How can I build out a series of progressively larger rings for deployment? (Oh yeah, by the way I’m using Intune.) About a week ago Mike Terrill was talking to me about a blog that he was working on. He was calling it “Lord of the Deployment Rings”. The focus was on building out a […]| The Systems Monkey
I’ve created this spreadsheet and use it to track our progress week by week of our Windows 7 to Windows 10 migration project. Now that end of support for Windows 7 is under a year away I thought I’d share it for anyone who might find it useful. From week to week you only need […]| The Systems Monkey
On 11 January 2019 I had the privilege to speak at the Michigan System Center Users Group meeting on the topic of using Power BI to report your OSD build stats. This is a companion post to that presentation. This is an update to my original post ( here ) on how to gather and present […]| The Systems Monkey
I’ve been looking for a simple way to identify and map out the nested task sequences. This is the first part of a project that I’m working on. The goal of the overall project is to duplicate an entire task sequence “suite” of the parent and all nested sequences, and then update all the nested […]| The Systems Monkey
How to provide hard statistics on your build sequences. In Part 1 I went into how I collected the data that would be used to report on the 2 goals my boss set out for our OS deployment; 1) a 90% success rate and 2) 60 minute build times. Part 2: Reporting on the Results using Excel With the […]| The Systems Monkey
How to provide hard statistics on your build sequences. A while back my boss gave me two goals for our OS deployments; 1) he set a target for 90% successful builds and 2) build times as close to 1 hour as possible. Okay, getting there is one thing, but how do I report on that? […]| The Systems Monkey
Last week I wrote a post about setting up Windows PE Peer Caching. One of the limitations of that feature is that it only works within the Windows PE portion of a build task sequence. Once in the full OS or for deployments to established clients Peer Caching is unavailable. Phil Wilcock, co-founder of 2Pint […]| The Systems Monkey
What is Windows PE Peer Caching? Windows PE Peer Caching was a feature added in Configuration Manager Technical Preview 2. During an OS deployment, it allows a machine being built to pull content from other systems on the local subnet (its peers) as opposed to going across a potentially slow WAN connection. It is quite […]| The Systems Monkey
Part 0 Introduction Part 1 Setting Up Part 2 First VM – Windows Router Part 3 Domain Controller Part 4 Configuration Manager Infrastructure Configuration Manager 1511 After completing the fir…| The Systems Monkey
[6-Jul-2018: Updated Script to v 1.2 – New .NET 3.5.1 install command (per Mike Horton @mikeh36)] After attending MMS one of the items that I put on my “Post-MMS To Do” list was t…| The Systems Monkey