Disable RDP Windows 10 PowerShell Script Configuration Baseline SCCM

So I was setting up a KIOSK environment using  Windows 10 1709 for a client recently and we wanted to take the route of applying as few GPOs as possible (as it should be in 2018)!

Ensuring that this stayed disabled was something that we decided to deploy using ConfigMgr Configuration Baselines.

So the Check compliance script is as follows:

Ok, so now the check script is out the way, here is the remediation script:

As Always scripts are as is, and if you do use them remeber where you got them from 😉

If you would like to see the setup of this baseline let me know in the comments below.

Cheers,

SCCMOG

OSD Task Seqeunce High Performance – Native PowerCFG – VBS – MDT -SCCM

So like a lot of ConfigMgr Admins out there I strive to produce the fastest and most robust task sequences I can. This obviously led me down the path of configuring the Power Settings on the OS during deployment and capture phases.

The issue that I found is probably like many of you have and that is that it requires exporting the native “PowerCFG.exe” from each version of the OS that you would like to dynamically change the power configuration during Operating System Deployment.

So Jack and I were discussing why… in short… do we not use the “PowerCFG.exe” that is is already in the OS that we are configuring. Anyway after a little persuasion we came up with this little beauty of a script. This script will also create a CMTrace “Log”  using its name in the Log folder that is currently in use in the Task sequence.

Setup is simple:

MDT Setup
  • For MDT just place it into the Scripts folder of you “Deployment Share”.”
  • You can then call this during any stage of you Reference image capture i.e. WinPE or full OS phase to set the power cfg with these below Command Lines:

SCCM Setup
  • For SCCM you must be using the MDT integration (if you’re not… Start now!), you can make it work without it but I will not cover that here.
  • Find your current MDT Toolkit Package that is associated with the Task Sequence you would like to configure power settings in.
  • Open the “Source” location of your toolkit package, then open the scripts folder.

  • Once inside the scripts folder copy the “Set-PowerCFG.wsf” into it.

    • Now, update the Package in ConfigMgr.
    • Next we need to add the step to the task sequence. It must go after the “Use Toolkit Package” step in the task sequence. (If you have a reboot and remember to add another use “Toolkit package”.)
    • Create a new “Run Command Line Step” and add one of the below commands.

And that is it. Your Task sequence will now set the Power Configuration Profile using the current OS’s native “Powercfg.exe”

Anyway as always, script is provided as is and if you do mod it, there is a line to add your name.

The Script:

Cheers,

SCCMOG

Set static IP on VM Pre LiteTouch in WinPE – MDT VBScript

I was working on a client site last year and setting them up a reference image task sequence for Windows 10. The VMs that I was working with were hosted in a subnet that did not have DHCP configured. This gave me the issue of configuring the IP statically on the VM that was used to build and capture the reference image BEFORE light touch is launched. So I wrote this little script (with google’s help) to grab the MAC address of the virtual NIC that had been initialised on the VM, match it to a variable and set the IP accordingly to the adaptor by referencing its name.

To implement this script into your MDT boot image there are a couple of steps that have to be performed. The first is to tell the boot image to run it beofre litetouch is called! To do this we have to place an updated Unattend.xml into the boot image.

Thankfully MDT has a proccess for adding extrafiles to your bootimage.
But firtly, we need to get sort out the script and xml.
So…

  • Create a folder called “Static IP”.

  • Then copy and paste the XML code from below into a text document and save it in the Static IP folder called “Unattend.xml”.

NOTE: This XML has been built to work with x64 boot images and x86.)

  • Now open notepad again, copy and paste the VBscript from below and then save it as “Set-WinPE-StaticIP.vbs” into the “Static IP” Folder.

  • Now identify the MAC address of the VM(s) you will be targeting as this is what the script identifies the machine with, and place them into the MAC address variable fields (strRefVM1 & strRefVM2).

  • Now populate the IPs as required.

  • At this point is up to you to find the description of the network adaptor as this is used to grab the MAC address. I have supplied the two that I usually see for HyperV and VMware VMs but it is always best to check!

  • So boot up your current MDT Boot ISO and grab the description from the network adaptor that has been initialised by running an “Ipconfig /all”.

  • Now copy and paste it into the variable value for “strNetworkAdapter” or just uncomment the one you require.

  • And finally comment out the Ethernet name (strEthName) that does NOT apply to your environment. For example if you are running Hyper V VMs comment out the VMware line and vice versa.

  • Now open MDT and right click your deployment share and click “properties”.

  • Now select the “Windows PE” tab.

  • For each boot image you require the static IPs to be set click browse on the “Extra directory to add” field and import the “Static IP” folder.

  • Next click Apply.

  • Now right click the deployment share and update your boot images.

  • And thats it! Mount the ISO on your VM and hey presto…. no more IP issues! 🙂

 

Set IP during Task Sequence PowerShell – SCCM ConfigMgr MDT

So this Is an older script of mine that I developed for a client to receive variables from a task sequence and then assign the IP of the machine based off the variables. This specfic client set the IP variables on the actual Machine object in SCCM so that during the task sequence it would pull the machine specific IP details. Their Task seqeunce was running only ConfigMgr tasks but this could quite easily be re-used for a ConfigMgr / MDT task sequence using the custom settings or database to set the IP Variables.

As always this is as is, the usage is defined in the script header and if you do use it please remember to use the modded by field 🙂

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