Archive for November, 2012

System Center 2012 SP1 Beta 1 SCCM, SCOM, SCSM and Orchestrator Hydration Kit

20 Nov, 2012 Guides Permalink
I’ve completed a new version of my Hydration Kit for System Center 2012. This time it’s built upon the 2012 SP1 Beta 1 release and includes not only Operations Manager (SCOM/OpsMgr), Service Manager (SCOM/SvcMgr) and Orchestrator (SCO/Orch) but it also includes Configuration Manager (SCCM/CfgMgr). For the next release I hope...

Deploy Office 2013–Files necessary to run the Office Customization Tool were not found

9 Nov, 2012 Guides Permalink
Yesterday I got a question about a problem when deploying Office 2013. When running the command found at a Microsoft TechNet article on how to create answer files for Microsoft Office 2013 in order to install it silently using MDT the got an error. What was done in order to...

Get Computer Account’s SID from Active Directory using PowerShell

7 Nov, 2012 Articles Permalink
I found an (really) old post at Microsoft TechNet Library from the Scripting Guys where they explain how to get the SID for an user account using PowerShell. What’s nice with the approach that they teach is that it doesn’t use ADSI and it doesn’t require dull COM-objects. After all,...

Howto write PowerShell Cmdlet in C# using Visual Studio 2012: Write Verbose Output

5 Nov, 2012 Guides Permalink
So we’ve come to the part when it’s time to learn how to write verbose output just like the feature “Write-Verbose” in normal PowerShell functions. Once again I continue my work on my first DLL. You can read part 1, 2, 3 and 4 on the blog. Here we use...