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WinPE Computer Name MININT-xxxxxxx
April 16, 2026 If you have done any kind Windows operating system deployment using Configuration Manager, or Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, you have probably noticed that when the system boots the...
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Server 2022/2025, BITS, BranchCache, and large files 80072efe
October 31, 2025 If you are doing operating system deployments or upgrades using Configuration Manager along with BranchCache, with your Distribution Points running on Windows Server 2022 or Windows...
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Disable Bluetooth File Transfer with Intune
March 27, 2024 Update: Add {0000111F-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB} for certain Polycom Bluetooth devices. After figuring out how to Disable Bluetooth File Transfer with ConfigMgr, I figured it would be...
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Disable Bluetooth File Transfer with ConfigMgr
March 27, 2024 Update: Add {0000111F-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB} for certain Polycom Bluetooth devices. I recently got a request to see if it was possible to disable Bluetooth file transfer without...
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Useful W365 Cloud PC Intune Filters
The Microsoft Intune Team has been busy at work releasing new features. One of those features that was released in the Service release 2301 was the ability to create filters based on the device’s...
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Windows KB5012170 failing to install (0x800F0922)
August 25, 2022 Windows KB5012170 is turning out to be one of those patches that is causing a ton of headaches. The biggest one is for those user’s that got the lovely BitLocker Recovery screen but...
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MEMCM Package MIF Matching
If you are familiar with the work that Gary Blok and I have done on BIOS and Drivers, you will already know that we like to use extra fields on the Package properties to store meta date that we use...
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Protecting My Precious MEMCM
If you have worked with Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager (MEMCM, CM for short and previously known as SCCM) for more than a day, you are probably aware of its immense power that it can...
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Adding DaRT to 2PS iPXE
The Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (aka DaRT) is a powerful toolset that is available to Software Assurance customers. Johan Arwidmark recently wrote a post called Back to Basics – Reset...
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Lord of the Deployment Rings
If you have been involved with any kind of Windows deployments or Windows Update deployments in the last five or so years, you probably heard of the concept of deployment rings. Microsoft has been...
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Boundaries are used in Boundary Groups in Configuration Manager, which in turn are used for site assignment and site system/content location. There are multiple ways to configure Boundaries, this can...
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Configuring WoL with CM for Dell Desktops – Part 3
4/26/2020 [Download exported Configuration Baseline and Configuration Items here. This includes the CIs from Part 2 and Part 3.] In Configuring WoL with Configuration Manager – Part 1, I covered the...
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Forcing Configuration Manager VPN Clients to get patches from Microsoft Update
3/18/2020 By now IT departments are scrambling to get as many users as possible to work from home as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. What they are finding out is that Microsoft patches chew up a lot...
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Getting Network Efficiency from Data Deduplication and BranchCache
December 8, 2019 Moving large amounts of content across a diverse network environment happens to be one of my specialties that I have focused a better part of my career on over the last 12+ years....
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AZSMUG: Presents Intune, RBAC, Graph, Autopilot and more…
On Monday, May 13th, AZSMUG held their Q2 meeting of 2019. It was broadcast and recorded using Microsoft Teams. A big thanks to the sponsors, Microsoft and HP, Inc. for making this a great day and to...
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How to easily launch CMTrace
Over the years I have gotten in the habit of dropping CMTrace.exe into the System32 directory so that it is in the path and easy to launch. I had also been adding it to WinPE since before it was called...
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1 WDS PXE Server and Boot Images from multiple ConfigMgr Sites
Have you ever had (or wanted) the need to PXE boot from different Configuration Manager sites? Maybe your test machines are all on the same network and can talk to your ConfigMgr lab site, your...
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Nomad Software Update LsZ File Purge aka whack-a-mole
In short, there is an issue in Configuration Manager CB 1806 where an additional file (*express.cab) gets included with some software updates. This causes Nomad to generate a LsZ file that contains...
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