Author Archives: ncbrady

When doing BitLocker, make sure your bios is up to date

this is a very quick post as a reminder, if you are doing any BitLocker deployments it’s a good idea to update the bios of your target computers prior to doing BitLocker operations, while testing out my own BitLocker HTA … Continue reading

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Introducing: The BitLocker Frontend HTA

The next logical step for the windows-noob.com FrontEnd HTA which I released back in April 2011 was to add support for BitLocker, and I’ve added it along with some bugfixes, a new clean look, and some new functionality. What does … Continue reading

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Configuration Manager 2012 Guides

Aside from the guides which you can find here on my blog I’ve put together an index of all the guides i’ve written so far for Configuration Manager 2012, this will make it easy for you to follow my lab … Continue reading

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using SCCM 2012 RC in a LAB – Part 12. Updating an Operating System image using Offline Servicing.

In Part 1 of this series we got our AD and SCCM servers ready, and then we installed System Center 2012 Configuration Manager as a standalone Primary site. In Part 2 we configured the SCCM server further by adding some … Continue reading

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using SCCM 2012 RC in a LAB – Part 11. Adding the Reporting Services Point role

In Part 1 of this series we got our AD and SCCM servers ready, and then we installed System Center 2012 Configuration Manager as a standalone Primary site. In Part 2 we configured the SCCM server further by adding some … Continue reading

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using SCCM 2012 RC in a LAB – Part 10. Using Prestart and Extrafiles to get more out of UDA

In Part 1 of this series we got our AD and SCCM servers ready, and then we installed System Center 2012 Configuration Manager as a standalone Primary site. In Part 2 we configured the SCCM server further by adding some … Continue reading

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using SCCM 2012 RC in a LAB – Part 9. Adding an Application, editing a Deployment Type, Copying the Deploy Task Sequence

In Part 1 of this series we got our AD and SCCM servers ready, and then we installed System Center 2012 Configuration Manager as a standalone Primary site. In Part 2 we configured the SCCM server further by adding some … Continue reading

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using SCCM 2012 RC in a LAB – Part 8. Deploying Windows 7 X64

In Part 1 of this series we got our AD and SCCM servers ready, and then we installed System Center 2012 Configuration Manager as a standalone Primary site. In Part 2 we configured the SCCM server further by adding some … Continue reading

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How can I import computers into SCCM 2012 using a file ?

if you want to import multiple computers in SCCM 2012 using a file then it’s easy to do so, just make sure that your file is in CSV format and looks like so In the sample screenshot above I have … Continue reading

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using SCCM 2012 RC in a LAB – Part 7. Build and Capture Windows 7 X64

In Part 1 of this series we got our AD and SCCM servers ready, and then we installed System Center 2012 Configuration Manager as a standalone Primary site. In Part 2 we configured the SCCM server further by adding some … Continue reading

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using SCCM 2012 RC in a LAB – Part 6. Deploying Software Updates

In Part 1 of this series we got our AD and SCCM servers ready, and then we installed System Center 2012 Configuration Manager as a standalone Primary site. In Part 2 we configured the SCCM server further by adding some … Continue reading

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using SCCM 2012 RC in a LAB – Part 5. Enable the Endpoint Protection Role and configure Endpoint Protection settings

In Part 1 of this series we got our AD and SCCM servers ready, and then we installed System Center 2012 Configuration Manager as a standalone Primary site. In Part 2 we configured the SCCM server further by adding some … Continue reading

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using SCCM 2012 RC in a LAB – Part 4. Configuring Client Settings and adding roles

In Part 1 of this series we got our AD and SCCM servers ready, and then we installed System Center 2012 Configuration Manager as a standalone Primary site. In Part 2 we configured the SCCM server further by adding some … Continue reading

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using SCCM 2012 RC in a LAB – Part 3. Configuring Discovery and Boundaries

In Part 1 of this series we got our AD and SCCM servers ready, and then we installed System Center 2012 Configuration Manager as a standalone Primary site. In Part 2 we configured the SCCM server further by adding some … Continue reading

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using SCCM 2012 RC in a LAB – Part 2. Add SUP and WDS

In Part 1 of this series we got our AD and SCCM servers ready, and then we installed System Center 2012 Configuration Manager as a standalone Primary site. Now we will configure the SCCM server further by adding some Windows … Continue reading

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