I had an incredible time yesterday presenting at the Southwest Michigan System Center User Group. Douglas and team definitely know how to throw a user group. There were four expert presenters, a great venue, growlers of beer, fantastic hedgehog swag, and 12 giveaways!
Recording from FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/SWMSCUG.org/videos/vb.155654218145230/334654466911870
Here are the resources and notes from my presentation.
Monitoring OSD
MDT
CustomSettings.ini modifications:
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SLSHARE=\\server\share\logs EventService=http://MDTSERVER:9800 |
Introduction to MDT monitoring by Michael Niehaus.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mniehaus/2012/03/09/mdt-2012-new-feature-monitoring/
Advanced configurations from Johan Arwidmark.
http://deploymentresearch.com/Research/Post/343/Configuring-MDT-Monitoring-Behind-the-scenes
Porting monitoring data to a web page from Mikael Nystrom.
SSRS/Reporting
My OSD Dashboard and details
Seperate post coming soon…
Thomas Larsen’s OSD DashBoard and details
http://larsenconfigmgr.blogspot.com/2016/04/os-deployment-dashboard.html
DaRT/VNC
DaRT setup in a WinPE 8.1 MDT boot image via Johan Arwidmark.
DaRT setup in a WinPE 10 MDT boot image via Gary Blok.
https://garytown.com/integrate-dart-10-tools-into-your-recovery-partition-during-osd
DaRT & VNC setup in WinPE 10 and VNC in full OS via Gary Blok. (very cool stuff!)
https://garytown.com/dart-vnc-remote-during-osd-without-integration
Other tools
OSD monitoring via Excel by Trevor Jones.
https://smsagent.wordpress.com/tag/sccm-osd-monitoring/
OSD Task Sequence Monitor by Trevor Jones. (awesome console replacement!)
https://smsagent.wordpress.com/tools/configmgr-task-sequence-monitor/
Editing task sequences
XML method via Nikolaj Andersen.
My iResultObject method.
https://mms2015.sched.org/event/4I0a/hacking-the-task-sequence-2015
It was a great day, cannot wait for the next one!