I wanted to share the resolution to a crazy hair-pulling issue I’ve been having since late mid-July with Microsoft Support unable to determine the cause. We had been using PXE booting from our locations for a while now. Got everything setup by our infrastructure teams with IP Helpers, no DHCP scope options. I tuned the […]

Ensure the following is in your Unattend.xml in order to avoid waiting for “Just a moment…” <OOBE> <HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>true</HideWirelessSetupInOOBE> <NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation> <SkipMachineOOBE>true</SkipMachineOOBE> <SkipUserOOBE>true</SkipUserOOBE> <HideOEMRegistrationScreen>true</HideOEMRegistrationScreen> <HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage> <HideLocalAccountScreen>true</HideLocalAccountScreen> <HideOnlineAccountScreens>true</HideOnlineAccountScreens> </OOBE> Normally ConfigMgr handles updating the xml file for smooth task sequencing. But this seems to be something left out of ConfigMgr 1702 / ADK 1703. I would recommend using the […]

Had a requirement to add webpage links to a Start Tile Layout, but found that *.URL files wouldn’t work. The solution is to use explorer.exe as the launching application. Just like typing http://google.com into the file explorer address bar, creating a shortcut with explorer.exe as the program and http://google.com as the parameter works like a charm. […]

Scary disclaimer right up front. This process is completely/definitely/unequivocally unsupported by Microsoft anyone. I offer no guarantees that this will work for you and I will not be held responsible if you break your ConfigMgr environment. Use at your own risk. Create the boot images from a workstation. Welcome to the Wild West 🙂 By […]

We still have a couple hundred Windows XP computers which need to be upgraded to a supported operating system. For anyone that’s used ConfigMgr 2012/CB, you’ll know that you need to use the WinPE 3.1 Boot Media in order for Windows XP to properly stage the boot.wim otherwise you will get an error and an […]