Author Archives: ncbrady

Logitech C920 webcam flickering with a Thinkpad Thunderbolt 3 gen 2 dock? try this

Posted on November 30, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction You may have read my working from home blog post here where I described my new setup. Some months after I wrote that blog post I purchased a Logitech C920 web camera and connected it to my Lenovo Thunderbolt … Continue reading →

Posted in Logitech C920, WFH | 4 Comments

What to do when Endpoint Manager upgrades don’t go as planned. Hint: logs

Posted on November 29, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction Anyone that spends time with ConfigMgr knows that it’s an amazingly resilient product, and not only that, upgrades tend to go without a hitch. I needed to upgrade one of my old labs to test new functionality, but when … Continue reading →

Posted in 1910, 2006, detach database, SQL Server 2017 | Leave a comment

Office 365 issues after Windows Autopilot

Posted on November 21, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction I’m writing this post to catalog problems I recently faced while doing Windows Autopilot installations, we use a very slim enrollment Status Page (ESP) configuration with only one app marked as required (Microsoft Edge Chromium). The remaining applications are … Continue reading →

Posted in Intune, Windows AutoPilot | Leave a comment

Creating the MacOS Big Sur ISO

Posted on November 18, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction Big Sur is the latest version of MacOS from Apple. I needed the Big Sur ISO (to create a virtual machine) to test various things like Intune and Jamf enrollment but doing so was tricky and these are my … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Big Sur | 1 Comment

Surface Pro X – PXE-E16: no valid offer received

Posted on November 10, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction I decided to write this blog post to explain what happens if you try to image a Microsoft Surface Pro X  using PXE boot (booting over the network) with Configuration Manager (Endpoint Configuration Manager) or MDT (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit). … Continue reading →

Posted in Microsoft Surface, Surface Pro X | 3 Comments

Manage BitLocker policies and escrow recovery keys over a cloud management gateway (CMG)

Posted on October 31, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction Microsoft are continuously responding to feedback from UserVoice and one such new implementation in Technical Preview 2010.2 is the ability to manage BitLocker policies and escrow recovery keys over a cloud management gateway (CMG). For more details see here … Continue reading →

Posted in 2010.2, 20H2, BitLocker Management via CMG | 1 Comment

Troubleshooting BitLocker Management in ConfigMgr – Part 2. Client side

Posted on October 31, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction Microsoft blogged about Bitlocker Management capabilities back in May, 2019. They detailed how that would impact and evolve on the following three platforms.     Cloud-based BitLocker management using Microsoft Intune     On-premises BitLocker management using System Center Configuration Manager … Continue reading →

Posted in 2006, 20H2, BitLocker Management | 2 Comments

What’s new in Microsoft Endpoint Manager – part 2

Posted on October 4, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction These are my notes from a session @ Microsoft Ignite 2020, the session was hosted by Steve Dispensa (Director of Program Management at Microsoft Endpoint Manager) and Ramya Chitrakar (Director of Engineering at Microsoft Endpoint Manager). For the last … Continue reading →

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New features in Configuration Manager Technical Preview 2010

Posted on October 4, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction On Friday, Microsoft released the latest Technical Preview release for Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager, namely version 2010. As always, it contains a bunch of new features (based on uservoice feedback) and I’ll take a look at some of … Continue reading →

Posted in 2010, Deploy task sequence to users, Scenario health, Show Status Messages, Syntax highlighting | Leave a comment

How can I dynamically install Windows 10 language packs and associated features on demand in an offline environment

Posted on October 3, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction Sometimes you need to install Windows features that normally need internet access (to install other components), language packs installed today are done in a modular and different format from previous years. In previous times you could simply install a … Continue reading →

Posted in 2004, FOD, Language Pack, LTSC, offline, Windows 10 | Leave a comment

What’s new in Microsoft Endpoint Manager – part 1

Posted on September 23, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction These are my notes from a session shown today @ Microsoft Ignite 2020, the session was hosted by Steve Dispensa (Director of Program Management at Microsoft Endpoint Manager) and Ramya Chitrakar (Director of Engineering at Microsoft Endpoint Manager). For … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Management, Microsoft Tunnel, tenant attach | Leave a comment

The right way to find logs from your CMG

Posted on September 17, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction To review logs real time on my CMG in Azure I assumed that using RDP to do so was a good idea, but that got some interesting reactions on Twitter, and I was informed that it was unsupported. I … Continue reading →

Posted in 2009, CMG, logs | 1 Comment

OSD via boot media and CMG, available in TP2009

Posted on September 15, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction Microsoft have released Technical Preview 2009 and it contains a bunch of updates but one that’s very interesting is the ability to create bootable media to distribute to remote sites so that they can re-image via the CMG. This … Continue reading →

Posted in 2009, bootable media over CMG | 3 Comments

Troubleshooting BitLocker Management in ConfigMgr – Part 1. Server side

Posted on September 15, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction Microsoft blogged about Bitlocker Management capabilities back in May, 2019. They detailed how that would impact and evolve on the following three platforms.     Cloud-based BitLocker management using Microsoft Intune     On-premises BitLocker management using System Center Configuration Manager … Continue reading →

Posted in 1910, 2002, BitLocker Management, MBAM, pki, System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) | Leave a comment

Fixing an evaluation version of SSRS with “HTTP Error 503. The Service is unavailable”

Posted on September 15, 2020 by ncbrady

Introduction I was writing a blog post about Troubleshooting BitLocker Management in ConfigMgr 2002 Current Branch and one of the things I was trying to do was install the web portals, but I was seeing errors shown below. Get-ReportServiceUri : … Continue reading →

Posted in 2002, BitLocker Management, Reporting | Leave a comment