedule with New-CMSchedule cmdlet and then you can easily use that object with Get-WmiObject cmdlet to query and modify for example Device...
View ArticleQuick and Dirty – Build Configuration Manager 2012 Admin Console Extensions...
I just finished one PowerShell script that queries all the Admin Console XML files and it creates automatically Admin Console Extension. You can use this script to locate correct place for you...
View ArticleConfigure Coretech Application E-Mail Approval tool to always use the...
As you can read in this blog post – we recently released a new version of our E-Mail approval tool. One of the new features in the tool is to configure a fallback address. You can either specify a...
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