Using Procmon to find registry keys

August 5, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

I am ashamed to say I have always found the Procmon tool by Sysinternals intimidating to use. This is because I have never taken the time to use and understand the tool. At Ignite 2017 I attended the Sysinternals sessions and thought that is great, these tools could help me. I even purchased the book […]

Signing SCCM Application Object Detection Scripts

July 13, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

Recently I ran across an issue where task sequence was failing on installing an application. The returned exit code was the dreaded 16389. I have found that this exit code means the application detection rule or requirements did not process correctly. The AppDiscovery.log file showed the following error message: In-line script returned error output: & : […]

The Magic of ServiceUI.exe

June 3, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

Recently I was working on a project to deploy a Windows 10 SCCM/MDT task sequence. Instead of using an HTA or other front-end script to validate information, I had a series of validation steps at the start of the task sequence. I was checking for items such as not on battery, not on wireless, not […]