David O'Brien

David O'Brien

MVP for Microsoft Azure. Interested in all things around cloud automation.

Recent Posts

Powershell–How to eject all the ISOs of your Hyper-V machines?

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Quick post before going to bed ;-) Ejecting ISOs of Hyper-V machines with Powershell I’m using my Windows’ 8 client Hyper-V since switching over to Win8 an...

Orchestrator & ConfigMgr 2012 Install new Distribution Point

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The new ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 CU1 has given us new Powershell cmdlets ( see here and here), one of these is the Add-CMDistributionPoint cmdlet. Well, I don’t l...

Found! - Where are my new ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 CU1 cmdlets?

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If you take a look at my recent post about the new CU1 for SCCM 2012 SP1, you’ll notice that I say that the promised new cmdlets are missing from the powersh...

Cumulative Update 1 for Configuration Manager 2012

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This night the CU1 for SCCM 2012 got released and I just want to share with you the process of update. The download is available here: http://support.microso...

Speaker at E2EVC 2013 in Copenhagen

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In case you don’t know what E2EVC is, then go have a look at www.e2evc.com. It’s from 31.May to 02.June 2013. You might remember the PubForum? That’s it! Se...

How to install new Distribution Point–SCCM 2012

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Nearly a year ago (last June) I had a mission, I wanted to deploy new site systems via script. I wrote an article about it here (/2012/06/08/install-distribu...

ConfigMgr and Powershell ExecutionPolicy

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There are a lot of articles around talking about Microsoft SCCM 2012 / Configuration Manager and executing Powershell scripts. I won’t cover the basics here...

How to remove deployments in ConfigMgr–Powershell

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In preparation to a customer workshop I’m having today, I went through the ConfigMgr 2012 Integration Pack for Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Man...

Remove direct membership rules – ConfigMgr

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This is a quick one. A reader of my blog asked me if I had a solution for his problem. The Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 PowerShell cmdlet “Remove-CMDevice...

The curse of the second hop & PowerShell – CredSSP

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I recently started migrating my PowerShell scripts for ConfigMgr to Orchestrator (read here: /2013/02/automating-configmgr-with-orchestrator-runbooks-prestag...