Hijacking the Task Sequence for Monitoring and Alerting

Another post full of bad ideas while screwing around with SCCM.

Nathan Ziehnert

6 minute read

I’ve spent the better part of the last two evenings working on this - and I’m honestly not 100% satisfied but I’ve made some excellent progress thus far that I’ve decided to share. Monitoring a task sequence to me has been a rather manual process - either I get notified by a support tech that a task sequence failed or I happen to see a failure in the monitoring tab of SCCM. This ultimately leads me to request the tech send me the SMSTS.log file, the error code presented,…

Task Sequence Variable Series: _SMSTSLastActionSucceeded (BONUS: Task Sequence E-Mail Notification Script)

The first post in a series (well, not quite a series yet) that will cover task sequence variables and how you might choose to use them.

Nathan Ziehnert

4 minute read

Conference time! MMS is upon us and it seems conferences and vacations are the only time I get some respite from the busyness of working on our Windows 10 deployment to do a little blogging. While I’m here I’ll be working on a series of posts regarding built-in variables for task sequences and how they might be of benefit to you (or how I use them in my environment). I didn’t even consider submitting a topic for MMS this year, but maybe next year I’ll take the collective…

GPOs? Screw it, We’ll do it Live… (Part IV)

The fourth part in a series regarding group policy and AGPM.

Nathan Ziehnert

3 minute read

We’ve thus far installed and configured AGPM, created our first policy, and at the same time walked ourselves through the approval flow built into AGPM. What happens when we have existing policies though? I’m assuming that if you’re reading this you’re not building GPOs from the ground up (if you are, kudos for implementing good practices up front). This post will cover a few different things: