A while back I wrote a blog with some scripts that can be used to improve the user experience in a Windows 10 in-place upgrade. The solution included a simple splash screen that runs at the beginning of the upgrade to block the screen to the user and discourage interaction with the computer during the … Continue reading Create a Custom Splash Screen for a Windows 10 In-Place Upgrade
Month: August 2018
Create Disk Usage Reports with PowerShell and WizTree
Recently I discovered a neat little utility called WizTree, which can be used to report on space used by files and folders on a drive. There are many utilities out there that can do that, but this one supports running on the command line which makes it very useful for scripting scenarios. It also works … Continue reading Create Disk Usage Reports with PowerShell and WizTree
PowerShell One-liner to Extract a Windows 10 Upgrade Error Code
Short post - here's a PowerShell one-liner that will extract the upgrade code from the setupact.log generated by a Windows 10 upgrade. It includes both the result code and the extend code. You could include this in an in-place upgrade task sequence with ConfigMgr to stamp the code to the registry, or WMI, or create … Continue reading PowerShell One-liner to Extract a Windows 10 Upgrade Error Code
Find Windows 10 Upgrade Blockers with PowerShell
This morning I saw a cool post from Gary Blok about automatically capturing hard blockers in a Windows 10 In-Place Upgrade task sequence. It inspired me to look a bit further at that, and I came up with the following PowerShell code which will search all the compatibility xml files created by Windows 10 setup … Continue reading Find Windows 10 Upgrade Blockers with PowerShell