Archive for October, 2013

Clear Device User Affinity in Configuration Manager 2012 R2

A couple of days ago I got a question on how one would go ahead and clear all Device/User affinity in a Configuration Manager 2012 Site. There are some PowerShell methods that we can utilize for our script to do this. It is quite simple “for-each” actually but of course...

Deploy .Net Framework 3.5.1 as an App using Configuration Manager 2012 R2

Even thou .Net Framework 4 and even 4.5 have been released there are still alot of applications out there that require .Net Framework version 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5. For all of those applications we need to include .Net Framework 3.5.1 in our OS images that we distribute to our clients...

When installation of Assessment and Deployment Kit stalls

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At a customer today I noticed something odd. On a brand new server the installation of Assessment and Deployment Kit took a bit too long to install. When I checked the installation I noticed that it was more or less stuck in the ‘Acquiring’ state which really means that it...

Unhandled error returned by ZTIDiskpart: Object required (424)

When you do OS deployment one crucial thing is to always know where your data is and what you can format with peace at mind. One of my customers had a bit of a problem when they were about to deploy new server with Windows Server 2012. Two new Task...

TechX Sweden 2013

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The bits for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1 have made it’s way onto MSDN and TechNet and will soon hit general availability. With that comes System Center 2012 R2 as well and lots of events to show off the new cool stuff. One of the bigger events in...

In the case of the disappearing disk space

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/ Some days ago I help a customer out with an odd problem. When they worked on getting a new hardware model working in their Configuration Manager environment the deployment failed for no apparent reason just before it should be done. One thing that hit us right before we were...