Gathering BIOS Version through SCCM
Scanning for BIOS information across the environment comes in handy when you realize you either have non stable versions or you have not updated the BIOS in a while. The following...
SCCM Monthly Patching Scheduling Practice
Over the years, I have seen plenty of organizations with multiple variations of patching schedules. During this period, I have found a schedule that adheres to security requirements while simultaneously incorporating...
How to upgrade the BIOS using GUI checks?
Following the article I wrote on capturing BIOS information in your environment which can be found here, I packaged BIOS packages via the traditional route in SCCM for a customer.
One of the...
Updating the SCCM client cache size
From time to time users have approached me with an error, that the SCCM deployment was failing due to the client cache being too small. For all new deployments I have made...
SCCM Stale Object Cleanup – Applications and Collections
Everyone knows that performing SCCM maintenance frequently is the key to a healthy SCCM experience. A lot of authors refer to tuning up the SCCM maintenance within the SCCM console but...
SCCM Duplicate CI cleanup
From time to time SCCM generates duplicate CI's and a SCCM Duplicate CI cleanup is recommended. I put together a WQL query to find all the duplicates within SCCM so I...
Deploying Slack 3.0.5 to Enterprise environments
For those who are not familiar with Slack, Slack is a cloud-based set of proprietary team collaboration tools and services. Over the last year, collaboration tools such as Slack and Teams have...
How to setup Office 365 the right way using SCCM
Over the years Office has had different install processes especially when it comes to enterprise deployments. I still remember the days we used to use the Office Customization Tool but with...