SCCM

The following process describes how to add drivers to the WinPE boot image for an SCCM OS Deployment. In this scenario we will be downloading and adding drivers for an HP EliteBook 8440p. You will need to do this if the task sequence stops at the ‘Setup Windows and ConfigMgr’ task and has an error message of “The task sequence execution engine failed executing an action”.

The following process has been tested and confirmed as working with Firefox 4 and SCCM R2.

The following process has been tested and confirmed working with Google Chrome 43.x and ConfigMgr / SCCM R2.

The following process has been tested and confirmed as working with Java Runtime Environment version 8 and SCCM R2. It does the following tasks: Installs Sun Java silently Installs Internet Explorer extension Installs Firefox extension Disables automatic updates

The following process details how to create a custom configuration of Microsoft Office 2010 for a silent installation.

The following process has been tested and confirmed working with MySQL 5.5.13 and ConfigMgr / SCCM R2.

The following steps detail how to extract the Adobe Reader 9.x installation files (AcroRead.msi etc) from the compressed executable. This is usually done to deploy the software using ConfigMgr.

The following process has been tested and confirmed as working with Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.4.2 and SCCM R2.

Install Adobe Flash Player 18 ActiveX and Plugin Silently using SCCM has been tested and confirmed as working with Adobe Flash Player 18.x and SCCM R2.

Updating of computer equipment is an aspect often overlooked by companies because there are too many constraints. It is necessary to manage downtime, while patches provide sometime malfunctions.

Updating of computer equipment is an aspect often overlooked by companies because there are too many constraints.

In this part I will create an Automatic Deployment Rule to update Windows Server 2012 R2.