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Instead of hastening my own career's demise by having ChatGPT write bad powershell for me, I asked it to write a short story about Pull DPs in the style of Kurt Vonnegut. I guess peppering random Vonnegut quotes counts. It's better than made up cmdlets I suppose . Our robot overlords are getting smarter. So it goes.

It was a typical day at the office for Billy, the IT guy. He was tasked with managing the company's software distribution via SCCM, and all was going smoothly until he noticed that one of the pull distribution points wasn't pulling the latest content.

Billy tried everything he could think of, but the content just wouldn't distribute. He checked the

I need to create dozens of standard packages in SCCM. These are drivers compressed as .wim files that will be used in OS upgrade task sequences so the Architecture and Language (drop down menu) on the General tab are important.

I have every piece of this process from download, .wim creation and Std Pkg creation automated except for setting these values. Has anyone found a way to set Architecture and Language (the drop down menu)?

The -Language parameter for New-CMPackage sets the text field at the top of the window but I don't see any documented method for setting the two architecture and language fields below. Anyone done this successfully? I am hoping I don't have to click into all of t

I thought I had a good handle on boundary group fallback but the more I read, the less certain I am.

Clients fallback to systems in the Default Site fine but I would like to configure them to fallback to those in a regional datacenter.

If I have two boundary groups, Boundary Group A and Boundary Group Z and would like clients in Boundary Group Z to fail over to site systems configured in Boundary Group A, would I set that in the Relationships tab in properties of Boundary Group A (where the site systems I want to fallback to are) or in properties of Boundary Group Z where the clients are?

I’ve read the MS documentation and can’t tell which way to approach it.

We can’t be the only ones dealing with this. I’ve got a few thousand machines where IE is still set as the default browser and I need to get the favorites added to Edge. On most of the systems the user has launched Edge at some point and has already clicked through the First Run Experience.

Most of the existing solutions around the web are to manually click through the Import wizard or to use the AutoImportAtFirstRun group policy. Neither of this are an immediate solution. There are also plenty of references to the process for the legacy non-Chromium Edge browser.

There are guides like this for [disabling the first run experience](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gunnarhaslinger/Micr

This morning my smart key stopped working. It seemed like the battery was dead. The lock/unlock buttons would work some of the time but not always. The door handle touch zones wouldn’t work at all and the start button wouldn’t light up when i pressed the brake. I could hold the fob up to tbt button and the car would start with the “no key present” dummy light on. Classic symptoms of a dead fob battery so I grabbed a new one and surprisingly it didn’t change a thing.

Then I realized I had just added a fob for my wife’s GX460 to my keychain. I removed it and left it inside and my smart key works normally. Put it anywhere near the GX smart key (which is basically the same derive, slightly dif

When I'm deploying a feature update, either by upgrade package or feature update task sequence, do I need to deploy the DU content for the OS we're upgrading to or the one we're upgrading from? I've been using DU content but allowing machines to override policy and grab the content from MS so I'm not sure which one they're using.

As an example, if I have a collection of Win10 2004 machines that are upgrading to 21H1 would I deploy 2021-07 Dynamic Update for Windows 10 Version 2004 for x64-based Systems (KB5004313) or 2021-07 Dynamic Update for Windows 10 Version 21H1 for x64-based Systems (KB5004313) to the collection of targeted machines?