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Senior System Engineer working for one of europes largest construction companies. i will write about Windows, System Center, Network and other interesting Technologies.

Stopping a hanging SCCM Task Sequence

Posted on 26. March 2021 By Burkard Josh
General

Sometimes it happens that a SCCM Task Sequence is hanging. You can stop it with this lines of code:

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Volatile Registry Keys

Posted on 6. November 20206. November 2020 By Burkard Josh
General

this days I had an issue, where a registry key was missing after a reboot. the registry key was created by an third party software and was needed by an other software part to function well. I created the registry key manually using Powershell or the Registry Editor, and the registry key wasn’t removed. My … Read More “Volatile Registry Keys” »

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change SCOM agent assignement to other SCOM gateway

Posted on 22. June 202020. October 2020 By Burkard Josh
PowerShell

if you need to change the assignement of a SCOM gateway to another SCOM gateway, you can do this by this script: please note, that this script will remove the old assignement and clean up the state directory. if you don’t cleanup the state directory, the agent will after a service restart be assigned again … Read More “change SCOM agent assignement to other SCOM gateway” »

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remove sensitive files from GIT

Posted on 7. May 202020. October 2020 By Burkard Josh
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sometimes you need to remove a file from GIT. when it contains sensitive datas like passwords, it needs to be removed from the GIT history to: this commands helped me to do this:

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Windows Azure Pack doesn’t show Automation dashboard after updating SMA

Posted on 20. February 202020. October 2020 By Burkard Josh
SMA, System Center

this days, I updated Service Management Automation (SMA) in our production environment from version 2016 UR7 to version 2019. after the update, I had an issue with Windows Azure Pack, which couldn’t display the dashboard for the Automation provider. after some research, i found out, that the root cause was some months earlier. we have … Read More “Windows Azure Pack doesn’t show Automation dashboard after updating SMA” »

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getting Security Scopes of SCCM folder

Posted on 7. February 202021. October 2020 By Burkard Josh
General

since version 1906 SCCM supports role-based access control (RBAC) for folders. This can be configured trough the SCCM console or (recommended) PowerShell. unfortunattely the current version of the commandlet Get-CMObjectSecurityScope doesn’t support any folder as InputObject. so, if you want to know, which Security Scope is allowed to see a folder, you have to use … Read More “getting Security Scopes of SCCM folder” »

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Pester tests for PowerShell modules

Posted on 19. August 201920. October 2020 By Burkard Josh
General

if you write regularly PowerShell modules, you have to test the functions in it. i wrote some Pester tests, which are doing this tests for all functions in a PowerShell module: the function has SYNOPSIS, DESCRIPTION and EXAMPLES the function has cmdletbinding the function has an OutputType defined the function name starts with an approved … Read More “Pester tests for PowerShell modules” »

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pass parameter values to Invoke-CMScript

Posted on 30. July 201920. October 2020 By Burkard Josh
SCCM, System Center

The Invoke-CMScript cmdlet invokes a PowerShell script in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. System Center Configuration Manager has an integrated ability to run Powershell scripts. The scripts simplify building custom tools to administer software and let you accomplish mundane tasks quickly, allowing you to get large jobs done more easily and more consistently. For more information, see Create … Read More “pass parameter values to Invoke-CMScript” »

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PowerShell and PSHTML in Azure Function App

Posted on 10. June 201920. October 2020 By Burkard Josh
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PowerShell is now available in Azure Function App (still in preview). you can create a Powershell Function App like this: using PowerShell modules currently, you can’t install a powershell module inside Azure Function App, but you can upload your module to the script directory and access it from there. to do this, use Kudu:   … Read More “PowerShell and PSHTML in Azure Function App” »

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getting info about users password expiration

Posted on 14. November 201820. October 2020 By Burkard Josh
General

i work in a multi domain environment. each domain has different password expiration rules. unfortunattely there is no notification system for the password expiration, so i have to check manually how long my passwords are valid. for this, i wrote this PowerShell function, which does work without the use of any additional module: function get-UserPwdInfo … Read More “getting info about users password expiration” »

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