The other day, I was running the ConfigMgr reports in my lab, especially the asset intelligence reports for some hardware information. I tried to run the first report __ Hardware 01A – Summary of computers in a specific collection, it did not run successfully. The following is the error code. The report server cannot process the report or shared dataset. The shared data source 'AutoGen__5C6358F2_4BB6_4a1b_A16E_8D96795D8602_' for the report server or SharePoint site is not valid. Browse to the server or site and select a shared data source. (rsInvalidDataSourceReference) Based on the error code, the issue could be related to the…
Author: Eswar Koneti
Introduction: I was recently involved to setup Microsoft 365 POC (zero trust) and manage the endpoints such as windows, iOS, android using Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune).The windows devices were set up using autopilot and are purely azure AD joined with Bitlocker keys in the cloud.To secure the internet web traffic and to enforce the security policies such as tenant restrictions etc, this project uses Zscaler.Though we had zscaler, we still went ahead and configured Windows Information Protection (WIP) to protect enterprise data along with the following configurations.1. Device compliance policies.2. Device configuration policies.3. Endpoint security policies such as AV, defender,…
A quick blogpost to trigger the installation of software updates (missing/failed/available in software Center) remotely from the console using built-in scripts feature. If you have deployed software updates to your clients and during the windows update compliance check, you found that, the clients are still reporting as non-compliance (required). There could be several reasons why the client is still reporting as non-compliance. For more information about the software updates compliance states, please refer https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/sum/understand/software-updates-introduction#software-updates-compliance-states To check if the client has any updates available in software Center but waiting for maintenance window or failed to install or other reason and trigger…
The other day, I have powered ON my Configuration Manager lab after long a time to test something on the reporting and found that, the reporting URL does not work. Browsing the reports URL leads to service unavailable with http error 503, The service unavailable. I have verified that, the SQL server reporting services is running fine and i have restarted the service as well to check if this works or not but no luck. I have realized that, there is something seriously wrong and took sometime to troubleshoot further. The first log to check is srsrp.log (ConfigMgr log) for…
As part of the monthly release updates for Configuration Manager Technical Preview, this month has got Technical preview version 2105 for Configuration Manager is available with some cool features such as enhanced script editing, VM size for CMG, support Center themes (dark and white), client deployment pre-req, powershell release notes. You can Install this version to update your existing lab and add new features to your technical preview site. If you want to install/setup technical preview site in lab, you can download the baseline version of 2103 from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-microsoft-endpoint-configuration-manager-technical-preview and setup the SCCM site. Technical preview 2105: ConfigMgr site version:…
I was recently working on assignment to get the audit logs for list of SharePoint online sites with specific audit activities such as PageViewed, FileAccessed, FileDownloaded,FileDeleted (This can be expanded further based on the needs) and email the data at regular intervals. For list of audited activities in office 365, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/search-the-audit-log-in-security-and-compliance?view=o365-worldwide#audited-activities For list of page and file activities https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/search-the-audit-log-in-security-and-compliance?view=o365-worldwide#file-and-page-activities If you are looking for audit logs (manual), you can do it using security and compliance center. For more information on how to do it using the security and compliance, refer https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/search-the-audit-log-in-security-and-compliance?view=o365-worldwide#step-1-run-an-audit-log-search If the ask is repeated on daily/weekly/monthly, you would…
I was troubleshooting the client issue for co-management and found that the device was not hybrid Azure AD Joined. Hybrid Azure AD joined (if your devices are on-prem) is one of the pre-requisites for co-management. To check if the devices are hybrid Azure AD joined or not, you can open cmd and run dsregcmd /status If the device is hybrid Azure AD joined, the status for AzureAdJoined=Yes (This field is applicable for both AAD or hybrid AAD). On the problematic machine, there is no data for the dsregcmd. For more information about configuring the Hybrid Azure AD joined and troubleshooting,…
In Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, To monitor infrastructure and operations, we use the Monitoring workspace in the Configuration Manager console. One of the common ask in many forums is that how to find who created or modified or deployed certain tasks to users or devices that caused an issue. when someone deploys something, they would not know it would cause some outage or impact the end-user experience. When such things happen, you always in search of identifying who did that?. In this blog post, we will see how to find who deployed or created an assignment for the software update…