David O'Brien

David O'Brien

Former MVP for Microsoft Azure. Interested in all things cloud security.

Recent Posts

ConfigMgr 2012 R2 - Step by Step installation

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Here’s a step-by-step installation guide for ConfigMgr 2012 R2. **DO NOT INSTALL THIS IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT!!! DO BACKUPS BEFORE INSTALLING THIS TECH...

System Center 2012 R2 - Preview available

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A really early and quick post (it’s still before 6AM)… Microsoft just uploaded their new “Cloud OS” to TechNet / MSDN for evaluation. You can download all t...

Delete whole folder structure in ConfigMgr 2012–Powershell

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During my tests with scripts I sometimes create whole folder structures with software packages inside the Configuration Manager 2012 Admin Console. Of course...

Renaming Configuration Manager 2012 Task Sequences via Powershell

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Quick and easy one. If you want to rename a ConfigMgr 2012 Task Sequence then just go into its properties and rename it, but once you need to do that for a ...

Live from E2EVC 2013 Copenhagen

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Live blog from E2EVC (aka Pubforum) 2013 Copenhagen It’s only a few days left and just like I did last year in Vienna, I’m also doing a “live feed” from thi...

Configuration Manager 2012 powershell environment variables

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SMS_ADMIN_UI_PATH and SMS_LOG_PATH This is a quick one, because I just stumbled upon these two Powershell environment variables on a Site System Server (wit...

Documentation for your ConfigMgr environment with Powershell - maintenance windows

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After writing my previous script which creates new maintenance windows via Powershell on your ConfigMgr / SCCM 2012 device collections (look here) I had quit...

How to create ConfigMgr collection maintenance windows - Powershell

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Here’s another one from my todo list (it’s getting shorter by the day…). What are Maintenance Windows in Microsoft ConfigMgr 2012 ? A customer once asked m...

How to install Software Update Point for ConfigMgr 2012 - Powershell

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This has been on my agenda quite a while now. How to install a SUP for ConfigMgr 2012 with Powershell. This wasn’t too easy since I wanted to accomplish this...

Data deduplication on Win8

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How to enable Data Deduplication on Win8 A fellow Configuration Manager community member, Nickolaj Andersen, posted a blog article about Data Deduplication ...