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Trigger Windows Update in ConfigMgr without PowerShell

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I've been meaning to share this blog post for some time now, and finally got around to it. If you need to trigger a Windows update without using PowerShell, there is a way to do it. In newer versions of Windows 10, usoclient.exe is used to initiate an update scan. However, most of its parameters no longer work except for startinteractivescan. The issue I faced was that it had to be executed as the system account or as the end user in ConfigMgr.

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Imaging using MDT with Autopilot

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If you have a system that has been infected or the drive had to be replaced, you'll need to lay down a new bare OS and then have autopilot finish up the configuration of the machine. For this, we are using MDT as it is easy to maintain and very fast at imaging. I used this as a template to come up with the solution we are now using. The first thing I did was to use everything verbatim from the section of the blog named "How to get the Windows Autopilot payload".

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MECM System Cleanup

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Recently, we started a cleanup of AD. Once the cleanup was completed, I wanted ConfigMgr cleaned up right away too. It is set to clean up old items, but it was not quick enough for me so I wrote the following tool that will query the All Systems collection via SQL and then reads the attributes in AD to see if the system is disabled. It will delete each disabled system from ConfigMgr at the end.

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Configuration Manager PowerShell Module: An update to the existing console is available

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I was recently writing a new PowerShell tool to clean up Configuration Manager of old systems. When I ran the import-module cmdlet, I got the message The module was being imported from the Configuration Manager server. I always keep ConfigMgr up-to-date with the latest version within days of release and I saw the console was 5.2203.1063.2400. Doing a little digging, I found this was coming from the console that was installed on my laptop and not from the server.

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Bitlocker Recovery Password AD Backup and Cleanup

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This PowerShell script not only backs up the Bitlocker recovery password to AD but also cleans out previous backups made that do not match the current password associated with the machine. The script retrieves the local bitlocker password along with all recovery passwords written to AD. It will then parse through the associated passwords and remove all that does not match the one associated with the local machine.

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Automating Dell TPM Configuration

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Over the years, we have manually configured the TPM before imaging a system as part of our build process. Dell has since given the ability to automate the entire process after giving the option to automate clearing the TPM. That was always been the big stopper in full automation. I wrote a series of scripts that I put into the build process that do all of the necessary steps in readying the TPM for bitlocker as shown below.

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Identify Machines a User is Logged Into using Carbon Black

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If you have Carbon Black in your environment, you can use it to identify which machines a user account is logged into. Carbon Black collects a vast amount of data on machines and reports it to the cloud database. The following is how to use Carbon Black to list the machines: Log into the Carbon Black Cloud Portal Click the Investigate tab In the investigate search field at the top, enter the following: Enter process_username: in the search field at the top. needs to be changed to the actual user

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