TaskBar Customization during Task Sequence execution Batch Script

There are two ways to customize your TaskBand during the Task Sequence execution.

1. Using PowerShell script

2. Batch Script as described here.

Pin the taskbar items whatever you want😊 as per your org requirement, not blindly😏

go to the location "%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\" 

copy all the shortcut files from this location and save them to your reference package folder.

for me, I have created one folder on the reference machine desktop named "TaskBandAutomation\Taskbar".

now what next? open registry settings for users and navigate to "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband" and say export and save as TaskBand.reg. where? on your desktop or anywhere you want. anyway, we have to delete this file after getting some info from it.

Make CMTrace as default log viewer during the Imaging process(OSD)

While analyzing the SCCM logs every engineer wants to open log files by default in CMTrace. But When you log in to a new build machine and open the CCM logs or any *.log files from the machine, the log files will open in the notepad by default. Reading the SCCM log files into notepad is very difficult, Microsoft is providing the live log reading tool call CMTrace with the SCCM suite. In this post, we are going to make it the default app for log files. We will create the SCCM package and deploy it via Task Sequence execution while Operating System Deployment step.

To achieve this, create a new package using the below PS1 code and deploy it on required DPs

Cleanup Image before Capture - Event Viewer cleanup batch file

Guys, Why WIM Image cleanup is more important ? This is because it delivers error-free images to the customer and reduces the manufacturer's bugs and issues. While troubleshooting the end-user machine, there should not be previous logs that can create confusion.

If you are going to clean up the event viewer logs one by one manually it will take your whole day and also an irritating job for you. don't worry we have created a simple and easy script that helps you to clean the event viewer logs within a minute.