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A Customisable WPF MessageBox for PowerShell

Posted on August 24, 2017September 6, 2018 by Trevor Jones in Powershell, WPF

Update 2017-08-25 | Changed the way the output from a button click is handled, saving it to a variable instead. The humble VBScript message box has been around for a while now and is still a useful way of providing a simple pop-up notification in Windows. I've used it in my PowerShell scripts as well … Continue reading A Customisable WPF MessageBox for PowerShell →

Prompting the End-User during ConfigMgr Application Installs

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Trevor Jones in Applications, ConfigMgr, MDT, OS Deployment, Packages, Powershell, SCCM

As a Configuration Manager administrator, from time to time I have to deploy an application where I need to notify the end-user of something before the installation begins. A recent example was a plugin for IE that would fail to install if Internet Explorer was running at the time. I can force-ably kill the running … Continue reading Prompting the End-User during ConfigMgr Application Installs →