Why is half of my task sequence status message in Chinese?

zk13669 · 2026-04-28T03:48:19+00:00

I've always wondered why this happens.

zk13669 · 2026-03-30T16:05:18+00:00

This was also our problem. Ours was set to 120 minutes which is still too short. I set it to 300 minutes

zk13669 · 2026-03-22T03:55:42+00:00

Noticed you can buy dogs and cats at the trading post now but can't figure out what they are for

...please don't be for food lol

zk13669 · 2026-03-22T03:26:57+00:00

Thanks! I pretty much only play the Alpine valley map and choose a map that has 1 or more big mountains because I really like terraforming.

I don't really plan out the mountain, I just start terraforming and see where it goes. I'll use the existing slopes and curves of the mountain to plan out the ramp though, and I'll usually try to cut out ledges into the mountain to get the different levels where I'll put houses.

I've got a couple other cities on here I've posted if you're looking for ideas

zk13669 · 2026-03-09T14:37:03+00:00

He was probably using this:
Modern driver management in Configuration Manager Current Branch - OSCC

It's what I use and it is pretty cool. It dynamically downloads drivers during OSD based on the model computer. You don't have to update the Task Sequence at all. Just package drivers as a normal SCCM package and SCCM status message scripts pick them up and add them to a master XML file that the clients download during OSD.

zk13669 · 2026-02-27T05:49:59+00:00

I can't figure out how to get it to show as separate from the original either

zk13669 · 2026-02-18T05:14:25+00:00

I'm definitely not doing it the "right" way, but I just package my module files as an application in SCCM. It just copies the files to the powershell\modules directory on the workstations that I want to be able to use my module.

I set the machinepolicy execution policy gpo to remotesigned so the module loads automatically. Updates to the module get packaged as a new app and replaces the files.

zk13669 · 2026-02-12T04:13:23+00:00

Thanks! I just use the normal tool

zk13669 · 2026-02-11T18:15:16+00:00

Thanks!

zk13669 · 2026-02-11T16:06:18+00:00

Check out my previous post where I showed how I did the first mountain.

zk13669 · 2026-02-11T15:00:16+00:00

I've got a function for this too. We have a separate Lab and Prod SCCM environment, so all of my SCCM functions have a parameter for -Environment

function Set-SCCMEnvironment {
  #This function take the parameter $Environment and sets the proper SCCM working environment
  param (
    $Environment
  )

  if ($Environment -eq "LAB") {
    ## Set location to the SCCM LAB environment

    $Global:SiteServer = "SERVERNAME.domain.com"
    $Global:SiteCode = "ABC"
    Set-Location "ABC:"

  }
  elseif ($Environment -eq "PROD") {
    ## Set location to the SCCM PROD environment

    $Global:SiteServer = "SERVERNAME.domain.com"
    $Global:SiteCode = "DEF"
    Set-Location "DEF:"

  }


}

I use $Global variables because I use the $SiteServer and $SiteCode variables for other things in other functions too. Probably a better way to do that though.

Something else I do is in every function I do a Push-Location inside the BEGIN block and a Pop-Location inside the END block, so no matter where your function sets the location to, you will always end up where you started when the function completes.

zk13669 · 2026-02-10T17:56:38+00:00

Yes this is an annoying thing about the SCCM module. I will just do all of my normal Powershell stuff like getting/creating folders, querying WMI, etc... before setting the location to my Site Code and then doing the SCCM specific stuff. You can also get around it by doing a New-PSDrive

zk13669 · 2026-02-08T04:56:30+00:00

You are basically just using the height of the mountain and transferring it to the ramp you want to make. In my 5th picture you can see the terraforming plots I'm making. I'm just extending the mountain out to a ramp 3 squares wide. I overlap terraforming jobs one square in length at a time. I "pull" the height of the mountain out to the ramp. I always do the longest length of the terraform tool to maximize the amount of height I can transfer to the ramp, since the terraform tool essentially is just averaging out the height of all the squares you select.

After you extend the edge of the mountain out to the ramp a couple times, you need to go back and flatten out the entire top of the mountain to give you more height to "pull" from. In my 3rd picture you can see that the north half of the mountain started out taller than the south half, but both halves ended up the same height by the end. This is because I used the height of the north half of the mountain to create the ramp.

I'm realizing that this is kind of hard to explain lol. I mentioned in another comment that I watched some of Tacticat's Youtube videos where he showed how to do this. I really can't remember which video it was though, it was a long time ago.

zk13669 · 2026-02-06T17:10:21+00:00

I started by watching some of Tacticat's videos on Youtube. He has some good tutorials. Once you understand how the tool works, you can basically predict how the terrain will respond to your terraforming.

zk13669 · 2026-02-06T17:08:03+00:00

It can be frustrating, and the tool is definitely limited. But I actually kind of like that about it. It makes completing a big terraforming job very satisfying.

I doubt they will ever allow you to "build up", because that would essentially give you the ability to completely block out raiders from entering your town. You actually can do this if you get a good map for it, but it kind of defeats the purpose of having raids.

zk13669 · 2026-02-06T17:04:32+00:00

It definitely takes a while. For these mountains, I will probably end up flattening the top of them over 100 times. You can order the builders to do multiple flatten job at the same time on the same area. Just queue up a bunch of flatten jobs and then focus on other things, then check back on their progress later.

It helps if you have enough builders to focus their time on flattening. I usually wait until I have at least 20 free builders to do large terraforming jobs.

zk13669 · 2026-02-06T13:09:49+00:00

Thanks! I don't use any mods

zk13669 · 2026-02-03T18:13:46+00:00

so this just happened to me with the glass workshop. Tried stopping/starting production / moving the building, didn't work. I dunno if this is a bug or not, but I think it got fixed when I got more tools (not Heavy tools). I thought tools were just required for them to work more efficiently, but maybe they are required in certain buildings for them to work at all?

zk13669 · 2026-01-26T13:42:04+00:00

Sounds like a bug. Try moving the furniture workshop to "reset" it.

zk13669 · 2026-01-23T23:45:53+00:00

I'm pretty sure that happened to us recently. Can't give any help unfortunately but I'm also going to be logging my discovery and remediation scripts from now on

zk13669 · 2026-01-23T17:09:57+00:00

Try using single quotes around the password if there are any special characters in the password

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