Day: December 10, 2014

  • Change StagingDrive Offline servicing of Operating System Images

    You can keep your operating system images updated with the latest software updates from Microsoft using the offline servicing feature of Configuration Manager. Here are a few facts you may not know: Software updates content is not retrieved over the wide area network, rather it is obtained locally from the Configuration Manager content library on…

  • SCCM 2012 Task Sequence – Install all updates

    1: Scan for updatespowershell.exe -command “([wmiclass]’root\ccm:SMS_Client’).TriggerSchedule(‘{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000113}’)” 2: Wait for Scan to Finishpowershell.exe -command start-sleep 500 3: Install All Updates 4: Restart Computer Re-apply these steps 3 times

  • How to Update the Surface Pro 3 Firmware Offline using a USB Drive

    Today’s blog post is a collaboration between our PFE group and premier support. Joao Botto (PFE), Kyle Blagg (PFE), and Scott McArthur (Support) are writing about their favorite device. You will see this post in the askpfeplat and askcore blogs. Some of you may know that we launched Surface Pro 3 before its gigabit network…

  • Create empty file for unique driver import in SCCM 2012

    By simply adding a unique text file to the driver folder it creates a different hash value and allows you to import the same driver even if the actual drivers already have been imported. Just put the above code into a batch file at the root of your directory structure for a given model and…