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System Center Orchestrator High-Availability Patching
I was recently asked about patching in regards to Microsoft System Center Orchestrator because I was able to demo how to automate certain processes in regards to patching, and I was asked “Well, what about if I wanted to automate patching my Orchestrator servers”, which of course got the wheels spinning. I did some searching […]
Add VMware NIC drivers to your SCCM boot image
With the expansion of Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager, I have worked with quite a few people that are either mixing their virtual environment with VMware and Hyper-V or moving off of VMware all together. Intermixing System Center products does not usually pose any type of problems when they work together, but I recently ran […]
Mapping the iSCSI Initiator with PowerShell
I recently wanted to create a task sequence in MDT that would build all of my Hyper-V hosts and map the iSCSI connection and connect the storage on its own. After digging around and testing several methods, I thought that the best way to do this would be that I could add a small PowerShell script into the […]
How to change the listening port for Remote Desktop
Sometimes it is required to edit the Remote Desktop listening port for a specific machine, or machines to accommodate firewall paths, deployment methods, or for various other reasons. In order to change change the port that Remote Desktop listens on, follow these steps. Disclaimer: These steps require that you modify the system registry. Please only do so […]
Enabling Bitlocker with SCCM
Companies are starting to take a look and utilize Bitlocker more often now. I have had many customers ask me about Bitlocker and what the easiest way to deploy it companywide would be. Usually when I am having discussions with people, it is during an upgrade, hardware refresh, or a new build out, so in […]