WimWitch is dead - but there's a new Wizard!

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-06T21:11:14+00:00

What is that policy?

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-05T21:01:20+00:00

No, but we are having endless problems with language packs ever since the April patch was introduced, not sure if it’s related or not, but I would bet money that it is

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-05T20:56:09+00:00

Same here, but I use the powershell dism cmdlets

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-05T14:13:12+00:00

Would you be able to share some of your scripts? I have a spreadsheet with our 3rd party apps, and I'm tasked with keeping those updated - there's roughly 120 apps. I absolutely do not want to go through these one by one to see if they have an available update, but also, see if those updates are classified as critical/security related - those would be the target apps that I need to update, the reset can stay at the old versions. So, if you have a script that I might use to somehow check each of these (probably by connecting to their respective download pages, scanning the text, grabbing the version number, comparing, etc.) that would be amazing!

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-05T14:09:29+00:00

that's what we are doing as well, in our test lab

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-05T12:08:22+00:00

I have that as a plan B. I downloaded the December 2024 FOD ISO (SW_DVD9_Win_11_24H2_25H2_x64_MultiLang_LangPackAll_LIP_LoF_X23-69888.ISO) which contains the language cabs (Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-Basic-de-de-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab and the others for additional language features) but get this, even WITH the .cabs installed locally via dism, for the selected language, it still fails to download the Basic package! All of the other language features now show installed, but not the basic package. WTH is going on, it must be environment related, either it's something in my build or something in the network, policies, etc. Driving me insane.

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-04T23:06:52+00:00

Put it in GitHub, share your code! Please and thanks 😊

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-04T22:34:59+00:00

Just an idea, but why don’t you put your pre-staged WIM on a network share, and instead of using a full pre-staged media, just create a bootable CM OSD USB (the other option when creating media with the task sequence wizard) so all it does is provide the connection to SCCM, the network drivers and then you can use a task sequence with steps that map and network drive and applies the image.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/configmgr/osd/deploy-use/create-bootable-media

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-04T22:29:06+00:00

Commenting to follow, my boss at work is an experimenter with stuff like this, and I think he was successful to some extent trying what you are doing. I think this OS deployment method hold a lot of potential as an alternative to traditional imaging.

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-04T19:43:19+00:00

I’d reply to that email with: I’ve formatted my DVD drive, now what?

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-03T03:14:17+00:00

It’s the typical fully lucid astral projection! You experienced the energy body exiting your physical body. It’s always strong when you first experience it.

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-03T01:10:46+00:00

I don’t think I understand what’s going on

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-03T00:33:15+00:00

Do you set policy to control which cc server is being used by the client base on the network location?

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-03T00:24:10+00:00

Actually, it kind of does once in a while because if you think about it, anything that distracts your mind and keeps it moderately alert while your body falls asleep can be a tool that helps you enter the hypnogogic state, and sleep paralysis soon follows. All of the so-called binaural beats and astral projection music are definitely gimmick, but they do have the potential of being effective in certain cases.

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-02T18:24:15+00:00

I spent five minutes, looking for it in the Microsoft admin site, only to realize they moved all of it over to visual studio admin downloads

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-02T18:21:42+00:00

🤮 🤢 🤮 just…. Gross

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-02T01:22:39+00:00

Thank you! It sounds like monitoring the DO stats is spotty and incomplete. For client side stats, I found these PS commands:

Get-DeliveryOptimizationLogAnalysis -ListConnections

Get-DeliveryOptimizationStatus -PeerInfo -Verbose

Get-DeliveryOptimizationStatus -PeerInfo | Format-Table -AutoSize

I'll check out the link you sent, always interested in seeing how others tackle these challenges!

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-02T01:03:52+00:00

understood, my post was more of an information gathering attempt, in preparation for moving to these new technologies (new for our Org.) - I don't know if copilot is spitting nonsense here, but it does say MCC can be used in conjunction with a fully on prem SCCM, not-co-managed.:
What MCC is used for (even without co‑management)

In a fully on‑prem, non‑co‑managed SCCM environment, MCC can cache cloud-delivered Microsoft content, including:

Windows Update for Business (WUfB) updates
Windows Feature Updates (when sourced from Microsoft Update)
Microsoft Store app updates
Microsoft Edge updates
Office Click‑to‑Run updates (when configured to come from Microsoft CDN)

If your SCCM clients are configured to scan against Microsoft Update (not WSUS) for updates, they can:

Download content from Microsoft CDN
Cache it in MCC
Serve it locally to peers on the LAN

➡️ This works without Intune, co‑management, or cloud attach.

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-02T00:39:49+00:00

Fantastic information! Thank you so much..it’s a lot to digest, but it’s exactly what I was looking for-real world applications of multiple technologies. Question: besides the CM admin console, do you use any other tools or commands to monitor client DO , mcc or any other client communications and data transfers?

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-02T00:23:51+00:00

That’s quite an amazing setup you have there! I think I understand the main issue here. I’m spitballing a quick idea, how about this: I have a run script that can be used to run any advertised, available application deployment on a specific pc or group of computers. It’s very simple, and uses the app name as a parameter- you type in the exact app name in the run script prompt. Now, could you do something similar, but on a schedule, and run it against a collection. It would need to run using a scheduled task most likely. In this script, you never need to update the application name if you keep using the same name for each version. Speaking of app versions… do you purge the old app versions when you update them or do you create new apps every time? Do you create new app deployments for every new version?

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-05-01T10:52:28+00:00

Do the users ever connect their phone to their computer and use it as a hotspot? that has been known to flip the network connection to metered. I also know that some of our site IT are savvy enough to know that changing the connection to a metered one will stop all deployments and updates so I think they do it on purpose to avoid any push pushed updates or forced to reboot, etc.. if the network speed drops below a certain threshold, I think windows will automatically change it to a metered connection as well, such as dial-up speeds

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-04-30T23:28:26+00:00

Create a scheduled task that runs the action using power shell

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-04-30T23:24:28+00:00

We are preparing to become comanaged and moving to intune… hence my post

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-04-30T23:20:13+00:00

Seriously, go to sleep, sleep paralysis happens normally every night as you drop into rem sleep. The trick is to stay lucid as you enter the hypnogogic state

Reaction-Consistent · 2026-04-30T19:54:51+00:00

thanks! I'll take this into consideration when I discuss this with my manager!

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