ServiceUI.exe and Windows Defender Exploit Guard

July 23, 2018 ~ cford79 ~ Leave a comment

In February I briefly tweeted about an issue I ran into an issue at a customer that could not launch an HTA during their OSD task sequence using ServiceUI.exe. I looked for some obvious things and after quickly coming up empty handed started looking deeper. Cause The customer used Windows Defender Exploit Guard, but not … Continue reading ServiceUI.exe and Windows Defender Exploit Guard

Disable SCCM Automatic Client Remediation during Windows 10 In-Place Upgrades

July 22, 2018July 22, 2018 ~ cford79 ~ 4 Comments

I ran into an issue the other day during a W10 1703 to 1709 in-place upgrade where the upgrade task sequence bombed after Windows setup had completed. The OS had upgraded successfully to 1709 and SetupDiag also reported all was well in that area, however the remainder of the task sequence never ran, not a … Continue reading Disable SCCM Automatic Client Remediation during Windows 10 In-Place Upgrades

OSD Pro Tip: How to stop your OSD task sequences from causing mass destruction

August 18, 2017August 18, 2017 ~ cford79 ~ 1 Comment

There have been improvements over the years within SCCM to help prevent OSD admins from deploying career changing task sequences to entire environments and wiping out thousands systems. Namely, the ability to limit within the console which collections you are able to deploy an OSD task sequence to, based on the number of members of that … Continue reading OSD Pro Tip: How to stop your OSD task sequences from causing mass destruction