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Running de-dup maintenance scripts after deleting hyper-v snapshots
Introduction I deleted several hyper-v snapshots to free up some space on my deduplicated nvme drive on my Lenovo P1 hyper-v lab, as it was starting to get low. Below is roughly how much space was on the de-duplicated drive … Continue reading
Posted in deduplication, hyper-v, P1 Mobile workstation
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How can we utilize the Bitlocker Management feature during OSD with Endpoint Manager
Introduction I’ve had a lot of questions recently about people wanting to use the new BitLocker Management capabilities in Configuration Manager, and to make use of those abilities during OSD (Operating System Deployment). First things we need to keep in … Continue reading
Posted in 1910, 2002, 2006, BitLocker Management, Full Disk Encryption, MBAM, pki
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How can I replace an expired IIS certificate in a PKI enabled ConfigMgr environment
Introduction I was busy putting together another BitLocker Management OSD related blog post in one of my PKI enabled ConfigMgr labs (#11) when I noticed that PXE boot no longer worked. The virtual machine would attempt to PXE boot for … Continue reading
Posted in 2002, BitLocker, expired IIS cert, PKI, smspxe.log
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Cool new features in Technical Preview 2008
Introduction Microsoft released TP2008 yesterday, more details here, but I was busy building my deck so I didn’t blog anything, but I did the upgrade and waited until today to see what’s new. And as usual, it’s a list of … Continue reading
Configuring the Registered Owner and Organization in Windows Autopilot delivered PCs
Introduction I received a brand new HP Laptop (HP EliteBook 830 G6) to verify our current Autopilot setup, and I went through OOBE. All seemed well and I was curious about the version of Windows shipped so I ran WinVer. … Continue reading
Posted in Intune, registered owner, Windows 10 AutoPilot
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Technical Preview 2007 Timeline improvements
Technical Preview version 2007 was just released and it has some new features and even improvements to other features, one such improvement is with the Timeline feature. The device Timeline feature first showed up in Technical Preview version 2005. Before … Continue reading
Posted in 2007, timelime
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Technical Preview 2007 is out !
Introduction And just like that, another version of Microsoft Endpoint Manager is released, this time it’s 2007 (Year 20, Month 07). For details about what’s new in this release see the official blog post here, Once installed you can check … Continue reading
Posted in 2007, Resource Explorer
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Slides and recording from “New cloud features in Configuration Manager Technical Preview”
Introduction I recently did a presentation for a Belgian User Group where I talked about a bunch of cool features in Microsoft Endpoint Manager like Tenant Attach, the ability to install applications, run scripts, use CMPivot, cloud OSD and more. … Continue reading
Triggering Evaluation of SMS_DesiredConfiguration Instances on a Client Using Powershell
Introduction It has always been possible to trigger evaluation of an SMS_DesiredConfiguration instance using the TriggerEvaluation method on the SMS_DesiredConfiguration. Here’s an example of that from fellow MVP Timmy. The only information needed to trigger the instance evaluation was the … Continue reading
Microsoft Endpoint Manager TP2006 is out
Introduction Microsoft have released a new update to the Technical Preview version of Configuration Manager, this time it’s TP2006. This release contains numerous updates of which I’ll be testing them out over the coming days, for more info about what’s … Continue reading
Posted in 2006, tenant attach
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How can I calculate the cost of OSD content coming from my CMG ?
Introduction I recently blogged about using a Cloud Management Gateway to serve content for task media support for cloud based content and that blog post got a lot of likes and retweets on Twitter. In addition, there were several questions … Continue reading
Posted in 2005, CMG, cost
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Troubleshooting application deployment failures during the Enrollment Status Page for Windows Autopilot
Introduction This blog post is basically my own troubleshooting flow after a recent Autopilot failure at work. The failure was linked to application installation and the cause was interesting. To verify what was going on I compared a failed Autopilot … Continue reading
Posted in Intune, troubleshooting, Windows AutoPilot
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A look at task sequence media support for cloud-based content
Introduction Microsoft recently released the mother of all technical previews for Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Configuration Manager technical preview version 2005 which I blogged about at length here. This release has amazing cloud friendly features including some new OSD features and … Continue reading
Posted in 2005, CMG, task sequence cloud content
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Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager technical preview version 2005 is out
Introduction Configuration Manager technical preview version 2005 is out and here’s a look at some of the features. This is one amazing release, so many great features ! Note: Many of the features in this release depend on your first … Continue reading
Why can’t I RDP to my CMG ?
Introduction The Cloud Management Gateway provides a simple way to manage ConfigMgr clients on the internet. And once you’ve set it up, you’ll probably want to get a closer look, and look at logs on the virtual machine in Azure. … Continue reading
Posted in CMG
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