Experiences of an System Center PFE https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/isgamboa/feed.xml This blogs purpose is to document different Issues that I have come across working as an Microsoft System Center PFE Wed, 17 Apr 2019 03:25:26 GMT en-US hourly 1 SCCM Client receiving an advertisement that it was not supposed to receive https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/isgamboa/sccm-client-receiving-an-advertisement-that-it-was-not-supposed-to-receive Thu, 23 May 2013 19:39:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/isgamboa/2013/05/23/sccm-client-receiving-an-advertisement-that-it-was-not-supposed-to-receive/ One of my customers presented me with an odd issue. A computer was part of a collection that was supposed to receive certain set of advertisements but for some reason the computer was getting an additional advertisement that was not part of the group. They checked a group of collections where that software should have been advertised and this computer was not part of any of those collections. They asked for a log to show when the deployment took place and also a list of collections where this computer resided.

Finding the time at which the advertisement took place was simple, we did this by looking at the execmgr log. But I couldn't think of a way to list the collections that the computer resided in so I logged on to my lab.

So my objective was to list all of the collections that "Client01" belonged to.  I did some searching around the Database and found the View "v_FullCollectionMembership" that looked pretty promising.

 

After looking at the View and seeing that it had the info I needed, I ran this query:

The query gave me the info I needed. When the customer ran the query in their environment, they found that someone had accidently setup a query based collection that was bringing this computer and a group of computers into a collection that had this advertisement assigned to it.

 

 Thank you for reading

 

]]> Easily Create a custom boot.wim for use with OSD https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/isgamboa/easily-create-a-custom-boot-wim-for-use-with-osd Tue, 14 May 2013 20:39:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/isgamboa/2013/05/14/easily-create-a-custom-boot-wim-for-use-with-osd/ Sometimes finding a how to guide on all things OSD can be quite challenging. One of my customers had a need to create their own custom boot wim but their admins didn't have the time to research how to do it. They asked if I could produce a document listing the commands needing to be entered into the WAIK Deployment Tools Command Prompt.

 

I know that this information is out there, I just wanted to list all of the commands in one place so that hopefully like my customer, you wont need to search around to find this anymore.

 

 

**NOTE** Be sure to replace the x86 with amd64 when creating a x64 boot wim.

 

COPYPE.CMD x86 c:\winpe

DISM /Mount-Wim /WIMFile:c:\winpe\winpe.wim /Index:1 /MountDir:C:\winpe\mount

DISM /Image:c:\winpe\mount /Add-Package /PackagePath:"C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86\WinPE_FPs\winpe-scripting.cab"

DISM /Image:c:\winpe\mount /Add-Package /PackagePath:"C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86\WinPE_FPs\winpe-wmi.cab"

DISM /Image:c:\winpe\mount /Add-Package /PackagePath:"C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86\WinPE_FPs\winpe-hta.cab"

DISM /Image:c:\winpe\mount /Add-Package /PackagePath:"C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86\WinPE_FPs\winpe-mdac.cab"

DISM /Image:c:\winpe\mount /Add-Package /PackagePath:"C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86\WinPE_FPs\winpe-wds-tools.cab"

DISM /Image:c:\winpe\mount /Set-TargetPath:X:\

DISM /Unmount-Wim /Mountdir:c:\winpe\mount /commit

 

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